[PAA-Discuss] FW: Cindy Sheehan's Message on the Daily Kos

Tue May 29 13:12:40 EDT 2007

The mainstream 24-7 news channels are all over this. 
So far, the reports I've heard don't sound critical or celebratory, but I bet O'Reilly will open a champagne bottle.

-----Original Message-----
>From: donald cook <zenblews at hotmail.com>
>Sent: May 29, 2007 12:44 AM
>To: 770discussion at txgreens.org, 770scleaders at txgreens.org, discuss at paa-tx.org, impeachbush-houston at lists.riseup.net
>Subject: [PAA-Discuss] FW: Cindy Sheehan's Message on the Daily Kos
>
>Bloggers are begining to pick up the new twist in Cindy's story.
>
>From: "Rupert Hazle" <ruha at well.com>
>To: "donald cook" <zenblews at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Cindy Sheehan's Message on the Daily Kos
>Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 19:52:39 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi Don,
>
>Thanks for sending this email. I think a healthy dose of skepticism is
>always welcome when reading breaking news stories.
>
>After receiving your email I went looking for other follow-up statements
>from Cindy Sheehan about this. As far as I know, all the stories about her
>actions originated from a posting on the Daily Kos. So, like you, I will
>wait a while longer to see what additional feedback she offers, and to
>make sure nobody faked her email address.
>
>However, these two links, I believe just posted a few hours ago, cover the
>Daily Kos posting:
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2090191,00.html
>
>http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2007/05/sheehan_steps_o.html
>
>
>.....Rupert
>
>
>
>
>donald cook wrote:
> > This is sad, if true.  (I mean no offense by my skepticism, but I never
>assign something a probable factuality of greater than 50% without a
>minimum of two sources with no contradictory evidence.  I have heard
>nothing in the corporate media, yet.  They would notice this
>announcement.)
> >
> > But Casey, in any eventuality, did not die in vain, because his death,
>and all the other deaths -- however many it takes -- will eventually
>drive home the fact that warmongery is no way to run a country.
> >
> >
> > From: "Amy Branham" <abranham at houston.rr.com>
> > To: <Discuss at paa-tx.org>
> > Subject: [PAA-Discuss] Fw: "Good Riddance Attention Whore" by Cindy 
>Sheehan
> > Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 13:29:29 -0500
> >
> >
> >
> > "Good Riddance Attention Whore"
> > Cindy Sheehan
> >
> >
> > I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and
>especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war
>movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the
>Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as
>the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being
>told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes.
> >
> > I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day Morning.
>These are not spur of the moment reflections, but things I have been
>meditating on for about a year now. The conclusions that I have slowly
>and very reluctantly come to are very heartbreaking to me.
> >
> > The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as
>long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party.
>Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a "tool" of the
>Democratic Party.  This label was to marginalize me and my message. How
>could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our
>"two-party" system?
> >
> > However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same
>standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started
>to erode and the "left" started labeling me with the same slurs that the
>right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the
>issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of "right
>or left", but "right and wrong."
> >
> > I am deemed a radical because I believe that partisan politics should be
>left to the wayside when hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a
>war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike.
>It amazes me that people who are sharp on the issues and can zero in
>like a laser beam on lies, misrepresentations, and political expediency
>when it comes to one party refuse to recognize it in their own party.
>Blind party loyalty is dangerous whatever side it occurs on. People of
>the world look on us Americans as jokes because we allow our political
>leaders so much murderous latitude and if we don't find alternatives to
>this corrupt "two" party system our Representative Republic will die and
>be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into with nary a check
>or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland. I am demonized because I
>don't see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I
>see that person's heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and
>votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because
>he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?
> >
> > I have also reached the conclusion that if I am doing what I am doing
>because I am an "attention whore" then I really need to be committed. I
>have invested everything I have into trying to bring peace with justice
>to a country that wants neither. If an individual wants both, then
>normally he/she is not willing to do more than walk in a protest march
>or sit behind his/her computer criticizing others. I have spent every
>available cent I got from the money a "grateful" country gave me when
>they killed my son and every penny that I have received in speaking or
>book fees since then. I have sacrificed a 29 year marriage and have
>traveled for extended periods of time away from Casey's brother and
>sisters and my health has suffered and my hospital bills from last
>summer (when I almost died) are in collection because I have used all my
>energy trying to stop this country from slaughtering innocent human
>beings. I have been called every despicable name that small minds can
>think of and have had my life threatened many times.
> >
> > The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however,
>was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood
>drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed
>by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that
>even controls what we think. I have tried every since he died to make
>his sacrifice meaningful. Casey died for a country which cares more
>about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be
>killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play
>politics with human lives. It is so painful to me to know that I bought
>into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that
>allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most.
> >
> > I have also tried to work within a peace movement that often puts
>personal egos above peace and human life. This group won't work with
>that group; he won't attend an event if she is going to be there; and
>why does Cindy Sheehan get all the attention anyway? It is hard to work
>for peace when the very movement that is named after it has so many
>divisions.
> >
> > Our brave young men and women in Iraq have been abandoned there
>indefinitely by their cowardly leaders who move them around like pawns
>on a chessboard of destruction and the people of Iraq have been doomed
>to death and fates worse than death by people worried more about
>elections than people. However, in five, ten, or fifteen years, our
>troops will come limping home in another abject defeat and ten or twenty
>years from then, our children's children will be seeing their loved ones
>die for no reason, because their grandparents also bought into this
>corrupt system. George Bush will never be impeached because if the
>Democrats dig too deeply, they may unearth a few skeletons in their own
>graves and the system will perpetuate itself in perpetuity.
> >
> > I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go
>home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of
>what I have lost. I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive
>relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into
>when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen
>apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a
>paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and
>rigidly mendacious marble.
> >
> > Camp Casey has served its purpose. It's for sale. Anyone want to buy
>five beautiful acres in Crawford, Texas? I will consider any reasonable
>offer. I hear George Bush will be moving out soon, too.which makes the
>property even more valuable.
> >
> > This is my resignation letter as the "face" of the American anti-war
>movement. This is not my "Checkers" moment, because I will never give up
>trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the
>good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this
>system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the
>people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes
>me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.
> >
> > Good-bye America.you are not the country that I love and I finally
>realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that
>country unless you want it.
> >
> > It's up to you now.
> >
> >
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