Go USA!
Posted on 07/03/2006 8:21:21 PM PDT by KTM rider
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 150 protesters sat in front of the White House on Monday to savor their last meal before starting a hunger strike that some said will continue until American troops return from Iraq.
The demonstration marking the Independence Day holiday was organized by CodePink, a women's anti-war group that called on volunteers to abstain from eating for 24 hours from midnight on Monday.
Some protesters said their fast would continue beyond July 4th.
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, said she would drink only water throughout the summer, which she said she would spend outside President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.
"This war is a crime," Sheehan told a crowd of clapping, cheering protesters. "We represent millions of Americans who withdraw their support from this government."
The demonstrators crouched in the muggy evening next to a piece of pink plastic, spread down the road as a table and table-cloth in one. It was covered with wilted pink sunflowers and plates of vegetarian curry, white rice, and beans.
The demonstration aimed at highlighting the costs of the war, in which more than 2,500 U.S. soldiers and thousands of Iraqis have died, said CodePink spokeswoman Meredith Dearborn.
"We have to put our own lives on the line, and I'm willing to do that," said activist Diane Wilson, who pledged to fast until the United States withdraws from Iraq.
Dearborn said 2,700 other activists nationwide, including actors Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, would work as a relay team passing the fast daily from one to another.
I wonder if Michael Moore is joining them, McDonalds' stock values would plummet
Independence Day
I saw a field of bright white crosses
All in neat little rows
Far into the sunny distance
All the little rows go
Tap, Tap the drum proudly
For the freedom you have won
Tap, Tap the drum
For the peace that you have brung
I see a banner folded tightly
Handed to the grieving rightly
Salute the fallen
With twenty one mightily
Tap, Tap the arms loudly
Red for the enemy’s skin
Tap, Tap the gun
Telling all we shall stand for the flag again
My guess is she will go a week, give or take a day or two, then she'll discover that the world can't do without her so, in the interests of world peace and harmony, she will quit her fast.
I give her three days before she inhales a super size Big Mac meal. She isn't in this for the sacrifice.
I hope they wrote for their loved ones and next of kin their wills, because we are not cowing down to the enemy, no matter what!!!! The fight against our present enemies will continue until there's none of them left to fight against, period!!!!
1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
-Matthew 6:1-2
What a cheat!
It's the hormones.
Memo to the government: Do NOT give Code Pink what they want.
Memo to Code Pink: stay on your hunger strike until the government gives you everything you want.
It will take a couple of months before anyone notices.
Go USA!
No BBQ today? Their hunger strike will last about as long as Saddam Husseins did .... hahaha what a joke...
Saddam Hussein ended a hunger strike after missing just one meal, a U.S. official said Friday. The former Iraqi leader announced the hunger strike through his lawyer Wednesday in protest over the killing of one of his lawyers by gunmen. "He has resumed eating after skipping one meal," Lt. Kevin Curry told FOXNews. Other members of the ex-president regime who joined the hunger strike have also resumed eating, Curry said
the Islamogoons at Gitmo are real big on this hunger strike stuff too
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