Code Yellow

Far left pressure group Code Pink is a special special interest: they're lobbyists for losing. The "Pinkos" were founded in 2002 by four women, including "Starhawk", whose Wikipedia bio begins:

Starhawk (born Miriam Samos in 1951) is a American writer, activist and Witch. She is well known as a theorist of paganism and is one of the foremost voices of ecofeminism. Starhawk lives in San Francisco, where she works with the Reclaiming tradition of Witchcraft she helped found, through classes, workshops, camps, and public rituals in earth-based spirituality, with the goal to "unify spirit and politics."

Code Pink quotes Starhawk,

call(ing) on women around the world to rise up and oppose the war in Iraq. We call on mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and daughters, on workers, students, teachers, healers, artists, writers, singers, poets and every ordinary outraged woman willing to be outrageous for peace.

Plainly, Code Pink's going where no man has gone before.

Last year, Code Pink activists were ejected from a Senate hearing for heckling Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Others demonstrated to support a woman charged with murder for refusing a C-section to save unborn twins, though doctors warned they might die. Code followers were tossed from and from the Republican Convention (where they "snagged a delegate pass, borrowed a media credential or posed as GOP volunteers" and "rush[ed] the convention floor in pink lingerie"), disrupting remarks by President Bush. They similarly crashed the Convention's "Tribute to Laura Bush" who -- though inarguably a mother, daughter and teacher -- wasn't the sort of women "called" by Code Pink, possibly because she's no witch. The Pinkos even interrupted Teresa Kerry's Democratic Convention speech, despite the fact that Teresa is.

The Pinkos began 2005 by scamming tickets to the inaugural to maintain their perfect heckle-and-get-booted record. Last month, ignoring evidence that the terrorists are neither Iraqi nor supported by most Iraqis (and is declining among other Muslims), Pink co-founder Jodie Evans preached simultaneous surrender and skirmish:

We must begin by really standing with the Iraqi people and defending their right to resist. I can remain myself against all forms of violence, and yet I cannot judge what someone has to do when pushed to the wall to protect all they love. The Iraqi people are fighting for their country, to protect their families and to preserve all they love. They are fighting for their lives, and we are fighting for lies. We must get out of Iraq now. They will rebuild their country, it will take time, a long time, but they cannot start until we are gone.

They love Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez but call Bush a war criminal. They properly "call for a world where all children can live in Peace" but ignore the slaughter of kids with candy though, as Mohammad at Iraq the Model says, "No words can describe the ugliness of the massacre, no words can wipe the tears of the mothers who lost their loved ones today and no words can describe the difference between those handing sweets to the children and those handing death and pain."

And now they're badgering wounded American soldiers. Inspired by a one-sided and illogical muck-raking Salon article alleging poor psychiatric treatment of injured troops, Code Pink brings its anti-war message to D.C.'s Walter Reed Hospital every Friday. The theme: "Mothers don't let your children grow up to be killers":


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Fortunately, the DC Chapter of Free Republic began counter protesting:



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They unfurled "the mother of all banners":


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My favorite is this:



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But, this one:


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Apparently drove Code Pink nuts:


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Apart from additional evidence that quitters can't command a majority, what's the point? This: Appeasement is surrender. Protests and puppetry can't fill-in for force. Decades of diplomacy and years of yammering are futile facing the bribed. With a staff literally raping and pillaging plus a biased General Assembly, the United Nations is united only against America and Israel. And the MSM is anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Christian.

Code Pink favors peace, justice and humanity. So do I. However, their strategy stops at "love and forgive/From the Holy Land to Afghanistan." What if the Holy Land or Afghanistan never reciprocates? The Pinkos "cannot morally consent to war while paths of peace and negotiation have not been pursued to their fullest." What were 12 years and 3 Presidents: chopped liver? Pre-invasion, they complained that "a child with cancer cannot get pain relief or medication because of sanctions." The Coalition complied and ended the embargo--but, says Ambit, "where's the outcry that those who opposed the sanctions on humanitarian grounds were lying - and there is no evidence that Iraqis continue to die of privation? . . . By rights the odometer-style counters should be running in reverse subtracting 5,000 Iraqi deaths per month." UPDATE: Mark Humphrys' " Lives Saved Counter."

I wish the world sung on-key, in four-part harmony. We're not there yet--as Code Pink concedes each time they "truly demand liberty and justice for all." Absent the group's own condition precedents, abandoning Iraqis could be a death sentence--as it was in Vietnam. Turning turtle, i.e., isolationism, won't protect Iraqis or Americans--September 11th proved that. Like the rest of the anti-war left, Code Pinko offers nothing but "no"--they're the new reactionaries. And they're predicting the behavior of others by extrapolating from theirs--flawed foreign policy "mirror imaging."

Perpetual surrender made France what it is today. With white flags and yellow streaks, Code Pink's trying to out-France the French. Impossible?--perhaps. Peaceful, just or humane?--NFW.