CINDY SHEEHAN FOUND GUILTY-- SHE SHOULD WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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After WW II the allies found very few Nazis in Germany. It seemed like everyone was one of the "good Germans." No one will ever have to wonder if Cindy Sheehan was one of the good Americans. She was arrested for her beliefs. And today AP reports that Cindy was found guilty of demonstrating without a permit. She should be very proud, very, very proud. Anyone who does not want to take on the karma of torture, of using chemical weapons that burn away the flesh of women and children, of the BushCheney war crimes, should get arrested.
Every time I get a letter from John Edwards asking for money I suggest he go join Cindy and get arrested; it would guarantee he'd become president. I would bet Chuck Hagel-- who yesterday answered Bush's and Cheney's slanders against their critics by saying "To question your government is not unpatriotic-- to not question your government is unpatriotic"-- would do it before any of the Democratic candidates for president.
When I was in college I couldn't wait to get arrested for opposing the war against VietNam-- one of the proudest moments of my life. The war against Vietnam didn't end because the misguided imperialistic dogs we had then-- no, Bush and Cheney aren't the first-- changed their minds. It ended because the support for their foul endeavor by the American people utterly collapsed. Our whole social order was shaken to the roots. The best people were protesting and being arrested. The worst were burying the heads like a different kind of "good German," the good Germans who just took orders and went along to get along. The ones who lived next door to concentration camps that slaughtered untold numbers of humans but never suspected a thing. In America it is still-- at least it is in November of 2005-- our right to protest against slime like Bush and Cheney. Use it or lose it.
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This morning Buzzflash ran an open letter from Cindy Sheehan to old Babsy Bush
Dear Barbara,
On April 04, 2004, your oldest child killed my oldest child, Casey Austin Sheehan.
Unlike your oldest child, my son was a marvelous person who joined the military to serve his country and to try and make the world a better place. Casey didn't want to go to Iraq, but he knew his duty. Your son went AWOL from a glamour unit. George couldn't even handle the Alabama Air National Guard. Casey joined the Army before your son became commander in chief. We all know that your son was thinking of invading Iraq as early as 1999. Casey was a dead man before George even became president and before he even joined the Army in May of 2000.
I raised Casey and my other children to use their words to solve problems and conflicts. I told my four children from the time that they were small that it is ALWAYS wrong to kick, bite, hit, scratch, pull hair, etc. If the smaller children couldn't find the words to solve their conflicts without violence, I always encouraged them to find a mediator like a parent, older sibling, or teacher to help them find the words.
Did you teach George to use his words and not his violence to solve problems? It doesn't appear so. Did you teach him that killing other people for profits and oil is ALWAYS wrong? Obviously you did not. I also used to wash my children's mouth out with soap on the rare occasion that they lied...did you do that to George? Can you do it now? He has lied and he is still lying. Saddam did not have WMD's or ties with al-Qaeda and the Downing Street Memos prove that your son knew this before he invaded Iraq.
On August 3rd, 2005, your son said that he killed my son and the other brave and honorable Americans for a "noble cause." Well, Barbara, mother to mother, that angered me. I don't consider invading and occupying another country that was proven not to be a threat to the USA is a noble cause. I don't think invading a country, killing its innocent citizens, and ruining the infrastructure to make your family and your family-friendly war profiteers rich is a noble cause.
So I went down to Crawford in August to ask your son what noble cause did he kill my son for. He wouldn't speak with me. I think that showed incredibly bad manners. Do you think a president, even if it is your son, should be so inaccessible to his employers? Especially one of his bosses whose life George has devastated so completely?
I have been to the White House several times since August to try and meet with George and I am going back to Crawford next week. Do you think you can call him and ask him to do the right thing and bring the troops home from this illegal and immoral war in Iraq that he carelessly started? I hear you are one of the few people he still talks to. He won't speak to his father, who knew the difficulties and impossibilities of going into Iraq and that's why he didn't go there in the 1st Gulf War. If you won't tell him to bring the troops home, can you at least urge him to meet with me?
You said this in 2003, a little over a year before my dear, sweet Casey was killed by your son's policies:
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" (Good Morning America, March 18, 2003)
Now I have something to tell you, Barbara. I didn't want to hear about deaths or body bags either. On April 04, 2004, three Army officers came to my house to tell me that Casey was killed in Iraq. I fell on the floor screaming and begging the cruel Angel of Death to take me, too. But the Angel of Death that took my son is your son.
Casey came home in a flag draped coffin on April 10th. I used to have a beautiful mind, too. Now my mind is filled with images of seeing his beautiful body in his casket and memories of burying my brave and honest boy before his life really began. Casey's beautiful mind was ended by an insurgent's bullet to his brain, but your son might as well have pulled the trigger.
Besides encouraging your son to have some honesty and courage and to finally do the right thing, don't you think you owe me and every other Gold Star parent an apology for that cruel and careless remark you made?
Your son's amazingly ignorant, arrogant, and reckless policies in Iraq are responsible for so much sorrow and trouble in this world.
Can you make him stop? Do it before more mothers' lives are needlessly and cruelly harmed. There have been too many worldwide already.
Sincerely,
Cindy Sheehan
Mother of Casey Sheehan
Founder and President of Gold Star Families for Peace
Founder of Camp Casey Peace Foundation
--Check out www.BringThemHomeNowTour.org for more info and how you can be involved.
Learn more about Cindy at http://www.meetwithCindy.com or about Gold Star Families for Peace at http://www.gsfp.org.
Too bad this isn't a real letter, but hey, don't let facts get in the way.
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