Posted on 03/08/2006 6:57:10 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
RAMSTEIN, Germany — Cindy Sheehan says she will not be near Ramstein Air Base or participate in a protest march from Landstuhl to Ramstein on Saturday if she goes through with a planned trip to Europe.
Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq and the woman who protested the war last summer outside President Bush’s ranch in Texas, said in an e-mail Wednesday to Stars and Stripes that “everything is up in the air at this point.”
Sheehan is due to arrive in Frankfurt on Thursday. Despite uncertainty clouding Sheehan’s visit, protesters and counterprotesters still plan to gather outside Ramstein Air Base on Saturday afternoon.
Sheehan was arrested Monday in New York City outside the U.S. mission to the United Nations when she and other protesters attempted to deliver a petition calling for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Her condition raises doubts as to whether she will make the trip to Germany and France.
“If I am there, I won’t be anywhere near the air force base ... or participate in the march,” wrote Sheehan on Wednesday. “I was brutalized in New York the other day by the NYPD (New York Police Department) and I need to go to the doctor today (Wednesday).”
When asked why she would not protest near the air base, Sheehan replied: “I don’t want the soldiers to feel we don’t support them, and soldiers can’t redeploy themselves.”
Sheehan ended her e-mail on Wednesday by stating that she was going to the doctor, and she was having trouble moving.
Sheehan’s scheduled trip to Europe originated because she was invited to address the European Union Parliament in Strasbourg, France, next Tuesday. Organizers in Germany had planned for Sheehan and protesters to march Saturday at 2:30 p.m. from a church in Landstuhl to a parking lot outside of Ramstein Air Base’s west gate. After the march, Sheehan was to be present at a “Camp Casey” that was erected in the parking lot to memorialize those killed as a result of the Iraq war. Camp Casey is named after Sheehan’s son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004.
Organizers are still going through with their planned protest despite Sheehan’s possible absence. Protest organizers are expecting between 100 and 500 participants.
“We’re just going ahead because we think it’s correct,” said Elsa Rassbach with American Voices Abroad, which has assisted in organizing events for Sheehan’s visit. “This is not against the soldiers. It’s against sending more soldiers to be wounded.”
Despite a possible Sheehan no-show and a Saturday weather forecast of rain and snow, counterprotesters will still have their demonstration, said Stefan Prystawik, organizer of the counterprotest. Prystawik estimates as many as 200 could show for the counterprotest, which is scheduled to take place Saturday, from noon to 4 p.m., near the traffic circle closest to Ramstein Air Base’s west gate.
Counterprotesters will wave U.S., German and Iraqi flags in support of U.S. troops. They will also distribute fliers.
“Cindy Sheehan, who turned from a grieving mother to the pet of Dictators and Communist activists, has come here to demand from Germany to have U.S. bases and Landstuhl LRMC closed,” according to fliers the group will hand out. “It fits the picture and it is equally unacceptable to protest along the route on which our wounded heroes returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are being taken to receive much needed medical care.”
Early onset of rigor mortis. Hopefully.
ROFL...guess resisting arrest wasn't a good idea, huh? Sheehan, you have no clue what brutalized is...try going to China where they would have used an electric cattle prod on you.
I guess that explains the growing equitorial bulge on Planet Sheehan.
"The Kaiserslautern military community is home to more than 50,000 Americans with military ties. Sheehan could face a rough welcome.
One soldier who recently returned from Iraq, Army Staff Sergeant Mark Genthner, said: "Anything I have to say about [her] you couldn't print."
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=19875
Ping
I love it. She's fallen so far off the radar that they have to explain who she is before they can explain what she is doing...
and still nobody cares.
Who is writing the checks here ?
According to this article, Cindy went to the doctor (is she planning to sue the NYPD?) instead of to the White House protest/rally with the rest of her friends at Code Pink.
That's why I don't believe all the hype about Pres. Bush's "popularity" poll numbers. Oh yeah, I'm sure they're low but the man doesn't lead by polls, one day we'll realize just how valuable that really was. Meanwhile Mr. President: SECURE THE BORDERS! Other than that, keep goin' sir!
SheetHed was brutalized in New York the other day by the NYPD (New York Police Department) and I need to go to the doctor today (Wednesday).
The mean ol' Police must have dropped her accidently.............
Media Ho,Media Ho where are you are going to go when the media drops your ugly mug?
Oh, horse-bleep, Cindy.
We were brutalized by that picture of you the other day in NY in your shirt that was three sizes too small.
Accidentally? I've seen the pics. How, exactly, does one hold onto 200 pounds of wriggling jello? I'd say that them dropping her was a foregone conclusion.
Someone must have briefed her on what the inside of Stamheim Prison was like.
When asked why she would not protest near the air base, Sheehan replied: “I don’t want the soldiers to feel we don’t support them, and soldiers can’t redeploy themselves.”
Ohhh Puhleezze! What a smarmy piece of work this creature is.
She is backing off because of opposition at Walter Reed (thanks DC freepers) and is even more frightened of international protests against her planned by German citizens
Sheehan plans a lawsuit. So she is too busy to travel abroad.
The pix I saw made it looked like she was enjoying herself and obviously resisting arrest. I kind of get the feeling a lawsuit against the NYPD is forthcoming.
Right. Shut the hospital that mends them.
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