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December 8, 2005
Getting Chilly at Walter Reed
Last Friday, Dec 2, was the first really cold night in front of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC.
But although temperatures were low and the wind blowing, spirits were high among the Freepers who showed up to counter the Pinkos.
If you're not familiar with the situation read this post of mine which explains everything
In summary, a pro-Castro group called Code Pink holds an anti-war protest outside of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC every Friday night. They lie and call it a "vigil", but we've got the goods on them.
Countering them is a real pro-troops rally right across held on opposite street corners from the Pinkos. It is organized by the good people of Free Republic. Wounded veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are taken out to dinner every Friday night on a luxury bus, and return to the hospital at about 9:30 They reenter the hosipital right where the Pinkos hold their protest. We want the troops to see a pro-troop rally, and not just the Pinkos. As it is, the Pinkos have been packing up and going home at 9pm, we suspect so that they won't have to look at the troops on the buss flipping them off, which they have done.
My apologies if my photos of last Friday aren't as good as usual, but my hands freeze up pretty quick once I take my gloves off. Tomorrow night I'll wear light gloves under mittens and see how that works.
Here we are, all bundled up.
Here are the Pinkos across the street from us. We counted maybe 11 of them, versus about 26 I believe for us. We've outnumbered them every time I've been there.
I took this photo from behind some of our people, looking across the street from the Pinkos. In order to get some distance, I shut off the flash. While keeping the shutter open longer gets you more distance at night, you also get blurryness if there's too much movement.
As I mentioned earlier, the Pinkos pack up and go home promptly at 9pm. As soon as they do, we rush over and seize their corners.
More on Code Pink
I'm not going to write in detail about Code Pink, because I've done that before. You can find all posts about them by going to the Categories section at right and selecting "Rallys and Protests"
The best single source of information about any leftist individual or group is David Horowitz' excellent database DiscoverTheNetwork.org You can find his entry on Code Pink here. Among other fun facts you'll learn that they gave $600,000 in cash and aid to the terrorists in Fallujah before our forces liberated that city.
Michelle Malkin has an excellent post relating how the Pinkos support Hugo Chavez, the wannap-be dictator of Venezuela and Fidel Castro protege.
If you thought I exaggerated earlier by calling Code Pink a "pro-Castro group", consider that they had planned on traveling to Cuba at the end of this month to celebrate the New Years.
Travel to Cuba by Americans is illegal. But the leaders of that noxious group think they're above the law. Some of their members, however, are not so sure. The latest from their website:
Dear Friends,We have some bad news to relay about the Cuba trip. We knew that this trip was a challenge to the Bush administration’s restrictions on travel to the island.
However, we had anticipated that, as in the past, the government would either let us come and go without incident, or would send us a letter after we returned. Instead, we—CODEPINK, Global Exchange, and some of the participants—have already received ominous letters from the Treasury Department, calling on us to “cease and desist” our plans for the trip, demanding the names of all the people who had signed up, and threatening us with a million dollar fine and ten years in jail.
When some individual participants received these letters, they canceled their plans—leaving us without the “safety in numbers.” And while our organizations are willing to fight the government on this (Global Exchange has been fighting the travel restrictions for 15 years!), we feel that right we are too overloaded with other efforts, such as stopping the war in Iraq, to take on a prolonged legal battle right now.
We have therefore, with deep regret, decided to cancel the trip and will be returning your deposits in the mail. We are very sorry for any inconvenience we have caused you—to say nothing of the disappointment of not spending the New Years together with our friends in Cuba!
BRRRRRHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
"our friends in Cuba" need any more evidence?
If you can stand to read it, here's the Code Pink post on their protest (er, "Vigil") outside of Walter Reed.
Unless someting intervenes, I'll be there tomorrow night too. Dressed more warmly, this time!
Posted by Tom at December 8, 2005 9:32 PM
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