Posted on 08/18/2005 1:00:15 AM PDT by Uchitel
Knowing the FACTS, kinda blows your theory outta the water.
I like the vanities, but I think they are supposed to go in chat or blog section. :D
Listen to her from day to day (if you can stand it), and you will see she is a total air-head just mouthing what ever was wispered in her ear last. She has no consistant message, it changes from day to day, anti-semetic one day, Bush's world domination the next, Its all for the Oil the next. She rants, raves, and then denies she said it.
She is not grieving, she is simply being danced like a puppet on stings pulled by the loony left.
Unlikely. Just watch her, she has basically volunteered her son's death to be a pet cause for hard-left groups that she was long since associated with. Look at her sponsors - Moore, Code Pink, moveon.org, and so on.
ehhh. I have no sympathy left for this woman.
She's a political activist, anti-war and whacky liberal. Always has been. Her son's death freed up the only restraint that held her back.
Now that she has nothing more to risk by protesting the war (knowing that she couldn't risk inflaming the terrorists while her son was there) she's gone ahead to make up for lost time, not caring a whit about the sons and daughters of other mothers who are also out there.
Her protest is a sign of her selfishness.
Echo: You're right. Prob should have posted it there.
Thought: She's a puppet now, but she wasn't necessarily before. When she lost her son, that's all she was, another mother who lost a son in Iraq. That's a lot to grieve over. And it takes years and years. I really think all this media attention, which she has also fueled and encouraged, is simply delaying the lonely reality that there's nothing she can do to bring her son back.
Having said that, I still think she should shut her pie hole. The lefty barnacles that have attached themselves to her are going to regret it when she beaches herself like a dead whale for being an anti-semite surrender monkey.
"in this Post Christian era"
Think again.
You don't think this society (as a society) is post-Christian? I do. The political wranglings of evangelicals these days is a "Battle of the Bulge": a last desperate attempt to keep what they think is theirs, but never really was in the way they're remembering it. The next religious revolution I believe will be artistic, not political. But, that's another story.
"BZZZZZZT"
Wrong answer pal.
Cindyrella is engaging in her public temper tantrum because she is just one more left-wing scumbag who embraces the Howard Dean/Michael Moore mindset which has taken over the 'Rat Party no differently than syphilis takes hold in the brain and starts eating it away.
This isn't about the lack of "public grieving facilities" as if there weren't enough public water fountains, this is about a biological parental unit (because she is NO mother) who is royally pissed off that her own brand of hate-American vitriol wasn't passed down to her offspring, the late Casey Sheehan, who was probably the best and only thing of real value and substance to be created by the soon-to-be former union of Patrick and Cindy Sheehan.
Sheehan is no puppet of the Left, she has happily attached their strings to her appendages, shoulder blades and head, more than willing to not only follow their hatemongering lead, but eager to show them a few dance steps of her own.
My personal theory is not that this public spectacle is due to a "mother's grief", it is nothing more than the demonic spirit which once resided in Rachel Corrie stepping up to seize one more human through which we are subjected to mindless babble once more.
And no D9 CAT available in Crawford Texas, regretably.
She still has a son that is alive that needs her and wants her to come home but yet she is to selfish to grant him HIS request. Why should President Bush grant her, hers?
Actually, this sort of make sense. Religion is Verbotten in many progressive circles, thus she went public with her insanity.
I expect folks here don't care for the idea since it sorta takes her off the hook for her actions, and blames it on "society".
However, I view this as a tragic tale in media explotation of an unbalanced person looking for a place to belong. In the past, perhaps a church or other community would have helped. The radicals took her in and she's gulping down their cool-aide.
She is totally reponsible for her actions. One day maybe she'll wake up and find out how she was wrong, dishonored her family and was used by her "friends".
So sad.
Could you post this on its own. This is a letter from troops in Iraq to Cindy.
http://soldiersagainstcindysheehan.blogspot.com/
There has been much in the news lately on Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Spc. Casey Sheehan who was killed in action. According to a website affiliated with her, her organization is related to Code Pink who has raised money for terrorists and apparently is involved in attacks on military recruitment centers in the US.
No one knows better than we do the cost on families that military services brings. We all have families who, for many of us, wait at home in fear while we are deployed. We know first-hand the trauma it causes to families and loved ones when one of us is killed in action. Spc. Sheehan was our brother and he will be missed. He voluntarily went to Iraq to help keep his fellow soldiers safe. He served with distinction and honor in the highest traditions of military service.
That being said, what Cindy Sheehan is now doing has descended beyond disgraceful. We can understand a grieving mother lashing out at the President. We all have had our doubts. What we cannot understand is a mother standing on the flagged-drapped coffin of her son and using his grave as a pulpit to, among other things, support organizations that fund the other side in this fight. We cannot understand violence and vandalism against the offices of the very soldiers that Spc. Sheehan went to Iraq to help protect. We cannot understand why you use this to denounce Israel. We are flabbergasted that you dishonor his service by suggesting his death allows you to speak for us. You do not speak for us. Much to the contrary, apparently.
Some of us are in Iraq and wondering what country the media is covering. Yes, there are casualties. Yes, there are setbacks. However, there are a great deal many more successes uncovered by the media. There are plenty of soldiers who have a variety of complaints about the way the war is prosecuted, whether we should be here, and the quality of food. Yet, for a majority, we understand that we are fighting what have become mostly foreign forces seeking to prevent a people from ruling themselves. It’s hard enough on those of us who are deployed without the likes of the fringe anti-war movement making the job that much harder.
Mrs. Sheehan, we’re sorry for your son, we really are. But please be quiet and stop undermining our efforts here. Your support for organizations that give money to the very people who killed your son is outrageous. And please stop using the grave of an honorable soldier as a soapbox.
posted by Anon E. Mous at 2:04 AM 25 comments
When my grandmother lost her son (my father), the irrational gibberish that came out of her mouth for 10 years was incomparable to anything I had experienced before. She wanted to sue everybody and everything for infractions real and imagined, but eventually, all of that faded and she was left with the fact that her only son died before she did. Cindy's ramblings look just like my grandmother's, only more public and even more pathetic. I don't disagree with a lot of what you're saying, but I just think all of this is, for her, a big defense mechanism, that I personally wish would go "kaput" already.
When the Media has finally moved on to the next petty potty story that smells good, Cindy will be the discarded fast-food wrapper on the side of the road that she was before and then it will hit her like a ton of bricks, in the words of Joel's friend in Risky Business: "That was all BS Joel, I'm surprised you even listened to me."
I understand what you are saying, however Cindyrella's own behavior contradicts the idea that this is simply unbridled grief, as she ALREADY met with President Bush, in fact by her own words she stated that she believed that Bush was a man of faith, that he wanted freedom for the Iraqis, and that she appreciated everything that he had said and done during that meeting.
Somewhere along the road, she began to harbor resentment against her son for his not only enlisting and RE-enlisting in the Army, but for his volunteering for a rescue mission to aid his fellow soldiers, a mission which tragically cost him his life. He died an honorable and heroic death. His mother views her son's heroism as the final slap against her overbearing and domineering parental authority, and she isn't grief-stricken, she is just mad at her (in her eyes) "little boy who didn't listen to mommy".
Personally, I would not shed one tear if this demented beeotch slashed her wrists and just bled out in one final "protest" against the liberation of Iraq.
Saddam is no doubt pleased by her disloyal babblings.
Let us know when you get back on your meds.
"... does not have any structures for public grief..."
In other words, she's a sociopath!
The Viet Kieu still follow ritual at funerals that used to be normal in other immigrant communities. The widow puts on a public show of collapsing in grief as the casket comes out of the church before it is placed in the hearse, and again at the graveside. Sometimes daughters and others participate also. Widowers do not "collapse" but are become unsteady and may shed tears quietly. The grievers are physically supported by closest relatives. There are memorials at specified intervals after. The Catholics have a Mass for the departed and private prayer services in the home of the bereaved. The Buddhists perform rituals at the grave and in the home that reconnect the spirits of the missing persons to the family.IT WORKS. There are no reservoirs of resentment and insanity remaining in the souls of the bereaved. By going "lunatic" publicly for a short period, permanent gnawing neurosis is avoided.
Such display is not traditional in our core culture because the Puritans and their offshoots and descendants did/do not do it and, I suspect, that is part of the stern unforgiving nature of our puritans today. They can't express it- can't glose it.
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