From inside the Patreaus hearing - a Code Pinker's blog

[proud2BlibKansan]

I was in the hearing earlier this morning. Most of the CP house crew got in dressed in black mourning gowns with pale face makeup to demonstrate the ongoing killing as a result of the U.S. occupation. THey were getts lots of attention from the media before the hearing began.

Tighe and I were under cover so we could try to put banners up. When John McCain was speaking I stood up on my chair with a banner that said:
Listen Senator McCain
"THERE IS NO MILITARY SOLUTION"
~ General Petraeus
www.codepinkalert.org

I held it up while yelling SENATOR MCCAIN, THERE IS NO MILITARY SOLUTION for about 15 seconds before Levin banged the gavel and said this was a warning and that the next disrupter would be removed from the hearing. The Capitol police took my banner and let me sit back down in my seat.

A little while later, Tighe held up his banner, but did not speak out, so they took it from him and let him sit down.

Not long after that, a friend of ours, Zool, started yelling "Bring them home" over and over. He was removed and arrested. WHile he was being dragged out, several pink signs such as "END THE WAR" were visible on the CNN footage.

I came home to blog this stuff, but am going back for the afternoon hearing.

Pasted below my signature are some links to news stories that mention our protests. Reuters photos attached.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/08/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4001051.shtml

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080408/METRO/804080423/1361

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/04/live-blogging-t.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/world/middleeast/08cnd-petraeus.html

[alstephenson]

1. I was watching the live feed on MSNBC this morning

and saw Zool shouting and being removed. It was great! Thanks, CODE PINK!!! :yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Code Pink rocks!!

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[bushmeister0]

2. A protester "removed and arrested"?

I thought that sort of thing only happened in Saddam's Iraq, not in the land of the free!

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. We aren't so free anymore, are we?

[bushmeister0]

4. Oh sure, go live in Iran if you don't like it.

At least in Iran they charge their detainees with something, it may be trumped up, but you know they make an attempt at legal legitimacy.

[ihavenobias]

5. Well, Patraeus *does* seem to be helping Iran so...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x351431

[bushmeister0]

6. Indeed

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3124856&mesg_id=3125046

[alstephenson]

9. I'm not sure if he was arrested.

I think he was just removed. CODE PINK pretty much knows what they can and can not "get away with".

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

7. K&R