Posted on 08/18/2005 12:10:17 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
It was to have been a silent vigil outside the White House last night in solidarity with Cindy Sheehan, the Gold Star Mother-turned-antiwar activist. But the 500 demonstrators were not the sort to be silenced.
"Meet with Cindy!" they chanted. "Tell her the truth! . . . This war was for oil! . . . End the war now!"
"Cindy Sheehan," organizer Karen Bradley shouted into a megaphone, "you are an inspiration to us all!"
As Sheehan, mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq, camps out near President Bush's ranch in Texas this month in symbolic protest, foes of the war see the chance to achieve something that has eluded them for two years: galvanizing a mass antiwar movement. Sheehan, they say hopefully, could be their Rosa Parks.
Bradley, a volunteer for the liberal group MoveOn.org, which coordinated about 1,600 candlelight vigils across the country last night for Sheehan, certainly thinks so. "We've been missing this galvanizing, iconic figure," said Bradley, who lost a child nine years ago, to illness. "I think all the mothers of the world are going to come out and say, 'Enough.' "
That's what worries Kevin Pannell, whose knot of a dozen conservative counterdemonstrators was outnumbered 50 to 1 on Pennsylvania Avenue last night. Pannell, part of the Army's First Cavalry Division, lost both calves in Iraq last year when his patrol was ambushed in a grenade attack. He said he had never been to a political rally before, but he is worried about Sheehan's ability to spark an antiwar movement.
"She's stirred up a wasps' nest," he said, leaning on a flagpole to support his prosthetic legs. "It's definitely getting bigger. They're getting a little out of hand."
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I found a great new tag line
Great FReep! I'm bummed i had to miss this (away on business).
Just got back into town last nite. Planning on next Fri.
'Pod.
;*)
"She's (Cindy Sheehan) stirred up a wasps' nest," he said..."
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God bless him, and heartfelt thanks for his sacrifice and service on the battle field in Iraq, and in the battle against leftist propaganda on the homefront.
But, he is wrong about who is stirring up a "wasp's nest". It is the Mainstream media who hold the power to do that, and they are doing it now, just as they did in the Vietnam era. Cindy Sheehan is just an instrument...they say a Rosa Parks, I say a lightweight Jane Fonda. I'm thankful for those who are organizing to make a physical presence and show of support for our troops across the country. Those who can't participate in those must also confront this anti-America effort in letters to editors, to Congressmen,etc., and try to respond to opinions we see written or verbally expressed when we have the opportunity. We can make flyers telling why Cindy Sheehan DOES NOT speak for us, and distribute them wherever we have the opportunity. Whatever ideas and means we have available as individuals and groups can be used, but we must not remain silent. Each voice counts.
I thought it was Terri Schiavo. ;^)
Do something positive with your life for a change.
I see you found a new way to show your
pro death culture while mocking the dead.
You and Cindy have a common bond, mocking the dead.
But that's what the far left does best.
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