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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4533
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 11:45 am: | 
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Read up, Negroes!
This is what happens to a WHITE woman who tries to step up!
No wonder you can't get no black leaders
"Good Riddance Attention Whore"
Cindy Sheehan
Daily Kos
Monday May 28, 2007
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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Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 5626
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 01:17 pm: |
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LOL, I was wondering why the "Liberal" media didn't report more of what she had to say! Silly me, I should have known. Thank god for the internet(s) lol!!
Good looking out, Chris! |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4837
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 02:00 pm: |
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I never could stand that woman. Her son was an adult who VOLUNTEERED to join the military and part of those duties are to go to war. Regardless of whether it's a war we agree with or not, that was his job. And the risk in all of that is that he could be injured or die. I wonder if she refused the death benefits money that the Army pays when a soldier dies. Sadly for her, while she bemoans and protests against the U.S.A., Sheehan is too stupid to realize that at least here in the U.S.A. we have the right to protest against anyone, including POTUS - which would get you killed in other nations. So yeah, good-bye sorry SheehanBitch. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Take your ass to some third world communist country and see if you can protest there.
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Renata
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Post Number: 2233
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 02:33 pm: |
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Actually, she will probably be treated like royalty in a third world country. She's
1. Western
2. White
3. An enemy of the US
She'll be better treated in many third world countries (especially a few asian that I can think of) than their own citizens. In Pakistan, she could probably even get government or fundamentalist protection while she writes a book about the whole ordeal. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4838
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 03:03 pm: |
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My point was that people don't have the freedom to protest in those nations the way we do here. Remember Tiananmen Square? Probably not. Nevermind.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4537
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Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 03:20 pm: |
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never could stand that woman. Her son was an adult who VOLUNTEERED to join the military and part of those duties are to go to war
(He actually volunteered to help the chaplins and those lying SOBS made him a combat soldier--I suppose Bush lying about WMD's and Al Quaeda and ALL OF IT BEING TO STEAL SOMEBODY'S OIL is too much for an idiot like you to digest so I won't bring it up)
wonder if she refused the death benefits money that the Army pays when a soldier dies
(She spent it all trying to save other mothers the pain of having their kids die FOR NOTHING IN AN ILLEGAL WAR, again I guess too much for a bottom feeder like you to understand)
Sheehan is too stupid to realize that at least here in the U.S.A. we have the right to protest against anyone, including POTUS - which would get you killed in other nations. So yeah, good-bye sorry SheehanBitch. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Take your ass to some third world communist country and see if you can protest there.
(You DAMN FOOL! What happened to her is proof you ain't got the freedom to do nothing at all)
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Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 03:21 pm: |
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Actually, she will probably be treated like royalty in a third world country. She's
1. Western
2. White
3. An enemy of the US
She'll be better treated in many third world countries (especially a few asian that I can think of) than their own citizens. In Pakistan, she could probably even get government or fundamentalist protection while she writes a book about the whole ordeal
(Name one. Are you really this ignorant, or are you just joking around?) |
Chrishayden
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 03:22 pm: |
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My point was that people don't have the freedom to protest in those nations the way we do here. Remember Tiananmen Square? Probably not. Nevermind.
(Remember Kent State? Remember Jackson State?
You let 200,000 Negroes go to downtown Washington DC and say they are not going to leave until they get justice and SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM!
Gawd! White folks are not perfect but they sure knew what they were doing when they decided to get US over here. If they were going to hand these two clowns here they would knit them the rope!) |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 5629
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 03:28 pm: |
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"She's
1. Western
2. White"
Renata, those two are the ONLY reasons she hasn't been killed here in the U.S. despite being: "3. an enemy of the US."
Of course you know this; you remember MLK and Malcolm X I'm sure.
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Chrishayden
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Post Number: 4542
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 03:50 pm: |
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Them people over there wouldn't know she's an enemy of the US. Quiet as its kept to us Americans--and this includes AFRO Americans because we are looked at as a bunch of toms who do the bidding of white folks, are hated over much of the globe.
She would have to watch her butt even in white European countries.
Take your vacations here in the U.S. for the time being. |
Schakspir
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Username: Schakspir
Post Number: 1027
Registered: 12-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 04:19 pm: |
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Chrishayden: Take your vacations here in the U.S. for the time being.
Schakspir: NO. I'd rather be harassed overseas than take a vacation in the U.S....the cons FAR outway the pros. Especially if you have to fly an American airline(like America West). |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4545
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 10:48 am: |
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And I’d add, if they’re willing to have a debate on just any forum, why not BET or Sesame Street or the X-rated channels for that matter?
(Go ahead. Just don't come on tv crying like a little girl if you get kidnapped for somebody to rescue you
And get some life insurance and make me sole beneficiary.) |
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