Code Pink Activists Cheer For Kerry on Iran, Crash Ted Cruz’s Rally

Code Pink Activists Cheer For Kerry on Iran, Crash Ted Cruz’s Rally

by Ken Meyer | 4:49 pm, July 23rd, 2015

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Considering how the anti-war group Code Pink: Women for Peace have a history for heckling political speeches and interrupting committees, it was unusual to see them cheering for John Kerry. The surprising support shown in these pictures indicate that Kerry’s testimony on the Iran deal was not exclusively met with disapproval, having been told by Bob Corker and James E. Risch that Kerry was “fleeced” and “bamboozled” by the Iranians:

Later, the activist group went back to their usual character when they shouted down Ted Cruz‘s anti-Iran rally outside the White House. Cruz was saying that America’s greatest current priority was in stopping “this catastrophic Iran nuclear deal,” when protesters and supporters began having scuffles and shouting matches amongst each other.

After one of the protesters pulled out a loudspeaker and attendees began to shove signs into each others faces, Cruz halted his speech and remarked, “It’s very interesting to see those who profess to believe in free speech are afraid of speech.” One protester responded by calling Cruz a “war monger” and asked him, “why are you so aggressively violent?”

In the end, Cruz asked the protesters to quite down by inviting one of their own onto the stage to debate him right then and there. Representative and co-founder Medea Benjamin took the field, where she and Cruz began argue over whether the deal would place billions of dollars into the hands of jihadis, or whether the deal would secure a peaceful nuclear agreement.

You can see a video from Cruz’s rally here:

Ted Cruz Debates Code Pink on Iran Nuclear Deal

  

John Kerry

John F. Kerry is the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, and married to Teresa Heinz Kerry.

Note: Teresa Heinz Kerry is married to John F. Kerry, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the Roosevelt Institute.  

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, is a director at the Drug Policy Alliance, and Jonathan Soros’s father.

Jodie Evans is a director at the Drug Policy Alliance, a trustee at the Institute for Policy Studies, and a co-founder for Codepink.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is a trustee at the Institute for Policy Studies, a director at the Roosevelt Institute, and was a governor for the Roosevelt Institute.

Jonathan Soros is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and George Soros’s son.