"Code Pink Tells Gold Star Mom: Your Son Deserved to Die"

[krispos42]

http://bigpeace.com/dlee/2010/08/21/code-pink-tells-gold-star-mom-your-son-deserved-to-die/

It's an Andrew Breitbart piece of shit; I post the link merely for documentation purposes.


It's about as anti-Code Pink as you would expect; "We’ve all seen the nightly news with them being arrested time and time again throwing their leftist temper tantrums with their pink boa feathers wrapped around their necks as they kick and scream like a two-year-old throwing a tantrum to get attention" is one example.

I would ask this gold-star mother, if Code Pink represents the opinions of the majority of the people (and they do) then why is it that they do not get their goals accomplished? Why is it that the only leverage the anti-war people is public displays of civil disobedience?

Why is it that the ill-informed minority and the industries that profit from war get what they want, virtually without question? Do you argue this fact? Do you argue that the uninformed, that still thinks Saddam attacked the WTC and had poison gas and nukes, got what they wanted? Do you argue that they continued to get what they wanted? Years of occupation. Democratization at bayonet-point. The outward appearance of elections.

Do you argue that the industries that profit from war got what they want? Taxpayer-funded no-bid contracts with profits completely independent of performance in fields such as civil infrastructure, military arms sales, transportation, and security. Immensely profitable oil production sharing agreements. Trillions of dollars in play.

Why do those two groups keep getting what they want? Why are you aligned with them? And why do you hate with such intense hatred those fringe few that are trying to do what is good for the military men and women?


Assuming your story is true, I have to ask... with your viewpoint of Code Pink and the anti-war movement so tainted by people such as Andrew Breitbart, is there even the slightest possiblity that this comment to you was made AFTER you called a Code Pinker a traitor, or perhaps something far worse? Lord knows your opinion of them probably couldn't be lower without invoking eternal damnation.

Or are you one of those people that simply uses your son's combat death as a trump card to shut down discussion and get your own way?

Your warmongering side has gotten, is getting, and will likely continue to get just about everything they want. But rather than back in your side's victory, you're upset because... why, exactly? Some people in pink got busted at a public event?

What is your opinion of the astroturf Tea Partiers, by the way? Did you express similar contempt when disruptive people throwing a tantram were raving about "death panels"?

Miss Lee, I'm sorry you lost your son. But Code Pink and the anti-war movement didn't lie him into thinking invading Iraq was a noble, patriotic, freedom-and-America-defending operation. Breitbart, Drudge, Limbaugh, Fux News, Bush, Cheney, and the other pro-war people did. The anti-war movement is trying to make as few Gold Star mothers and fathers as possible.

Can the pro-war people say the same? Can YOU say the same? Can any of the right-wing commenters on your article say the same?

Well?

[movonne]

1. I am so sick of the right-wing nuts and all their shit...

[bluestateguy]

2. As someone who is not a fan of Code Pink

I wouldn't believe anything said by Breitbart if he said that water was wet.

[hlthe2b]

4. Exactly.... Breitbart Bullshit.

[hlthe2b]

3. Screw Breitbart... enough of their BS

[hlthe2b]

5. Sadly, because DU threads are picked up by google...

we are serving to advance this story, based solely on the subject title..... :shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. The title needs to be edited

I was just thinking the same thing.

[Call Me Wesley]

12. Yep. (nt)

[LostinVA]

14. Yes, I thought that, too

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Right wingnuts have been going after CP since they formed

And the wingnuts twist everything. CP has a regular vigil in front of Walter Reed and the winguts think that is because they don't support the wounded soldiers. Any trips to the middle east by CP are interpreted as cooperating with the enemy. When they went to Afghanistan, the wingnuts thought CP was there to meet with the Taliban.

Just ignorant fear mongering.

[Generic Other]

8. Cindy Sheehan is Code Pink and Gold Star

I call bullshit on the other guy. All he is is a KNOWN LIAR.

[dogday]

9. As a Mother of a soldier who fought in Iraq, I was prepared

for the worst. If I had supported the war, then I would of had to of assumed the responsibility of making this, allowing this war to happen to my son and other young people like him.

I want to feel sorry for this Mother, and I do, she is a Mother, we don't always make the right choices, we are not infallible. This one certainly will need to face her grief and anger and most all her guilt. That is what I am hearing most of all... Guilt.

[RoseMead]

10. Breitbart = Bullshit

He has no credibility, and he should be ignored.

[Ramulux]

11. Even if its true

its kind of hard to argue. The dude decided to go to war and terrorize a country that we had no right to fuck with. Its a cold-hearted and brutal thing to say but seriously, you decide that you want to go murder people in a foreign country you cant expect people to feel sympathy for you when you get your head blown off.

Maybe I am a horrible human being but I have no respect for the military and its service members. There has not been a legitimate war in decades and if you are stupid enough to fall for the propaganda being spread nowadays, I feel for you I really do, just dont expect me to consider you some sort of hero when you fucking die in the desert for no reason.

[pipoman]

15. It is nice that we have the freedom to

say what we think, regardless how vile and self serving it may be.

[proteus_lives]

23. "Maybe I am a horrible human being"

No maybe about it.

[EFerrari]

27. No one in Code Pink would say such a thing. n/t

[Liberation Angel]

13. I think you should change the OP titel because you are endorsing and passing on a lie

Many folks may not hit the link to read it and just go
"How fucked up Code Pink is"

Posting slanderous material out of context is unconscionable. It is YOUR headline on DU and it is slanderous.

I get your point BUT..

I camped with some of the Code Pink Folks and worked with them at Denver in 2008 (Convention).

They do NOT deserve an error of judgment such as you have made.

Correct it or I will alert (not to mention the source is a creepy fascist too)

[dogday]

20. I believe those are the rules of posting articles. You must use the

title of the article, and that is the original title of this article.

I know the OP and his intentions are to show how the right can turn a situation around to make it a slanderous opportunity.

Code pink has more balls than any other group when it comes to ending the war. I stand 100% behind them...

[Liberation Angel]

22. Only in LBN or Editorial NOT GD: Especially not when it is Slander!

The poster could have said that the lying sack of sh*t Reich winger LIES and Says "Code pink yada yada..."

It should be correct abut the mods have not responded to my alert which i stand by. Its slanderous and will show up on searched making DU and Code Pink look like morons. We are not and neither are they.

I will alert again maybe the evening crew will do the right thing.

This needs to be cleaned up. Its offensive and inapproporiate

[dogday]

25. A lot of what the right puts out is offensive and inappropriate, but

none the less, it is what they do, and we should stay informed. The OP did nothing wrong but post the article and as I stated in my previous post, I know this OP and he is showing how the right puts their slanderous slant on everything.. Anything to rile up their base, cuz that is all they have, raw emotion.

[Liberation Angel]

29. I agree, but he point is that the OP Title is a lie

he should have qualified it in the title.

Some people will ONLY read the headline and go GOD that fucking code pink are assholes.

We do NOT want that so it should be fixed

[MajorChode]

16. The author is a disgusting piece of shit

She lends her name to conservative PACs who advocate for the disbanding of the UN and other fringe nut bullshit. The only reason anyone listens to her at all is because her son was the first Navy SEAL to die in Iraq. In other words, she is using her son's death for highly partisan political purposes. This is a far cry from Sheehan and other anti-war moms which are simply advocating for pacifist causes.

She is about as believable as a snake oil salesman.

[11 Bravo]

17. If it's not on tape, then it didn't happen. (Isn't that their rule?)

[KharmaTrain]

18. On To The Next Target...

Destroy ACORN...Check
Slime and make the NAACP look like fools...Check
Make even bigger fools of Tom Vilsack and the Obama Administration...Double Check

Now onto the next mark...and unfortunately a pretty easy one. While Code Pink has fought the good fight, they've also alienated many who think their actions are over the top. And this includes the corporate media. Watch the FauxRage© as the right wing echo chamber gets in a lather and turns Medea Benjamin into the next Reverend Wright or Bill Ayers.

Here's hoping Code Pink is prepared...looks like they're marked...

[sabrina 1]

19. The minute you see the word 'Breitbart' you must assume

it's a lie. In fact, I think the word 'lie' could be substituted with the word 'breitbart' eg 'he told a huge breitbart' and people would instantly know what you meant.

[laughingliberal]

28. +1 nt

[McCamy Taylor]

21. Title should have included "Breitbart" As written this is Divide and Conquer

at DU with anti-war being pitted against US military families.

Mayve DU should reserve the right to alter titles which are (deliberately or unintentionally) divisive.

[Raster]

24. I can assure you, NO ONE in Code Pink told ANY Gold Star Mother that their son deserved to die.

It's Breitbart bullshit!

[JI7]

26. you should add Breitbart in the subject line as the person making the claim

[Liberation Angel]

30. agree 1000 %

why haven't the mods acted on this

[and-justice-for-all]

31. Fuck him; damn liar..nt

[madmom]

32. Starting now EVERY dem should start by saying something like...

"Oh a breitbart piece? then we know it's a lie" and just laugh in their collective faces. After what he/they have done we CANNOT let them have any credibility on anything. Every piece he writes every word he speaks we laugh it off as lies every time!