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?
Every time I see Cindy Sheehan, I get an uncontrollable urge to fast.
I had to look at my watch a few times...Midnight on July 5th??
Hmmmmm..well, why should even the time of the post be the truth??
B.S. wrote it from Malibu
Can we organize "BBQ for a Free Iraq!" couple grills setup upwind of these maroons packed with chicken, brisket, tofu burgers (yeech), sausage...watch em fold one by one.
Whose with me!?
Honestly, most of us probably wrote better stuff than this when we were in the sixth or seventh grade.
Sounds like a great idea. I live in Georgia, retired, have a little pocket money, several ways to travel, and can be in Texas in about 1.5 or 2.0 days drive time. 900 miles or so.
If there's a gathering for a BBQ someone ping or FReepmail me. I just might make the trip.
So,she is going to fast until Sept. O.K. but like Reagan said we must "trust, but verify". That said shouldn't she get on some official scales down at the feed store so we can all see the starting of "blubber loss" 101'
Then we could have weekly (weakly) updates until she croaks.
Gotcha by 15 seconds.
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LOL>..did you and 91B compare notes??
hey I am all for that.
no liquids for sheham
you think she actually wrote this? (or someone did it for her)....
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I suspect Cindy couldn't write a bad check, she's a cash cow, nothing more, her handlers do it all for her,.
It's a pretty good indication of how the liberal bent of educational institutions have totally gutted the minds of the lefties who actually think wars are won with words.
I should be fasting..... I should at least be dieting. My pants are too tight..... oh.... did Cindy say something? I just can't seem to concentrate on someone so insignificant.
Like it, very appropriate analogy.
This woman deep down only hates one person - her son Casey. She's never forgiven him for joining the military and getting himself killed.
That's what she's truly feeling.
bttt
Milkshakes don't count...
This weekend, as I traveled along the highway, my gas gauge crept dangerously near "empty".
I exited the highway at the next off-ramp to purchase gas, but the only gas station open was one of Chavez' Commie Citgo stations.
As a democracy-loving American, I took the risk of running out of gas and got back on the highway to find a nice capitalist Exxon or Texaco or Shell station. (I made it on fume chugs.)
There's more. Later in the weekend, on our return trip, one of my darlings spilled a sundae all over himself and we had to stop to dispose of the mess. Recalling the Citgo station, we happily dumped the sticky paper towels and sundae dish in the Commie gas station trash container and continued on our journey.
The Bill of Rights was written by men who spent fortunes and spilled blood killing men from another nation to secure those freedoms.
She's right in the sense that freedom is free to pious and addled liberal douchebags who think their liberty is made by Smurfs and unicorns in rainbow factories.
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