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?
needed to mock her about being single again and going on a diet instead of a fast. just a thought.
If she has no liquids she will be dead from dehydration really soon.
>>>>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.
I support all of them to completely fast until the troops come home!
BUMP!
The only thing dumber than dumb rock, is a smart C Sheehan.
That bunch at Crawford must have been making out of town runs because a lot of them walked around with Sonic cups. Those cherry limeaides don't count either.
"If freedom wasn't free it would be called "expensivedom."
Then, I suppose, a loss of freedom is nothing to worry about. It's not like we lose some expensive stuff... Good thinking, Cindy! Real pinko hardcore.
I'll ping you if I hear anything. I would like to have a BBQ and invite the town. They are the one's that have to put up with them.
Enjoy the hot new bod.
....H-O-L-Y..!!!
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Veteran-Battle of IA DRANG-1965, Landing Zone Falcon
'MODERN DAY HEROES: In Defense of America'-
Contributing Author
http://www.ModernDayHeroes.com/aloha
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I'm sorry, I can't stop laughing long enough to analyze this one...oh, my sides!
Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Sheehan is a fool who has no concept of how our freedoms were won and continue to be protected.
That is totally horrific. And excellent.
Arrrrghhhh...is there NO END to the STOOOPIDNESS of this woman? Fasting...what a useless tactic.
she did not write this. It was written by her sorros handlers.
She is a media whore who is being used by the leftist america to portray her tiny minority view as somehow mainstream.
She continues to stand on her son's coffin screaching "look at me."
No problem.... I'm sure Sarandon and Penn made sure it's strictly a powder diet
LOL. I saw that.
I get the urge to purge when I see her and her "muffin top".
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