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Former radio talk show host Melanie Morgan, founder of Move America Forward, the nation’s largest pro-troop organization, led about a dozen conservative activists who protested at the Venice mansion of Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans at a Saturday afternoon fundraiser for California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown.
Morgan reports the pro-American protesters “blocked the entrance of hundreds of wealthy Democrat liberals, including Sally Kellerman and Cindy Asner, ex-wife of Ed Asner.” Protesters laid down on the sidewalk outside the entrance gate where guests had to step over them.
Event host Jodie Evans was visibly angry at getting a taste of her own medicine, and had several confrontations, including one in which she denied, against the evidence, that she supports the terrorist organization Hamas. Several guests were put out at being protested, while some had no idea they were attending a Code Pink event.
Jerry Brown sneaked into the house from the back door while Melanie Morgan threw her body onto the sidewalk shouting, “Code Pink supports terrorists!” When not laying on the sidewalk, Morgan stood outside the back gate “yelling through a screen at (Jodie) while she sipped her white wine as Brown’s security guard watched from inside his SUV with the engine running for two hours.” Though the Dodge Durango sat idling, presumably waiting for Brown’s departure, he reportedly snuck out through the front door into another vehicle.
Code Pink representatives called police who arrived in a squad car about an hour into the event. However, the trio of law enforcement officers found no reason to make any arrests.
Also observing the scene was Andrew Breitbart, publisher of the BIG websites, who was wearing inline skates (it’s a California thing), as well as well-known blogger Mickey Kaus of Slate.com who heard the disturbance from his house across the street. He came out and observed, but did not join the protest.
Jodie Evans became visibly agitated when confronted by Morgan about Code Pink’s $600,000 donation to the families of terrorists who murdered U.S. troops in Fallujah. Evans snapped “You are on crack” as Morgan persisted.
Morgan added, “These liberals were shocked that we turned up. They were extremely angry about our obnoxious support of U.S. troops… and completely oblivious to the irony. The most fun was watching Jodie Evans’ skin mottle in anger, matching her dyed red hair!”
Andrew Marcus videotaped the protest and remarked on the irony of one of the Code Pink greeters complaining about being protested outside of the private residence, a method commonly used by Code Pink.
An absolute HEARTBREAK for me to read that it was only about a dozen people. This deserved the participation of thousands. Perhaps California IS doomed after all.
Thanks to all who went… and to all who could have easily gone and didn’t, WAKE UP! These people are the ones who, if they had the power to do it, would have thrown Melanie and her friends into the nearest GULAG. They are TYRANTS without power, and thank God they do not have it… but more people, more action, more noise is needed to make sure they do NOT GET IT.
These people are Adolf Eichmann… they are Hermine Braunsteiner… they are dull, mundane, ordinary people who under the right circumstance can quickly embrace death-dealing, whose hearts burn with a desire to re-order the world and rid it of those they deem enemies. The fact that they don’t have overt power at present tends to lull people into discounting them as fringe lunatics. But Lenin and Trotsky were fringe lunatics until October 1917. A hundred million victims of communism testify to the sudden changes that can occur when fringe loonies are dismissed and ignored. They took Russia by default, in weeks, because Russia was unprepared to defend itself as it was. And in their newfound strength, others like them in other nations were encouraged and lifted to power.
Jodie Evans is proud to be photographed with Chavez, another vain and self-congratulory jerk with a mediocre intellect whose practical embrace of every kind of power, including violence and death, has ensured a long and fruitful reign.
We cannot make this same mistake. For all their self righteousness, and indeed their ordinariness, these are genuinely evil and awful people. Jodie Evans is no different than Adolph Eichmann.
With each passing day my awareness and alarm grows.
Adolph Eichmann was a fascist. Lenin was a communist. The two ideologies are at opposite sides of the political spectrum.
Make up your mind.
Only in Calif, is what I use to say, but if I had the opportunity I would do it in Florida.
I ran into my first Code Pink person at an Amtrak presentation in Titusville City Hall. Yes, they live among us.
Joe,
Way to deliberately miss my whole point, there, big guy.
I”m warning about the seemingly ordinary people who under the right circumstances can become ‘bureaucrats as butchers’. Jodie Evans is one of those. I’m warning that we should be diligent about not giving that kind of person any power.
to address your sort of irrelevant critique, fascism and communism may have a history of disagreeing with each other, but both are proponents of central state control. They differ in their methods. They have in common that neither believes in limited government and freedom of the individual, and neither believes in freedom of worship in any real sense, or freedom of speech, or freedom from repression or excessive taxation or government takeover of private industry.
They are far closer to each other than to constitutional America.
But that was never my point.
You go! I’m so proud of you guys/gals. I wish I were there. Next time let’s Bus load in…
Thanks for running this. It was only a handful, but that’s all it took to shake a few people up, and have some good discussions with a few who were willing to listen. They deserved to really get steamrolled, but perhaps this should provide an impetus to get a group in SoCal that can be mobilized quickly.
Here’s my point of view of the event: The Kitchen Dispatch