Code Pink already grabbed attention for its demonstrations to drive US Marine Corps recruiters out of Berkeley, a stunt that failed, but managed to get Benjamin even on conservative talk show host Bill O’Reilly’s cable news show with the deceptive title under her name of “peace activist.” Prior to the attack on the Marines, Benjamin also did her utmost to help the enemy against our forces when Code Pink sent $600,000 in “medical supplies” to the same forces that were fighting US soldiers in Fallujah at the height of the war in Iraq. Benjamin and her crew will do anything for attention and to harm the image of the United States abroad.
Now, Susie Benjamin (her real name since Benjamin changed her name to the mythological Greek mother who murdered her own children to spite her husband, Jason) has found another scene grabber of an event to show what a “peace activist” she is by organizing a demonstration to attack outgoing President Bush with symbolic “shoes” at the US federal building in Los Angeles. The confidential email below was broadcast to Code Pink supporters:
--- On Mon, 12/15/08, CODEPINK LA
From: CODEPINK LA
Subject: More Shoes for Bush!
To:
Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 8:21 PM
December 15, 2008
Dear Lee,
Join us!
Wednesday, December 17th, 5:00--6:30 PM
More Shoes for Bush!
Join us at the Federal Building at the southwest corner of Wilshire Blvd. and Veteran Ave., in solidarity with the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George W. Bush at a Baghdad press conference on Sunday. Peace activists will gather outside the Federal Building with shoes representing Iraqis and U.S. soldiers who have died since the Bush Administration's illegal invasion of Iraq.
We aim to show support for Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at President Bush while he spoke at the conference during his "surprise" visit to discuss the war. Al-Zaidi is currently being held by Iraqi police and questioned on his actions. The peace activists are calling on the Iraqi government to release al-Zaidi without charges. "It's outrageous that al-Zaidi could get two years in prison for insulting President Bush, when Bush is directly responsible for the deaths of 1.5 million Iraqis and 4,200 U.S. troops, and 5 million displaced Iraqis," says Jodie Evans of CODEPINK. "The one who should be in jail is George Bush, and he should be charged with war crimes."
Bring shoes to label with the names of Iraqi dead, and shoes to put on poles as they are doing in Iraq. Let's stand in solidarity with the Iraqis who have suffered at the hands of George W. Bush. Let's stand in solidarity for the "widows and orphans" he has created.
For more information and to RSVP, contact Audrey.
If you can't make it, please sign this petition that CODEPINK D.C. will be delivering to the Iraqi embassy.
See you in action,
Jodie, Susan, Linda, Patricia, Janna, Paris, and Audrey
Benjamin and her cronies claim they are showing support for a 25 year-old Iraqi journalist who insulted our president because he allegedly created “widows and orphans” when in fact it was Saddam Hussein who President Bush removed after Saddam created many more Iraqi women and orphans during his reign of more than 30 years in Iraq, no to mentioned starved children in his own country for meglamanical aims. What Code Pink’s event his Wednesday shows is that the phony “peace group” Code Pink is really on the side of America’s enemies in the War on Terror and wants no punishment for someone who assaulted the President of the United States. The irony is that it was during President Bush’s watch that Medea Benjamin and Code Pink were able to send funds to the very enemy our American soldiers were fighting during the war that America has now won in Iraq and were able to grow as an organization due to lax laws regarding the funding of subversive "non-profits" such as the Holy Land Foundation during most of the Bush presidential years.
The more people in our country know about Code Pink and Medea Benjamin, the more Americans will start to stand up to such a pernicious group.
2 comments:
Jodie Evans should be charged for giving aid and comfort to the enemy in times of war and for treason against the United States of America
Did you know that Paul Larudee has a registered non-profit under the name AIPAC? He is soliciting tax deductible donations for the Free
Gaza Movement (which doesn't have 501c3 status) even though he has been kicked out and has no connection whatsoever with Free Gaza.
Here's a letter he recently mailed out to people who have donated -- all lies:
The Free Gaza Movement
405 Vista Heights Rd, El Cerrito, CA 94530, USA
Tel. 510-232-2500, E-mail: friendstogaza@gmail.com
www.freegazamovement.org
May 30, 2009
Dear Friends of the Free Gaza Movement,
As you may have heard, the Free Gaza group in Cyprus is no longer working cooperatively with the Free Gaza nonprofit corporation in California. Although we wish otherwise, it appears that their decision is final, after months of attempted negotiations. Despite our substantially differnt interpretation of events, we do not intend to debate their May 23 statement, which can be found on the website they control, www.freegaza.org, Our new website, www.freegazamovement.org (still partially under construction), will provide further information and updates.
Given the potential confusion that may result from the division of the movement, we wish you to know where your donations go and what they support. Until March, 2009, the only legal entity representing the Free Gaza Movement was the Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees, a 501(c)(3) California nonprofit corporation operating under the registered business name Free Gaza Movement. It is the only registered tax exempt U.S. entity with that name. Since March, however, the Cyprus group has operated a Cypriot nonprofit called FG Human Rights Projects, Ltd. ("FGHRP"), which also uses the Free Gaza Movement name. Since May this year FGHRP began accepting tax-exempt donations through its new US fiscal sponsor, AET.
The U.S. nonprofit Free Gaza Movement is legally responsible for everything done under its name since the beginning of the Free Gaza Movement, and it is liable for all disclosures required by U.S. law, compliance with all U.S. nonprofit regulations, and all obligations undertaken by the Free Gaza Movement when no other legal entity existed and until now. Among these is $300,000 of debt incurred to buy the Free Gaza and Liberty boats that broke the siege of Gaza in August 2008, as well as ownership and repair of the Liberty, which was heavily damaged in a storm in December, 2008. We are not liable for any transactions and activities undertaken by FGHRP.
The Association has repaid around $245,000 of the debt, with roughly $55,000 remaining. As for the Liberty, we estimate that the total cost of transferring title, repairing and maintaining the Liberty for up to a year will be around $50,000. When the repairs are completed, we intend to sell and/or sail it to Gaza again. When you donate to the U.S. Free Gaza Movement, the main immediate use of your funds will be for these two purposes.The Cypriot group has not provided any funds to meet either of these obligations. Please be assured that as a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, we are legally obligated to use your donations for the mission of the Free Gaza Movement, and cannot use them for other purposes. We are also planning for a major passenger and cargo ship, to be announced in the near future.
We believe that the work of both groups is worth supporting. We also think that it can, in fact, be an advantage to have multiple Free Gaza organizations in different locations, cooperating together. With your help and support, we pledge to continue working for this to happen.
In solidarity,
Paul Larudee, Ph.D.
Treasurer and Acting Secretary
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