Blood on their Hands

I looked at the picture before I read your post. My first thought was: "Please tell me that blood didn't come from where I THINK it came from."

Luckily, it didn't. And where the hell is security?

reminds me of the seinfeld episode where kramer protests the post office by placing a bucket on the head of a mailman effigy.

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I love that moment when he walks into the post office and says, "I want out."

Andrew said:

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WTF?

TheGaffer said:

WTF?

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WTF?

William Haskins said:

shouldn't the blood be on condi's hands?

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From the look on her face, it appears she's seriously considering getting some blood on her hands.

"Condi! Nooooo!"

In other news, Barney the dinosaur to become the chairman of Code Pink.

Not very classy.

Code Pink has, apparently, become code for fruitcake.

This sort of 'demonstration', like PETA splattering blood on people, is just outta line. Sure, I understand the dramatic statement they're trying to make, but it's counter-productive.

If anything, it hurts their cause.

I'm sorry, but I don't care who you are, who you're addressing, what your position is, or how desperate you are to make your case, this is just disgusting. If someone got in my face like that, the last thing I'd be thinking about is the issue they're protesting.

This past summer a local farmer in my area took one of his fields which bordered a main road and staked in a small white cross for every American who'd been killed in Iraq. It was a big field, and it was packed full. He put up a simple handmade sign saying what the crosses were for, and let the point speak for itself. That was a VERY effective protest (I nearly rear-ended a Lexus looking at it). That photo in the OP looks like something from The Hills Have Eyes, and all it makes me wonder is who the hell the crazy chick is and what donut shop security must've been sitting in to let her get that close. Eccentric protest like that puts the attention on the protester themselves instead of the cause, and can also make the cause much less appealing for others to get involved in (at least, I personally wouldn't want to be in anyway associated with that woman. And has she ever heard of make-up or hairbrushes?)

Eccentric protest like that puts the attention on the protester

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Wow, bingo. You nailed this. That's exactly what bothers me about these sorts of protests.

I thought the protester was asking Condi to get her glasses from her head because her hands were dirty. I don't get stuff a lot of the time. You know, smile and nod.

Os.

I think this was just a Halloween stunt.

The code pink shirt, the witch's face/black wig mask and the bloody hands happens to be the #6 top selling Halloween costume on Amazon this week.

Voyager said:

I'm sorry, but I don't care who you are, who you're addressing, what your position is, or how desperate you are to make your case, this is just disgusting. If someone got in my face like that, the last thing I'd be thinking about is the issue they're protesting.

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Personally? I think just holding up protest signs would have done just as well and not as dramatic. As much as I agree with Code Pink, they need to really change their tactics sometimes...