Everything old is new again, as a Monday luncheon featuring Dick Cheney was crashed by hecklers from the antiwar group Code Pink.

Code Pink’s theatrics, at a Politico-sponsored luncheon with the Cheney family, focused predictably on the former vice president’s support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Co-founder Medea Benjamin, a professional activist who moonlights as an apologist for dictators, approached the stage to arrest the “war criminal,” prop handcuffs a-jangling. Benjamin and her band of motley pranksters were escorted from the hotel, where they demonstrated with a mascot representation of Dick Cheney wearing prison stripes.