WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The D.C. Chapter of
FreeRepublic.com, an independent grassroots group comprised of veterans,
military families and other patriotic Americans, is urging Senator Barack
Obama to renounce a $2300 contribution to his presidential campaign by
terrorist supporter Jodie Evans of Venice, California.
The Washington City Paper reports in its current issue that Ms. Evans is
co-founder of a group that publicly supports the terrorist-led insurgency in
Iraq against Americans and free Iraqis:
Drawing perhaps the most fire is Code Pink's support for the Iraqi insurgency
that has killed more than 3,700 American soldiers and wounded nearly 30,000
since post-combat operations began there in May of 2003.
The group's co-founder, Jody (sic) Evans, was an international observer at the
World Tribunal on Iraq in June 2005. The Tribunal culminated in a statement
signed by ativists (sic) from 10 countries that characterized the insurgency
as "legitimate and justified" and called for war crimes charges against Bush
and other world leaders who backed the U.S. invasion. (Washington City Paper,
issue of January 11-17, 2008)
Ms. Evans, who markets herself to the media as a peace activist, issued the
following statement regarding her support for the terrorist-led insurgency in
Iraq while at the tribunal: "We must begin by really standing with the Iraqi
people and defending their right to resist. I can remain myself against all
forms of violence, and yet I cannot judge what someone has to do when pushed
to the wall to protect all they love. The Iraqi people are fighting for their
country, to protect their families and to preserve all they love. They are
fighting for their lives, and we are fighting for lies." (AlterNet, June 26,
2005)
The tactics of the insurgency that Ms. Evans supports has included chlorine
gas truck bombs, massacres of civilians, using children as suicide bombers,
hideously torturing freedom-seeking Iraqis, and assassinating police, judges
and other duly appointed civilian officials of the freely elected Iraqi
government.
The Iraqi insurgency Ms. Evans supports without judgment has murdered,
mutilated and booby-trapped the bodies of American servicemen they have
captured.
Code Pink has sent hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and humanitarian
aid to what the group has described as 'families of the other side' in Iraq
since 2004. As the recent film about the insurgency in Iraq, Meeting
Resistance, showed, family members of the insurgency are intimately involved
in aiding terrorist activities.
Code Pink has also waged a campaign of psychological warfare against America's
wounded warriors and their families by protesting at Walter Reed Army Medical
Center, targeting them with signs bearing messages such as "Maimed for a lie"
and "Enlist here and die for Halliburton."
Evans and other Code Pink leaders have traveled the world visiting state
sponsors of terrorism including Cuba, Syria and Iran in their efforts to
undermine the United States in the global war on terror. She has also paid her
respects to Fidel Castro acolyte Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
Kristinn Taylor, co-leader of the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com, issued the
following statement regarding Ms. Evans' contribution to Sen. Obama: "Barack
Obama has a credible chance to be the next commander-in-chief of America's
armed forces. The leader of our military must have the confidence of the
American people that he is not in bed with America's enemies. It is therefore
incumbent upon Sen. Obama that he immediately repudiate the $2300 terrorist
supporter Jodie Evans has contributed to his presidential campaign. Rather
than return her blood money to Ms. Evans, the money should be given to a troop
support organization of Sen. Obama's choice.
"Should Sen. Obama elect to keep Ms. Evans' contribution, it will tell the
American people that he shares her support for the terrorist-led insurgency in
Iraq."
All politicians, political parties and political action committees that have
received contributions from Ms. Evans are also urged to repudiate her support.
Among the recipients of her blood money are the 2008 presidential campaigns of
former Sen. John Edwards and Gov. Bill Richardson, and the 2004 presidential
campaign of Sen. John Kerry.
Ms. Evans has also contributed heavily to the Progressive Patriots Fund which
has funded the campaigns of Code Pink ally Sen. Jim Webb and other senators
including Bernie Sanders, Tim Johnson, Bob Casey, Mary Landrieu, and Ben
Nelson.
SOURCE D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com
Kristinn Taylor of D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com, +1-202-309-1589,
kristinn@verizon.net
