Oh the Irony!… Code Pink Founder Medea Benjamin Rescued from Cairo Chaos By Pro-American Army Officer

** This is a guest post by Andrea Shea King and Kristinn Taylor **

Oh the Irony! Code Pink Leader Medea Benjamin Rescued From Cairo Chaos By America-Loving Egyptian Army Officer

Last week Big Peace reported on two Code Pink women who were rescued from the chaos in Egypt by Shell Oil.

This week we can report the humiliating irony of virulently anti-U.S. military activist Code Pink co-founder Susan “Medea” Benjamin who was rescued by a U.S. Army trained Egyptian Army officer. Benjamin writes at OpEdNews that she was kidnapped in Cairo by “pro-Mubarak thugs.”

Code Pink leader Medea Benjamin (right) and Tighe Barry (at lectern) protest the U.S. Marine Corps, Berkeley, Ca., April 1, 2008. Photo by ZombieTime

According to Benjamin, a taxi in which she was riding was stopped and commandeered by men who confiscated her and her two comrades’ passports and ordered the taxi to take them to a government headquarters.

Benjamin said the taxi was stopped at a checkpoint manned by ten soldiers. The officer in charge smiled when he learned Benjamin and her comrades were American and told her, “I love America,” as he ordered them freed.

…Three of us, all Americans, were in a taxi driving to the flower market when this fellow stopped our car at gunpoint. His hand on the trigger, he forced us to pull over. Soon we were surrounded by a dozen pro-Mubarak thugs who started yelling in Arabic and broken English that foreigners like us were causing all the trouble in Egypt.

They said they were policemen but none was wearing a uniform. They seized our passports and then four of these characters squeezed into our taxi to “take us to government headquarters.” Frantic, we started calling everyone we knew–local lawyers and activists, friends back home, the U.S. Embassy.

Soon the car stopped at an intersection manned by about ten soldiers. The officer in charge peered into the car and asked us where we were from. “Americans,” he smiled with approval. “I love America.” He started chatting about his training in Ft. Eustis, Virginia, while we sat terrified. To our amazement, he ordered our kidnappers to get out of our taxi, return our passports and let us go. We sped off, not looking back. Our poor taxi driver was shaking. “No flowers,” he said. “Hotel.” (bold added)

Benjamin has made a career of working to get American soldiers killed by our enemies overseas, while working domestically to destroy the morale of soldiers and their families.

Benjamin and Code Pink have organized protests at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Armed Forces recruiting centers, the Marine Corps officer recruitment center in Berkeley, Ca., and even a White House Halloween party for children of service members where Code Pink has called our soldiers “murderers,” “the terrorists,” “baby killers,” “assassins,” and more.

In the wake of the Ft. Hood terrorist attack, Code Pink posted a fundraising appeal and justified the terrorist attack as dissent within the officer corps:

The recent shootings at Ft. Hood and the resignation of top Foreign Service officer Matthew Hoh demonstrate how even our military officers are opposed to US strategy in Afghanistan.

Benjamin has protested many times at the U.S. Army training center for foreign military at Fort Benning. She recently said that next year she’ll be protesting again at Fort Benning.

While Benjamin is in Egypt allegedly protesting for democracy, her history shows her to be an activist for communist and Islamic state sponsors of terrorism including Cuba, Iran and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq as well as terrorist groups like Hamas.

We will have more on Code Pink’s ‘flower power’ adventures in Egypt in our next article.

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#1 February 8, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Obama Worshipping Idiot commented:

They were merely going to mutilate her genitalia.

What’s your problem?

They are establishing democracy and exercising religious liberty.

Diversity rules!

Multi-culturalism rocks!
#2 February 8, 2011 at 4:14 pm
bg commented:

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God Bless America!!

oh wait.. Medea B??

aah, that’s was a tough one..

one would naturally think she’d be safe with her MB escorts, go figure..

OT..

NAACP vs Charter Schools

Educating Our Children: Catholic Schools Doing More With Less

Mandatory Arabic language classes coming to Texas school district

do you think we better off now than we were
2 years ago?? how about 2 years from now??

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#3 February 8, 2011 at 4:15 pm
The All Real Numbers Symbol commented:

Wow, that is ironic.

What are those code pinko idiots doing in Egypt, anyway? I mean besides tryin’ to get themselves killed?
#4 February 8, 2011 at 4:23 pm
Fionnagh commented:

I would not have shed a tear had this fine Marine not rescued them. I sincerely doubt that this experience will change one iota of their misguided beings.
#5 February 8, 2011 at 4:31 pm
bg commented:

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heart of the protest..

not Islamists staged scenes..

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#6 February 8, 2011 at 4:42 pm
aprilnovember811 commented:

I wouldn’t have lifted a finger to help them. They should have been left to reap what they sowed. This group is funded by CAIR. Their pure evil.
#7 February 8, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Sandy Lester commented:

Well, that is just a shame.
#8 February 8, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:

Why are libtard women always so butt-ugly?
#10 February 8, 2011 at 4:53 pm
greenfairie commented:

*Smacks soldier upside the head.* You moron!
#12 February 8, 2011 at 5:20 pm
bg commented:

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the way thngs are going over here, we’ll be getting
more support from over there than we will here..

just another drop in the Islamization of America’s O’bucket..

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#13 February 8, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Gman commented:

That’s too bad
#14 February 8, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Valerie commented:

How very strange that the idiots from Code Pink should benefit from the good reputation of normal Americans.

Meanwhile, the protesters are taking care of themselves.

The protesters are keeping track of the missing on Facebook, using a spreadsheet. You don’t have to subscribe to to get the information.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Egypts-Detainees/182227645149871
#15 February 8, 2011 at 5:35 pm
bg commented:

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Valerie #14

thanks…

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#16 February 8, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Taxpayer commented:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
#17 February 8, 2011 at 5:40 pm
d55may commented:

I don’t understand why these people are not arrested for treason!
#18 February 8, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Jackie commented:

Too bad they didn’t keep her!
#19 February 8, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Valerie commented:

Al Jazeera reports on corruption in Egypt, and the protesters pass it on. The country runs on bribes, with enormous accumulations of wealth by government officials.

http://www.arabawy.org/2011/02/08/jan25-corruption-in-egypt/

And we get upset about 100K in a freezer!

One thing that Al Jazeera does well is interviews. They let people say all of what they want to say.
#20 February 8, 2011 at 5:55 pm
bg commented:

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aprilnovember811 #6

funny you should mention CAIR..

funny not at link in #12..

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