Code Pink tries to arrest Karl Rove and the right wingers freak
You go, girls.
Jodie Evans: You outed a CIA officer, you lied to take us to Iraq. You ruined the country. You totally ruined the country.
Wonkette:
Fancy book-author Karl Rove went to Beverly Hills last night to take questions about his very very gay dad. But then Code Pink showed up to make a citizen’s arrest, and Karl had no security! Was he able to beat up these ladies good? Also, someone brings up the Downing Street Memo, which Rove calls a fabrication — just like in 2005!
Lying us into a war is the kinda thing that can get people a tad bit upset. Does Rove really think he's going to be welcomed at book events like he is with Jay Leno or on FOX News? Poor Michele Malkin was shaken to her core over the event. I'd figure it would just roll off her back since she stalks children and family's like Graeme Frost because she disagrees on a policy level. Hey, she even goes to their homes for a little chat.
UPDATE: TP commenter Mr. Ed notes that Malkin visited the Frost’s home and business today. A coworker of Mr. Frost tells Malkin that the family is “struggling,” but she refuses to believe it.
Jane Hall was on FOX and was shocked that the right wingers attacked a 12 year old boy.
Jane Hall on the Frost family: Right Wing bloggers swiftboated a 12-year old boy!"
Malkin and her kind are shocked that Rove would be confronted by the very un-scary Code Pink, but takes pride in stalking children. Nice.
Also read: Malkin Debases Herself With Further Attacks On A 12 Year Old. C&L Exclusive Quote!
They can sure dish it out, but they can't take even a light little pink-colored whiff of it.
But I guess they'd have to leave their integrity at the door.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
member of "the totalitarian left" fucking asshole
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
I love how he gets to ignore the facts and the issue by simply declaring any charge or argument against him and the Bush administration as lies from the left. When is he going to be held accountable? I want to see that pig piece of lying sh-t suffer for the lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan.
complaining about Code Pink coming specifically to disrupte the event. After all, even people who lie us into war have a right to free speach, and not honoring subpeonas, and making money off of the death and destruction of millions.
Wow, some people really have their priorities in order.
... I remember being told to shut my gob back during the Bush Administration. That I wasn't allowed to criticize the president, or speak against the president. That I hated the troops and hated our country.
As it turns out, the people calling me such names were a pack of liars. There were no WMDs. They are, in fact, war criminals under international treaty and federal law.
I fully expect the noise machine to start calling them terrorrists now.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Is it OK for people like Rove to ignore subpoenas now. Wow. I think i want to be president. I want a piece of that.
Really. If they can't subpoena him, they won't be able to subpoena me.
Wow. I'm in.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
prosecute any criminals. Selective enforcement of the law is unconstitutional. Free-for-all!!! Anarchy!!! Jump in.
by still calling the
Downing Street Minutes
a memo.
way to use the rightwingnut frame, guys.
attention someone should have just come up behind him and handcuffed him. I think if they are able, they should arrange for a majority of the audience to be in on it, then go for it.
your response to my comment...
sure, I wish that someone had actually cuffed the treasonous SOB too, but what does that have to do with using the wrong terms, over and over again?
Yours pertains how some verbally enable the right, which made me think of how physically this could have been successful.
Your point is taken, of course.
Snakes can do that.
Utu frees Dumuzi from his chains by turning him into a snake. This is one episode in the story of Inanna and Dumuzi.
a meeting, a memo...rove doesnt like when he calls the "memo" a fabrication?
ok
so lets make sure that we use the correct verbiage
Who cares? When people get excited sometime we say the wrong thing. I think everyone knew what she was talking about.
read my post right before this one, I don't feel like cutting and pasting.
way to completely miss the point, but after having read numerous posts by you, I'm hardly surprised.
Here's the problem, since you can't be bothered to self educate:
Right before the Downing Street MINUTES came out, there was another 'scandal' going on.
The 'scandal', you might recall, went by the name 'Memogate'.
It referred to the Dan-Rather-got-the-boot because the rightwingnuts successfully waged a campaign attacking the veracity of the 'memo' itself, completely ignoring the content of the 'memo', or the undisputed facts about W's service record problems, which the memo referred to.
So, stay with me here buddy, the term 'memo' had already been poisoned by the RW and the corporate media.
Along comes the Downing Street MINUTES.
Minutes are the actual, official transcripts of meetings.
On the record, recorded, real stuff.
No murky he said / she said nonsense.
Completely vetted.
And the rightwing corporate media fell all over themselves to rename the Downing Street Minutes the Downing Street Memo.
Remember, the term 'memo' had already been dragged through the mud, and besides that, it wasn't a fucking memo.
The upsetting part was when the leftwing, progressives, blogs, etc. all adopted the term, falling very neatly into the incredibly obvious trap.
And people like you spend your time and energy, instead of actually thinking about it, and realizing that words do indeed matter, making snide, uninformed snarky comments.
interesting, i hadn't thought about how "memogate" tarnished the notion of "memos" and then the renaming of the downing st. mins...
but, do you honestly think it would have changed anything had the media not labeled the minutes as memos?
i see your point, and we should make a point to call a duck a duck. but, i doubt it would have changed anything. lord knows we have mountains of other evidence pointing to the illegality, but nothing happens.
if they used the proper language.
but I do know why they used the language they did use, and I know the affect that language had on the underlying debate / interest in the story.
regardless of individual incidents, it remains important for the left / progressives to fully grasp the importance of language and the fact that the right uses framing against us constantly.
double speak, framing and propaganda work.
not addressing these things when they are used adds to the problem; by not acknowledging the problem, the problem will continue and worsen, in my experience.
There is a huge difference between minutes and memos. The right has shown itself particularly adept at mislabeling and misdirection.
The media will equate this with the right wing's violent rhetoric. The headline will be "Radical left wing extremists attack Karl Rove!"
I think any one of those women could have taken that Puss out.
when the accusee prefaces their sentences in response to the accuser, "with all due respect..." Hasn't that sentace preface pretty much lost all meaning, particularly as one of the least favorite quotes, especially to preface a statement or argument?
and absolutely none is due,..."
The world will be a better place when this bloated dill weed finally has that heart attack that's coming.
And not soon enough..
Maybe he doesn't have as good health care as Dick Cheney does.
I know it's in "bad form" to hope someone croaks, but..
I'd laugh my ass off if either him or Cheney kicked over. But particularly better would be if it happened while in the company of a male prostitute..
paupers grave which nothing ever grew upon.
The more interesting, the better.
because the DOJ sure doesn't seem to want to touch this.
We should get his schedule and have at least a dozen people every place he goes. Make the dirty bastard piss his pants.
He is a liar and needs to be in prison along with the rest of the bush cabal. Put so much pressure on him he will be scared to show his face in public ever again!
Does anyone know his schedule?
If he comes to Houston, I will be available.
Did you hear him braying about free speech? Tell it to us from your soapbox on Fox you lying, greedy asshole.
It's really a shame the Code Pink didn't bring along some more physically endowed individuals to enforce their arrest. It seems KKKarl felt safe in Beverly Hills. I'll bet he'll have some serious secruity from now on.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
... when the "sissies" in the top hat and tails movie see their director (Dom DeLuise) punched out by the cowboys and one of them says, "Let's get them, girls."
Am I sick because I would have loved seeing Rove bent over a table and shown the error of his ways?
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..and his old boss, w, in Jail. I want them to pay for their crimes the same way I want any murderer to pay for theirs. Just because his first name is "george" and not "saddam" or "slobadan" doesn't mean he should get a free pass for war crimes.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
The law would see everyone as equals, regardless of resources or the lack thereof, or rich or poor. There just always seems to be that grey double-standard in not being proactively equal in sentencing everyone who breaks the law.
..it was revealed that there were no WMD's in Iraq. I knew when he committed our forces that saddam had nothing; a first year psych student knew saddam was all bluster. The million dead iraqis and the million more displaced. Then the torture which still hasn't been addressed. The looting of the art treasures and the arms and explosives that disappeared only to be used against our troops. There must be some accounting; we are a nation of laws, not of men.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
the billions of dollars on pallets that just disappeared.
..blackwater under the table? Or the insurgents to keep attacking to keep us in Iraq? I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I can think of a million scenarios over what happened to our borrowed money from China that we have to pay back.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
the billions that Bremer was supposed to be responsible for that was just sitting out in the open that disappeared.
The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/08/u...
will be famous. They will be the first 100 people to go to Rove's book signing that have books that weren't signed. They can put them on EBAY and make a fortune.
Chief Wiggum's imaginary typewriter! LOL!
..major props. I wish I could have been there to cheer them on.
This put a big smile on my face.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
This made my day.
Well done, Code Pink!
kkkarl has a right to speak. and the people have a right to shout him down when he does.
kkkarl should never be able to give an unchallenged, undisrupted, peaceful speech again. for the rest of his fat life.
i couldn't help note that rove looked a little nervous and anxious in the video...
..a citizen's arrest of a dangerous domestic terrorist?
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
i really, honestly, don't know what the deal is with a "citizen's arrest", not to mention whether or not it is a "right"
hello, lawyers?
but why is it not ok when the LEFT shows up ...
ie "they came specifically to disrupt the event, and that's just not right"
but when the Tea Party shouts down Congressmen at Town Hall Events?
the right is right and the left is wrong
just say it over and over until it rolls off your tongue without thinking
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
a few hecklers scared him off from a book signing?
he didnt have to speek...he couldve still signed the books of the very few in the greater la area who want anything to do with the bastard
look at how few people really showed up
now explain to me how this book is on any best seller list....without the right jukin the stats by making bulk buys of the book
them away. Sometimes for campaign contributions. That is the only way they would sell more then 4 of 5 hundred of them.
Toilet paper at the local grocery store is a lot cheaper and does a better job.
. . . book buying is one of the more popular way to legally bribe politicians after the fact.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
... has the temerity to say that the LEFT doesn't respect free speech?
What about those "First Amendment zones" you and your fellow brownshirts erected about Bushie Boy, Turdblossom?
He's a war criminal, period.
BID
We need to drive this point into their skulls until pigs get it.
I wonder if he pooped in his pants a little bit?
i wonder if he pooped his pants a little more than usual
And scream don't touch me?
All these right wingers are cowards and fools!
LOL, babies all of them!
the TV machine this past weekend saying that Bush did not come to office with an agenda to overthrow Saddam....
yeah..maybe not...but his PNAC administration did...
Two years before the 9/11 attacks on America, George W. Bush told a Houston journalist if elected president, “I’m going to invade Iraq.”
Bush made the comments about starting an aggressive war to veteran Houston Chronicle reporter Mickey Herskowitz, then working with Bush on his book “A Charge To Keep,” later brought out by publisher William Morrow.
This disclosure was uncovered by Russ Baker, an award-winning investigative reporter when he interviewed Herskowitz for his own book, “Family of Secrets” (Bloomsbury Press) about the Bush dynasty. However, Baker says, when he approached The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times with the potentially devastating story to President Bush prior to the 2004 presidential election, they declined to publish it.
In a new book, “Media In Crisis”, Baker quotes Herskowitz as telling him: “He (Bush) said he wanted to do it(invade Iraq), and the reason he wanted to do it is he had been led to understand that you could not really have a successful presidency unless you were seen as commander-in-chief, unless you were seen as waging a war.”
Bush told Herskowitz that his father (President George H.W. Bush) knew that from Panama and (President Ronald)Reagan knew that from Grenada and…(UK Prime Minister)Maggie Thatcher knew this from the Falklands.”
Paul Oneil said at the very first meeting of his cabinet bush ended the meeting by saying( find me some way to get into Iraq )! That sounds like he had a plan to me. Of coarse it wasn't chimpymcflightsuits idea it was PNAC. Besides bush isn't smart enough to have ideas of his own lol!
that Paaul O'Neil. The one that Cheney said told Reagon proved that deficits don't matter.
Rove is scheduled to appear for a booksigning tomorrow in La Jolla, San Diego. Details as follows:
WARWICK'S 7812 Girard Ave, La Jolla, CA. 6:00PM
If you can get to La Jolla tomorrow night, do be sure to stop by Warwicks around 6pm and let Karl know exactly what you think of him.
Hey, Karl, remember when you were a "Turd Blossom" and only a deputy chief of staff?
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
Mr. Rove has a great deal to atone for.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
The Republican is a racketeer.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Next time Code Pink (or anyone) attempts a citizens arrest, they should read the section of the state code where the arrest is to take place and follow the procedures laid out there.
The one time I was involved in a citizens arrest (of a police officer) we never touched the officer, much less handcuffed him. We simply informed him he was under arrest and contacted the local law enforcement (jurisdiction!) and instructed them to take the officer into custody. It took 6 patrol cars and several echelons of brass to come to our location and after much discussion decline to take the officer into custody. Then we took the police dept to court for refusing to complete the arrest, but that's another story.
That said .. big props to Code Pink.
They are fearless defenders of freedom.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Good! You stuck with it. Let's get it right! [ James A. Lovell Apollo 13]
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
OK, got me curious - what happened when you took the police to court?
He needs to be in jail.
This point needs to be repeated a million times squared.
I hate to say it. Morally Code Pink is doing the right thing, but who would want to take bets if they succeded that Rove would be let free, no trial would take place, and the women from Code Pink would find themselves in court for infringing on Roves consitutional rights?
Yep. You know how Rovians hate lawyers. That means they will use them obsessively.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
But if the next encounter with Karl Rove is to have a more satisfying outcome, I would recommend a larger number of Code Pink "troops", equipped with cattle prods and Tasers, not just handcuffs.
Preferably, also with a limo and driver standing by, for a quick getaway -- like to Spain ... or France ...
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
I'd go for The Hague.
It's wrong, but the thought of a "Don't taze me, bro" moment from Rove brought a smile to my face.
.
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When the left speaks out it is totalitarianism. When the right wing Tea Party disrupts, they are enjoying their first amendment rights. Sure, traitor Rove is a coward and a fat faced liar.
a fat, disgusting, self-loathing, closeted, professional liar. Porky can't take the heat from a few 110 pound women with pink hats. Even worse are the two morons interviewed afterwards who complained about the the unfairness poor Porky had to endure. If there were any justice in the world, Rove would meet the same fate as Joe Pesci's Nicky Santoro character at the end of 'Casino'.
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but 'Layla' was the song from 'Goodfellas' when Deniro's character was whacking all of the guys (and Johnny Roastbeef's wife as well) who were involved with the Lufthansa heist. :)
Does no one notice the fact that this cowardly criminal shoved the lady at the 0:48 second mark? The next people who attempt this should be instructed to fall backwards should he again react in this fashion. I'd love to see the headline "Rove Assaults Elderly Peace-Protestor"
As someone else said, freedom of speech seemed never in question when teabaggers were crashing town-hall meetings, waving swastikas and packing loaded firearms.
a charge of assault?
wording of the criminal code there, and that was sufficient. He's on video committing a crime. Again.
His next stop is Fresno. Three-quarters of folks there are republicans and will kiss-sorry for the imagery-his ass.
When is he in Fresno?? I can be there.
and there's also a full moon ... expect the unexpected!
was at Reagan library last Friday. Due to my own schedule conflicts (i.e. WORK) I was unable to hurl the rotten tomatoes I'd been saving. My work commute takes me right past the place twice a day. Today, Hannity's there pimping his book. Oh what I'd give to get HIM in my tomato sights.
Seems the Crypt Keeper has confused his administration with ours. Anyway, when confronting a slithering parasite like Rove, one needs to know the facts:
Citizen's Arrest Complaint
In the matter concerning:
United States of America, plaintiff
v.
Karl Christian Rove, defendant
Under the authority provided private citizens by Iowa Code: 804.9.2, you, Karl Christian Rove, are
being placed under arrest for high crimes against the people of the United States committed
during your role as Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush as well as while serving as
a campaign consultant during the U.S. presidential elections of 2000 and 2004.
You are charged with willful violation of the following federal codes between the dates of January
1, 2000 until the present.
US Code: Title 42, the Voting Rights Act, for ELECTION FRAUD in the 2000 and 2004
presidential elections
US Code, Chapter 19.371, CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT OFFENSE OR TO DEFRAUD UNITED
STATES, for false information leading to the War in Iraq
Several sections of US Code, Chapter 115, TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE
ACTIVITIES including, but not limited to submitting and fomenting false information leading to the
War in Iraq, illegal detainment and torture of prisoners in Guantanamo and elsewhere, and other
fraudulent acts leading to the deaths of nearly 4,000 U.S. military personnel as well as
approximately 300,000 Iraqi civilians.
Further, you may also be indicted for other violations of federal code not listed in this complaint.
Any United States Marshall or any authorized U.S. Law Enforcement Officer present is obligated
under the provisions of Iowa Code 804.9.2 to take you into custody and bring you forthwith before
the nearest magistrate to answer these charges and to advise you of your rights which include:
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court
of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any
questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense.
Respectfully submitted by and for citizens of the state of Iowa
On this 9th day of March, 2008.
Their homeworld was a place called Earth, located in an uninteresting part of the galaxy. They had an expression: pride goeth before a fall. Their pride was their undoing. I know. I was there....They did not listen, of course. Arrogant men never do.
If a CIA agent outing traitorous war criminal Republican isn't safe in Beverly Hills, then where?
Good to see George Bush's legacy of being a uniter not a divider lives on.
My guess would be he wouldn't dare but if he is I would like to... uhm engage in dialog with him.
How about engaging him in some CheneySpeak:
"Go Fuck yourself, Mr. Rove!"
Then reopen Alcatraz and lock his ass up & leave him there to rot.
When one of the members of Code Pink told the truth about Karl, the sheep went, "Aaaaawwww" Is that the best they can say when their hero Karl gets heckled?
"Aaawww stop that. That's mean. You're hurting his feelings."
Karl Rove is a criminal that deserves every insult he gets. I wish I was there to throw vegetables at him. The priceless moment was when he cried about free speech. Bwahahahahahahaha!
Have some veggies, Turd.
NOBODY 2012
I, for one, love Code Pink. They're doing what needs to be done often and repeatedly.
far left loon >.<
and I generally enjoy her thoughts and commentary, but today she compared the Operation Pink women to Hutaree, saying both are extremist organizations.
Now, she did go on to say one is violent and the other isn't, but I'd hardly call an organization that would like the federal government to enforce it's laws (and international treaties) extremist.
Very dissapointing.
I'd like to know why Rove thinks the Downing Street MINUTES are fabrications.
I didn't hear him say anything disparaging about the teabaggers not respecting the First Amendment. He's a lying slimeball, criminal, who should be under the jail.
of a mild nature seem to bother karl.
Lew
Fighting the Christian American Taliban daily.
Turdblossom confronted by Code Pink ladies with handcuffs.
Maybe they could take him to "Voyeurs" Club for some of that simulated bondage the RNC seems to like...
Or how about being waterboarded at Gitmo?
At least there is one organization in America that seeks accountability for the criminals in our midst, which in the absence of Obama enforcing the law falls to the little folk.
The only way for this to get traction is for Code Pink and/or others to keep up the good work and hound this man until he can't go out in public. This would be the start of a great day in America.
consider making yourself available to support Code Pink if Rove comes to your hometown. Rove should NEVER find himself in a public venue without being reminded that he is a war criminal who deserves to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
FYI, Code Pink, I can be available anywhere in Houston, and can get at least two more people to assist.
Like banks too large to fail, there are now crimes so large they can't be prosecuted.
Torture is one. The other is institutional rape and sexual abuse of children by religious organizations (except for fundamentalist Mormon polygamists).
Enjoy.
Mom always told me I was special and I believed her.
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