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Now THIS has me seriously PISSED!!! :flame: :flame: :flame:
ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS TARGET WOUNDED AT ARMY HOSPITAL
Wed Aug 2005 24 21:20:05 ET
Anti-war protestors besieged wounded and disabled soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C, a new web report will claim!
CNSNews.com is planning to run an expose on Thursday featuring interviews with both protestors and veterans, as well as shots of protest signs with slogans like “Maimed for a Lie.”
The conservative outlet will post video evidence of the wounded veterans being taunted by protesters, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Developing late...
From Drudge's site (http://www.drudgereport.com/flash7.htm)
TheIrishman
08-25-2005, 03:25 AM
Theb true colors of the anti-war movement is starting to show clearly!
And they don't show well, pretty despicable!
Beowulf
08-25-2005, 08:38 AM
If I see one honorable servicemen who has been wounded in the line of duty being harassed by a Liberal, I will cart my ass to that hospital and beat him myself.
If anyone wants to make a trip to it and show in force, let me know!!
Note: I WILL be charged with assault while I'm there and WILL make it worth my time!
Kathy29
08-25-2005, 09:24 AM
Hospitals, cemetaries, surely someone needs to put a stop to these loathsome creatures who prey upon the most vulnerable.
Lazarus
08-25-2005, 09:59 AM
But they have assured us that they support the troops... Its only the war they oppose...:rolleyes:
tacitus
08-25-2005, 10:08 AM
Sounds more like the VietNam protests of the `60's. These people despise the military and everything they represent. But it's that very same military they hate that keeps them free to demonstrate against the military. How many demonstration do you see going on in Cuba or China? Zero, zip none.
The_RANDy_Corporation
08-25-2005, 10:12 AM
I find this hard to believe. What, there's no security at Walter Reed, which is (or was til today) a military facility?
Pendragon_6
08-25-2005, 10:19 AM
These are the absolute lowest pond-scum sucking liberal pukes.
Warlady
08-25-2005, 10:29 AM
Just when you thought they had scraped the bottom they show us that they can go even lower than a snakes belly. They also had a sign that says "Enlist here and die for Halliburton". I had no idea they were capable of such evil. I knew they were mean and stupid but hearless and cruel to our wounded?????? The hospital could have them moved because of disturbing their patients. Why don't they?
Here's a little bit better article on the topic: http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/august/0825_wounded_protests1.shtml
tacitus
08-25-2005, 10:34 AM
The CO of the hospital is afraid of the backlash if he/she had these freaks booted.
Beowulf
08-25-2005, 10:50 AM
The CO of the hospital is afraid of the backlash if he/she had these freaks booted.
Then he needs to turn over command to someone who will. If it weren't for commanders in my last unit who were afraid to make a decision because it MIGHT mess up their career, I'd be retiring next year.
Don't be so chicken, Sir/Maam.
UhUhNoWay
08-25-2005, 11:50 AM
No Kiddin Lazarus... I ws thinking the same thing..the blackness of their souls is pretty darned obvious right about now, and I'd like to see the backpeddaling that will come of this. I wonder if we'll see one of the soldiers going out and beating protestors with their prosthetic limbs.
No Kiddin Lazarus... I ws thinking the same thing..the blackness of their souls is pretty darned obvious right about now, and I'd like to see the backpeddaling that will come of this. I wonder if we'll see one of the soldiers going out and beating protestors with their prosthetic limbs.
Haha that is what I was thinking, something along those lines! I would love for them to chase these protestors out of the hospital with their tails between their legs. I cannot believe they have the gall to be doing this!!!
UhUhNoWay
08-25-2005, 12:05 PM
I keep thinking if my daddy were alive today he'd be making a trip up there and giving these clowns the business.
PatrioticAmerican
08-25-2005, 12:28 PM
UhUh, now THAT would be the perfect anti-protest statement: the soldiers opening up a can of whoop ass on the turds who claim to be there for them...
tacitus
08-25-2005, 01:04 PM
Then he needs to turn over command to someone who will. If it weren't for commanders in my last unit who were afraid to make a decision because it MIGHT mess up their career, I'd be retiring next year.
Don't be so chicken, Sir/Maam.
I don't believe they are on the hospital property, and they do have a permit issued by the city. As long as they don't cross the line into the property, there's not much the CO can do. However, if they are hindering access to the hospital in any way or hanging signs on the property that is a violation and the CO has every right to call the police and have them removed. Again the backlash would be nasty. The hospital is federal property, the sidewalk and street belong to the city.
Kathy29
08-25-2005, 01:06 PM
Sounds more like the VietNam protests of the `60's. These people despise the military and everything they represent. But it's that very same military they hate that keeps them free to demonstrate against the military. How many demonstration do you see going on in Cuba or China? Zero, zip none.
Even in the 60s no one went to a hospital to protest. I suppose that the US still had something of a backbone then and they knew the police would be out there.
What happend to the quiet zones around hospitals?
About the only thing positive is, maybe some more people will see this trash for what it is, and determine to put it in the trash bin where it belongs.
tacitus
08-25-2005, 01:11 PM
I don't know if they did protest at the hospitals in the `60's. I don't remember hearing about it or reading about it. I know they didn't at the Naval Hospitals I was assigned to in the `60's, Bremerton and Corpus Christi.
Do quiet zones really exist anymore? I work at the University Hospital in Denver and I can assure you there is no quiet zone. Besides I think that only applies to sirens on emergency vehicles as they enter the property.
CzechPrince
08-25-2005, 01:15 PM
If I drove by and saw a bunch of moronic protesters at a hospital of OUR WOUNDED SOLDIERS, I would run them over with my car. True story.
TechnoPrincess
08-25-2005, 01:39 PM
What are they putting in the water anymore? I swear that people are getting more and more nuts!!! It seems like each day brings another story of people acting totally off their collective rockers.
Picketing outside of a hospital?! Have these people no shame?!
tacitus
08-25-2005, 01:51 PM
If I drove by and saw a bunch of moronic protesters at a hospital of OUR WOUNDED SOLDIERS, I would run them over with my car. True story.
And you would be accessing the internet from prison, as you should.
Protesting? No, they aren't protesting. These chicken heads are doing nothing more than squawking for attention.
If this were anywhere close to me those 'protestors' would be NEEDING a hospital, as I would have planted my fist (with of course my fav huge silver Southwest Native American ring on the main hand) onto those 'protestors' faces, in my own Protest against them.
Course there is ALWAYS strentgh in numbers so having a few good men with me would help a LOADFULL into making those liberal whiney anti-American puss-nuts a damn good 'protest' day in their lives.
tacitus
08-25-2005, 02:14 PM
If this were anywhere close to me those 'protestors' would be NEEDING a hospital, as I would have planted my fist (with of course my fav huge silver Southwest Native American ring on the main hand) onto those 'protestors' faces, in my own Protest against them.
Course there is ALWAYS strentgh in numbers so having a few good men with me would help a LOADFULL into making those liberal whiney anti-American puss-nuts a damn good 'protest' day in their lives.
Read my reply to CP.
I am fully aware of your reply Tac, but these morons need to be thumped abit upside the head for what its worth, and I read another article that states they ARE hanging signs on the fences at the hospital, and yet nothing is being done to boot em for that, as you've stated if they hung signs on the property then the CO had a right to boot em, and I find an article that says they ARE hanging signs on the fences at the hospital, so what gives with tne no action?
Are these people at the hospital THAT afraid to evict these psychological abusers?
As thats what they are doing is abusing our military men and women psychologically.
(personally they just need a damn good bitch-slappin done to em if anything, thats more humiliating, now if you dont like that, then maybe throwing rotten eggs or red paint to look like blood at em would be better?)
I'd prefer to humiliate the bastards till they leave if I could but I HIGHLY doubt they could even BE humiliated, as they seem to have absolutely no shame.
If Protestors who quietly stand on the sidwalks of abortion clinics cant do so because of the Judges and laws forcing their silence then THIS also should be done to these 'Anti-American, anti-war protestors', t hey too should be forced into silence and forced OUT of that hospital area in the same litigious way.
So who has the balls to start the ball rolling to force these people OUT?
I personally am tired of these people getting a free pass without being held responsible for their atrocious actions.
They need to make ALL military hospitals no-protest zone's and be done with it.
Here's that article:
Anti-War Protests Target Wounded at Army Hospital
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
August 25, 2005
See Marc Morano's Video Report
Washington (CNSNews.com) - The Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., the current home of hundreds of wounded veterans from the war in Iraq, has been the target of weekly anti-war demonstrations since March. The protesters hold signs that read "Maimed for Lies" and "Enlist here and die for Halliburton."
The anti-war demonstrators, who obtain their protest permits from the Washington, D.C., police department, position themselves directly in front of the main entrance to the Army Medical Center, which is located in northwest D.C., about five miles from the White House.
Among the props used by the protesters are mock caskets, lined up on the sidewalk to represent the death toll in Iraq.
Code Pink Women for Peace, one of the groups backing anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan's vigil outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford Texas, organizes the protests at Walter Reed as well.
Some conservative supporters of the war call the protests, which have been ignored by the establishment media, "shameless" and have taken to conducting counter-demonstrations at Walter Reed. "[The anti-war protesters] should not be demonstrating at a hospital. A hospital is not a suitable location for an anti-war demonstration," said Bill Floyd of the D.C. chapter of FreeRepublic.com, who stood across the street from the anti-war demonstrators on Aug. 19.
"I believe they are tormenting our wounded soldiers and they should just leave them alone," Floyd added.
According to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, nearly 4,000 individuals involved in the Iraq war were treated at the facility as of March of this year, 1,050 of whom were wounded in battle.
One anti-war protester, who would only identify himself as "Luke," told Cybercast News Service that "the price of George Bush's foreign policy can be seen right here at Walter Reed -- young men who returned from Iraq with their bodies shattered after George Bush sent them to war for a lie."
Luke accused President Bush of "exploiting American soldiers" while "oppressing the other nations of earth." The president "has killed far too many people," he added.
On Aug. 19, as the anti-war protesters chanted slogans such as "George Bush kills American soldiers," Cybercast News Service observed several wounded war veterans entering and departing the gates of Walter Reed, some with prosthetic limbs. Most of the demonstrations have been held on Friday evenings, a popular time for the family members of wounded soldiers to visit the hospital.
But the anti-war activists were unapologetic when asked whether they considered such signs as "Maimed for Lies" offensive to wounded war veterans and their families.
"I am more offended by the fact that many were maimed for life. I am more offended by the fact that they (wounded veterans) have been kept out of the news," said Kevin McCarron, a member of the anti-war group Veterans for Peace.
Kevin Pannell, who was recently treated at Walter Reed and had both legs amputated after an ambush grenade attack near Baghdad in 2004, considers the presence of the anti-war protesters in front of the hospital "distasteful."
When he was a patient at the hospital, Pannell said he initially tried to ignore the anti-war activists camped out in front of Walter Reed, until witnessing something that enraged him.
"We went by there one day and I drove by and [the anti-war protesters] had a bunch of flag-draped coffins laid out on the sidewalk. That, I thought, was probably the most distasteful thing I had ever seen. Ever," Pannell, a member of the Army's First Cavalry Division, told Cybercast News Service
"You know that 95 percent of the guys in the hospital bed lost guys whenever they got hurt and survivors' guilt is the worst thing you can deal with," Pannell said, adding that other veterans recovering from wounds at Walter Reed share his resentment for the anti-war protesters.
"We don't like them and we don't like the fact that they can hang their signs and stuff on the fence at Walter Reed," he said. "[The wounded veterans] are there to recuperate. Once they get out in the real world, then they can start seeing that stuff (anti-war protests). I mean Walter Reed is a sheltered environment and it needs to stay that way."
More on this Story (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archiv e\200508\SPE20050825a.html)
Lazarus
08-25-2005, 02:49 PM
Those soldier/patients who are ambulatory should call a press conference in front of the hospital, and when the cameras are set up and rolling they should all go outside en masse and heckle the protestors for all the World to see on the 6 o'clock news...
If Fox gets ahold of this story then the other media outlets will have to follow suit or find themselves upstaged... Besides, the protestors WANT attention - Show America just what these black-hearted bastards are capable of...
tacitus
08-25-2005, 02:58 PM
Rink while what they doing is sick, it's still legal. Thumping them upside the head is not.
Free speech is a two way street! Stifiling their right to free speech is no more acceptable that stifiling ours. The law is the law is the law.
PatrioticAmerican
08-25-2005, 03:28 PM
Right. We shouldn't behave contrary to the law.
However, one can fight fire with fire. So, counter-protesters simply need to be creative. The soldiers themselves can speak far more eloquently than any of us could. I'd love to see them respond to the melonheads.
Warlady
08-25-2005, 04:27 PM
We don't need to use violence against them guys. They are hurting themselves by their own actions. This is why they lose election after election.
CzechPrince
08-25-2005, 04:51 PM
And you would be accessing the internet from prison, as you should.
:bdh: It was a joke.
Wolfcounsel
08-25-2005, 05:03 PM
Grandson, to Cowardly Scumbag Chicken: "What did you do during the Iraqi War, Grampa?
Cowardly Scumbag Chicken, to Grandson: "I harassed wounded American warriors to show them I cared about them."
Wolfcounsel
08-25-2005, 05:07 PM
":bdh: It was a joke." --CzechPrince
Oh! I thought the smilie stood for beating a horse's ass. I need glasses. I see that's a dead horse--"Beating a Dead Horse":laugh: Izzat rite?
CzechPrince
08-25-2005, 05:08 PM
Eh, I don't know, I felt it was appropriate at the time haha.
Wolfcounsel
08-25-2005, 05:14 PM
I like my first impression better. Could someone put eyeballs on the horsey? Or better yet, just split him down the saddle and remove the right half?
Just kidding!
Tac I'm by nature a peaceable sort of person and mainly I'm so damned frustrated with this leftist movement that has absolutely no morals, s hame or decency I just dunno what to do anymore about them.
Letting them expose themselves in this fashion does nothing against them, they're still there taunting our boys, they're still there psychologically abusing the vulnerable war injured and it seems nobody wants to make em show a little respect.
The ONLY thing I can see that would make em respect these boys is to make all Military Hospitals a no-protest zone (which would mean ALL protests for and against the war, in effect make the hospital quiet and peaceful like it should be and be done with it).
I mean yea we Americans are Supposed to have freedom of speech, but dont go tellin that to those who oppose Abortion, who only stand respectfully outside an abortion clinic, protesting the murder of innocent babies and see them arrested, harrassed, assaulted and more Just because they to are exercising their freedom of speech.
Cant have it one way for one group and not be given to another.
Republican_Legion
08-25-2005, 07:41 PM
ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS TARGET WOUNDED AT ARMY HOSPITAL
Wed Aug 2005 24 21:20:05 ET
Anti-war protestors besieged wounded and disabled soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C, a new web report will claim!
CNSNews.com is planning to run an expose on Thursday featuring interviews with both protestors and veterans, as well as shots of protest signs with slogans like “Maimed for a Lie.”
The conservative outlet will post video evidence of the wounded veterans being taunted by protesters, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Developing late...
From Drudge's site
usually i can control myself from going over, over, over, board but this just F-ing pisses me off , thats bloody treason to attack our troops like that , those protesters deserve to behttp://webpages.charter.net/connectingzone/armed/12.gif
protesting the war is one thing but to intentionally weaken our armed forces is pure treason .
Peachdiane
08-25-2005, 07:46 PM
protesting the war is one thing but to intentionally weaken our armed forces is pure treason
Sure is. I get CP.... I wouldn't actually want to run anyone over with my car but I sure feel the desire to. :flame:
Well right now there are no quiet zones or peace zones or "assholes stay away" zones, but I think it would be a good idea to just erect such zones now. Or tomorrow in the middle of the day. Just get the hospital administrative board (or whoever makes decisions, I have no idea) to decide that there is now an "asshole free" zone, call some law enforcement to help back it up and make em stop. Just walk outside and say "Alright, all you asshats are going to have to go, right now. You cannot come within a mile of the property unless you all of a sudden become an injured soldier. And since that is not likely to every happen you pantywastes, get the hell away from our heros!" Or however they could say it in any colorful, insulting as hell Free Speech manor...
Just make em leave. How hard is that???
UhUhNoWay
08-25-2005, 09:07 PM
Melz, you gave me an idea too. Just tell them if anyone within 100 yards, will be forced to get jobs,bathe and get a haircut...they'll scatter like roaches when you turn on the light LOL.
Melz, you gave me an idea too. Just tell them if anyone within 100 yards, will be forced to get jobs,bathe and get a haircut...they'll scatter like roaches when you turn on the light LOL.
Good point!
Also, if they camp out there long enough, they will be able to declare that they are residents and be able to collect government benefits! Maybe that is their REAL plan! LOL.
tacitus
08-26-2005, 06:15 AM
Just make em leave. How hard is that???
Very hard in most cases. IN this case they have a permit and as long as they don't violate the terms of the permit, the police can't do anything and neither can hospital administration.
Can just anyone get a permit for this? Are they ever denied permits? I cannot imagine handing over a permit for a buncha vermin to protest and make arses of themselves right in front of a hospital full of military vetrens.
DoctorDoom
08-26-2005, 07:22 AM
Washington, DC has an ultraliberal city government. The only people that would be denied permits are conservatives.
Lazarus
08-26-2005, 08:54 AM
Well as I predicted earlier, Fox News has this story now and the Pinkos are getting their justly deserved air-time as prime time assholes... I think the public should be shown this "protest" often and continuously...
Why dont someone SUE these pinko protestors???
Take em to court for cruel mental, psychological abuse of our Military veterans?
Sue till they leave.
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