Granny on anti-war hunger strike

The Seattle Times ^ | September 28, 2006 | Nancy Bartley

[Hadean]

When hunger pangs hit Patricia Brooks, she turns to stitching. Her needle flashes silver as she stitches squares of purple and blue, pink and red. It may also be her message of goodbye to her two granddaughters, ages 5 and 7.

Brooks, 68, who lives in a subsidized senior-citizen apartment in Coupeville, Island County, has been on a hunger strike since Sept. 11. A longtime activist who joined Coupeville Peace and Reconciliation on the street corner at Highway 20 and Main Street, Brooks was frustrated over the lack of progress in ending the war in Iraq.

"I have been in months of despair. My peace group had done everything they could to stop the war but it was having no effect," she said.

So on the fifth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Brooks stopped eating and started stitching.

"I beg everyone to write a letter a day for the next month, to the White House ... or your own congressional representatives to demand that these dangerous actions stop," she says on her Web site, www.tiptopwebsites.com/hungerstrike.

[The Worthless Miracle]

Maybe she can use the money she saves from supporting terrorism/starving herself, to get off of her government subsidy...

[the invisib1e hand]

un-hunh. and when she dies -- God forbid -- will her family sue the US Government?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Those who refuse to support and defend a state have no claim to protection by that state.
Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be defined as "murder" in a legalistic sense.
The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons inside city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or "Endangering bystanders," or other misdemeanor.

Lazarus Long

[derllak]

Gramma's off her rocker!

[Gay State Conservative]

Hey,that's great,Patty.Well,I'm off to get a cheeseburger. Write if you find work.

[unkus]

I'm having steak for dinner and will enjoy it.

[SmithL]

Well, according to some, starving to death can be very peaceful.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Starve granny. Age obviously failed to bring any wisdom.

[Recovering_Democrat]

An old idiot is still an idiot.

[socal_parrot]

Will we go down in history as the people who, like the Germans, did not stop their government from mass killing in the pursuit of their own power?

Yeah, yeah. Bush is Hiltler, yada yada....

Shut up and die already.

[derllak]

Hey, let's go eat at gramma's house! We'll have a nice potluck and invite all the FReepers! Poor gramma sounds kinda lonely. She says it's to protest the war, but from the article and the way she goes on about herself, somehow I think it's for attention more than anything else. Notice how she whined that she hasn't heard from her son. I can probably guess why!

[LibKill]

This is the best proof ever that Darwin is right!

She gets the Darwin award for 2006.

"Darwin, often maligned but never wrong."

[unkus]

Good idea-she is just another confused, out of touch with reality useful idiot.

[irishtenor]

Maybe Cindy Sheehan will share her "How to Gain Weight by Starving" diet book.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Ah, if only Cindy Sheehag had had this kind of dedication : )

[COBOL2Java]

Jeb: "Granny, I told you to stay away from the squeezin's!

[LibSnubber]

"No one, she said, including her son in Dallas, Ore., is trying to talk her out of her fast."

Uhmmmm, okay.

[festus]

Well the less she eats the more food for the troops I guess..................

[boop]

What is WRONG with old liberals? I was a liberal into my 20's. Actually being a productive member of society and paying taxes cured me right quick. I never understood the proverb "There's no fool like an OLD fool" until I started becoming aware of politics.