Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
As promised, here's my account of Operation Thank You that took place on Sunday, October 2nd.
The Advance Team arrived around 11:00 am and took stock of the situation: no CodePink people around. Excellent!
We deployed with flags and signs to what was normally CodePink's corner (the southwest corner of Park Blvd. & President's Way). SDPW members arrived shortly thereafter and were deployed to the northwest corner.
As the clock edged towards noon, more and more reinforcements arrived, mostly thanks to our operation being mentioned in the Friday edition of Rick Roberts' Court of Public Opinion Docket. We even attracted one lady from Florida who was in town on vacation! Her son is a U.S. Marine and she came because to her - it was great to show support for my son!.
With increasing strength, we deployed members to the two remaining corners of the intersection and assumed complete control.
Just as SDPW asserted control over the entire intersection, CodePink suddenly appeared in the parking lot. First - one or two CodePink people ('Pinkers'), then a couple more, and their ranks finally swelled to a grand total of 11 people (a rough estimate).
They took stock of our strong presense and sat huddled together, scratching their collective heads as to what to do....Confront those evil fascists and demand a cornet be given to CodePink?....Call the police and whine about their rights being 'supressed'?....Throw up their hands and head for a vegan resturant?
And then they struck on it: we'll walk around Balboa Park and pretend that it's what we intended to do in the first place!
And so they walked. But not before posing for a photo op courtesy of Fox6 News.
And it should be noted that the video photographer was there as we initially deployed....he was there to video US.
The Pinkers shuffled away into the park to annoy everyone instead of just the cars driving by the intersection - the intersection that we owned.
The members of SPDW stayed at the intersection until around 2:00 pm and we were constantly being waved to, honked at, and given the 'thumbs up' constantly; our message of 'Support the Troops' was being received and appreciated by a great many San Diegans that day.
When SDPW extracted it's members from the intersection, most of our new members pledged to return for the follow-up operation tenitively scheduled in two weeks.
As I said previously: we came, we saw, we stole their thunder!! I'm thinking that the follow-up operation for this should be called Operation Stolen Thunder II...
Want to join us? Drop me a line and I'll hook you up with the details....
(Special thanks to Liz for the photos since I forgot my camera!!)
Awesome! 'Bout time someone got off their asses and showed the anti-war protesters that they shou
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Gracie said:
The message was clear that day. First Amendment rights of free speech and protest are alive and
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Michael said:
Brilliant. I so love this...
Read more in CodePink is Code BLUEFrickin' awesome, man. You rule.
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Way to go!
|| Posted by GrumpyBunny, October 4, 2005 04:05 PM ||Frickin' awesome, man. You rule.
|| Posted by Dave, October 4, 2005 06:32 PM ||Brilliant. I so love this...
|| Posted by Michael, October 5, 2005 06:36 PM ||The message was clear that day. First Amendment rights of free speech and protest are alive and well. ANYONE is free to protest the war on any of the thousands of busy intersections in San Diego. Outside of Balboa Naval Hospital, where injured heros are recovering from war wounds is NOT one of them. I affectionately called this "Operation Take Back Our Corner". Others had more colorful and lovely names...lol.
~Gracie (blog groupie extraordinaire)
|| Posted by Gracie, October 5, 2005 08:37 PM ||Awesome! 'Bout time someone got off their asses and showed the anti-war protesters that they should support their troops!
|| Posted by Tilesey, October 6, 2005 01:39 AM ||