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."
In other words, time to break out the straightjackets.
Of course the Martin family will have never have a problem with socking all the U.S. greenbacks in their bank account(s).
I think the woman Cindy Sheehan has lost her mind and needs to be hospitalized. She should be treated as a mentally ill person.
Isn't Fenton the left-wing PR outfit that championed the Sandinistas and the El Salvadorian FMLN? Did they actually put these insane words into Comrade Cindy's mouth? I doubt it because I don't think they'd want to shoot themselves in the foot, while Cindy might.
The camp at Crawford is full of Cindy Sheehan supporters, people from all walks of life, but off to the side are a small group of professionals skilled in politics and public relations who are marketing Cindy Sheehan's message.
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Sheehan's message hasn't changed since she got here, but the support staff interested in getting that message out to the world has grown considerably.
Organizers are set up in a house trailer. Their meetings closed to reporters.
Leading the group is Fenton Communications employee, Michele Mulkey, based in San Francisco. Fenton specializes in public relations for liberal non-profits.
Their bills are being paid for by True Majority, a non-profit set up by Ben Cohen -- of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream fame.
Ben Cohen, True Majority: "People are willing to listen to her and we want to do as much as we can to make her voice heard."
Cohen's group has teamed up with Berkeley based MoveOn.org, an anti-Bush group co-founded by Joan Blades.
Earlier this month, MoveOn helped organize anti-war vigils in support of Cindy Sheehan.
Current Democratic National Party Chair Howard Dean's organization Democracy for America is also involved, as is the more radical anti-war group Code Pink organized by San Francisco's Medea Benjamin.
Money donated through these groups and others is helping to pay for Gold Star families whose children have been killed in Iraq to attend anti-Bush protests.
This week Simi Valley California Gold Star wife Melanie House flew to Idaho for a protest and then flew to Crawford.
ABC7's Mark Matthews: "Can you tell us if you're getting help in airfare to come down here?"
Melanie House: "What difference does that make?"
There is real reluctance to talk about who's paying, and the P.R. machine that's promoting Cindy Sheehan, but not everyone here is completely comfortable with it.
http://tinyurl.com/bsuhw
this is an Internet-fueled things, as well. Moveon.org got going. Cindy Sheehan formed her own — created her own Web site. And they got a lot of interest from there.
It really was, actually, kind of a grassroots thing that a number of groups, like MoveOn, like Code Pink, and others, managed to get people. And of course, now, they’ve never...
HUME: And who hired Fenton Communications (search), this P.R. firm...
(CROSSTALK)
YORK: Fenton Communications was paid for by a group called True Majority.
HUME: Who are they?
YORK: Well, it’s a group founded by Ben Cohen (search), the Ben of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream.
HUME: A noted liberal activist, but nonviolent...
YORK: Oh, absolutely, who has contributed a lot of money. And Fenton Communications has represented MoveOn and Soros, and the whole sort of complex of groups on the left.
this lady is a freakin NUT>>>>>>>>>>>>>LOONEY TUNE>>>>>>>>>AND MORAN and sad to state from my state of CA would she just GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Ms Sheenen would probably screaming her lungs out if the military wasn't in New Orleans. The left and the loons cant have it both ways
The Man from Alar presents: The Cindy Sheehan Show
David Fenton is a very successful and dangerous man. The founder and CEO of Fenton Communications has had a storied rise as a capitalist, founding and leading the largest, most powerful and most successful public relations firm in the world catering to Leftist organizations. A decade ago, he said he was a Democrat, but he came up in far left and Marxist circles, including the Liberation News Service, the Sandanistas, and the Christic Institute. He should be a household name from the fraud he publicized in the Alar scandal of 1989. Here is an excerpt from an invaluable article by John Gizzi of the Capital Research Center, which is an absolute must read:
http://tinyurl.com/dp8v9
Well, it wasn’t a lie that cost Fenton any money. Rather the opposite. As the Gizzi piece explains: “About his Alar scare campaign, Fenton boasted, ‘A modest investment repaid itself many-fold in tremendous media exposure and substantial, immediate revenue’.”
In recent days, Fenton has been the PR firm of choice in several anti-Bush campaigns, including Peaceful Tomorrows, MoveOn.org, and others. The Peaceful Tomorrows campaign is particularly notable bacause it features the same grief-mongering-against-Bush as does The Cindy Sheehan Show. We note in passing a couple of significant points, via a WSJ Opinion Journal article on Peaceful Tomorrows: (1) the same ethical standards evidenced in the Alar scandal seem to be in place in Peaceful Tomorrows’ benefactors calling themselves 501 (c)3 organizations; and (2) from the way personnel move around, the institutional Democratic Party, the Leftist groups and Fenton all seem as snug as a bug in a rug:
Peaceful Tomorrows isn’t so stalwart about other rules. The Tides Center is a 501(c)3, a tax-exempt non-profit, and therefore correctly explains on its Web site that its projects “may not engage in direct support or opposition of a candidate for political office.” We can only assume the Tides Center has been too busy counting its Heinz money to sever ties with Peaceful Tomorrows after its Bush opposition.
As for all the media attention, Peaceful Tomorrows has retained the well-known Fenton Communications, a public relations shop that for years has catered to left-wing advocacy groups. The most recent and famous is MoveOn.org, the outfit that had to disavow an ad on its site comparing President Bush to Hitler. A woman at Fenton who works on MoveOn.org’s project, Jessica Smith, also works on Peaceful Tomorrow’s campaign. Ms. Smith used to work for the Democratic National Committee and for Al Gore’s presidential campaign. We are a long way from the land of political innocents.
The timing and financial backing of the Sheehan spectacle are no accident in our view. Within a few days of Sheehan’s arrival in Crawford, Ben Cohen’s anti-war group had hired Fenton Communications, which had “worked intermittently with Sheehan over the past year,” (WaPo), and she was already making TV commercials. As Howard Kurtz notes, The Cindy Sheehan Show was specifically targeted at MSM reporters who had to say something every day from Crawford, Texas in August. The Cindy Sheehan saga was “dropped in their lap” and “turned into a running story” (at page 36); the PR campaign was brilliantly and effectively designed by Fenton to fill the reporters’ needs to file a daily story. It contained conflict, pathos, and perhaps most importantly, fit the biases of the reporters themselves.
Maybe we will be accused of being too cynical, but, after reviewing the business and political cunning and success of Fenton Communications, we have come to believe that if Cindy Sheehan did not exist, some other “Cindy Sheehan” would have been invented.
Sheehan said: "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" This is the same woman who is sitting in a pile pof dirt with other left wing thugs supposedly crying over her loss as she seems to want to taunt soldiers. I say take this hag and sling her over the border into Mexico for the banditos. The left really did it to themselves this time.
Suggested Cindy Sheehan Freeper sign:
"Cindy: First Rid Your Head of Occupying Extraterrestrials."
Would this gnat please go away!!!
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