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Dressed as ‘zombie soldiers’ killed in combat, ‘ghosts of war victims,’ witches and healthcare fairies, members of Code Pink menacingly paraded in front of a captive audience of children one block from the White House, who waited along the sidewalk in front of Decatur House just off Lafayette Park for a Halloween party hosted by President Obama.

Last Saturday, the President hosted several hundred military families for trick or treating. Also invited were children of White House staff and about 2000 children from eleven D.C. area elementary schools.

In a press release published at their website, key Obama ally Code Pink – a group co-founded by one of Obama’s top funders Jodie Evans, announced they were targeting military families for what can only be called psychological abuse by conducting a macabre protest of the war in Afghanistan as the families waited in line to enter the White House grounds.

It gets much better. Who is Jodie Evans? Her Code Pink biography introduces her thusly:

Jodie has been a community, social and political organizer for the last 30 years. She has used her skills,for the protection of the earth, to give voice to communities and people who go unheard and unseen, in the area of human and civil rights, to protect the rights of women, to raise the minimum wage for farm workers, to protect dolphins, in El Salvador in the early 80’s and with Zapitistas since ’94.

From 1973 to 1982, she served in administrative capacities in all of Jerry Brown’s campaigns and in his staff and cabinet as Director of Administration. Breakthroughs in wind and solar energy happened while she was overseeing the office of Appropriate Technology.

During the years between 1985 and 1990, she took time off to be a mother while running the Hereditary Disease Foundation and founding the Grief Recovery Center after the death of her daughter. During this period, she was very active as the west coast board member of the Women’s Campaign Fund, chair of the federal candidates committee of the Women’s Political Committee, member of the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee. She also raised money for out of state women candidates for federal offices and pro choice groups CARAL and Voters for Choice. With a group of women friends concerned about bringing children in to this world founded Environmental Media Association.

And on and on. Minimum wage for farm workers, and saving the dolphins.

A couple of years ago Sweetness & Light had another perspective to present:

If you only read our mainstream media you would certainly think that Code Pink’s Jodie Evans is just another soccer mom caught up in the heady world of grassroots politics.

For whenever Ms. Evans is mentioned by our watchdog media we are never told a word about her background.

Like Alzheimer sufferers, our truth-seeking journalists treat Ms. Evans like a brand new person with a blank slate each time she appears in the news.
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[T]o describe Ms. Evans merely as a co-founder of Code Pink hardly does her justice. For she is a longtime professional America-hater, who has used her ex-husband’s billions to promote her radical causes.

From Discover The Networks:

Jodie Evans is a radical activist and Democratic fundraiser best known as the co-founder (along with Diane Wilson, a Wiccan calling herself Starhawk, and Global Exchange’s Medea Benjamin) of Code Pink for Peace. Evans also works closely with Leslie Cagan, the pro-Castro leader of United For Peace and Justice.

From 1973 to 1982, Evans worked in administrative capacities in the political campaigns of Jerry Brown, who during those years served as California’s Secretary of State and then Governor. She also held a cabinet post as Governor Brown’s Director of Administration.

Evans…founded the Grief Recovery Center after the death of her daughter. During this period, she held various positions with the Women’s Campaign Fund, the Women’s Political Committee, and the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee. She also worked as a fundraiser for out-of-state female candidates for federal offices, and for the pro-abortion organizations CARAL (the California subsidiary of NARAL Pro-Choice America) and Voters for Choice…

In 1990 Evans partnered with Tom Hayden and Cathryn Tiddens to open an environmental department store, Terra Verde, in Santa Monica, California.

In 1991 Evans ran Jerry Brown’s presidential campaign. She also produced the radio program We the People with Jerry Brown, a daily leftwing talk show. From 1994 to 1998, she produced the documentary film Stripped and Teased: Tales of Las Vegas Women…

Over the years, Evans has supported such activist groups as Citizen Action, Neighbor to Neighbor, the Earth Island Institute, the Interfaith Task Force on Central America, the International Overseas Education Fund, and the Los Angeles Women’s Foundation.

And from the original FrontPage Magazine article from which much of the above material was derived:

Jodie Evans… sits on the board of directors of the Rain Forest Action Network (RAN), a coalition of anti-capitalist, anti-corporate environmentalist groups. RAN’s co-founder Michael Roselle also founded the Earth Liberation Front, which the FBI ranks alongside the Animal Liberation Front as the foremost domestic terrorism threats in the United States. According to the FBI, during the past seven years those two groups have been responsible for more than 600 criminal acts and $43 million in damages…

In addition to her Code Pink duties, Jodie Evans also sits on the advisory board of the International Occupation Watch (IOW) center in Iraq, which Code Pink helped establish. The organizers of Occupation Watch — Medea Benjamin and Leslie Cagan — explicitly declared their purpose in setting up headquarters in Baghdad was [to] thin U.S. forces by getting soldiers to declare themselves conscientious objectors.

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Ms. Evans is a very rich and powerful woman, thanks largely to her divorce settlement from the billionaire capitalist Max Palevsky in “common property” California.

From Wikipedia:

Max Palevsky (born 1924 in Illinois) is an American art collector, venture capitalist, philanthropist, and computer technology pioneer. He served in the US Army as a meteorological officer during World War II. Palevsky first worked on a computer project at Bendix, and went on to work at Packard Bell. He convinced the company that they should enter the computer business and helped develop the PB-250 at Packard Bell, which was modestly successful. After raising around $1 million in venture capital, he left Packard Bell to found Scientific Data Systems of California in 1961. Within a year they introduced the model 910 computer, which made them profitable. Initially, they targeted scientific and medical computing markets. Palevsky sold SDS to Xerox in 1969 for $920 million…

Medea Benjamin has her own story. I’ll not go into it because this is running on pretty long, Google’s out there, and the point’s been made.

These are not everyday women concerned about world peace, America’s reputation before the world community, or the welfare of our “troops.”

These are die-hard anti-semitist communist pukes. They are part of a movement that stretches back not seven years, but more like seventy. A movement that has used the legal profession in America to bring down the country. To use the threat of litigation and criminal prosecution to make it unappealing and unpalatable to stand up for the country in the arena of public debate. Their motivation is supposed to have something to do with human decency. They’re using what is supposed to be an occasion of fun, to get in the face of a captive audience of little kids who haven’t done anything to anybody. That settles the human decency angle, I think.

As far as President Obama’s involvement? I think it’s pretty damn incriminating…but it’s just my opinion. You could quite legitimately argue this is pure “guilt by association.” Ms. Evans is just a friend-of-Obama. Just like Rev. Jeremiah Wright. We don’t know to what extent, if at all, Mister Wonderful authorized this.

In my world, it just goes into that ever-thickening “What If George W. Bush Did That?” file. And it’s become a very thick file indeed…in fact, come to think of it, what if George W. Bush did do that? Invite kids, the sons and daughters of our fighting forces, to the White House for a fun and scary Halloween. And then Karl Rove jumps out in costume to accost the kids, bully and intimidate the kids, in order to get some kind of message across?

Can you imagine?

Cross-posted at Cassy Fiano‘s place.

[…] Cross-posted at House of Eratosthenes. […]
- Cassy Fiano » Code Pink Targets Kids From Military Families | 11/11/2009 @ 21:15
These people are disgusting. I don’t know what else to call them. Reprehensible, abominable cowards.
- cylarz | 11/12/2009 @ 03:04
How do those parents standing there NOT kick their asses up and down the street?
- tim | 11/12/2009 @ 07:28

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