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Home Front: WoT
Sheehan Arrives in Cuba to Protest Gitmo
2007-01-07
HAVANA (AP) - Cindy Sheehan called for the closure of the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as she and other activists arrived here Saturday to draw attention to the nearly 400 terror suspects held at the remote site.
There she goes again.
Sheehan is among 12 human rights and anti-war activists who will travel across this Caribbean island next week, arriving at the main gate of the Guantanamo base in eastern Cuba on Thursday - five years after the first prisoners were flown in.

"Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not afraid of anything," Sheehan said when asked about the possibility of U.S. sanctions for traveling to communist-run Cuba, which remains under an American trade embargo. "What is more important is the inhumanity that my government is perpetrating at Guantanamo," she told reporters.

Sheehan arrived in Havana early Saturday evening with trip organizer Medea Benjamin of the California nonprofit groups Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace.
Benjamin is a hard-line commie, and we all know Code Pink.
Benjamin said group members believed they were exempt from U.S. travel restrictions on Cuba because they were traveling as professional human rights activists who will attend a daylong international conference in the Cuban city of Guantanamo on Wednesday, the eve of their protest.
It'd be great if they were wrong and our government showed some spine on their re-entry.
Posted by:Steve White

#26  I can't believe she's still news.
Such a big story what with all of her 11 folks with her.
"Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not afraid of anything," Sheehan said"
"be very afraid", as said by Yoda
if the gate falls down and she's faced with these poor mistreated terrorists.
Posted by: Jan from work   2007-01-07 19:19  

#25  Greg... THX for that visual... jeez
Posted by: Frank G   2007-01-07 17:38  

#24  what she needs is to get off her lefty diet and take in some protein and essential fatty acids

She's getting all the protein she needs from being on her knees in front of every leftist America-hating dictator and thug on the planet.


Posted by: FOTSGreg   2007-01-07 17:34  

#23  I hate to think of what the State Dept would do to me if I tried to pull one like this. They'll probably let her off the hook though, since she is a well known piece of shit, not an unknown one.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-01-07 15:07  

#22  Anyone know any serious lefties who are big steak eaters?

I know some lefties with otherwise "normal" dietary habits. And they're still crazy. It could be that Leftism makes a person more prone to odd dietary notions. Lefties have their brains wired backwards.
Posted by: Chuck Darwin   2007-01-07 14:18  

#21  they should not be allowed back in the US
Posted by: Frank G   2007-01-07 14:09  

#20  "Please Love me! I need a hug!"

Judging by the look of metabolic derangement in the photo what she needs is to get off her lefty diet and take in some protein and essential fatty acids.

Sometimes I wonder to what extent leftism is a nutritional problem. Anyone know any serious lefties who are big steak eaters?
Posted by: Classical_Liberal   2007-01-07 14:06  

#19  Cyber Sarge, for some reason, I can believe that citizens of an enemy Nation would be working at an American Marine base.
Posted by: Mike N.   2007-01-07 13:46  

#18  Â“Benjamin said group members believed they were exempt from U.S. travel restrictions on Cuba because they were traveling as professional human rights activists…”

Watch it misterÂ…these ainÂ’t no run of the mill pain the arse rabble- rousersÂ…they are professional activists.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2007-01-07 13:26  

#17  Moose, WAY BETTER!

Mike N, There are still Cubans that work on Gitmo base I think. Not that many but there are some.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2007-01-07 12:54  

#16  Cyber Sarge: You're close, but I have one better.

Why not record several days of the screams and whining of the Sheehan crowd, then re-broadcast it, over and over, to the Gitmo inmates?

I'm sure that those jihadis would love nothing better than peacenik snivelling, crying, pissing and moaning for 24/7.

Just give the guards some damn good hearing protection, or they'll shoot the speakers.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-01-07 12:50  

#15  Wait just a cotton pickin minute here. "...arrive at the main gate of Gitmo."

Why the fuck is there a gate that civilians can get to?

Seems to me that there shouldn't be any access point on the Cuban side of Gitmo at all. The only thing that should be on the Cuban side is razor wire and mines. And as for access from the sea, well... I should think anything that isn't a DoD asset wouldn't be allowed within miles of the place.

If this bitch makes it to the gate for any reason other then an explosion propelling her corpse toward it, it will have been a massive security failure on the part of the Marines. In my mind anyway. But, I admit, I'm a bit of a dreamer.
Posted by: Mike N.   2007-01-07 12:24  

#14  I don't know if all that "trap 'em in Gitmo" is such a good idea. I mean, wouldn't it be cheaper to have a "baggage handler(s)" fill their check-in bags with CANF pamphlets, with, maybe, a purchase receipt marked 'paid-in-full' with Mother Sheehan's signature?
Posted by: mrp   2007-01-07 10:58  

#13  Moose, why not just throw them in with the detainees they claim to support? I bet those fun-loving guys would welcome w hem with open zippers arms. Now that would be entertaining.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2007-01-07 10:24  

#12  Concur SB, here's to hoping the biatch walks on the wrong side of the fence and gets tagged by a mine.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2007-01-07 10:14  

#11  Close the front gate. Open a temporary entrance point at the far side of the mine field....
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2007-01-07 09:33  

#10  
#9: You're related to Walt Disney, aren't you? ;-)
Posted by: Chuck Darwin   2007-01-07 09:15  

#9  I think they ought to arrest every no-name *with* Sheehan, but let Sheehan go. And I mean arrest them in Gitmo, where they can be held in a military stockade for several weeks while paperwork is arranged so that their US attorneys can fly down there for them.

Then, while Cindy is trying to figure out how to get back to the US without her luggage or airplane tickets, which would have been confiscated as "tools used in a criminal enterprise", each of her compadres gets put in a cell with some wicked US Marine as their "roomie".

I'm sure that even a Marine doing a couple of weeks for drunk & disorderly will be less than inclined to be preached at by some lefty in his cell.

Sure, I know it's a fantasy, but what the heck.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-01-07 09:11  

#8  "Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not afraid of anything,"
Except for becoming a rapidly aging has-been 23 minute celebrity who dies unmourned and forgotten by all except Larry King.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-01-07 08:48  

#7  

Please Love me! I need a hug!
Posted by: C. Sheehan   2007-01-07 08:24  

#6  Will Shehag get an audience with Fidel CorpseCastro?
Posted by: doc   2007-01-07 08:16  

#5  "Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not afraid of anything,"


Whahhahahaaaa, silly halfwitted flake.
Posted by: Besoeker   2007-01-07 03:56  

#4  Hey!
Posted by: Steve White   2007-01-07 01:28  

#3  I thought it was Code Salmon?
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-01-07 01:22  

#2  Have the gate OD request to see their US passports, and retain them. The belong to the US gubmint, not to any individual.

Have a nice stay.
Posted by: mojo   2007-01-07 00:42  

#1  Let her and Medea Baby walk right up to the wire. Make sure the mooks see them. Then tell them that that's who's panties get stuck on their heads if they don't talk.
Then see if they'll talk...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-01-07 00:33  

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