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What do you get when you have an aging hippie who is financially well off enough that she never has to grow up and face real life grown up problems? Mix in whopping doses of naivety and narcissism. Sprinkle liberally (pun intended) with years of indoctrination into communist and Marxist ideology. Fold in a woman who doesn’t have enough to do and has to find ’causes’ to fill her time and to feel fulfilled as a person. Finally, add to that numerous opportunities for attention grabbing media coverage following an unprecedented attack on the United States of America and the resulting war.

What you get is the perfect recipe for Medea Benjamin.

I saw this woman debating on television last night. She was, as always, speaking for the people of the United States. She said the people want our troops out of the Middle East right now. She said the people are angry about the war. She said the troops are angry about the war. She said the troops do not want to fight. She said a lot of things, speaking for the people and for our troops.

As I listened to her limited abilities to express her obvious self-absorption and communist agenda, I thought to myself, ‘Who does she think she is? She doesn’t speak for me.’

Medea Benjamin is pretty much a comic figure that no one takes seriously. Still I thought I’d find out a little more about who she is.

Medea started Code Pink as a spin-off of the coded terror alert system. She, along with a handful of other women, started Code Pink in November 2002 as a venue to stage protests against the war and all wars. Like all good narcissists, they insert themselves in any and every high-profile situation to call attention to themselves. The group is known for anti-war, anti-American and anti-military rhetoric, staging protests in as disruptive ways as they can and asking for large donations.

In truth, Benjamin was organizing riots and staging protest long before 9/11. However, the advent of our acknowledgment of the war being waged against us gave her a cause that she could focus her adolescent trouble-making efforts on.

Medea was born Susan Benjamin in 1952. She started college at Tuffs University but dropped out during her first year. While she attended Tuffs she renamed herself Medea after the Greek mythological character.

Interestingly, the Greek Medea was born of a wealthy family and had an attitude of self-importance and elitism. She murdered her two children in an act of revenge against her husband. This is the character that Susan Benjamin related to so much that she took her name. That seems so fitting.

After dropping out of college she hitchhiked across Europe and Africa. She then married her first husband and lived in Cuba during that marriage writing for a Cuban newspaper. She has said that the communist economic and social structure in Cuba was a good fit for her. Of course, as a well-to-do American, she wasn’t necessarily subjected to what it’s like for people at the lower end of that economic and social structure.

She then married her current husband, Kevin Danaher. They seem to have strong Marists beliefs in common.

Medea claims her anti-war activities are out of concern for our Troops. In reality, she views the American military as her enemy. She openly supports terrorists organizations that are fighting our Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In January 2005 Code Pink openly donated $600,000 in supplies to terrorists fighting our troops in Fallujah, Iraq. They referred to American Soldiers as ‘killers’ on their website.

So while saying one thing (’I do this to get our Troops out of harms way’) she does another (giving aid and comfort and supplies to those who are fighting against our Troops). She demands her right to freedom of speech while shouting down anyone who attempts to speak a different point of view. She uses the American system of freedom to fight against that very system.

She most certainly does not speak for me.

Maybe she isn’t such a comic figure after all. Maybe she’s an enemy of our country.

Medea apparently think being arrested is funny. Maybe she should be charged, arrested and tried for treason. I wonder how much fun she’d think that was.

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