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Title: Cindy Sheehan : "Good Riddance Attention Whore"
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URL Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/28/12530/1525
Published: May 28, 2007
Author: Cindy Sheehan
Post Date: 2007-05-28 19:32:12 by Eoghan
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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. * CindySheehan's diary :: :: * 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.
Poster Comment: Her star dropped like a rock (and the Daily Kos knows this) with the MSM with the mention of Israeli wars and American deaths...the Demos tried to 'set her straight'...but the decision was made, she's of no use to Us. Maybe, Cindy will now be freer to speak her mind?
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#1. To: Eoghan (#0)
.... 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. Wow!
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
These are the ultimate truths that cannot be undone for her, or for us. Once these truths are determined by an individual there is no returning to la la land, nor is there any righteous excuse to participate with the thugs that have lowered our standard of existence to that of murderers and accomplices to murder.
RON PAUL or REVOLUTION
Man...there is nothing worse than coming to the realization that you were used by people that you thought cared about you and your mission. I actually pity her.
Sad, but so true. Writings like these make me glad, in a way, to be out of the USA. I'm no longer "part of the problem" in supporting by mere presense of what the USA has become.
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. This really clinched it for me that Cindy has had a rude awakening. More people need this awakening, and taking the blue pill just is not enough to do the trick. The system is so corrupt that is is no longer possible to seek redress in any manner, not even the courts. (If you are good enough, and have the filing fees and time to pursue it, you can cost the bastards lots of FRNs paying the shysters for defense. And that is money they will not have to mess with someone else.) Goodbye and good luck.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Hmmm...happy Memorial Day everybody...it'll be moved to May 1st after Hillary gets the keys...
By Cathy Young, Globe Columnist | August 22, 2005 http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/08/22/the_cindy_sheehan_you_dont_know/ By Cathy Young, Globe Columnist | August 22, 2005 snip/// "In her public appearances, Sheehan has not only called Bush ''the biggest terrorist in the world" but suggested that his ''band of neocons" deliberately allowed the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 to happen: ''9/11 was their Pearl Harbor to get their neo-con agenda through," she told a cheering crowd at San Francisco State University last April. That crowd, by the way, was holding a rally in support of Lynne Stewart, a radical New York attorney convicted in 2003 of aiding and abetting a terrorist conspiracy. Sheehan compared Stewart -- who served as a liaison between her incarcerated client, terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, and his network outside -- to Atticus Finch, the lawyer in ''To Kill a Mockingbird" who heroically defends a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in the Jim Crow South. Even more troubling opinions have surfaced in an e-mail Sheehan sent to ABC News last April: ''Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC [Project for the New American Century, a neoconservative think thank] Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the army to protect America, not Israel." After some media outlets publicized these comments, which smack of blaming the Jews for drawing the U.S. into the war in Iraq, Sheehan disavowed them: she claims the offending lines were inserted into her email by an ABC News staffer. (The original email has been lost due to an Internet virus attack.) But this latest conspiracy-mongering is hard to believe, especially given the general anti-Israel tenor of Sheehan's public statements: for instance, she railed against the notion that ''it's okay for Israel to have nuclear weapons, but Iran or Syria better not get nuclear weapons." She was on the right track early on, hence this slime from the jew owned Boston Globe.
"My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel.” This is the one phrase that stuck to my mind. Of course she denied ever saying it later, probably because it was the truth, and truth is anti-Semitic.
.... 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. Wow! Strong stuff. Are we paying attention, yet? Dear God, we are living in "interesting" times.
Someone should clue the lady in that there is only one party in this country. It is a shame there are millions like her that still believe in "partisan politics". Sad.
this brought tears to my eyes..the whole thing does, really.
In late March, Cindy's
long belt of road-bound activism brought her to Boston, where she spoke at a
rally commemorating the four-year anniversary of the war. My bar is a favorite
spot of hers, and I brought her and some of her friends out that night to have a
beer and relax for a bit. I'd brought her to my place twice before, and both
times I saw the same woman of passionate energy and committment who sat in a
Texas ditch until the country could no longer ignore her, or the war. The light
was in her eyes, the hope things could be changed was in every word she spoke,
and as ever, the sorrow from her loss was there like a shroud. She was
motivated, optimistic, cynical, tired, inspired and resolute at the same time.
This last March, however, I saw a different Cindy. I would not say she
was broken or in despair, but she was not the same. Health problems had robbed
her of the energy that once crackled around her, one arm was in a sling because
of tendon damage, and she was tired. Bone-tired. Tired in soul and spirit. I
began that evening looking forward to the kind of rollicking talks we'd always
enjoyed together, but wound up spending most of the night pleading with her to
take some time off and rest. Cindy hadn't really stopped, you see. Never
left the road, never surrendered to exhaustion or sadness, never allowed the
barbs from enemies and so-called "allies" to deter her or discourage her. But
sitting there, I could see how much of a toll her efforts and sacrifices were
taking. The treads on her tires were worn down to the radials, so to speak.
Seeing the announcement of her withdrawal from activism today, therefore, came
as no real surprise. Everyone has limits, and Cindy's inspired and determined
sacrifices took her farther past any limits most could imagine. The last time I
saw her, she was so tired, so worn, so discouraged, so sad, and worst, so
convinced of the futility of the cause, that she was a shadow of the hard-case
I'd come to know and love. Anyone who calls her an attention-whore is a
total fool, absolutely ignorant of what real sacrifice looks like and feels like
and requires and costs. Anyone glad for her departure from activism is
celebrating a disaster, is celebrating the loss of a face and heart and soul
that brought this war into the living rooms of this TV-dulled nation in a way
that no other effort or march or activism had before. But anyone surprised
that she's going home should have been with me in march, and seen her condition
of body and spirit. Cindy, you have done enough. You have done more than
anyone else. You have honored your son, you have changed the way this nation
looks at this war, you have inspired...and you have done enough. Be well,
hero. Rest. We'll take it from here as best we can. This is an interesting perspective by someone who had been
with her recently posted at DU.
Thesis: Official 9/11 story is an unproven conspiracy theory. http://911truth.org http://Justicefor911.org http://summeroftruth.org Probable-cause standards have been met for an unlimited investigation of unsolved crimes relating to the events of Sept. 11, including allegations of criminal negligence, cover-up, complicity or commission of the attacks by US officials and assets of intel services.
Thank you for the #1 source of truth on the net...
It is surreal.
Supporters of Bush and the Iraq war for Israel and oil are traitors to America and they hate American troops.
I like Cindy Sheehan. she is a common ordinary American whose family has paid a huge price. and she spoke her mind. and she was hated for it.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
thank you, Eoghan.
now i have tears in my eyes.
2. To: seven high straight (#0) The living and breathing excrement, Cindy Sheehan, got all the press coverage imaginable for years. All her bogus rallies, Camp Casey and all the squawk box nonsense of hers. She exits the scene, criticizes democraps and the leftist movement, and she gets NO MSM coverage of any kind. She was always just a tool of the MSM as long as she towed the hate Bush line and didn't go after all the liberal hypocrites. She was always a nut, the MSM knew it, and now she is thrown away trash. Goodbye Cindy, I won't miss you one bit, you stupid little twerp. putupjob posted on 2007-05-28 19:20:22 ET Reply Trace
"You can not save the Constitution by destroying it."
Chris Bollyn didn't show up to court with a sling due to tendoninitis..
what a heartless, mindless man. a truly ugly american.
You ought to see the threads over at FreepTardia. You'd think she had just nuked israel. Embarassing.
yea, there's a lot of them over there.
"You can not save the Constitution by destroying it."
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
Hillary's bunker buster will hit first. ;P
VERY good
"You can not save the Constitution by destroying it."
Oh fuck, you might have provoked tonights "wet-dream".... /chuckle
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
http://www.counterpunch. org/sheehan05282007.html also, Cindy generated this letter today. what else can we do on Memorial Day except honor our troops - and Cindy has done that. that the world hates her for it is not something she controls.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
it's just really sad. I always felt like at heart she was a grieving mom who just wanted to spare other moms the pain she went through. the pro-war nutcases have been so hateful to her. I wish her well.
Any parent who REALLY cares about their children will do anything in their power to convince their kids to do what the elites do, and never ever even THINK of "serving their country" in the armed forces. Did George Bush or Dick Cheney or Bill Clinton go to fight in Vietnam? No, they were far too smart to go for that, and that was back when we had a draft! The elites don't go to get their heads blown off in our foreign misadventures, and neither should anyone else.
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.
#2. To: Eoghan (#0)
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.
#3. To: Eoghan (#0)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#4. To: Eoghan (#0)
#5. To: Eoghan, noone222, innieway (#0)
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.
#6. To: Neil McIver (#4)
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#7. To: christine, late ping (#6)
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#8. To: All (#7)
(Edited)
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#9. To: Eoghan (#0)
#10. To: robin. all here (#1)
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.
#11. To: lodwick (#10)
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.
#12. To: Eoghan (#0)
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.
#13. To: christine (#12)
The last time I saw Cindy Sheehan.
#14. To: christine (#12)
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#15. To: christine (#12)
the whole thing does, really.
#16. To: Eoghan (#0)
#17. To: Eoghan (#14)
#18. To: Ferret Mike, wbales, Eoghan, Cynicom, robin, Red Jones (#13)
Seeing the announcement of her withdrawal from activism today, therefore, came as no real surprise. Everyone has limits, and Cindy's inspired and determined sacrifices took her farther past any limits most could imagine. The last time I saw her, she was so tired, so worn, so discouraged, so sad, and worst, so convinced of the futility of the cause, that she was a shadow of the hard-case I'd come to know and love.
#19. To: christine (#18)
#20. To: Ferret Mike (#13)
I would not say she was broken or in despair, but she was not the same. Health problems had robbed her of the energy that once crackled around her, one arm was in a sling because of tendon damage, and she was tired. Bone-tired. Tired in soul and spirit.
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#21. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#19)
putupjob
#22. To: christine (#21)
#23. To: christine (#21)
#24. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#23)
#25. To: robin (#24)
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#26. To: robin (#24)
#27. To: Esso (#22)
You'd think she had just nuked israel. Embarassing.
#28. To: Eoghan (#0)
#29. To: Eoghan (#0)
#30. To: christine (#12)
 | Gold and silver are real money, paper is but a promise. |
#31. To: Elliott Jackalope (#30) (Edited)
Only heroes like McCain. /sarcasm The NVA really thought they had an American prince when they caught him because he was he son of an admiral. McCain has become quite the Manchurian candidate.
The elites don't go to get their heads blown off in our foreign misadventures, and neither should anyone else.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#32. To: Eoghan (#0)
I wonder what ex-hubby and kids think of the whole thing.
Don't waste your pucker on some all-thing sucker.
#33. To: Eoghan (#0)
The first time Cindy took a critical swing at deomocratic goddess Hillary, she was doomed. Cindy told the truth about how both parties are corrupted and it cost her. Richard W.
#34. To: Red Jones (#16)
I like her, too.
I like Cindy Sheehan. she is a common ordinary American whose family has paid a huge price. and she spoke her mind. and she was hated for it.
And the publican, standing far off, would not so much as lift his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather thant he other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. -Luke 18: 14.
#35. To: Arete (#33)
The mantra of both the Democrats and the Republicans: "It's OK to do what you criticize the other party for doing. It's not about principles or ideas, folks, it's about 'my club is better than your club'." That's why Sheehan was A-OK as long as she criticized warmongering Republicans. When she applied the same standard to warmongering Democrats, her former "supporters" and "sympathizers" turned on her.
The first time Cindy took a critical swing at deomocratic goddess Hillary, she was doomed
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