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The Amazing Hypocrites
by Cindy Sheehan


This past weekend was the two year anniversary of the beginning of "shock and awe" of the US Government’s aggression in Iraq. If all you did was watch CNN, FOX News, or MSNBC, you would never know.

There were protests all across our nation. CNN called the over 800 protest events "barely a ripple." I spoke at a protest in Fayetteville, North Carolina where there were right around 4000 people. 4000 people full of energy and committed to the task of peace and justice and reclaiming our country from the socio-pathic maniacs who are in power right now.

So what were the hypocrites in DC doing while much of the country was working for peace…either at rallies, marches, or candlelight vigils? They were conducting an emergency smokescreen session in Congress to draft legislation for one woman: Terry Schiavo. Terry’s story is tragic and her family has suffered unbearable pain for many years with her "persistent vegetative" state. I feel so much compassion for her mother who has had to watch her daughter slowly waste away. My heart truly breaks for everyone in Terry Schiavo’s family.

However, I have one question for Congress and for George ("When in doubt it is always better to err on the side of life" – Arizona, March 22, 2005) Bush, though: Why does Terry Schiavo deserve to live more than my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan? Casey was misused and abused by his Commander-in-Chief and executive branch that boldly lied to the American public and the less gullible citizens of other countries about the reasons for the invasion of Iraq.

Casey was sent to Iraq to be killed by the same pack of cowards and murderers who so "valiantly" and tirelessly fought for the right for Ms. Schiavo to live! The green light for Casey’s murder was given by a Congress who expediently abrogated their constitutional rights to a president whose foreign policies are not based on reality or even loosely based on any kind of Christian moral values. Someone needs to give Congress basic lessons on the Constitution: Declaring War – YES; Meddling in a family's private tragedy – NO!!

As far as I am concerned, the amazing hypocrites in our Government are not making up for killing thousands of innocent Americans and Iraqis by passing emergency legislation to save one life. Every member of Bush’s executive branch (past and present) and every member of Congress who voted to give George the authority to invade Iraq have innocent blood on their hands. For the next State of the Union address, maybe the hypocrites in Congress should shamefacedly display blood soaked hands, instead of proudly wriggling fingers stained with ink to symbolize sham Iraqi elections. This shameful Congress should go back on vacation and go back to their home districts and look for people who have been devastated by the illegal occupation of Iraq.

Mr. Tom ("We should investigate every avenue before we take the life of a living human being") DeLay should be outraged for the soldiers who have been murdered for the cowardice of he and his colleagues. He should shed real tears for the soldiers’ families whose lives have been destroyed by their murders. DeLay should search for a homeless Iraq Vet and pass legislation to find him a job and an apartment. Mr. Tom (who cried over Ms. Schiavo’s hunger pains) DeLay should go to Walter Reed hospital and find one of our kids who has been horribly maimed by the betrayal of his government and pass legislation to pay for his meals. After 3 months, the wounded soldier has to pay for his meals with his own money. Maybe Mr. Tom (Crocodile Tears) DeLay should find a soldier who has returned from this abomination of a war who is suffering from PTSD and pass a law to get him the help he needs before the soldier's dad finds him hanging by a garden hose in the basement.

Maybe if Tom DeLay and the rest of the members of Congress who voted for the Terry Schiavo Emergency Relief Act and who voted to give George Bush the authority to go to war and who voted to give George Bush more money to waste in Iraq, sought out and talked to us citizens whose lives have been tragically impaired by the invasion/occupation of Iraq and could hear our stories, they might rush back to DC to vote to rip the authority out of the president’s hands and end the immoral occupation of Iraq. One thing this "Circus of Hypocrisy" has shown me is that Congress can accomplish something when it sets its mind to it. Now it is time to accomplish something important…and I am not talking about steroids use in baseball.

I have a great idea!! Although Mr. Tom (Politician Protection Act: HB 913) DeLay is not my Congressman (hmmm…don’t think he’s Terry Schiavo’s Congressman, either) maybe I should ask him to introduce the Soldiers Put in Harm’s Way for Lies and Betrayals Emergency Relief Act…and force the amazing hypocrites to bring our troops home, now!!


March 23, 2005

Cindy Sheehan [send her mail [link] ] is the mother of Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, KIA 04/04/04 [link] She is co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace [link] .

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23 Mar 2005 @ 20:05 by astrid : What a f***** FARCE....
.... this whole Congress thing is / has been for so long.... since Black Thursday in OCt 87 I've been expecting CIVIL WAR to break out in the US EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY!.... but no..... then came little brittany and distracted all males in the country....and now for the las year it's been Terry Schiavo... the two utmost polarities... a Nation can face, one could say!.... WHAT'S WORCE: IN THREE SHORT MONTHS -- at the very most!-- IF TERRY HAD BEEN CARED BY ME, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN BACK ON HER FEET WALKING, TALKING, LAUGHING, and sometimes even crying.. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANYTHING "MEDICAL" (like too big of a physical injury or so ) IN HER CASE TO OBJECT FULL RECOVERY EXEPT THE ERROUNEOUS "CARE" GIVEN TO HER!!!........... NOW I KNOW WHY SHE WAS HANDMADE TO WHAT SHE IS TODAY!!!...the SHOWCASE OF US CONGRESS' /GOVERNMENTAL "ALTRUISM" like only the sick "WHITE" ( my reader,please, don't forget all the different Flags these guys wrap around themselves, to hide their nakedness) MALE CAN DREAM UP and MUSTER... Then we have all the Soldiers, like after Vietnam War and The Desert Storm JUST PLAIN NEGLECTED,REJECTED by THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT/CONGRESS, SPIT UPON by ALL THER PHU-PHUs and HOIDY TOIDYs.
I so wish every Soldier (in ANY country, though especially here in the US )to learn the TRUTH that it would be so much better for them to learn that they can actually LIVE for their country instead of die!... THEN BUSH AND CONGRESS can EAT SHIT!... their own!  



24 Mar 2005 @ 02:33 by vaxen : heh heh...
Yeah, A-d. Get stoked! The reality for Americans is that we live in a fascist (corporatist) dictatorship and police state. Stop pretending that we don't.

"Government is the means by which a ruling class controls society. In the case of fascism (i.e. corporatism), the comtrol mechanism encompasses not only the public sector but the private sector."--An Introduction to the Signs and Techniques of Online COINTELPRO, Stephen DeVoy.

The daily dose, 24/7, of mind control (behavior modification) assures the 'upper class' of an almost airtight control as they have control of the 'voice' of the people as well as the educational system.

Also men and women are oppressed into the 'service' at a very young age mostly from lower middle class and poor (kept poor through an unjust system of money control) sectors of the 'society.' These become fodder for the cannons of occupational warfare and imperialist 'crowd' control.

America has been 'elected' by the 'elitist' oligarchs controlling this planet to 'police' this world for them so...there is no democracy and the republic was a Medmanham Friars' pipe dream. This country has been fascist from the get go. The revolution for freedom from King Georges tyranny was only PR. History is a lie!

Later A-d and thanks for the comment. ;) Remember COINTELPRO and do a little research on it. May open your eyes to just how thin the ice is. We skate well, though, don't we? Gotta love those silver skates!

PS: Don't ever think that it is a black white issue. It isn't. Africans sold their people into slavery not WHite men. The Arab world still maintains, with the help of its' many black cohorts, a very healthy slave trade and white slavery is a multi billion dollar industry. SO don't fall into the trap of thinking that it is all 'white mans' fault. The controllers come from many races off planet and on. See past the racial 'smokescreen!' You must if you are to gain a clear understanding of just what is going on.  



24 Mar 2005 @ 02:53 by vaxen : Carlys' Poem:
*CARLY'S POEM*

A Nation Rocked to sleep

Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?
The torrential rains of a mother's weeping will never be done
They call him a hero, you should be glad that he's one, but
Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?

Have you ever heard the sound of a father holding back his cries?
He must be brave because his boy died for another man's lies
The only grief he allows himself are long, deep sighs
Have you ever heard the sound of a father holding back his cries?

Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
They say that he died so that the flag will continue to wave
But I believe he died because they had oil to save
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?

Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?
The leaders want to keep you numb so the pain won't be so deep
But if we the people let them continue another mother will weep
Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?

Read more Poems submitted by Military Families http://www.angelfire.com/sk3/spkhntrca/poems.html  



24 Mar 2005 @ 07:32 by astrid : Heyyy, youuuuu....
...what do you mean: "Stop pretending that we don't." I'm one of the few on these pages who DON'T PRETEND that US of A is the Superlative Heaven of all Nations! ( I come from places a thousand fold more superlative!....Already in the late Sixites USA was considered in Scandinavia and maybe all of Eu. as 'the Third World Country Of The West' ... because of all INJUSTICE here!!!..... though those were days I was the only one in all of Eu to DEFEND US of A. -naive and "blue eyed" as I was!)

I came here end of -86. Already by Oct.87 ( the Black Oct, when the stock market crashed on "Black Thursd", 14 or 17th, I think it was) I was in such a deep CULTURE SHOCK, that I had a hard time to function from day to day, from sheer shock of what I had to accept as reality / truth about Us of A, seeing it all with my own eyes n'everything' -as the saying goes. (Honey, how 'bout reading that book you have... then you would be a little more up to par with what I think and don't... ; ) aya baya!.... *!*..... // : ) //....

I'm sure you vax know, but it behooves other people here to know it too, that 49 of the 56 guys who signed under the Declaration of Independence were PERSCUTED and their Families too... Many were killed or had loved ones killed, or even both... all in Good Ol' Carbonara style. The Info I have does not reveal what happned to the seven that did not get persecuted.
Well, you guys who remember it from your History classes about your own Country, in school, can tell me what year Decl.of Independence was written and signed, can now draw your own conclusions from what day on US of A has been/remained a Democracy by the People, for the People!

I love the poignancy of this Poem. Crenches one's Heart... though that makes me feel the pain these families has been forced to go through... if they ever can get THROUGH, is another story!.... I'm afraid the pain is there to stay!...

Yeah, let's skate n' test the Ice to the tune of "We Shall Overco-o-me" 'cause... after all; THAT IS the 'boat' we've all been in .... for quite some time now....and we WILL overcome one of these days.... any day now....
"What's kept hidden by Snow, will be revealed by Thaw"... ( "det som göms i snö, kommer fram i tö" )  



24 Mar 2005 @ 16:04 by vaxen : Hola!
The "Stop pretending that we don't" was not meant for you, personally, A-d! You know that and are just pulling my leg, aren't you? ;)

I am at the point where I believe nothing that comes out of 'American History Books!' Nothing! All of the fancy Constitutions and Declarations were just so many tools to keep the people even more ignorant and enslaved. Maybe those that, supposedly, died really deserved to die? I don't even believe any of that crap any more. We live in a fascist country, a police state. How can anyone deny that? Oh, it was good under Il Duce, too, for some...that part of my family was fascist to the core and had lots of land in North Italy with grape vines, lots and lots, producing all kinds of wines etc., yada yada, but...the communists took it all away. Hola! Viva El Carbonieri! Yeah...

Well I am glad you feel the poem That loss is everyones and cannot be rescinded from the great maw of eternity. "Det som goms i sno, kommer fram i to!" Blue eyes? ;)  



24 Mar 2005 @ 16:29 by jstarrs : Totalitarian governments
do not tolerate activities by individuals or groups such as labor unions that are not directed by the state's goals. Totalitarian regimes maintain themselves in power through secret police, propaganda disseminated through the media, the elimination of open criticism of the regime, and use of terror tactics. Internal and external threats are created to foster unity through fear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy

Anyway, so what?
What you gonna do about it?
yawn/fart

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Kick you in the butt that's what dongster then we gonna get you down in de cold dark mud o de ground down south in louisiana and we gonna feed ya to de shark man man...whatcha gonna do when we come fo you p-diddy?
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The great french families of Louisana will mix your head with those of the unfortunate shrimp family for tasting of & by zee aristocracy...so there!
(drumming fingers whilst waiting...)
gotta go..ciao.
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Ah, zesty! Ah, so tasty! You forget the great 'Spanish' families, Mon Dieu. The Ronquillo family, for example, the TuJax family, too, then there are the Gandolfo's, the first 'Ice Barons.' Oh NOLA is my second most beloved city here in the good ol. Like another world. Another law, too...Napoleonic code. ;) Filet Gumbo, sassafrass! Feydo anyone?
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And you thought it all started with the creation of the CIA?
Bwhahahhahahha!
Check out the families.
The families.

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I thought it all started with the CIA? Me? Surely you jest, oh great pundit!  



24 Mar 2005 @ 17:01 by astrid : Heyyy, Uuuu, yawny
Starry guy, *!* ... how'bout NOT REPEATING HISTORY any more times!?.... for starters.
Geeez, you really are on the BAll, of The New Civilisation!...eh?... or just cuddlin' those own balls,... "!" Oooohmmhmhm....Mmmmm  



24 Mar 2005 @ 17:09 by jstarrs : And how about...
...not SHOUTING Astrid?
Thank you, anyway, for your really constructive comments.  



24 Mar 2005 @ 17:14 by astrid : Ahhh well....
I don't know how far away you are!.... That's why i'm SHOUTIN'.... ; ) Thanks for good laugh!... : ).... I wish I could be more of help by being EVEN MORE constructive...MUCH MOOOOooooRE....watch up, I might get a knack of it!.... Any moment now! Just DON'T repeat History today!... ; ).... I know.... i'm saying it just as much for myself as for ...ANYbody!....  


26 Mar 2005 @ 21:32 by koravya : Thanks
Thanks for the article.  


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