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Code Pink now marching in Pakistan for end to drone strikes
“People are taking great risks to come here,” said Medea Banjamin, co-director of Code Pink. “It shows the depth of conviction that we have to say that ‘I don’t want my government killing innocent people in my name and I’m going to put my body on the line to try to stop it.’ ”
Khan, a former cricket star, is leading a convoy of thousands — including political supporters, local community members and journalists — into the troubled, restricted region to highlight the impact of drone strikes in Pakistan…
In August, the Pakstani Taliban threatened to kill Khan if he held the march. “If he comes, our suicide bombers will target him,” Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan told The Associated Press.
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What could go wrong?
Abby Adams on October 5, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Are they in range?
Axion on October 5, 2012 at 3:43 PM
Could the inevitable rescue mission be the October wag-the-dog surprise?
Joe Mama on October 5, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Think of the resources the ISI must be spending to keep the Taliban from delivering room service.
Limerick on October 5, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Are they going to wear the pink va-jay-jay costumes? That’ll go over huge in Pohkeestah.
Trafalgar on October 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM
Why don’t they march for an end to treating Muslim women like shyt and killing them instead?
darwin on October 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM
If the Pakistanis make them wear burkas it will probably be a substantial improvement for most of them.
alchemist19 on October 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM
Is Cindy Sheehan with them, and did she bring along her boyfriend
DanteLew Rockwell?Del Dolemonte on October 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM
Traitorous.
rbj on October 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM
A group of women alone in a muslim country? Brilliance.
nobar on October 5, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Never a drone around when you need one…
Btw: Do they wear burqas?
Valkyriepundit on October 5, 2012 at 3:48 PM
I’ll give them credit at least for putting it on the line for what they believe in. Over here, they’re just attention wh**es.
Glenn Jericho on October 5, 2012 at 3:52 PM
No wonder 220 volt battery chargers suddenly sky rocketed in price.
Limerick on October 5, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Is Jane Fonda with them?
Mark1971 on October 5, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Ew, ew! Pick me! Picke me to fly the drone.
SouthernGent on October 5, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Credit like the evolution fodder that did the human-shield for Saddam? That is one helluva credit line to the WTF crowd.
Limerick on October 5, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Maybe they could protest in front of a tank when the driver can’t see too well. Accidents happen.
arnold ziffel on October 5, 2012 at 3:56 PM
Quick! Someone broadcast that video!
Cody1991 on October 5, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Because then one of those religion of peace folks would kill them. But you already know that.
Cindy Munford on October 5, 2012 at 3:59 PM
They’re in no danger. Leftists and Islamists are allies against the west.
darwin on October 5, 2012 at 3:59 PM
This sounds like a problem that will solve itself.
Meric1837 on October 5, 2012 at 4:00 PM
I’m sure when ideology meets reality…
… there will be some very ugly unintended consequences.
Seven Percent Solution on October 5, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Rachel Corrie sound familiar?
Greek Fire on October 5, 2012 at 4:01 PM
PLEASE GO TOPLESS
PLEASE!!!!!!!
lm10001 on October 5, 2012 at 4:02 PM
I see a nomination for the Darwin Award coming soon
Jabberwock on October 5, 2012 at 4:04 PM
It’s called treason.
sharrukin on October 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM
One is assuming that people in Pakistan know what a veejayjay looks like. Any single male who notices is instantly guilty of violating no less than 4 head-loppable offenses…
“So Ranvir….tell us how you recognize that as a veejayjay…where have you seen one before….you don’t have a wife….give us this whores name so we can stone her”
BobMbx on October 5, 2012 at 4:06 PM
They’ll just end up being mistaken for camels.
CurtZHP on October 5, 2012 at 4:09 PM
Someone might want to tell the Islamists that. I don’t get the feeling they believe in allies.
Bitter Clinger on October 5, 2012 at 4:13 PM
If they are this stupid then we the tax payers should not have to foot the bill for the inevitable rescue mission.
donkichi on October 5, 2012 at 4:16 PM
I’m sure this stunt has already been coordinated with contacts in Pakistan. Believe me, leftists aren’t brave or principled. There isn’t a snowballs chance in hell they’d go there unless they knew they’d be safe.
darwin on October 5, 2012 at 4:20 PM
This is just ridiculously stupid and I abhor everything they stand for (namely the hypocrisy behind it), but I hope they all make it home in one piece.
tdpwells on October 5, 2012 at 4:22 PM
x1000
tdpwells on October 5, 2012 at 4:23 PM
Code Pinkers are busy travelers:
- In 2006, Code Pink leaders Cindy Sheehan, Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin traveled to Venezuela to meet personally with that country’s Communist dictator, Hugo Chavez.
- In December 2007, when Pakistani President (and American ally) Pervez Musharraf was under pressure to step down from power, Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry of Code Pink traveled to Pakistan to help America’s enemies increase the pressure on Musharraf.
- In September 2008, a number of Code Pink leaders met personally with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York City. Soon thereafter, Code Pink launched an aggressive pro-Hamas, anti-Israel campaign. That November, Jodie Evans and a Code Pink contingent visited Iran at the personal invitation of Ahmadinejad.
- In December 2009 Code Pink led an international delegation of anti-Israel leftists to Gaza, where they delivered “tens of thousands of dollars in humanitarian aid” as a gesture of defiance against Israel’s blockade. Hamas protected the demonstrators during their two-day stay in Gaza by tightly controlling their movements and contacts, and by having them stay in a Hamas-owned, Five-Star hotel that one demonstrator described as “the nicest hotel I’ve ever stayed at.”
- Next, the demonstrators prepared to go to Egypt, to participate in a Hamas-organized “Gaza Freedom March,” again to protest Israeli policy. Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin told the media that Hamas “has pledged to ensure our safety” in Egypt. Joining Code Pink on the trip were former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
- Between 2008 and 2010, Code Pink made nine trips to Egypt in a campaign to undermine the Egyptian government, which was on friendly terms with Israel and was helping to enforce the Israeli blockade against Gaza. Then, when riots erupted in Egypt in late January 2011—ostensibly protesting the autocratic and corrupt regime of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak—Code Pink representatives were on the ground in Cairo from the very start of the uprising.
Code Pink and Islamists share the same goals.
darwin on October 5, 2012 at 4:31 PM
I suggest they go up to the NWFP areas and look for followers of the Red Mosque… in grade schools and secondary schools… to see the wonderful curriculum that involves such things as giving your life for the cause at the command of your elders.
Really, Pakistan is one of the few places on Earth you can get children suicide bombers for hire! I’m sure that Code Pink totally loves this sort of thing!
Oh, and just wait until they get a load of the ‘progressive’ attitude of the Red Mosquers towards women… why, that would be a real cultural awakening for them all!
ajacksonian on October 5, 2012 at 4:36 PM
Cindy Sheehan is Roseanne Bar’s VP candidate
Schadenfreude on October 5, 2012 at 4:37 PM
Code Pink, the Taliband and a Paki peace activist: the cosmic convergence of lunacy.
PattyJ on October 5, 2012 at 4:38 PM
They could get a lifetime of ‘teachable moments’ if they work it out right.
Might only be one of them… or decades of them… but that would be such a good thing for them to experience FIRST HAND!
Talibe… al Qaeda… Mehsud clan… Red Mosque followers… Hekmatyar’s group… just waiting for these fine Pinkers to show up. Yessirree! A few hours out of the way on some rather unpaved roads and in no time at all you can get a lifetime of teachable moments.
If you survive them, of course.
There is always that.
ajacksonian on October 5, 2012 at 4:41 PM
Both groups have beards too.
mudskipper on October 5, 2012 at 4:45 PM
CapnObvious on October 5, 2012 at 4:56 PM
First time I saw that I read “goats”
CapnObvious on October 5, 2012 at 4:57 PM
Is there a website we can donate through to keep them there??
Tim Zank on October 5, 2012 at 5:00 PM
If our nation were anything close to sane, they would suddenly find themselves denied re-entry for life as terrorist sympathizers!
I’m wondering if the jihadis will hold fire out of professional courtesy…or if they just won’t be able to resist preying on those women.
MelonCollie on October 5, 2012 at 5:18 PM
Did they bring their vajayjay costumes?
“Cover up that cat meat!”
mojo on October 5, 2012 at 5:30 PM
LOL!
Potential Darwin Award Winners..
William Eaton on October 5, 2012 at 5:43 PM
Good for them. Drone strikes are tyranny.
Dante on October 5, 2012 at 5:57 PM
Always embracing your inner totalitarian. Yes, you really champion liberty, don’t you?
Dante on October 5, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Do you even understand the concept of loyalty?
sharrukin on October 5, 2012 at 6:06 PM
Sounds to me like the perfect time to launch a few.
Dopenstrange on October 5, 2012 at 7:55 PM
Your spoiled ass has never even seen totalitarianism, libtard. Talk to someone who escaped Cuba or the old USSR.
MelonCollie on October 5, 2012 at 8:15 PM