Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan is escorted out of the spectators' gallery of the House of Representatives prior to the State of the Union Address by US President George W. Bush. (AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)
Posted on 02/26/2006 5:52:42 PM PST by Libloather
Counterprotests in works for Sheehan's Germany protests
By Steve Mraz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, February 26, 2006
RAMSTEIN, Germany — Efforts are under way to stage a counterprotest to Cindy Sheehan’s planned March 11 demonstration outside Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and Ramstein Air Base.
Sheehan, who is the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq and who protested the war last summer outside President Bush’s Texas ranch, is scheduled to participate in a daylong war protest.
Stefan Prystawik, a German writer in Bonn, is working to stage a counterprotest. On his Web site, at www.stefan-prystawik.de, Prystawik characterizes Sheehan as “the great-great grandmother of all Bush haters.”
Sheehan’s planned protest is highly inappropriate, and her complaints are “very much an internal U.S. matter,” Prystawik said.
“First of all, it’s completely inappropriate to instrumentalize the troops here particularly, and above all, those who have suffered severe injuries and are at the hospital,” he said. “They are coming here with an attitude to deliberately demoralize troops who just got back or are going to go back [to Iraq].”
Also Friday, organizers of Sheehan’s protest said that they had obtained permission from German officials in Landstuhl and Ramstein to have their demonstration March 11.
On that morning, a press conference will take place in a Protestant parish hall in Landstuhl. After the press conference, Sheehan is scheduled to share her views, said Detlev Besier, a Protestant pastor in Landstuhl and an event organizer.
It is still possible that the group may try to take gifts and baked goods to troops in Landstuhl, the U.S. military hospital where wounded troops are treated before being flown from Ramstein to the United States.
After a break for lunch, protesters will walk from Landstuhl to a parking lot outside Ramstein’s west gate where a “Camp Casey” will be set up to pay tribute to those who have died in the Iraq war.
Sheehan’s son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004.
Besier said his group does not like the high emotions stirred by news of Sheehan’s visit.
“We want to bring the emotion down,” he said.
“We don’t want to have emotional conflict. It’s not our aim to come too close to somebody. We want to have discussion, and we know Cindy Sheehan wants to open the minds of mothers who have sons, children around the world.”
She is a disgusting piece of trash. Would that she not be allowed back on American soil.
But if you haven't heard, Cindy still supports the troops! (She just doesn't think they should be able to vote...)
I have no usable words for this woman.
Another reason they will be defeated in November
"I have no usable words for this woman."
Oh, sure you do. Feel free to use 'em and we'll back you up when the mods try to pull your posts...
;-)
This woman is suicidal. In fact, I think that's her plan. She wants to become a martyr for the cause. If she can't piss off a conservative enough to do her in, she'll hire someone to make it look like the conservatives knocked her off.
(Or maybe one of her so-called supporters will hire someone to knock her off in October as the October surprise. The Left will then blame Republicans and gun owning conservatives. They'll hope this would galvanize the Left and Democrats to vote, and cloud the fact that they don't have any ideas.)
/conspiracy theorist rant
(I'm at home sick with a bad cold. Paranoia sets in when no amount of sleep results in any amount of rest.)
"On that morning, a press conference will take place in a Protestant parish hall in Landstuhl. After the press conference, Sheehan is scheduled to share her views, said Detlev Besier, a Protestant pastor in Landstuhl and an event organizer."
This isn't a pastor, it's a political activist. Disgusting.
It's a pretty long downhill walk, and then uphill again to Ramstein. Todays morning temperature was 16 degrees(F). That should put a chill on things.
bttt
Thanks Star.
Perhaps FR could offer the counter protesters some support via the German website.
Germans get what Code Pink at WR don't get. DOH!
Oh my goodness, don't worry about dear cindy doing anything to herself. She is the world's largest ego. Her level of development is about 10 years old. Thus, everything that happens is all about her. She makes the world turn, don'tcha know.
Chalk it down to wishful thinking.
She certainly talks like a 10 year old!
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