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Our Friends over at Gathering of Eagles GOE sent us this after-action report regarding a visit made by Code Pink to a hotel in New Jersey for some annual dinner they have with the group “New Jersey Peace Action”

Here is a flier promoting the event.

Well when the Eagles found out about this, they decided it warranted a protest, so they geared up and occupied the ground outside the Regency Hotel where the dinner was supposed to take place.

Here are some excerpts from the e-mail we received detailing the day’s events. This accounting is also posted at Free Republic

In solidarity with our friends in Berkeley , on Sunday, April 27th, The Gathering of Eagles told Susie Benjamin and her friends from Code Pink that they were not welcome in New Jersey . What a great day for Eagles!

Susie slinked into sleepy little Northern New Jersey , certain she could defile our state without comment. Imagine the surprise when “Peacers” came down Route 23 and discovered it lined with American flags and patriots there standing up for our troops! The first sign that greeted them? “Code Pink is not welcome in New Jersey !”

Eagles began arriving at 10 am, in advance of the luncheon, from all over the state of New Jersey and from New York , Connecticut , Virginia and Bev Perlson, from the Band of Mothers, came all the way from Chicago !

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Code Pink’s actual feelings about free speech for all except themselves, came within the first 15 minutes of their typically late arrival with a call to the police to remove the Eagles from the PUBLIC street in front of the hotel.

The Eagles had been on the street for almost two hours before the Pinkos actually arrived and were without incident or disturbance. Arriving cars were not delayed one single second and no entrance was impeded. They wanted us removed simply because they did not want us to exercise our free speech….despite the platitudes they claimed when a few of them scurried up the driveway to harass us.

Three police cars arrived and, after confirming that the Eagles were legally entitled to be there and were causing no disruption and merely exercising free speech, the police bid us a friendly good-bye, much to the dismay of the “Peace” advocates.

While the police were initially assessing the situation, Susie Benjamin came down the driveway to chat with the Eagles. While I can not read her twisted little mind, I can only assume she chose that timeframe for one of two reasons (or possibly both) 1) She is so intimidated by us she needs police nearby or she is too chicken to talk 2) She hoped to provoke a situation with the police there to create a problem.

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Bev, in her usual direct and passionate voice, stood solidly with our troops and did not give Susie one inch of wiggle room. Susie, in contrast, was a bundle of contradicting statements and nauseating “peacespeak” that was heavy on flowery language and light on substance. The baloney detector was in such overload that an 11 year old watching the exchange turned to me and said, “Mom, Susie is trying to pretend like she is a calm nice person…but the words coming out of her mouth are so hateful, she can’t hid who she really is.” That is one smart kid if I do say so myself.

I love the way this writeup in the local paper (The Star-Ledger) put it:

When peace activist Medea Benjamin stepped to the podium at the annual New Jersey Peace Action dinner yesterday, she already was known as co-founder of the human rights organization Global Exchange and the women’s anti-war group CODEPINK.

Yesterday, Benjamin received another title: terrorist.

Awesome job Eagles!!!