PHOTO Code Pink 'taunt' local school children at the White House??

...according to this Reuters caption:

Members of the protest group Code Pink taunt local school children with chants about the war in Afghanistan as the children and their families arrive for a Halloween reception by U.S. President Barack Obama and his family at the White House in Washington, October 31, 2009.




Jeez, I know Code Pink's methods are sometimes, well, different....but I somehow doubt they were 'taunting' kids today. :shrug:

Sometimes their methods remind me of that crazy ass church in KS.

that zealous activists have no sense of anything or of anyone but their message. I wonder if they realize it's like the PTA people where they turn off so many more people than they are gaining?

Dovetailing on a kids event to get out a message. Totally inappropriate an disgusting. Religious zealots, and activists.....I see no difference. Neither have a sense of boundaries and neither has a place in my life. Their message is totally lost in the overbearing actions.

Let the kids have their fun.

Please read it.

Let the kids have some fun for crying out loud. x(

This is one time they should STFU and stay away.

Leave the kids alone, let them have their Halloween.

:nuke:

I'm sure they convinced Obama to begin an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Morons.

Edited to add: They are not assholes because the object to the war -- but the way they go about it. Disrupting senate hearings like a bunch of junvenile deliquents does not help get your message across, it just makes you look bad.

Don't you?

They are looking away from those kids. Are they looking at adults? We don't know.

to stay away and not tried to spoil the children's good time. That's really TACKY, bothering children! x(

Previous posters on this thread are fucking out to lunch.

Truth to power! None of you could spend a day with Code Pink without peeing in your pants. :rofl:

cause no one is.

They could have given it a rest knowing that kids were coming...

If everyone else can criticize the President 24/7, guess Code Pink can be criticized a
little bit too. :shrug:

costumes!!! :rofl: oh wait, isn't it halloween? :crazy: the "outraged" posters are fucking PATHETIC.

Tacky and classless. They are influencing no one.

tacky and classless would be sending more americans to die in a war no one wants or understands.

Yeah maybe these people could have taken a day off but is the death and destruction in afghanistan getting a day off? Did all those young men and women over there get to come home today and be with their families? Is this alleged holiday more important than human lives being wasted?

I'm sorry but the truth doesn't need a day off since it's been on holiday long enough. And if the truth makes some people uncomfortable then too bad maybe they should speak up too then the code pinkers wouldn't need to make a nuisance of themselves all the time. IMO this government forfeiting our young is the message these kids need to hear/see since one day it may be their neck in the noose for no good reason. Think about that before you get all offended.

or people from dying. That seems to be the only truth. No protests stopped Iraq from being invaded in the first place nor is anyone from this organization getting anyone out of Iraq or Afghanistan any slower or faster.

just because your words sound nice doesn't mean that they mean anything.

Code Shit for Brains would be a more accurate name for them.

They do no good.

the teabaggers, and just as nutty.

they're cool.

It's Code Pink, not the Teabaggers...there is a difference.

it also does destructive things. This is probably one of those destructive things.

These kids are coming to the WH to have fun. This was a special Halloween event that the Obamas planned for kids in the area. Code Pink is welcome to protest the war, but I don't think it is fair for the kids to have to deal with this disruption.

I understand Code Pink's protect. They are right to do. but They did in Right place and Wrong time!!!
:shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

congrats

I support their opposition to the war but not their methods. Fuck Code Pink.

there's no proof they were even addressing the kids who were attending a White House function the same time CP was protesting in front of the White House - which happened to be on Halloween.

Um....no, you wouldn't.

There is a time and place for politica, and that wasn't it, plus Code Pink has revealed itself to be shrill and disdainful of decorum. Let them ply their histrionics around adults only.

And that's all we know from the photo. If you have an article that describes Teabagger-like shrillness directed at the kids, send it over.

To me, they're guilty until proven innocent.

As are anti-choicers.

I love Code Pink - maybe they could have done this on the steps of Congress yesterday.

their kids shipped off 12-15 years down the road to fight the neverending war on terror.

And the kids are seeing protesters at the white house. Big fucking deal. Tell the kids free speech is everyone's right in this country and then go have some fun meeting the president and eating some candy.

Did they restart the draft?

I thought Code Pink was just being hailed by DU a few weeks ago for coming around on the war. What changed with them, and this site?

Some of us are having issues with going on like this with little kids who want to have fun. That's not fun. That's just uncool.

In addition to not being relevent to what I said, you must also be fucking joking. You think all of this is because of one event?:

"I've long thought Code Pinkers were huge assholes. They've proven me right."
"When have the words tack and sense ever been associated with code pink?"
"The right has Teabaggers as their embarrassment. We have Code Pink." ("I'll second that. nt")
"They are lower than scum." ("Fuck Code Pink")

If you're going to respond to me, you're going to have to do a lot better than simply trying to bullshit me with such overtly false statements.

Those were a bit uncalled for since I like Code Pink and donate. I'm a bit appalled that some on here said that. So I apologize. I have found their actions in the past questionable...but overall their organization does a service and I greatly appreciate them.

They should have given it a rest for the day with kids coming there.

I thought it was bad taste to protest during trick or treat time with all the kids trick or treating.

their brains are out to lunch.

Piss poor timing.

And if I know them as well as I think I do, they probably had treat bags for the kids as well. Plus some clever songs.

Code Pink is doing all they can to make sure these kids won't be sent to war when they grow up. I applaud them.

Children need to know that REAL WAR is not like the XBOX ... there is no "reset button" when you look behind you to see that your buddy's been turned into a pile of gore and mush from an IED.

THEY NEED TO KNOW! :thumbsup:

Much better to teach our children NOT to glorify war NOW than when they are in High School and within reach of the tentacles of the ROTC recruiters.

More of an embarrassment than anything else.

I loved Code Pink early on, but all too often it seems they've jumped the shark.

Are there any quotes about what they ACTUALLY said to ANY child?

You don't print words like "taunting children" without VERY specific first-hand observances with DETAILS.

/facepalm

Teabaggers would be dinner. Code Pink took on all the RNC and came out unscathed...thy could take out anyone.

Does that mean I need to slap myself?

Oh, wait . . . sometimes watching their antics and hearkening back on the fact that I have given money and demonstrated with both Code Pink and PETA, I DO want to slap myself!

:rofl:

The excessive scenery-chewing theater is just part of the fun.

:D

I'm not a huge fan of code pink and frankly I've found some of them to be impolite and counter-productive during some hearings I've attended.

That being said, I doubt they intentionally came to taunt school children. More likely they were picketing the White House just like every other day and there happened to be children coming to the White House that day.

There is absolutely no way those ladies authorized anything that would have been directed at children. Period.

Not inside, mind you, but out in Lafayette Square. And there were two protesters -- one from a group has been camped there since the early 1980's and another guy with a bullhorn was keeping up this nonstop monologue on no subject in particular.

The point here is that there are protesters outside the White House pretty much 24/7 and even though I think Code Pink spends most of its time "over the line" in its protests, this is probably a case of their being at the White House at the same time the kids were arriving.

I am willing to be proved wrong, so feel free to enlighten me as to where the taunting is seen.

Sorry but I don't think the violence over in our two theaters of war has taken a day off for Halloween.

If you go to the white house on Halloween during wartime you may see some war protesters. Accept that.

I doubt the kids even realized Code Pink were protesting anything. At least in this photo the kids seem undaunted.

Code Pink is a courageous group, and I find it appalling that DUers of all people are throwing them under the bus for this.

"There are kids at the White House"

Well shit, there are kids in Afghanistan and Pakistan being killed by airstrikes, drones, and suicide bombers.

:eyes: