I had a wonderful weekend with Superman. We grilled out on Friday night after we got back from work, and hung out on his deck with a few of his neighbors. Saturday, we had a fantastic lunch with the Sniper and Mrs. Sniper and Bridget the Flogging Molly Chick and her man, got back to Superman’s place and proceeded to watch movies and drink wine. Later that night, we decided to take Lagniappe for a 30-40 minute walk around the neighborhood, chatting all the way.
Today was Mother’s Day. We attended a church service (yes, I actually accompanied him to church – you may wet yourselves in shock now – believe it or not, you don’t have to be a believer or even Christian to attend a service with someone), and went out to breakfast.
A perfect weekend, right?
I’m sure it was a perfect weekend for a lot of folks who decided to spend Mother’s Day downtown enjoying the absolutely perfect weather… that is until the Code Pink assholes showed up.
Apparently the military had a bunch of vehicles in a static display downtown on the National Mall. For those who don’t have to deal with them on a regular basis like I did for nearly 10 years, it’s a fascinating display. The weather today was absolutely stunning, and I’m sure there were plenty of folks who would have been fascinated to learn about some of the equipment our heroes use downrange.
Well… apparently the Code Pink assholes decided that their petty, whining, attention-whoring protests should take precedence over other folks’ right to peacefully enjoy the day downtown. So what did they do? They swarmed the military display, planted their fat, cottage cheese-dimpled, smelly asses inside the vehicles and refused to leave. They also decided to obstruct traffic downtown – as if the traffic situation in DC wasn’t hideous enough on its own.
These scumbags are ruining everyone else’s day, obstructing traffic and causing a disturbance, infringing on others’ right to enjoy the day – just because they hate the military – the very same military that protects their right to act like noxious yambags. In any festering socialist shithole these cocksacks would be arrested and/or shot by the same military against which they’re protesting for pulling this shit, because socialist shithole governments generally don’t like the public expressing their displeasure with their tyrannies. But no…
Not here…
One of the downsides of freedom is that you have to put up with fucksticks like that, because they have every right to express their ignorance.
They don’t, however, have the right to act like assholes on property that doesn’t belong to them, nor do they have the right to ruin other people’s day while acting like said assholes.
Here’s hoping the US Park Police take these blithering numbnuts and load them on the next plane to Cuba.
UPDATE: I scooped the Washington Post on this. Heh.
A war of worldviews was waged yesterday on the Mall, as U.S. troops
showing parents and children the workings of howitzers, Humvees and
helicopters were confronted by women from the antiwar group Code Pink,
who called the display of arms on Mother’s Day “offensive.”
With police trying in vain to direct the protesters away from the
exhibit, part of Public Service Recognition Week, dozens of protesters
unfurled a massive banner and sang its message: “We will not raise our
children to kill another mother’s child.”
Can someone PLEASE explain to these hairy, Birkenstock-wearing, pot-smoking, patchouli-reeking, shrill, shrieking, ignorant snail trails that their desire to not be “offended” does not trump everyone else’s right to enjoy the day in peace and quiet!
PLEASE!
“It is the exact opposite intention of Mother’s Day,” Code Pink member
Lori Perdue, a U.S. Air Force and Indiana National Guard veteran, said
of the military display.
While I support Perdue’s right to embarrass herself, I also have the right to expose her as a blithering, raving lunatic and embarrassment to the uniform.
The military display is about showing the American public what America’s heroes – plenty of whom are women, daughters and MOTHERS, who are away from their families, missing their loved ones – do, how they complete the mission, giving the People a small idea of what they do. It’s about maybe giving some little kid an idea of why mommy is not here for Mother’s Day. It’s about maybe inspiring some American to stop and thank the heroes who make it possible for them to freely walk the National Mall and commemorate Mother’s Day in peace. Or maybe prompting someone… anyone… to stop, think and say a silent “thanks and Happy Mothers’ Day” to those moms who are deployed.
But instead, Americans who came to see the display, saw an embarrassing exhibition by a band of shrews, who claim to be mothers (providing more proof that some blithering idiots just shouldn’t breed), and who just can’t keep from disturbing others, making a spectacle of themselves on equipment that they have business besmirching with their foul, attention-seeking histrionics, and physically attacking US Park Police officers.
Upon Code Pink’s arrival, U.S. Park Police instructed protesters to
leave the area so as not to disrupt a permitted event, said Sgt. David
Schlosser, a Park Police spokesman. One 47-year-old Tallahassee woman
was arrested for shoving a Park Police detective, he said.
A few protesters managed to make it inside the exhibit, and one
woman climbed atop a Humvee and swirled a pink hula hoop around her
hips before being ushered out by police.
Ticket. Cuba. Now. Or Venezuela… whichever.
Let’s see how tolerated their theatrics will be in a nation where the military doesn’t exist to protect their freedoms, but to ensure that they toe the party line.
May 11, 2009 @ 13:58:47
Would egging them be considered as a freedom of speech? Also Cuba is too nice for them and they would wear out their welcome. I say send them to Iraq and see if the Iraqis agree with their ideas –hehe. I guarentee, we would never hear nor see them again!
May 12, 2009 @ 02:08:34
Don’t these people (I use the term loosely here) ever consider the fact that they might be violating someone else’s right not to be offended, and that normal, real people might take offense at them? Why do these people act like scum? Heh. While I was writing this reply, I thought of a story to describe how I feel. One time, at a drill weekend, I went over to my favorite nasty little teriyaki joint. Anyway, some of my buddies and I ran into this guy who was a longshoreman at a local port. It turned out that he had a story to tell about some of these idiots. Apparently, some of these moron protesters decided that it would be a good idea run out in front of Strykers where the drivers can’t see them. They tried to disrupt the movement of military supplies in other ways, too. But the local PD came down on them like a ton of bricks because they learned something from the other protests. Anyway, my point is why do we protect these people from themselves? If they want to run out in front of traffic and get squashed, let them. They deserve it.
May 12, 2009 @ 11:49:55
WWDD –What would Darwin do? I think you have a good point, pedal to the metal!
May 13, 2009 @ 18:33:16
What’s really ironic is that Mother’s Day was started by an anti-war and feminist organization – very similar to Code Pink. Most of the historic proponents of Mother’s Day “hate the military”.
May 14, 2009 @ 11:34:48
These folks seem to present a very good definition of “assclown”. As a 30+ year member of our Army, there have been many occassions that I wished to be out of a job. However, human nature being what it is, I am very proud of my service. The US Army is one of the most charitable organizations on the earth. Granted our primary mission is to destroy our enemies. But we do so much more in the way of humanitarian assitance. I do take exception and offense at these harpies and their stupidity.
May 15, 2009 @ 00:47:35
Isn’t this what pepper spray and truncheons were made for? Would I be acceptable for me fully express myself with above articles upon the unsavory persons *sic* of these asinine harridans?