I just spoke with CODE PINK co-founder Jodie Evans who tried again — as she did last month in Los Angeles — to file a citizen’s arrest against Karl Rove. This time Rove, whom she accuses of war crimes, was at a Barnes & Noble book signing event in Las Vegas. Last time, Rove was forced to cancel his plans to sign books after his speech in L.A.
Evans writes to say that she and several others from CODE PINK, including an army vet who is a member of Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), attempted to hand-cuff Rove at the table where he was signing copies of his new book, while unfurling a “Rove is a War Criminal” banner.
“We get to the table, he looks up to take my book and jumps back against the book shelves,” Evans says. He then points to three security guards and says “it’s her,” before the guards “pile in,” according to her account.
One member of the team then takes out the banner — which had been hidden in her skirt, since purses were confiscated before citizens were allowed in line — “while I pull out the handcuffs and try to reach for him and then pull the arrest complaint out of the book, trying to argue that he needs to be arrested and I have a right to be there. They argue private property and lead us out.”
She went to add that he was “standing freaked against the books” before he was then handed the next book to sign “as we are ushered out. We were physically pushed out the door with our unsigned book.”
“The women behind us tell us we are ‘rude,’ to which I answer not as rude as Rove who has killed over 4,000 of our US Soldiers and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi,” writes Evans.
She indicates there may be video available of the event later. We’ll try to update this item with it, if so. [Update: A bit of video from the encounter is now posted at the bottom of this item.]
Evans and the “Pink Tank” crew will be protesting Rove again tonight at the Performing Arts Center at UNLV where he is scheduled to speak.
She’ll also be joining me on the Mike Malloy Show, which I am guest hosting again tonight from 6p-9p PT (9p-Mid ET), just before the event begins. So please tune in! We’ll have live listening links posted here before show time, or see Malloy’s site above.
CNN’s video report of Evans’ attempt to arrest Rove last month — during which Rove ironically (in more ways than we have the time to point out right now) declared “with all due respect, this goes to show the totalitarianism of the Left. They don’t believe in dialogue. They don’t believe in courtesy. They don’t believe in First Amendment rights for anybody but themselves” — is reposted below…
UPDATE 4/10/10: Here’s my interview with Evans from last night’s Mike Malloy Show [appx 17 mins]…
Download MP3 or listen online here…
The CNN video from Evans’ previous arrest attempt follows below…
UPDATE 4/11/10: Here’s a bit of video from the encounter…
are they serious about this or is it a symbolic gesture, because I’m pretty sure they could actually do it.
Go Pink!
shw
can these liberals get any kookier!
This story appeared in 2007 and claims Code PInk is a CIA front.
Is that true?
http://rockthetruth.blogspot.co...ontrolled.html
Scuttlebutt also says Wikileaks is cut from the same cloth.
We think Rove is a perverted pedophile but the effect of this protest evokes sympathy for his criminal existence.
From the link posted above;
In fact, Billzilla knows perfectly well Medea Benjamin and Code Pink are no threat to the established order, a fact that should be obvious when Code Pink’s finances are examined””the group is supported by the Winston Foundation, an organization linked to the National Endowment for Democracy, a documented CIA front, and connected as well to the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Carnegie Corporation, the Heinz Family Foundation, and the Soros Foundations (see the Zmag wiki entry for the Winston Foundation for World Peace).” – end snip
Code Pink being a CIA front is about as likely as Karl Rove being Shaquille O’Neal.
Yeah, those Code Pinksters are rolling in dough.
That’s how they control the media so effectively. They’re just like Murdoch. They see a newspaper they like, they buy it.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a date on planet Earth.
I heard the sun is really a flashlight.
I think my hair is on fire.
I videoed Cindy Sheehan in Scranton today, reading the Bishop’s statement about not letting her speak in Scranton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0afLo7g3RaM
Dear Tunga,
Sorry for the aggressive humor shots. Don’t think you deserved that. Weird day. There’s so much crazy shit flying around. I got impatient. Don’t think Code Pink is a front group.
He really needs security. I don’t care what your personal opinions of him are. He’s a private citizen and a human–although a very flawed one.
Hello Nathan,
Yes he really needs security. I suggest as a war criminal (A fair trial first) GITMO (after conviction)(I hear the climate is good most of the year) and his clothing an orange jumpsuit (keeps the wardrobe budget down). If we are not willing to do to ourselves as Justice Robert Jackson said about the Nuremberg Trials then we are as guilty as the defendants who were put on trial.
Code Pink = CIA? Uhmm, No. Rove = scumbag? Uhmm, Yes. I want a corn dog? Uhmm, corn dog. What was I talking about?
We get to the table, he looks up to take my book and jumps back against the book shelves,” Evans says. He then points to three security guards and says “it’s her,” before the guards “pile in,” according to her account,
I love it and only wished it would have been a gang of US Marshalls backing her and they
hustled him away in cuffs with a large sedative suppository on an unmarked plane…destination unknown.
I’d like to see the loons here laugh if James O’Keefe tried a citizens arrest of Bertha Lewis at some speaking event. Jerry Brown listed some possibilities for prosecution in his report which he chose not to pursue.
That would be big yucks all around!
DaleyRocks, running out of ideas, said:
But of course, there is no evidence that Bertha Lewis is involved in any crime whatsoever. None. Unless you have evidence to the contrary, please share it.
In the meantime, there is copious, well-documented evidence that Rove was involved in crime after crime, including the outing of a covert CIA asset — a crime once described as treason, but Liberals and pinkos like George H.W. Bush.
But thanks for the false equivalency! It’s better than actually giving a damn about the Rule of Law or the Constitution or anything. If you care to join us in such conservative values some day, we’ll gladly welcome you on the team of patriots.
That would be awesome, DaleyRocks. That is just what O’Keefe needs is more legal trouble. What would he arrest her for, though? What did she do? What in the world do you think Bertha Lewis did?
BTW, who do you think had the male prostitute sleepovers at the white house during the bush years? What, you didn’t know about those, DaleyRocks? You know, the phony journalist that somehow got press credentials, but was also a male escort on another web site. You know, this guy. Many days he signed into the white house, and never signed out, often when there was no press activity.
Methinks Daleyrocks is the rightwing comment propaganda “ACORN guy”.
“In the meantime, there is copious, well-documented evidence that Rove was involved in crime after crime, including the outing of a covert CIA asset”
Bead – Only if you believe in the tooth fairy. Nobody has proved that Valerie Plame was covert in spite of repeated liberal assertions (read big lie) that she was. Her husband and Dick Armitage were the ones that “outed” her if there was anything to out. Sorry, no sale.
Daleyrocks-
You wouldn’t even know to buy your own dick if you were beating off with one hand and trying to pay yourself with the other.
And I’ve got some video from O’Keefe showing you doing just that.
“nobody has ever proved that Valerie Plame was covert…”
has anyone ever proved she wasn’t? NO. And how, pray tell, do you “prove” someone was a covert spy? Fact is, Cheney/Rove/Bush sacrificed the lives of other covert spies and foreign CI’s so their whole publicly stated reason for invading Iraq- imminent threat due to WMDs- wouldn’t be exposed as the REAL big lie it turned out to be. Oh, and in the process, they made us all a lot less safe by destroying an entire intelligence network tasked with keeping us safe from REAL threats of WMDs.
I think this is a fitting place to post my OT…
“Tacitus ends his account of Tiberius’s reign with Rome in misery; however, this universal sense of gloom that is shared by the people, Tiberius, Tacitus, and his readers is proof that man’s sense of and longing for the good is fragile but indomitable. Though it is easily obscured by base desires and one’s immediate social reality and lack of foresight, it can always be reawakened by reflection. Thus, Tacitus writes, “This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds” (III.65). In the Annals, Tacitus announces and fulfills an historian’s duty to present the reality of good and evil in the time on which he writes. By this, readers may come to see that the root of despotism lies in our shared human character, a realization that encourages us to look upon ourselves and our societies with new and clear eyes.”
…my daughter.
DaleyRocks blatantly lied @ 20:
“Bead – Only if you believe in the tooth fairy. Nobody has proved that Valerie Plame was covert in spite of repeated liberal assertions (read big lie) that she was.”
Alrighty then. I have been exceedingly generous in allowing you to post here unmoderated, dozens and dozens of times over the last several months — despite your proclivity, like the other Andy Breitbart Tea Bag Boyz to lie on O’Keefe/Giles/Breitbart’s behalf — in hopes that your positions, as phony as they were, might help folks to understand the real story, and the depths to which you guys were willing to go to undermine it, democracy, fellow citizens, and shoot out the very points of light which your former President had many times cited as key to America’s greatness as a nation, in your quest to put partisan politics above all this country stands for.
With the above statement, however, you’ve succeeded in blatantly violating one of the very few, but key rules for commenting at The BRAD BLOG. You have posted “knowing disinformation”. While I might give someone else the benefit of the doubt that they’ve been so twisted with rightwing lies they don’t actually know that statement to be disinfo, we’ve all followed your “work” closely enough both here and at the contemptible Los Angeles County Dep. D.A. Patrick Frey’s “pseudonymous” website called “Patterico’s Pontifications”, that it’s clear even you know when you’re lying about something so blatantly proven to be false for so many years.
Normally, you’d get a warning, but you have long worn out the “benefit of the doubt”, so you are now, for the time being, on moderation. Your comments will either be posted or not, depending on whether they violate our rules, and whenever I get around to approving them.
For the record, there is absolutely no question that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA asset when she was illegally outed by various members of the Bush Administration, unless by one of those ‘big liberal liars’ you’re referring to George W. Bush’s own CIA Director Michael Hayden who confirmed as much vis a vis a statement read in Congress and pre-approved by Hayden’s own CIA.
As per Rep. Henry Waxman’s official, unequivocal March 16, 2007 statement, in the U.S. Congress, cleared by CIA Director Hayden prior to it’s reading, following consultation with Hayden himself:
That statement was followed by Plame Wilson’s own under-oath statement to Congress, which read in part:
As we detailed, live on the day she and Waxman made those on-the-record, under-oath announcements, the same statements were repeated over and again, in additional detail, under the same oath and penalties of perjuries. They have never been challenged by a member of Congress or in a court of law as untruthful.
Furthermore, that other ‘big liberal liar’, the Republican-appointed Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald himself, similar confirmed the fact that she was a covert CIA operative in his court documents filed prior to Libby’s sentencing to several years in prison (which he never served, because Rightwingers like yourself don’t give a damn about the Rule of Law, the Constitution, or even Treason). As Fitzgerald wrote in court documents:
And, in case you forgot what decency was all about, and how despicable this outing was, and how it undermined our very own nation’s security, I’ll remind you what George W. Bush’s own father, former CIA Director George H.W. Bush said when he spoke to the CIA in 1999, back before you people had jumped every legitimacy shark in the ocean:
As the saying goes DaleyRocks, you are welcome to your own opinions, but you are not welcome to your own facts. You are also, similarly, not welcome to come here and blatantly, and knowingly lie about them.
I’m sorry that, like so many of your unapologetic rightwing brethren, you’ve put party before country and lies before truth, and disinformation on behalf of those who commit treason over accountability and the rule of law. It would have been nice to allow you to post here unmoderated. Since you have chosen to act like a child, you are no longer welcome to do so, I’m sorry to say.
Perhaps doucheyrocks refers to the exposure of Ms Plame’s covert operation by Marc Grossman, as was detailed by FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, 3 yeas before her actual identity was as an agent was made known to the press?
If her covert operation is exposed and subsequently forced to wind down, is she still covert?
Her boss, CIA director George Tenet, seemed to think she was still covert. But what could he possibly know? He was clearly a liberal in disguise!
Which makes me wonder, so many testified before congress that she wasn’t covert. I speak of Victoria Toensig. She is a lawyer who helped write the covert operatives statute. I wonder what Toensig knew about the Marc Grossman exposure of Brewster Jennings? Hrrmmmmm…