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This is Horseshit
CINDY SHEEHAN
Counterpunch
Wednesday, Aug 6, 2008
It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be?
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
You know, I don’t care if it’s not proper for a Congressional candidate to say: “horseshit.” I don’t care if it is not a good “tactic” to get kicked out of a Congressional non-impeachment hearing that was just a bunch of horseshit anyway. I don’t care if I get accused of being too “extreme” for bucking the (cyst)em by doing everything form camping in a ditch in Crawford, Tx to non-violent civil disobedience to, lately, running for Congress as (oh no!) an independent.
If people can’t see how this nation is teetering on the precipice of financial ruin and dragging the rest of this planet down with us as we destroy our ecology, too…and if people don’t realize how desperate our situation is, then I must say, that’s horseshit!
I am angry. No, I am incensed that hundreds of thousands of people are dead, dying, wounded, displaced from their homes or being imprisoned and tortured by the sadists that reside or work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the approval of their accomplices down the road in Congress. I am furious that I buried my oldest son when he was 24 years old for the unrepentant lies and the unpunished crimes of the Bush mob. Are you incensed? If not, maybe you should ask yourself: “Why?” Hypothetically: “Why am I not enraged that my country has killed or hurt so many people for absolutely no noble cause in my name and with my tacit approval?”
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I am steamed that the working class has to, once again, pay for the excesses of the capitalist criminals that feeds its rapacious appetite with the flesh and blood of our children and won’t rest until it owns every penny in this world and has all the power.
You may say, “But Cindy, it is not polite to be angry or to use such strong language in public.” Horseshit! In my opinion, every citizen in this country should rise up in anger and DEMAND that George Bush and Dick Cheney not only be impeached and removed from office, but be tried and convicted for murder and crimes against the peace and humanity!
We should all walk off of our jobs and refuse to work and refuse to be cogs in the wheels of psychotic consumerism until our troops, military contractors and permanent bases are removed from Iraq and Afghanistan. We should, but most of us won’t. We won’t because it may mean that we would lose something of “value.” Material possessions are so transitory, as are our lives. We can leave a lasting impression by our courageous activism and moral sacrifice, or we can leave a pile of rusting metal or rotting wood. I choose the former for myself.
We should come out of our comas of too much TV news and not enough non-biased information to push for alternatives to fossil fuels that are clean and renewable and protest nuclear facilities and off-shore oil drilling like we used to in the olden days when people actually cared enough about not poisoning our world to get off of their couches or (today) out from behind their computer screens to do something constructive instead of complacently shelling out hundreds of dollars a week for gasoline and food.
I get so pissed off when one of my supporters has a tooth ache and can’t afford to go see a dentist to fix it or when my sister has had a cough for almost two years and doesn’t have the health insurance she needs to get fully well. And when I think that almost 50 million people in this country are non-insured or under-insured, I see red. Why, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, do some have the “privilege” of being fully insured and healthy, when health care is a basic human right, not a privilege for the elitists? My heart hurts every night when the men who sleep propped up against my campaign office, huddled under their blankets against the San Francisco chill, wish me a “good night” and I can’t choke the same words back to them, or do much of anything but give them coffee to keep warm and books to read to help pass the time. My campaign office is being visited on a daily basis by Iraq war vets who can’t access the help they need to get physically or mentally healthy—and I am “extreme” because I actually want things to really change and choose to act on this desire and not sit around passively pretending that this horseshit doesn’t exist?
Since Casey died, even though every day I am filled with pain and longing, I have tried to be the poster-mom for this pain telling my neighbors and fellow Americans how it feels to be profoundly hurt by the Military Industrial Complex and that it wouldn’t be too long before the cancer of BushCo would strike every American home and now that this prediction is awfully coming true, I see more and more apathy and less and less action.
Three years ago today, I first sat in a ditch in Crawford, Texas and three years later, we are in dire straits, my friends, and the prognosis is not good, unless we all make a conscious effort to sacrifice some of today’s comfort for the sake of our children and grand-children’s futures.
Sixty-three years ago today, the monsters of the US war machine dropped a WMD on hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children and since then, this nation has just descended into a further spiral of war and profiting from war and preparing for war and more profiting from war; which is destroying every aspect of our society and we MUST reclaim our very souls from the Military Industrial Complex before it is too late.
Please don’t wait for November, or January or for the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius because every second we allow this demented pattern to continue, is one second too long!
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August 6th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
HorseShit is so freakin 70’s….
August 6th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
While I’m glad Cindy is running against Pelosi and calling the circus what it really is, she needs to read the Constitution and cite where the right to health care is in it.
August 6th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Damn straights, Cindy. Take it to ‘em.
August 6th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
If we don’t deal with Bush now , we will never get rid of him!!!
August 6th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
“where the right to health care is in it.” I don’t disagree in principle but lets also point out health is available for everyone via other means and if health was actually judged by cures and not treatments the phramaceutical murderers wouldn’t have an incentive to stick nasty substances in vaccines, food and water. Plus hardly anyone would be ill in the first place!
I’ve walked out my job and everything bar Internet, water and electric. And they can go when the time is right. Do it!
August 6th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Dear Cindy
More americans are concerned with American Idol, ipods, PS2 and other things to worrying about the coming slavery. It is sad but Americans do not care anymore. We are a dying bred.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Great article, good post by Starman, so sad but true.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
p.s. you aren’t a dying breed, I’m 20 and there are some of us in my generation that are following you guys in your footsteps, being alert and calling out the bullshit that happens
August 6th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Starman, that’s because the culture is “horseshit”.
It is a ME ME ME ME ME ME society which is NOT what the founding fathers were all about.
People sometimes mistake “freedom” for “no government”, and that is sad because that is EXACTLY what the Anglo-Dutch disease wants. They want the destruction of the nation state system, so they can have control. Please don’t join them in this effort.
We can fight them as a UNITED States. We can’t fight them as a bunch of individuals. People who cast away society end up as slaves.
We have a Congress, we need to demand that they work for our interests.
BTW 4% interest rate or we are done for.
http://www.larouchepac.com/
August 6th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
horse shit,it sure is,i used to admire americans,for only one thing,that they got togeather when bulshit reared it’s ugly head and blackbanned/stood up for ,their/our rights,but lately as a whole i’ve lost respect for them[as a nation]but am hoping that a grass roots mov ement will prove me wrong,god bless america?
August 6th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Change? America? lol you’ve got no fucking chance. The time will soon be upon you Americans, whereby you will be removed from your homes by the scruff of your neck and thrown into nice little Nazi concentration camps to be slaves for the war effort. The US will print the money for the up and coming world war three (not 4 like everyone talks so mush shit about, the cold war was not a world war) and everyone on this Earth is going to suffer immensely. It is too late. Book a ticket to a remote Atlantic or Pacific Island and learn how to live off the land because the rest of the world is going to become unimaginable. Death awaits.
August 6th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
If every news station carried that comment and showed/read it every hour like they do with other statements ( Iraq has WMD for example) – there would be a revolution! People WOULD NOT go to work tomorrow, or the next day, or the next like she said.
However, since the media will not show the masses, the masses will never know. They will never be brave enough to do something because they think they are all by themselves. That’s what they want you to think.
Ask yourself, if Bush declared Martial Law in say Denver, and the media didn’t report it… would you even know about it? Some in Denver would get word out but then the media would show you that everything is just fine in Denver…there were a couple of disturbances but definitely no Martial Law…. that would be that.
It amazes me that 75% of the people want Bush and Co tossed and convicted but just because the TV isn’t agreeing with the 75% – they are keeping it to themselves….. being afraid to stand up and scream like Cindy is here shows me how far gone the US is.
August 6th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Modern Day Immigration has ruined America. We now have 1/2 of our population that has no clue what America should stand for and how it was founded. They believe America is the land of opportunity when generational Americans think the country has gone to shit. Immigration is killing all chances of a civilized future.
August 6th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Mark: (re: immigration)
I live in SoCal and work in technology. I generally find that native-born people I meet are ignorant about their heritage of freedom and about what kinds of things are going in the world. To them freedom is a word, and no matter what the government does, they celebrate it as “freedom”. The educated foreigners that come here to work, I find a much higher percentage of people who at some level understand what freedom really is and often came here because they thought they could achieve it here.
It is easy to blame the foreigners, but frankly, it is the rust belt and the south that is cheering on the crimes of the current administration.
August 6th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
we let them do it.. thats why they do it
http://www.youtube.com/user/giantshadows
GS
August 7th, 2008 at 12:44 am
That’s a great rant with alot of truths.
F’n rights Cindy !
Someone needs to set the date…poney up the money for the campaign and let’s hit the fucking streets and get these assholes out of here. All of them need to be douched….
They no longer represent any of us….well…1% of us..
Set the date i’m there…..
http://www.wearechangevancouver.org
August 7th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Cindy Sheehan will never get the endrosements or financial backing to compete fairly in a congressional election. The elitist powers will stifle her before she starts. The 4th arm of the government (1.Executive 2.Legislative 3.Judicial 4.Propaganda Media) will never let her message be heard or at best play tidbits out of context & label her an extremist radical. Grassroots campaigns like Ron Pauls will never happen again….the Gov agencies learned a lesson from that & will never allow it to happen again. Google, AOL, Yahoo, will comply. Even if she garners enough support from awakened souls – blackbox voting fraud will occur & her votes will go to the competitor. These are the obstacles you face. The statement about immigrants above is completely true. The new “AmeriKan” doesnt care about freedom, only TV & pimp rides. Prepare for prison camps.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:41 am
FUCK YEAH CINDY!!!!Where are all the uh hum ‘non texans’ in the here movement. With all the prissy, dainty, PC BULLSHIT going on. All the little passy fists that want to play patty cake in the US better wake the hell up soon, very soon, and start remember ourselves, the old selves, before we had our BALLS CUT OFF!
And soon!
Its time to ‘ball up’ world wide peoples.
August 7th, 2008 at 5:17 am
Let’s face the reality. The Americans of the 21st century are the new Germans of the Nazi reign. In fact, the illuminati have even more powerful tools of disinformation this time around. The people then, were not suckling at the paps of televised “programming” since birth at that time.
They may seem like they’re winning now, but they won’t because the way they are winning demonstrates to the Creator that they hate the life that he\she created.
If they have no respect for the work of the universal creator, then what respect do they have for themselves? Universal law is pro life. The illuminati are anti life. Therefore the pro life force that drives universal law will eradicate this force. The fact that they are making themselves and their actions more overt is proof that they are unwittingly identifying themselves and amassing themselves before the creator.
When the sentence comes down there will be no trial needed because all the guilty murderers will have identified themselves of their own free will.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:20 am
That was good. Now for more real truth. And this goes out to those elitists in the NWO Fascist Government, since their pissing boys do come here and read these posts and run off to their masters lapping at their feet and humping their legs.
YOU will LOSE it ALL. You can not win! Get out and about, and look around. Gas at 4 to five dollars a gallon etc etc. and society in the United States of America is still moving along. WE OUT-NUMBER you sick NWO Freakzoids, and WE will stick together and help each other out at all costs. Just keep it up,,,, please do, I want some more of that Horseshit you Neocons can pile up. I can not get enough of it.
I want America to reach the “critical breaking point”. I Fuckin dare ya! Go for it Cowboy! Bring it on Neocons!
Because when America reaches its breaking point, WE the people (MILLIONS of US!) ,,,, lets just say it will get real ugly for you NWO Frreaks………
As for “A Neocon”……. They really do stack SHIT that high.
Coffeelover,,,,,,,,,,
August 7th, 2008 at 9:04 am
I AM an American, and I cannot argue what has been said about us. HELL!! I have lost respect for my own country men. When they would rather SUCK THE GOV’T TIT, than work togeather to build a better world…well it sucks. I feel we as Americans NEED to hang bush,cheny and ALL the dishonest BASTARDS on capitol hill, AND in the local gov’t offices allover the nation untill we have an honest group of government SERVANTS actualy SERVIVG in office!!
mark aka lord Hades
August 7th, 2008 at 9:18 am
DJ Ball:
Awesome job in Vancouver.
You guys rock!
August 7th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Texan, WHAT? Do you speak English? You make no sense…to much jesus in your pants boy! Learn to communicate…and stay out of prison like your mommy told you! Learn the difference between the ‘tenses’.
Texas sucks…George the serial killer Bush is a Texan, what else can I say…as it is said, ‘I rest my case.”
August 7th, 2008 at 9:35 am
For those who actually want to do something about it:
Join Ron Paul’s: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/
And come to:
http://rally.campaignforliberty.com/
August 7th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Cindy,
I have a serious question for you and this isn’t to hurt you, but didn’t you know before you son went to war that he would be fighting for HORSESHIT…for the HORSESHIT in washington? And a serious question…why do women (mother’s) raise their children to join the military to kill other women’s children…did you try to talk Casey out of going…or, where you just in La-La land like so many people in this country? Believing all the propaganda that this country and hollywood crank out. If it’s not propaganda why are there American flags in all American movies?
I got the drift in the 1970’s and stopped supporting this country…poverty is the only way, no possessions to avoid blood on your…mine are clean, and I sleep well every night…at least until the scum in our gov. sees that here is someone who isn’t going along with the program and we must re-educate me or teach him a lesson. AmeriKKKa is such a fucked up place only fucked up people support it. Pay your taxes and wash your bloody hands off before you eat dinner and play with your free plastic McDonald’s ‘happy’ meal toys.
Good night Amerikkka! I not been nice to know you.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:38 am
MAR,
Then why do you post, or even bother to direct a comment towards Cindy, when you state so well how you gave up a long long time ago.
Just leave, no one will care. You don’t.
August 7th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
MAR,
George Bush is a Yankee! He was born in CONNECTICUT. He ain’t no Texan!
August 7th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Cindy,
My heart goes out to you for the loss of your son, I cannot know what that pain is like. I also fully agree with your statements and the Bushco regime must be held accountable now. I do fear that we are a few steps behind and honestly I agrre with another poster that stated that people will not go out and stand up because we are all separated by distance and will feel that we are alone. perhaps picked off one by one.
If a stand is to be made a united front must occur, for that a date and a place must be determined.
In a world where we are slaves materials really mean nothing for they will be gone. Watching the pain of my children and grandchildren is something I cannot bare, and I cannot live with myself if I do nothing to stop this madness. I will stand..sorry I arrived so late, I was sleeping like the rest.
Where can we make a difference? I am there.
August 8th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Come on guys, seriously is there ANYTHING you or I can REALLY DO to stop them?? Short of arming yourself to the teeth with military weapons, bullet proof vests, soldiers, and a tank, then driving down to washington to start shooting holes in the whitehouse, we’re helpless. The rule of law doesn’t work anymore as we’ve all seen too many times now. we can protest all day long, but do you really think that matters?? they don’t care if you protest, or if EVERYONE protests. that makes no difference to them, they don’t care what you think, they’ve already said so and proven it to be correct.
unfortunately, unless you’re ready to just go and start shooting up the place, then all our efforts are in vein. i hate to be a naysayer, but i think we all know it’s true. the point where contacting your congressman to make change has long past! either you wait for there attack to fight back, or you organize and bring the fight to them. convince all the cops and soldiers to be on your side, or disarm them. those two are the ONLY arm of force the government have. cut off their arms and they can’t touch you. we should all become the law makers, and law enforcers.
good luck!
August 8th, 2008 at 9:02 am
The larger US is letting our children be murdered and the smaller US is as well. My brother was murdered when he was 27 by bouncers at BB King’s in Memphis and NO ONE WAS ARRESTED. Memphis wanted to protect their tourist industry. My parents sued and won a judgment. So what? That is nothing. No amount of money can replace a murdered child. I sympathize with Sheehan as one who saw the parents of a murdered child die premature deaths from outrage and heartbreak.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Hello,
At 12 years old, I helped to pull my father out of his car after he killed himself in our garage. A few years earlier my father was surviving the “Death March of Bataan”. Surviving to come home to a world that didn’t make much sense anymore. Even at my young age I could see the pain in my father’s eyes. Life didn’t make much sense for me either and I was always sad and defeated.
These criminal elitists have got to be resisted, charged for their demented, tragic genocides and brought to justice, real justice. I can’t bear to see this anymore without taking action “everyday”. To hell with these bastard butchers.These killings won’t stop until the Lord sets up His righteous Kingdom but while we’re waiting, there is lots we can do. Thanks, John
August 9th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I’m a Vietnam Vet of Marine Corps Doctrine, and my Marine Corps training saved my life in Vietnam. But, the Marines didn’t teach me anything about dealing with lying, deceitful, politicians who are making money on my dead friends blood! Six of us from our small town went over to the Nam, and four of us came back! Back then, it was Ladybird Johnson’s stock in the chemical companies we were boosting, and of coarse, the New York City J**s were always remembered when the newspapers our families sent us would finally catch up with us, and we read all the lies and sometimes laughed! We were sprayed with Agent Orange, and other stuff, and told the Air force Tanker that just passed overhead was spraying for mosquitoes. This horse-shit has been bringing a lot of old memories back–dam, it never quits does it? It never will either; as long as the bankers have plenty of us to use as cannon-fodder? Bastards! When I think of the Cost–Plus contracts being awarded by the Bushmasters, and the other discrepancies, I ask myself, what are they thinking? The only plausible thought that comes to mind is–Party Time! What a bunch of horse shit!
August 11th, 2008 at 12:37 am
why haven’t any politicians been killed the past few years when we know they committed 9/11 and we know they lie to use?