Posted on 09/16/2005 2:28:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
Mother of slain soldier decries 'military and governmental fascism'
Fresh from a visit to hurricane-ravaged Louisiana, anti-Bush activist Cindy Sheehan is demanding the U.S. military be removed from "occupied New Orleans."
In a dispatch on leftist filmmaker Michael Moore's website, Sheehan said she was troubled by the "level of the military presence" in the Gulf Coast state.
"George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his self from power," she said. "The only way America will become more secure is if we have a new administration that cares about Americans even if they don't fall into the top two percent of the wealthiest.
The Vacaville, Calif., woman, whose son was killed fighting insurgents in Iraq, launched an anti-war movement last month when she camped outside Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch and demanded to meet with the president, drawing national media attention.
In her Internet posting today, Sheehan said she had "imagined before that if the military had to be used in [continental U.S.] operations that they would be there to help the citizens: Clothe them, feed them, shelter them, and protect them. But what I saw was a city that is occupied."
Describing the scene, she wrote, "I saw soldiers walking around in patrols of 7 with their weapons slung on their backs. I wanted to ask one of them what it would take for one of them to shoot me. Sand bags were removed from private property to make machine gun nests."
The activist insisted there was no reason for the security presence, because "the vast majority of people who were looting in New Orleans were doing so to feed their families or to get resources to get their families out of there. If I had a store with an inventory of insured belongings, and a tragedy happened, I would fling my doors open and tell everyone to take what they need: it is only stuff."
She commented: "When our fellow citizens are told to 'shoot to kill' other fellow citizens because they want to stay alive, that is military and governmental fascism gone out of control."
Sheehan came under fire last month after WorldNetDaily broke the story that she had called enemy terrorists "freedom fighters."
"But now that we have decimated the country," she said, "the borders are open, freedom fighters from other countries are going in, and they [American troops] have created more terrorism by going to an Islamic country, devastating the country and killing innocent people in that country."
Oh, please, Cindy, go back and ask! Be sure to tell them who you are! (No, wait, can't tempt the troops like that. Bitch ain't worth the time in Leavenworth.)
"I wanted to ask one of them what it would take for one of them to shoot me"
Madam we do not shot the mentally ill.
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And claim that we put oppressing those poor Iraqis ahead of saving Americans.
Could we arrange for Cindy Sheehan to praise Michael Newdow, or vice versa?
Only a lonely place with no witnesses.
Is this a joke?
Just shoot her, she is in in pure misery,no animal should suffer that long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I keep hearing that story, too, but I have not found it anywhere else on the internet, in a website or a news article. Does anyone else know more?"
It's not true. Her husband separated from her when she started all this nonsense. They were still married and together when she met with the President. He is in that picture of Bush kissing her.
I thought her 15 minutes of fame was up?
She's gone "Chavez" on us....Sad.
One suspects this was a regular occurrence when she was married.
You know, that is something I just don't want these eyes to see! Individually, they are sickening enough. Together? With a look alike tagging along? Oh, geeze, roadkill looks better.
That's nothing, what I'm currently demanding is that we pull our troops out of occupied US military bases. These bases have been under the oppresive thumb of the US military for decades, they must be liberated!
Murrymom:
We can only wish that Al Gore were serving his second term right now, so that our country could have avoided 9/11, Katrina's destruction of the Gulf Coast, the Iraq war, high unemployment, and other disasters of the GWB years.
Is there some sort of 'loon handbook' that leftists use to come up these great ideas?
When the gov troops were not there , there was a huge mess. Cindy is so used to living in a mess down in crawford she thinks it is ok to have toxic water. Michael moore is takin out his diet on the world by posting Cindy's rants. Huffie better get a real job ,try doing something worth while ,like donating time to the red cross. All three of them need to get a life.
The shark allllllllmost sunk his teeth into her butt as she was in mid-jump. Almost.
She's the moron who is using her brave sons coffin as her soap box.
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