Video- Code Pink confronts Rumsfeld at Correspondents Dinner

[Immortal Technique]

YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDmRdfyAUio)
Medea and Desiree confront Rumsfeld as soon as he walks in the Hilton for the dinner on Sat, May 9.

[EPIC1934]

Thanks for that great shot of the war criminal. THats what its about people not being sheep one at a time .... amidst the sheep

[diggronpaul]

Yes, Rumsfeld an animal, but Medea is a paid stooge. We're being played by both sides.

Medea is there to convince the public that this is all it can do, confront these animals in a hotel lobby with shouted slogans. Medea represents the chain that is tied the baby elephants foot, so that string may be used when it is an adult.

Same drill with that Luke Rodowski character. They control both sides of the equation.

[TonySutton]

The first lady got in his personal space. I think I might have defended myself out of reflex :P

Rumsfeld is a scum bag but honestly, this type of demonstration accomplishes nothing.

[angelatc]

Who foots the tab for all this Code Pink nonsense?

Wow, he looks old.

[diggronpaul]

Who foots the tab for all this Code Pink nonsense?

Wow, he looks old.
The same people who are behind the foundations, corporations and government that fund/conduct the policies/actions we are fighting against. It's all the same damn people, just using different front people/groups.

[nobody's_hero]

As much as I agree with code-pink's stance on the war, I hope that they realise the probability of Rumsfeld being prosecuted for war crimes is about as high as Obama actually putting a stop to the unjust war that Bush and his cronies started. :o

[V-rod]

Don't expect them to do this to Obama's administration. If Obama can push us toward socialist economic ideology, they're concern about wars will decrease.

[paulitics]

code pink = paid provocateurs to make those who have a rational point of view about war and torture look like lunatics.

[V-rod]

code pink = paid provocateurs to make those who have a rational point of view about war and torture look like lunatics.

Nah, they are just plain crazy harpies. I am sure the majority of them are divorced or never been married.

[brandon]

Good lord those women are annoying.

[diggronpaul]

code pink = paid provocateurs to make those who have a rational point of view about war and torture look like lunatics.
Nah, they are just plain crazy harpies. I am sure the majority of them are divorced or never been married.
Exactly what you are supposed to think... that they are simply idiots doing stupid stuff... that it is not part of a larger agenda, and that it is simply random.

But what you don't see is that they attend the same gatherings and fund raisers as bigger nonprofits, that they raise their funds from the same high-net worth individuals our run our establishment. What you can't see is that it's one big club, and Medea is simply playing an assigned roles in exchange for power, prestige, media attention, etc.

The people that run these nonprofit groups are the same personality types who run the establishment infrastructure.

[james1844]

You know what, I'll just say that despite the fact that Code Pink is annoying and regardless of what you think about the official Iraq policy, Rumsfeld really screwed things up in Iraq.

He is one of the major reasons why that country went to pot in 06 and 07. He richly deserves every protest he receives. Frankly, guys like him should go and hide in Alaska, they represent the worse of American policymaking.

[paulitics]

Exactly what you are supposed to think... that they are simply idiots doing stupid stuff... that it is not part of a larger agenda, and that it is simply random.

But what you don't see is that they attend the same gatherings and fund raisers as bigger nonprofits, that they raise their funds from the same high-net worth individuals our run our establishment. What you can't see is that it's one big club, and Medea is simply playing an assigned roles in exchange for power, prestige, media attention, etc.

The people that run these nonprofit groups are the same personality types who run the establishment infrastructure.


http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=51

Yea, how obvious does it have to get? I just read her bio, and she worked for the UN and WHO before founding CODE PINK. Color me surprised.

[diggronpaul]

http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=51

Yea, how obvious does it have to get? I just read her bio, and she worked for the UN and WHO before founding CODE PINK. Color me surprised.
A freaking "former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization"

Thanks for posting that reference, I hope this gives people real insight into how this game is play, and how we - the public - are swindled at every turn.

[paulitics]

A freaking "former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization"

Thanks for posting that reference, I hope this gives people real insight into how this game is play, and how we - the public - are swindled at every turn.

Yeah, I was expecting something like this. You follow this long enough, and it almost becomes a given.

These PINK protesters are a gimmick to make antiwar protesters/ anti globalist protestors look like kooks.

[BenIsForRon]

You guys have no proof. So she used to work for the UN... many people have worked at the UN. I would work at the UN if given the opportunity.

Do you guys really think every one of the thousands of members of the UN are globalists bent on world domination?

[diggronpaul]

You guys have no proof. So she used to work for the UN... many people have worked at the UN. I would work at the UN if given the opportunity.

Do you guys really think every one of the thousands of members of the UN are globalists bent on world domination?
What, you think these traitors to the USA and its Constitution wear name tags? Just what kind of proof do you think would exist anyway? Deception and covert operations are the rule of thumb here. These people don't leave paper trails on the Internet for some forum jockey to post. Give me a break!

It's about identifying their techniques, methods, double speak and associations, these are the elements that give them away. This is why it is so important to research these, because it is the primary method for identifying the ones who try to hide their true motives.

[muh_roads]

code pink loves attacking the old boss (and rightfully so) but when will they attack the new boss?

[paulitics]

code pink loves attacking the old boss (and rightfully so) but when will they attack the new boss?

They have a history of attacking DEMS too. YouTube - CODE PINK Protests Hillary Clinton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCPp6LZC3-w)

Antiwar/anti-torture protests are anything but radical, but the way they go about doing it makes a mockery of the whole thing. They are not helping their cause.

[diggronpaul]

Antiwar/anti-torture protests are anything but radical, but the way they go about doing it makes a mockery of the whole thing. They are not helping their cause.
That is their mission!

[KoldKut]

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[BenIsForRon]

Diggronpaul, more proof would exist than "OMG, she was in the UN!!!!". For example, which corporations was she under the payroll for, what are her previous political associations, does she have friends or family in the defense/banking/oil industries. You don't know any of this. I really wish we could take a vote to kick you off these forums.

[silverhawks]

Diggronpaul, more proof would exist than "OMG, she was in the UN!!!!". For example, which corporations was she under the payroll for, what are her previous political associations, does she have friends or family in the defense/banking/oil industries. You don't know any of this. I really wish we could take a vote to kick you off these forums.

How about that she went to the New School for Policy Research, that houses the think tank known as the World Policy Institute, that "focuses on complex challenges that demand cooperative policy solutions to achieve: an inclusive and sustainable global market economy, engaged global civic participation and effective governance, and collaborative approaches to national and global security".

Incidentally, Leo Strauss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss) also taught at the New School, the alleged founder of neo-conservatism. The school also has some other interesting political connections.


Leo Hindery, a New School trustee, had donated nearly $270,000 to the John Edwards campaign by late 2007. Other politically involved New School trustees include Howard Gittis, who is a "bundler" for the John McCain campaign, and George Haywood, part of Senator Barack Obama's inner fund-raising circle. Fred P. Hochberg, Dean of Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, is a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and liaison to the gay community.

And the current President of the New School is Bob Kerrey, former Democratic Governor and ex-Senator from Nebraska, who endorsed Hillary Clinton for President in 2008.

As far as Medea Benjamin's other political connections...

Obama Considering Code Pink Leader Medea Benjamin for Supreme Court (http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/05/obama-considering-code-pink-leader.html)


President Obama declared on the campaign trail last year that any nominees to the Supreme Court under his watch would be "prudent, intelligent, and consistent with the highest law of the land."

Now with Justice David Souter retiring after almost 20 years on the highest court, President Obama has a decision to make. Near the top of his list include Constitutional scholars, circuit court judges, and chief law professors.

However, disconcerting to some conservatives is the fact that the President is considering Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin for the Court. Benjamin has been outspoken in her criticisms of the Iraq War, which she has compared to Nazi aggression against Poland and to slavery.

"This would be a bold and gracious move," Benjamin said in an email response, "If I was chosen, or any other member of the anti-war movement, we can make certain that the criminal excesses of the Bush regime are not repeated."

Benjamin said that her top priority on the top court would be to "return us to a nation of laws." This would include anti-torture and anti-war rulings. When asked if members of the Bush Administration should come before the Court for war crimes trial, she said, "without [a] doubt."

Senator Obama met with Benjamin twelve times during his tenure in the US Senate, including in March 2006, when he called her a "courageous, principled leader." In 2007 he attended an anti-war dinner in which Ms. Benjamin spoke for twenty minutes. During this period, she called the United States "the new fascist hyperpower" and called President Bush a "scumbag." Senator Obama applauded at the close of her speech.

Benjamin has been very outspoken on gun control. When asked in 2008 about the subject, she replied that guns were responsible for the vast majority of crime in the nation. She fervently supports the assault weapons ban and has called for tighter restrictions on the selling and ownership of firearms.

President Obama is expected to make his decision soon, but choosing Benjamin is uncertain. When asked if the President was going to nominate her, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said simply, "No comment."

And here (http://sweetness-light.com/archive/is-medea-benjamin-a-foreign-agent):


The Latin American nation’s welfare policies have reverberated with American organizers. "Venezuela, under Chavez, is using its oil resources to improve the lives of the poor," said Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of Global Exchange, a San Francisco, Calif., international human rights organization. "We here are obviously very excited about that."

Chavez has spent more than $1.6 million from mid-2003 through June 2004 on lobbying the federal government in Washington. The country also created its own Washington mouthpiece called the Venezuela Information Office in July 2003 and soon after hired a top U.S. protest organizer as its executive director.

The VIO tapped into a major U.S. activist network by contacting Global Exchange in early September 2003. The group has helped organize some of the world’s largest protests, including demonstrations against Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization summit and the 2004 Republican National Convention.

And:


Many of the causes that Ms. Benjamin espouses are Communist in nature. The Washington "peace" rally at which she spoke last month, for instance, was organized by the Workers World Party, a Communist organization proudly dedicated to "fight[ing] against capitalism" in America’s "racist, sexist society." In years past, she staunchly opposed US military aid to those fighting against Communist forces in Central America. More recently, she has worked to take California’s energy production out of the hands of private companies and place it under public control. She favors the creation of a government-sponsored universal health care system funded by taxpayer dollars. She exhorts the US government to lift its trade embargo against Cuba – a nation she notably lauds as a place where people have managed to "thrive despite the odds" against them.

[diggronpaul]

Diggronpaul, more proof would exist than "OMG, she was in the UN!!!!". For example, which corporations was she under the payroll for, what are her previous political associations, does she have friends or family in the defense/banking/oil industries. You don't know any of this. I really wish we could take a vote to kick you off these forums.
Not everything is exoteric (http://www.kheper.net/topics/esoteric_and_exoteric.htm), that's why God gave humans a mind to think with.

P.S. If you can't do any thinking, then at least do some of your own damn research. Two others here actually bothered to take the lead and do some of the homework that others were too freaking lazy to do.

P.P.S. So, you'd like to have a Democracy when there is an individual in your midst who you don't agree with. That's a bit telling, isn't it?


Obama Considering Code Pink Leader Medea Benjamin for Supreme Court (http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/05/obama-considering-code-pink-leader.html)
Nooooooo

[BenIsForRon]

Holy crap, where do I begin. She went to the New School for Social Research. It's a decent sized school. Not every student gets drafted into a freakin secret society. I don't see any evidence she was associated with the World Policy Institute. Though the school was connected with it in the past, being in the school does not mean you are associated with the institute.

Next, who gives a crap about her connection to Chavez. She's a socialist, of course she's going to like some of his policies.

Lastly, that Obama-Medea-supreme court article is on a random website with no referencing of sources, there is no other site I could find that made those claims.

Now, for diggronpaul. As you see, I just had to waste time to do research to disprove these claims. THIS WHY THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON THE ACCUSER!!! You have it backwards. How can you call me lazy when you never point us to papers or articles backing up your outlandish claims.

I gather from your "exoteric" comment that you think you have some sense of intuition that tells you these things. Well, you've been dead wrong before (JON STEWART IS A FREAKING COMEDIAN!!), so maybe you should use your brain some more.

And yes, I very much want you off these forums. You derail every thread you touch. This is a voluntary association, and we can voluntarily kick your ass off.

[dannno]

That was totally staged.

Rumsfeld was just like, "uuupp..here it goes" as he winks at his wife who he had told the night before all about the episode that would happen the next day at the luncheon. You could even tell during the interview before the incident that he wasn't focussed, he was looking around waiting for it to happen.

[james1906]

This 'incident' was staged worse than a junior high play. If you think Rumsfeld is truly a murderer and you have the chance to get right up to him, are you really just going to taunt him?

They want us to think names hurt, but it's sticks and stones that break bones.

[diggronpaul]

I gather from your "exoteric" comment that you think you have some sense of intuition that tells you these things. Well, you've been dead wrong before (JON STEWART IS A FREAKING COMEDIAN!!), so maybe you should use your brain some more.

And yes, I very much want you off these forums. You derail every thread you touch. This is a voluntary association, and we can voluntarily kick your ass off.
I'm going to do you a favor and urge you to read Platos Allegory of The Cave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave).

Our survival depends on our ability to turn our heads away from the shadows on the wall and to actually walk outside the Cave without attacking those who are trying to help us and who have already invested considerable time outside the cave. Many here seem to be analyzing this with a critical eye and developing logical conclusions based on their own discovery. I applaud this and welcome more of it.

[silverhawks]

This 'incident' was staged worse than a junior high play. If you think Rumsfeld is truly a murderer and you have the chance to get right up to him, are you really just going to taunt him?

Exactly. I've seen vids of everyday people off the street try to bring in Rove via citizen's arrest. If Benjamin cared even half as much as she claims, Code Pink would be performing citizen's arrests everywhere they went.

[BenIsForRon]

I'm going to do you a favor and urge you to read Platos Allegory of The Cave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave).

Our survival depends on our ability to turn our heads away from the shadows on the wall and to actually walk outside the Cave without attacking those who are trying to help us and who have already invested considerable time outside the cave. Many here seem to be analyzing this with a critical eye and developing logical conclusions based on their own discovery. I applaud this and welcome more of it.

Yes, I took introduction to philosophy in college. Digg, you aren't doing anything help to anyone. You are so incredibly vague in all your accusations. You aren't addressing anything I say, you just continue to say I'm asleep, or I'm looking at the world the wrong way, or I'm watching the shadows on the wall of the freaking cave. All of those excuses are just ways you ignore my criticisms... like a sort of "I am rubber, you are glue" kinda thing.

You are incapable of listening to criticism, so I should just give up addressing you directly. This wouldn't be such a big deal if you didn't post in every fucking thread...

[PaulaGem]

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[PaulaGem]

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[diggronpaul]

Yes, I took introduction to philosophy in college. Digg, you aren't doing anything help to anyone. You are so incredibly vague in all your accusations. You aren't addressing anything I say, you just continue to say I'm asleep, or I'm looking at the world the wrong way, or I'm watching the shadows on the wall of the freaking cave. All of those excuses are just ways you ignore my criticisms... like a sort of "I am rubber, you are glue" kinda thing.

You are incapable of listening to criticism, so I should just give up addressing you directly. This wouldn't be such a big deal if you didn't post in every fucking thread...
Ok, we're all crystal clear on your opinion. I suggest you take it up with the mods as this discussion is way off topic from this thread.


That he is the probable source for Hussein's raw materials when he was trying to develop biological weapons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld

Hussein was not sucessful in manufacturing biological WMD so "they" had to ship him the finished product.

This is the reason that the UN guys had to go in in advance, to destroy the evidence.

My source is Wayne Madsen. I find him highly credible.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
I don't buy that Hussein ever had a program to build these weapons. I think that was always just a ruse to help sell the American public on the invasion. Rumy's deal was probably always to supply finished product.... more profit margin for domestic industry.

[cheapseats]

Nah, they are just plain crazy harpies. I am sure the majority of them are divorced or never been married.

It follows from your bull-in-a-china-shop summary that War, all of it, is owing strictly to testosterone-driven megalomaniacs with Napoleon complexes and commitment issues.

In the interest of educating the public, may inquiring minds learn which candidates you support?

[cheapseats]

Nah, they are just plain crazy harpies. I am sure the majority of them are divorced or never been married.



It follows from your bull-in-a-china-shop summary that the war to which they object is owing strictly to testosterone-driven megalomaniacs with Napoleon complexes and commitment issues.

In the interest of educating the public, may inquiring minds learn which candidates you support?


I could not be more serious about wanting to know which candidates this man supports.

[Todd]

Who foots the tab for all this Code Pink nonsense?

Wow, he looks old.

Yep.. and you know what?
Screw Code Pink. Where have they been since Obama took office? Hypocrite partisan hacks. My guess....you won't hear about Code Pink rally's against a Democrat no matter what happens in our Foreign policy.

[cheapseats]

Yep.. and you know what?
Screw Code Pink. Where have they been since Obama took office? Hypocrite partisan hacks. My guess....you won't hear about Code Pink rally's against a Democrat no matter what happens in our Foreign policy.

ALL of the special interest groups are partisan hacks. Look at your OWN candidates' Ginger Rogers caliber back-pedaling. No need to get up in verbal arms only when it's women who are behaving badly. NOTHING happens in a vacuum, and MEN have been at the helm for basically EVER.

[Todd]

ALL of the special interest groups are partisan hacks. Look at your OWN candidates' Ginger Rogers caliber back-pedaling. No need to get up in verbal arms only when it's women who are behaving badly. NOTHING happens in a vacuum, and MEN have been at the helm for basically EVER.

Agreed....but I really could care less about the sex of the matter. Is that what you're implying?
I just don't like unprincipled people period...especially when it comes to the anti war crowd. Every time I see an organization that is supposed to be about Anti war on the left they are all hypocrites. As long as it's "THEIR" war, nothing else matters. :rolleyes:

That's why I will entertain the message from guys like Raimondo and his ilk. At least they stick to principle.

I wonder if we invade Pakistan in the near future, if she'll be crying "war criminal" so adamently.

[cheapseats]

Agreed....but I really could care less about the sex of the matter. Is that what you're implying?

Excellent, and I was. Reflexive, post V-Rod post . . . which is EXACTLY what happens when people stereotype and condemn wholesale.



I just don't like unprincipled people period...especially when it comes to the anti war crowd. Every time I see an organization that is supposed to be about Anti war on the left they are all hypocrites. As long as it's "THEIR" war, nothing else matters. :rolleyes:


Amen.

[klamath]

Rumfield is old news. Why aren't they out protesting the new war leaders that are carrying on the war and expanding them? I don't trust people that aren't consistent across party lines.

[Meatwasp]

You know what, I'll just say that despite the fact that Code Pink is annoying and regardless of what you think about the official Iraq policy, Rumsfeld really screwed things up in Iraq.

He is one of the major reasons why that country went to pot in 06 and 07. He richly deserves every protest he receives. Frankly, guys like him should go and hide in Alaska, they represent the worse of American policymaking.

So does Clinton on his Bosnia wars. They are all the same and Code pink is selectively choosing who to yell at. Why aren't they screaming at Bill Clinton too.