CodePink Anti-War Group Joins Egyptian Protests in Cairo
- Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:31pm by
Meredith Jessup
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An American leftist women’s anti-war group has landed in Cairo to take up banners alongside Egyptians as they fight for the future of their country. In all of the chaos today, our friends at Business Insider noticed this:
According to their website, the group’s nine-person “international solidarity delegation” has been “in the streets with the Egyptian people for the last five days.” On Thursday, the group actually plans to picket outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, though their presence in Egypt is purely accidental:
The international CODEPINK delegation had been en route to Gaza via Egypt but with the Rafah border closed they are unable to enter Gaza, and remain in Cairo. The activists will stay in Cairo until they can safely make their way to Gaza, where they intend to continue their delegation for peace. The delegation includes people from the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, Switzerland and India. This is CODEPINK’s ninth trip to Egypt and Gaza in the past two years.
The group is demanding that President Obama, the U.S. State Department and Congress cease monetary and military assistance to “criminal” President Hosni Mubarak.
One of the group’s founders also insisted they’re also ready to step in front of any microphone.
h/t Business Insider
It’s not the first time the pink ladies have protested in Cairo. In 2009, the group followed President Obama to protest outside his outreach remarks to the Muslim world.
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Comments (171)
mcpbob
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:24pmcode pink are a bunch of hypocrites,. didn’t they go after Bush for getting involved in affairs outside of the U.S.?…. and now they are doing basically the same thing….
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:16pmThey don’t know who they are “play’n” with. They aren’t in America and have no rights…as they will find out.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:16pmDoes anybody remember the House on Unamerican Activities and what they did? I think it needs to be reorganized and go after the comunists that are right in our faces. They could start in the white house.
Report Post »drago
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 1:56pmAgreed
Report Post »Salmad
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:13pmRug munchers for piece(sic)
Report Post »ThomasUSA
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:11pmThe consolidation of those who want to control others is speeding up. Blindly they embrace any group that seems headed in the same general direction… but do they understand that those who use others as a means to their ends will eventually destroy anyone who is not headed to the same place?
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:04pm@cnsrvtvj: One can only hope!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:03pmGONESURFING
I’ll say it again, these nuts will fit right in, not. Why don’t they go to Afghanistan and protest against the Taliban ?
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Against the taliban ?
No can do :
http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/11/17/jane-fonda-obama-funder-jodie-evans-met-with-taliban-code-pink-gives-terrorists-direct-line-to-obama/
Report Post »Quad-rip-legic
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:03pmThey are the Westboro Baptist Church protesters for the left.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:56pmObama is responsible for the deaths in injured for inciting Violence
Report Post »Fastercat
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:59pmIf the pinks get cooper(d), I’ll give BHusseinH a pass on that one.
Report Post »Grandpa's Attic
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:54pmWTFlip.. Are they over there helping to incite riotous behavior.. Oh my if they are actually fueling this horrible fire, I would not want to be in their shoes when they try to get back into the US… This is not America’s place to be over there. They do not represent America (Kill for Peace, right code pink??)
I believe they are doing more harm then good over there..
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:54pmChalk another one up for Beck… he called this just the other day!
These radical groups in the US are dangerous, I dont care what their mission statement says. These people are looking for a fight go out of their way to find one like in Egyt and mos ago with the flotilla incident.
Where are Justice Dept DHS? You are more concerned with folks expressing their views civily within the rule of law on sites like The Blaze, Big Government.com and MY SITE while the real trouble makers are at work!
The entire system is corrupt to the core with Code Pinks, SDS, unions bias corporations and their radical left wing ilk.
STOP playing their game and start playing your game through http://www.savingtherepublic.com
Report Post »BarryWhistlerSoetoro
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:52pmProfessional protesters….get a job.
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:51pm“..until they can safely make their way to Gaza, where they intend to continue their delegation for peace”
Continue their delegation for peace – in Gaza – obviously we know for which side. Hope DHS is watching every one of these pink flamingos‘ and put’s them on the No Fly List so they don’t get to bring back their Gaza brainwashing. If DHS does let them back in, they should be questioned thouroughly about their ‘peace meetings’ in Gaza. They don’t speak for the US. Sheesh!!!
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:49pmI’ll say it again, these nuts will fit right in, not. Why don’t they go to Afghanistan and protest against the Taliban ?
Report Post »cliKKer
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:48pmOk… let me get this concept. Code Pink an anti-war WOMEN’s movement is in Egypt protesting along side those that do NOT ALLOW women to protest or speak. Are they all wearing pink hijab and coverings?
Report Post »This shows how stupid the progressive / liberal mind is. They will support and rally behind people that will immediately kill them. If Shira law is implemented the first people gone will be the abhorrent lifestyles (as defined by Islamic Religion) without any questions. Gays, Environmentalist, and Feminist are all done for. I always chuckled and felt uncomfortable when I heard people say Liberalism is a mental disorder, but if it walks like a duck talks like a duck and acts like moron it is a moron.
etetetet
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:55pmWell stated – Just love them to be asked those types of questions by a reporter (a real reporter) and would even more love to hear their rationale and response.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:07pmVery well stated, good post.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:12pmYou mean they aren’t spies dressed up in pink so they can fit in with the crowd? I bet they have video equipment, satellite phones and all sorts of spy equipment hidden in the letters in that very carefully made banner they are carrying – sort of a spur of the moment pink fabric with carefully cut out black letters available at any Walmart store in Egypt type banner. How sweet…..
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:30pmThere are a lot of Egyptian women protesting in Cairo.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 8:07amLook, we all know these far-left anti-American zealots make no sense. They are traitors, and cowards. We know they’re idiots. They have the freedom to undermind, openly, our US Rebublic, then go over to the ME and support people who would stone them for even once voicing their nonsense. Do they think they would have any freedom under Sharia? They want to take the US down, but are too stupid to think ahead to what life would be like wearing a burqua.
Report Post »STOPLYING2ME
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:41pmIt the mussie brotherhood not the mussie sisterhood.. but after the survivors set in an Egyptian jail til 2013 and then yell ” Please President Palin, come get us.”
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:44pm@cnsrvtvj
Report Post »We were warned by Queen Hillberry, he won’t know what to do, or say, if the phone call comes in at 3:00 a.m. Looks like she got one right!!!
BQI
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:40pmQuick, slam the door and lock it.
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:37pmNice.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:39pmThese nut will fit right in I guess. But why don.t they go to Afghanistan to protest against the Taliban ?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:38pmThank you! Said it better than I could.
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:38pmThat sounds about right. Code Pink is one of the worst organizations in this country. I was at the airport one time waiting to get on my flight. There was a group of around 25 code pink people getting on the same flight. They were making a scene until security arrived. What a horrible group. Maybe they’ll get some of what Anderson Cooper got earlier.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the Obama mixed messages on Egypt video
etetetet
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:37pmEverybody was suppose to evacuate. Guess you can’t force somebody to leave a bad situation. Sure will be bad if they get caught up on the violence and get hurt.
Report Post »Christabel
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:36pmToo bad we can’t revoke their passports.
Report Post »reshas1
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:36pmAvailable for phone calls and interviews????? Are you kidding me???
Report Post »828 Patriot
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:35pmObviously trying to help their brotherhood friends hijack the movement. These traitors need to be tried for treason.
Report Post »saneasylum
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:15amAires & Dorens mouth pieces for HAMAS………….
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:35pmPretty in Pink – me thinks not –
Report Post »“An American leftist women’s anti-war group has landed in Cairo to take up banners alongside Egyptians as they fight for the future of their country”
Did they really get to fly to Egypt? If yes, I
wonder how and why Americans are allowed to go through Customs and get to Cairo when it is not suppose to be allowed – wonder who pulled those strings.
Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:41pmMaybe they all used brooms!
Report Post »rwing
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 9:29pmYou are right this sounds fishy. Perhaps this is staged – I wonder what their presence in Egypt is accomplishing here at home? Hmmm…
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:31amBetter be wearing pink burkas. If not they could end up with AC 180
Report Post »Sailor