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| Mother Sheehan Plans 4th of July Fast With Celebrity Friends!! |
| 2006-06-23 |
| Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan announced Wednesday that she plans to begin an "open-ended hunger strike" on July 4 to urge the Bush administration to bring troops home from Iraq. "We hope the fast will galvanize public attention, invigorate the peace movement, build pressure on elected officials, and get our troops back home," Sheehan said in a statement posted on the anti-war blogosphere. The fast, organized by Code Pink and Sheehan's Gold Star Families for Peace, will begin on Independence Day in Washington, D.C. In her statement Sheehan said she would move the fast to Crawford, Texas, where the president owns a ranch and often vacations. Y'know, anyone else would have been busted under stalking laws by now.... Sheehan gained national attention in August 2005 when she staged a protest outside the Crawford ranch to protest the war. She named the protest "Camp Casey" in memory of her son, Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. In her latest statement, Sheehan wrote that celebrities like singer Willie Nelson, actor Danny Glover and comedian Dick Gregory will show their support for her by joining in a one-day fast. She urged her supporters to do the same. Damn. If I could travel, I'd be up there with some tasty BBQ. A pregnant woman could put away a lot of food....besides, I'd be doing it for my childTM, not because I'm not supportive of their cause or anything like that....Surely Mother Sheehan would understand, right? Sheehan is currently in Vienna, Austria, In an interview posted on Code Pink's website, the group's co-founder Diane Wilson said the fast would show solidarity with Iraqis and U.S. troops. Well, yeah, if they were sending their lunches to the troops, otherwise, not so much... "Their bodies are on the line every day," Wilson said, referring to Iraqi civilians. "And so are the bodies of the U.S. soldiers. So shouldn't we be putting our bodies on the line?" Wilson told her interviewer, fellow Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, that a hunger strike "can be a very powerful action." "Ask Bobby Sands!" She mentioned three previous hunger strikes she organized, two of which lasted more than four weeks. The "Troops Home Fast," Wilson said, means that she will abstain from food and drink, with the exception of water, as long as possible. "I don't know how long I can fast," she said, "but I'm making this an open-ended fast. I plan to take this as far as I've ever taken anything in my 58 years." Wilson acknowledged that her fast |
| Posted by:Swamp Blondie (formerly) Desert Blondie |
| #25 You know the Left > PEACE = America being attacked, invaded, occupied, defeated, suborned, and externally controlled voluntarily, without resistance or will of the people. The Commies, Socies, and Lefties promise the Amer people the "status quo" will not change under SOcialist Amerikka and OWG. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-06-23 23:20 |
| #24 Did anybody remember to plant cacti in the ditch? Preferably some EPA-protected species. With lots of needles. |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-06-23 22:52 |
| #23 Thanks for issuing the slapdown FrankG to our yuts. My youngest sister once asked me breathlessly "Did you know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?!" Um - yes, Beth, I knew that. . . . |
| Posted by: GORT 2006-06-23 22:44 |
| #22 Before she embarks on her attention-whoring stunt, I would like to urge Mrs. Sheehan to buy a tombstone for her son's grave. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2006-06-23 22:03 |
| #21 Dick Sargeant and Dick York played Darrin....jeesh! Kids nowadays...Dick Gregory is the unfunny black "comedian" who last made people laugh (deliberately) sometime in the 60's |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-23 20:42 |
| #20 FOTS, did he play Mr. Tate or Mr. Kravitz? |
| Posted by: Scott R 2006-06-23 20:36 |
| #19 Her fast would only be considered successful in my mind if it resulted in renal failure and rickets.... Hmmm, what about beri beri? isn't that a vitamin deficency too? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-23 20:01 |
| #18 Bring them home - I distinctly gather that besides unintelligible, you are not an english speaker. It's Baloney or Balogna, idiot |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-23 19:37 |
| #17 I still remember the apoplectic screams and cries from leftists when I referred to her as "Mother Eva Braun", after she had made her anti-Semitic remarks. They really lost their cool, much like when Ann Coulter attacked the harpies, their other "bulletproof" icon. It really is a weakness on their parts that should be exploited more often. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-06-23 19:32 |
| #16 Let me guess: Harvard? |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-06-23 19:23 |
| #15 #6 said the fast would show solidarity with Iraqis and U.S. troops. Lie. its to show solidarity with the terrorsts and murders. You know like the ones who killed Casey Sheehan. Remember him Mother Shithan? TERRORIST IS THE BASTARD FROM TEKAS THAT THE UNITED MORONS OF AMERICA VOTED AS A MORON IN CHIEF THE IRAQI PEOPLES, THOSE RANTERS IN THIS ''BURG'' CALL TERRORIST, ARE DEFENDING THEIR COUNTRY AGAINST AN ARMY OF BOLONI SANDWICH RAISED IDIOTS THEY HAVE ALL THE RIGHTS TO KILL AND MAIN ENY ONE THAT SIDE WITH AMERICANS |
| Posted by: BRING THEM HOME 2006-06-23 19:21 |
| #14 Did anyone invite Rob Reiner? A fast would do him good. |
| Posted by: GK 2006-06-23 19:00 |
| #13 "Some fasts are successful," Wilson said in her interview, "others aren't. You never know." Oh please, please, please, please, please, please. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-06-23 18:40 |
| #12 Dick Gregory - wasn't he in Bewitched on TV waaaaaay back in the day? Isn't he dead yet? |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2006-06-23 18:16 |
| #11 Yeah, Willie Nelson, living proof that canabis will definitely eat your brain. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-06-23 18:05 |
| #10 Sheehan wrote that celebrities like singer Willie Nelson, actor Danny Glover and comedian Dick Gregory will show their support for her by joining in a one-day fast. Wow! A-list all the way! |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-06-23 17:55 |
| #9 I hope it's painful and they don't backtrack. Go Cindy! Die B*tch! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-23 17:43 |
| #8 Let them fast. I've never understood hunger strikes. If you wither and die because you refuse to eat so be it. Just a holier than thou form of suicide as far as I can tell. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-06-23 17:17 |
| #7 "We hope the fast will galvanize public attention Like to see a "galvanized" bucket over her wonking head. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-06-23 17:03 |
| #6 said the fast would show solidarity with Iraqis and U.S. troops. Lie. its to show solidarity with the terrorsts and murders. You know like the ones who killed Casey Sheehan. Remember him Mother Shithan? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-06-23 16:58 |
| #5 Darn I thought this started this morning! I was so moved I went over to DennyÂ’s for a Super Slam breakfast. Oh yeah if I were in DC I would be standing around with a bucket of honey BBQ wings and some cold beer. I also wish Code |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-06-23 16:38 |
| #4 Maybe I should have been a little clearer when I said I wanted to see "less" of these people... |
| Posted by: Dar 2006-06-23 16:32 |
| #3 ...an "open-ended hunger strike" on July 4 I believe I will set the over/under on the open end as 1. Eliminate all chances that she'll screw up. Have Code Pink sew the bitch's mouth shut. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-06-23 16:29 |
| #2 We hope the fast will galvanize public attention, invigorate the peace movement, build pressure on elected officials, and get our troops back home," Sheehan said Like all your other activities, cow? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-06-23 16:17 |
| #1 No half measures now, people - take that thing all the way! |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2006-06-23 15:59 |