Activists to 'Die' Outside White House

SFGate.com ^ | Oct 25, 2005 | ELISABETH GOODRIDGE

[Hadean]

Cindy Sheehan and other peace activists plan to "die symbolically" for the next four days outside the White House to represent the American soldiers who have died in Iraq. Sheehan, whose son Casey died in Iraq last year, organized the vigil as the U.S. military death toll in the war neared 2,000. "I'll be laying down and not getting up," Sheehan said Tuesday to a small crowd in which the number of journalists exceeded the number of protesters.

[kevkrom]

They're either going to be miserable or ineffective, and I don't care which.

Why bother with "or"? I'll take "and", and pass the popcorn.

[Laura_RB]

The crazies at my alma mater (Ohio U.) went about the business of holding a "die in", and the campus paper published this very effective response from Marc Fencil, an OU senior who is currently in Iraq.

[oh8eleven]

Cindy and her ilk are hacks. Here's how people with real conviction protest war:

"On November 2, a 32-year-old Quaker made the ultimate sacrifice as an act of moral persuasion. Norman Morrison carried his infant daughter with him to the Pentagon, where he set her down and, standing in front of the office windows of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. Like Herz, Morrison was consciously trying to emulate the monks."

"One week later, a 22-year-old man named Roger La Porte killed himself in the same manner in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York. La Porte, like Herz and Morrison, sought to make a religious statement against the war in Vietnam."

Buddhist monk...

[oh8eleven]

I read the letter you posted a link to and wrote to the author, Marc Fencil. His email address (from the article) bounced back as undeliverable. Suggested - Marc.G.Fencil.1@ohio.edu

[socal_parrot]

Die-ins are SO thirty years ago. Used to happen at the gates of the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Depot all of the time.

[proud_yank]

here is her letter from fatboy.com:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509814/posts

what a kook.