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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?
Are they talking about Kim Jong Sheehan or Cindy Jong Il in this article?
And the MSM will be tallying the death toll of these "American martyrs".
expensivedom What!!! "Cindy gal, what language gave you thatword?"
Miss "Smirky" needs to take a breather from her silly attempt to "coin" a word, and generally, act like an ass.
"Brush up on your grammar, Cindy, before you spout publicly. Based on your opinion, misguided as it is, you SHOULD have said, 'If freedom WEREN'T free...'"
Sorry, Freepers, I couldn't help it if this jumped out at me.
And if she doesn't, will she then admit she's a phony and a liar?
Joan of Crawford is delusional.
Probably! GWAD it was hot.
If you do have a BBQ make sure to cook up some Cindy Sheehan Chickens, all left wings and Freedom Fighter Steaks.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I get an uncontrollable urge to rrrrrrrrraaaaallllpppphhhhhhhh. There, I feel better now.
Has any woman ever enjoyed the Death of their son like this broad??
Has the Left ever been for the Freedom of Any Country??
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Cindy didn't write this, I guarantee it.
Expensivedom.....sounds like one of those ridiculous Seinfeld words, like "spongeworthy"
What's a "metallica?"
"We can't these idots see that they actually feed the insurgency and cause more US deaths?""
Look, you've got an ugly old communist who got laid once in her life.
The result of that event was her one and only achievement since she was lucky enough not to be born in India.
Her absolute worst nightmare, her son having given his life in the service of a country she hates, has brought her mental illness, with the help of the enemy, to the global fore.
Watching this guilt ridden hate monger package her little death wish as a martyr for peace is about as believable as Hitler really just wanted to paint churches.
"We have to fast.
Reflect and ask yourself: Why aren't I?"
'Cause I'm not an idiot.
THAT'S a great idea. Are they doing this at a public location or individually at home? No, I haven't been keeping up.
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