Posted on 07/05/2006 6:56:23 PM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 07/05/2006 7:18:13 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Troops Home Fast: Day One
By Cindy Sheehan
It is midnight of the 5th of July and 24 hours since thousands of us began the Troops Home Fast.
Some of us who will be fasting completely until the troops come home; some will be on liquids only until the troops come home; some will fast for 2 weeks, 2 days; or like me, until at least September 21st.
Hundreds of peace loving and dedicated people joined we organizers of the fast outside of the White House during the past two eventful and event-filled days. The Granny Peace Brigade walked from NYC to DC in solidarity with the fast and with the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and our soldiers who are suffering so profoundly under the US led occupations.
People joined us from as far away as Texas and California in person, and thousands were with us in spirit from all over the world. We are starting an historic and very meaningful action. We were honored by being joined by legendary fasters Dick Gregory and Diane Wilson and historic whistle blower and patriotic giant: Daniel Ellsberg.
Standing apart from our hundreds of supporters were about a dozen Freepers who were holding various signs (which is as much there right, as it is ours) with very "clever" messages on them. A few of the signs had the very pithy "Freedom Isn't Free." Well, I'm sorry, but the very definition of freedom is that it is free. Freedom is a birthright of every American and we have the Bill of Rights to prove it. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say anywhere that our young people have to fight insane wars for greedy swine to earn anyone any kind of freedoms. If freedom wasn't free it would be called "expensivedom."
I was particularly impressed by a very slick and professionally made sign that the Freepers had. It was a large pinkish sign with white letters that read: Cindy Sheehan is Starving for Attention."
Yes, that is why I am embarking on this fast. It is not because our nation -- with the complacent, if not intellectual, approval of most of our citizens -- is waging a war crime of mammoth proportions in Iraq. It's not because our soldiers are committing atrocities on an innocent population who never asked for our lethal interference. I am not fasting because our soldiers should not be dying or killing for Exxon and Halliburton. I am not sitting here with mild hunger pangs because our leadership condones and orders others to commit cruelties on my fellow human beings in such brutal places as Guantanamo. I am not fasting because the wrongfully, illegally, and immorally detained men in Guantanamo are going on their own hunger strikes and committing suicide to call attention to the fact that they are human beings who do not deserve to be tortured and tormented. I am not fasting so no other mother has to drop to her knees screaming in agony because her child is dead for nothing.
On the contrary, I get plenty of attention and our troops are still in Iraq. I am doing it precisely for all of the reasons above. Maybe people have to ascribe nefarious motivations to our actions because they can't conceive of leaving their comfort zones for another member of humanity.
The people of Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering so miserably. Our soldiers want to come home. Our country wants them to come home. The world wants them to come home. The people of Iraq want our soldiers to leave. Generals are recommending time tables. We fasters figure that we can sacrifice something in solidarity with the suffering in the Middle East. What we are giving up is so insignificant compared to what our soldiers and the people they are oppressing are giving up. It's about time BushCo recognizes that staying a reckless and murderous course is inherently disordered and they should turn around and order our troops to come home.
I encourage everyone in America to move away from the comfortable complacency that allows BushCo to kill people with impunity. If we don't stand up and speak out against their offenses and for accountability the crimes will continue even into the next administration, whichever party is in power.
How can we not fast, or march, or write, or speak, or rally, or go to Camp Casey, or sacrifice something, anything when the people of Iraq, and many of our soldiers, don't even have enough food to eat or clean water to drink? How can we numbly go shopping for groceries when unsuspecting and undeserving people in Iraq are being killed when simply going to the market to buy food for their families?
We have to fast.
Reflect and ask yourself: Why aren't I?
Unfortunately, we have to fight wars against insane greedy swine.
SHEEHAN: Actually, I don't hate the president either. I don't trash the president, I trash the president's foreign policy, which is fundamentally and inherently wrong and immoral. And I don't tell people around the world anything that they don't know.
O'DONNELL: But you called him the biggest terrorist in the world. So you are trashing the president.
SHEEHAN: Well you know he says a terrorist is somebody who kills innocent men, women and children, and there has been [sic] over 100,000 innocent men, women and children killed in Iraq on his orders.
http://tinyurl.com/elf6h
Yeah, don't you remember??? Iraq was a kite-flying oasis before we liberated them!
Her ranting with "Haliburton" and Michael Moore like painting of our troops as stormtroopers is the epitomy of MOONBAT!
Biggest moronic ranting I ever read. She is a brainwashed piece of basura.
If it sincerely fasts until 9/21 her friend can plant her, hope, hope!
With such examples, Kristinn,
it seems exceedingly abundantly clear how effective the globalist, Marxist, Machiavellian, NWO puppet master brainwashing techniques so rampant in the MSM are.
At least that's my take on it--regardless of what others may think of my analysis. This simple minded unfortunate useful idiot of the NWO folks is utterly clueless. And she thinks she's some wise super moral standard bearer. Talk about poor reality testing!
Part of me feels like praying for God to give her a dream of her son coming to her in the dream and sternly rebuking her up one side and down the other for her clueless idiocy. But she seems so . . . . mindlessly sold out to such a perspective that even that might well have 0% effect.
Amazing.
Thanks, K for your persistent efforts in behalf of our Republic; goodness; truth; responsibility and the other good and Godly virtues you model so well.
LUB,
What an incredibly stupid person this moron is. If it wasn't for the bravery of people like her son, the one who's grave she freely dances on, there would be NO Bill of Rights or Birthright.
Who does she think will fight to protect this "free freedom," a bunch of long-haired dope smoking hippies?
Not me. I get a uncontrollable urge to heave my lunch up. The woman could give anyone the dry heaves.
"some will be on liquids only "
Cool Aid?
I still say she doesn't write these herself. They probably don't even ask her to initial them.
"If you want peace, prepare for war."
Metallica fan?
Of course not. Joining the military is optional, Cindy.
She's a free range chicken without a head.
But..but... she is a grieving Mom. We should all respectfully listen to her dumba$$ comments, and nod our heads thoughtfully. /end stupid lib logic
I think it's time for an All-American Bake Sale for our troops!
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