FAMILY OF FALLEN SOLDIER PLEADS: PLEASE STOP, CINDY! (Drudge)

Drudgeroo ^ | Aug 11 2005

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FAMILY OF FALLEN SOLDIER PLEADS: PLEASE STOP, CINDY! Thu Aug 11 2005 12:56:21 ET

The family of American soldier Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, has broken its silence and spoken out against his mother Cindy Sheehan's anti-war vigil against George Bush held outside the president's Crawford, Texas ranch.

The following email was received by the DRUDGE REPORT from Casey's aunt and godmother:

Our family has been so distressed by the recent activities of Cindy we are breaking our silence and we have collectively written a statement for release. Feel free to distribute it as you wish. Thanks Ð Cherie

In response to questions regarding the Cindy Sheehan/Crawford Texas issue: Sheehan Family Statement:

The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son's good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our President, silently, with prayer and respect.

Sincerely,

Casey Sheehan's grandparents, aunts, uncles and numerous cousins.

Developing..

[Nam Vet]

My sorrow for her loss has turned to total disgust of her, personally. I knew there was class in his family and am so happy they finally came forward. I honor her son, his service and his personal sacrifice. I have no use for his mother.

I know, that if I had not made it back, I would be ashamed if my mother acted like her. She would have grieved deeply, but would have been proud of me and just as much of our country.

I am so happy his extended family are so fed up that they spoke out.

God bless America.

Nam Vet

[kcvl]

The International Peace Group

Over the next few weeks, we'll be offering you all sorts of ways to continue to engage on this issue. One way to plug in is coming up pretty soon. Win Without War, the coalition of mainstream civic organizations against the war that we (MoveOn.org/Fenton Communicatons) helped to found, is calling for a day of local action on January 29th.

Members of the coalition include

American Friends Service Commitee, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, Conference of Major Superiors of Men, Global Exchange, Greenpeace, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, NAACP, National Council of Churches, NationalOrganization for Women, NETWORK, New England Health Care Employees Union (part of SEIU), Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sierra Club, Sojourners, Tikkun Community, TrueMajority, United Methodist Church General Board of Church & Society, Us Foundation, Veterans for Common Sense (Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame friends), Women's Action for New Directions, and Working Assets

Look for events organized by some of these groups in your community on the 29th. You may find local events listed at [link].

THANK YOU

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the stakes are high, folks. This war is a menace to our country and our world. But the last week has shown that an enormous group of Americans are going to do everything in their power to ensure that a peaceful resolution is reached. So we really mean this: Thank you.

Sincerely,

--Carrie, Eli, Joan, Peter, Randall, Wes, and Zack

The MoveOn Team January 22, 2002

[stratocaster]

I am an anchor on (local) television. Yes, we have alternative media, but face it, the mainstream media still gets more viewers/readers than "conservative media". This episode, on the whole is hurting Bush and the military. It's fun to run to our computers and click on DRUDGE or FREEREPUBLIC, but DRUDGE's 8 million doesn't match the 35 million who watch ABC, NBC, and CBS in the evening. One woman, whether sincere, publicity-seeking or a little crazy is a major continuing story on all 3 major networks. They'll never put Casey's grandparents or aunts or cousins on TV. They're BIASED, remember. They are not "fair". Conservatives are too polite to realize that we have to FIGHT events like this. You know what we need...we need 20, 50, maybe 100 mothers of soldiers KIA to come to Crawford and confront Cindy and the media and support Bush and our soldiers! That's what we need! There are virtually NO stories about the soldiers or their efforts or the rebuilding of the infrastruction or that almost all the suicide bombers are from outside Iraq. NONE!!! It's Cindy! Our message isn't getting out to all the masses. So Bush's poll numbers drop and we have squishy Republicans who teeter & wobble. Yeah, I'm very sad about Casey...but dammit...Casey would cringe to see his mother out there in ca-hoots with Michael Moore, moveon.org and the rest of the angry left who seek to the values that he fought for! These people need to be totally discredited and defeated, and that includes Cindy Sheehan.

[Glenmerle]

I am so happy his extended family are so fed up that they spoke out.

I am too. Imagine the courage it took for them to do that. It must have been very painful.

But my fear is that the mainstream media will not report on it. After all, outside the Internet, has anyone reported on Sheehan's outrageous statements about our soldiers dying for Israel, not America?

[MamaB]

I do know that and I am sure that Howlin does too. I could not have made it without all of you. Thank you so much. It really means a lot. My hubby does not like to travel and really hates to be on a long trip like this one. He did have people from here going up there with him and that helped. He had planned on going to the Aviation museum or whatever it is up there but he had to work all weekend. I am sure that he will be ready to play golf when he gets home. He use to live in Dayton when he was a kid. He really had a time filling out top secret forms for work because he went to 22 schools in his 12 years.

[Glenmerle]

Our message isn't getting out to all the masses.

I think you're absolutely right.

[Alia]

According to MoveOn.org spokesman Trevor Fitzgibbon, the anti-Bush 527 plans to run $3.2 million worth of ads during the week's Republican National Convention in battleground states.

So, since President Bush cannot run for President Again, any idea on who they are going after, what they are going after?

$3.2 million dollars that could be used for feeding the starving; provide healthcare.

My, my..

[maica]

But she's not grieving anymore. She's enjoying this, IMO.


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She feels that she is in a position of power, with all the media attention she is getting. I agree with you, this is not a manifestation of grief. Her major emotion is anger. Imagine any other of us three hundred million Americans believing that we can Demand an audience with the President!

She is seriously on a power trip!

[ArmyBratproud]

I've been busy, Sleuth.

Good to hear from ya.

Yeah, you are right. Her little fame grab is over.

[USAFJeeper]

Yes I am. I saw someone here had linked to the actual page they have on it. Disgusting aint it.

[USAFJeeper]

Good lord.

Ok you guys. I lost my pet fighting fish last week (I am pretty sure it was the black cat of my daughters that we refer to as Kitty Kitty) I am pretty broken up and blame George Bush (and PNAC, BFEE, and KARL ROVE) for the loss. Please donate to a Paypal site I am setting up here in a little while. As soon as I figure out how to set one up that is. /sarc off :)

[Nam Vet]

We all know the MSM will NOT report that little fact. The whole point is that the message of truth IS is hitting many, many more people day by day. We have to be content with that while still expanding the influence.

So far as Israel, same message. My prayers are with Israel too.

Nam Vet

[kcvl]

MoveOn’s founders Wes Boyd and Joan Blades

Blades, wearing a Code Pink–Women for Peace long-sleeved shirt.

Fenton Communications, David Fenton, its CEO, in a book titled MoveOn’s 50 Ways To Love Your Country is a two-page introduction to a chapter called “The Many Faces of the Media.” “One chapter contains tips from members on how they do all these activities,”. “Today, the Right successfully dominates media outlets.

Early in 2002, Boyd and Blades teamed up with a young peace campaigner named Eli Pariser, and with his help transformed MoveOn into one of the engines of the anti-war movement. In February 2003, MoveOn and another group, called Win Without War, organized a “Virtual March on Washington,” protesting the war. Soon afterward the group was instrumental in setting up the “Vigil Around the World,” in which thousands of simultaneous anti-war candlelight demonstrations took place all over the globe.

Wes Boyd says, what annoys him is that the wrong politicians are in power, rigid ideologues who, he believes, launch wars for no good reason and can’t strategize their way out of a paper bag.

Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser May Be Only 23, But He's Helping Change The Nation's Political Panorama

When Eli Pariser wanted to remind voters of Richard Clarke's bombshell allegation — that the Bush administration ignored terrorism threats before 9/11 — he called on his fellow MoveOn.org members.

"Can you help us fund this?" he wrote in a mass e-mail.

Attached to the message were storyboards for a TV ad supporting presumed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. Fiery quotes from Clarke's "60 Minutes" interview preceded the tagline "George Bush. A Failure of Leadership."

As campaigns director for MoveOn, a fast-growing Internet advocacy group that promotes mostly liberal causes, Pariser knew he could count on its 2-million-member international network to respond.

Three hours after clicking "send," Pariser, who's 23, met his fund-raising goal of $300,000, enough to air the commercial on CNN and the Fox News Channel.

Some who disagree with MoveOn's left-wing views have accused the organization of being an arm of the Communist party (speculation began after the official Web site of the Communist Party of the United States included a link to MoveOn, which has since been removed).

Pariser helped organize hundreds of neighborhood bake sales across the country to raise money for the Kerry campaign.

He was the key draftsman of MoveOn's antiwar movement, speaking alongside Desmond Tutu and Martin Luther King III at a February 2003 peace rally in New York.

He's worked directly with former Vice President Al Gore on MoveOn-sponsored speeches.

He also directed MoveOn's nationwide contest for the best 30-second advertisement that criticized a Bush administration policy.

More recently, Pariser launched MoveOn's "house party" project. Members gathered in hundreds of towns across the country for screenings of "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War," a documentary that accuses Bush and his handlers of misleading the public before the invasion.

In the weeks following the tragedy, Pariser created 9-11peace.org, an online petition calling for military restraint and a multilateral response to the attacks.

"Sometimes if you give this administration enough rope, they have so much hubris they can just hang themselves," he says.

"The kind of presumption that goes into thinking you can harness Sept. 11 for a political event and plan your national convention in this city ... we may not need to do anything."

( 11/4/2004 ) Reacting to the news of President Bush's re-election victory, MoveOn.org chief Eli Pariser told the group's Bush bashing membership on Thursday: "It's a dark day." In a statement posted to MoveOn's web site, Pariser told his followers, "We'll admit to being heartbroken by the outcome of yesterday's election. It's a dark day." But despite his disappointment, Pariser vowed to fight on. "Our journey toward a progressive America has always been bigger than George Bush. The current leg is just beginning -- we're still learning how to build a citizen-based politics together."

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Hello,

My name's Eli Pariser, I'm campaigns director for MoveOn.org, and I thought I'd start by talking a little bit about how I got here.

On September 10th, 2001, I worked for a little nonprofit in the Boston area as a web and IT guy. I was a little more than a year out of college, and I was 20 years old. After the attacks unfolded on the morning of September 11th, I went home. As so many of us were, I was struck by the terrible tragedy of the situation. The next day, as the President and the pundits began their public statements, my thoughts turned to the future. I considered the possibility that out of this tragedy might come more tragedy––that in addition to the lives of the victims of September 11th the United States might kill many others.

That evening, I started messing around with a website––a site that would lay out some constructive principles for the American response to September 11th. I didn't really have it thought out––I just figured I knew how to make websites, and so I made one. I called it 9-11peace.org

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Eli Pariser is international campaigns director for MoveOn, an Internet website that mobilizes liberal activists for the U.S. Democratic Party.

"The son of two 1960s activists who founded an alternative high school in Camden, Maine, Pariser graduated from college at 19," reports Mother Jones magazine. His emergence as an Internet activist began "in the immediate aftermath of September 11, when he wanted to protest the president's demand for vengeance." Pariser "created an online petition, 9-11peace.org

MoveOn founder Wes Boyd, merged their websites.

Eli Pariser in his midtown New York office.

[HungarianGypsy]

To me she is still a nobody. If not for the discussion on here I would probably not have even noticed the article on page A4 or A5 of out newspaper about her.

[rwfromkansas]

Hey now!

Don't you DARE slander the good name of Jim Varney (RIP) and compare her to this woman. This is going too far. :)

[Victoria Delsoul]

She's an embarrassment and an opportunist. She's using the death of her child as an opportunity to make money, period. Disgusting!

[kcvl]

Our goal is to make it impossible to ignore the anti-war sentiment in this country."
– Eli Pariser of MoveOn.org

February 11, 2003

To the young man's right (Eli Pariser) is the suave, articulate Ambassador Joe Wilson, who served as Deputy Chief of Mission to Iraq in the Clinton Administration. To his left is former Congressman Tom Andrews, the savvy new National Director of Win Without War, a broad-based anti-war coalition.

These men, along with Darcy Scot Martin of Women's Action for New Directions (WAND), Rev. Brenda Gerton-Mitchell of the National Council of Churches and others are at the Marriot to make the case to the American people for the continuation of UN inspections as a strategy of containment. The goal: to avoid destabilizing the Middle East, which would increase the chances of future terrorist attacks and expose U.S. military and Iraqi civilians and soldiers to the retaliation with biological and chemical weapons that an invasion of Iraq may well provoke.

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The Moveon 527, which receives major support from billionaires Peter Lewis and George Soros, is called the Moveon Voter Fund, and has not run any ads in four months, according to Trevor Fitzgibbon of Fenton Communications, which represents Moveon. A third entity, called Moveon.org, is a 501c4 committee and is allowed to do political advocacy work.

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Fenton Communications is a public relations firm which was founded by David Fenton in 1982. It specialises in PR for not-for-profit organisations.

"Fenton Communications, a Washington, DC-based public relations firm, bills itself as the nation's leading "public-interest" firm. It is a founding member of the so-called Business for Social Responsibility. Yet Fenton has played a key role in a growing number of health scare campaigns involving both his non-profit and for-profit clients."

Fenton runs ads on Air America Radio.

David Fenton

Fenton is also a co-founder of three independent nonprofit organizations: Environmental Media Services, which coordinates communications activities for environmental groups; New Economy Communications, which works on human rights issues in the global economy; and the Death Penalty Information Center. Fenton was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the “No Nukes” concerts in 1979 with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt and other artists. He is a native of New York City.

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UGHHH!

Creepy photos of creepy people...

At least the first one of Joan Blades looking like Web Hubble in a wig and glasses. I literally jumped-back when that image scrolled up.

And the last one of Eli Pariser is just plain Satanic...smart choice photo editor.

[neb52]

I often wonder if her son joined the military to get away from her. :D

[liberty2004]

These people need to be totally discredited and defeated, and that includes Cindy Sheehan. very good points. I agree. As much as we think the MSM is more an more irrelevant (and that's true) they still command a sway over a greater number of people. We still have a way to go defeat them.