Anyone here gettin the idea that this Cindy affair could snowball bigtime?

[BigBearJohn]

I picture thousands getting involved... she's fast becoming
a rallying point for all our pent-up frustrations. I wonder how
big this could become.

[cssmall]

1. If the canonization of Cindy Sheehan is only here,

then we have done nothing. If they do arrest them tonight, then tomorrow we all should be quiet here because we will be writing our senators, our representatives, our newspapers, calling into every radio show imaginable (yes, even Rush) and generally being a pain in the ass. Other's should head down to Crawford and protest at the jail, thereby giving this story more power. Through dedicated work we can accomplish.

[pbartch]

20. THIS IS SO TRUE............quit being on the fence

“If you fall on the side that is pro-George, and pro-war, you get your ass over to Iraq, and take the place of somebody who wants to come home. And if you fall on the side that is against this war and against George Bush, stand up and speak out.”

"But whatever side you fall on, quit being on the fence."

"The opposite of good is not evil, it’s apathy. And we have to get this country off their butts, and we have to get the choir singing."



http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/1226

[Erika]

2. The majority of citizens do not back this war

and she has given them a compassionate and articulate voice.

I can't believe how the MSM and Cable are trying to bury her voice. It won't work. She's been called the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement.

[cssmall]

3. Yeah and 51% of them put Bush back in office.

They may not approve of him, but he's a man that does what he believes is right :sarcasm:

[Erika]

6. Iraq has gone down hill since the election

and so has his poll numbers. Fifty-Seven percent now says he has not made us safer. This all has changed since the election. People are waking up.

[cssmall]

7. Then, let's ring the alarm clock for the rest.

Because the Sheehan situation proves that it really can happen to anyone.

[dweller]

8. Fook that.

Diebold put that fascist back in office.
Make no mistake about it.

dp

[cssmall]

9. All conspiracies aside, my good friend.

[shelley806]

14. Diebold in 2004 and SCOTUS in 2000....NOT WE, The People. HE

SERVES AT OUR PLEASURE. No more lies no more lives.

[tuvor]

4. Well, she's SUPPOSED to get arrested on Thursday.

That's today for some of you.

[Mr_Spock]

5. Yes.

It should - not sure why the media is slacking on this though...

[lildreamer316]

10. He--llo.

Because they have been told not to. No tin foil; it is just too damn obvious.

[Mr_Spock]

28. Eventually the snowball will engulf them as well

Try as they might to avoid it :D

[lildreamer316]

11. IF they make it to the weekend it is ON.

They will have to start covering it on the MSM by the weekend. If they can make it that far; I have very high hopes for the future.

[BigBearJohn]

12. that's what I was thinking

[Guaranteed]

19. I say tomorrow night. If they make it through Thursday,

we breached the line, and it's "fun time."

:)

Tens of thousands will show.

[VPStoltz]

13. The big complaint is that Progessives don't have "social" relevance.

This is definitely an issue that the Dems should capitalize on. The "common" person can understand a grieving mother who wants to talk to the person responsible for her greif. I'd keep asking, "What is Bush afraid of?" We must remember though that all his rallies and any and all events he has ever attended have been by invitation only. His handlers are VERY cautious about whom he talks to.

[ultraist]

15. Email the MSM and tell them to get their asses out there

tommorrow, to film the Bush motorcade driving by the Casey Camp!

[shelley806]

16. How many people are there now? As many as have died in Iraq?

If not, its not enough. We need to make a statement. Oil Rigs and coffins. I know this sounds corny, but we are pumping blood when we pump gas...

[lildreamer316]

17. Not corny.

That would be very effective; but to be honest they are being such sticklers about the area to protest in I don'think that is feasable (room for it).

[shelley806]

24. Thanks...something though...Crawford Woodstock!!!..n/t

[Generic Other]

18. Take a look at google news stories!

http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&ncl=http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-10-peace-house_x.htm

[lildreamer316]

22. Better and better.

That light at the end of the tunnel is just a little brighter...

[ultraist]

23. excellent!

This is a really good one:

http://www.countercurrents.org/us-samples110805.htm


The Revolution is NOW...

By Sheila Samples

11 August, 2005
Countercurrents.org

"If you shut up the truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."

French author Emile Zola

The incomparable Raw Story website is publishing a letter it acquired on Tuesday, Aug 9, from 16 Democratic Representatives (whose number has now burgeoned to 38) urging George Bush to meet with Cindy Sheehan, whose son, Casey, was slain in Iraq in 2002. Sheehan has been camped on Bush's doorstep since Saturday when she and a small group of supporters were forced to walk in a ditch struggling through knee-deep weeds as they made their way to Prairie Chapel, the Bush "ranch," a former pig farm in Crawford, Texas.

According to The Iconoclast, Bush's hometown paper, Sheehan said she decided to go to Crawford because of comments Bush made which coincided with the deaths of 12 Marine reservists from Ohio who were killed in perhaps the deadliest roadside bombing of U.S. troops in Iraq. Sheehan was outraged at Bush's remarks to about 1,800 members of the American Legislative Exchange Council in Grapevine on Aug 3 that the men and women who’ve lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan died in a noble and selfless cause.

"We all know by now that that’s not true, and I want to ask George Bush, ‘Why did my son die? What was the noble cause that he died for?’” said Sheehan. “I don’t want to use my son’s name or my family name to justify any more killing or to exploit my son’s name, my son’s sacrifice, or my son’s honor to justify more killing. As a mother, why would I want one more mother to go through what I’m going through, Iraqi or American? "And I want to tell him that the only way to honor my son’s sacrifice is to bring the troops home now.”

There are few things more relentless this side of Hell than an August Texas sun. Unless it would be the lost souls of Fallujah crying out for justice through the Napalm flames. Or perhaps it is a mother so engulfed in grief at the cruel and needless loss of her child that her primal screams reverberate throughout the world. Except at the pig farm. Or within the entire US Senate. Or on the deaf ears of all but 38 of the 435 representatives in the US House.

[Liberal In Texas]

21. As to your OP....sure.

Sure.

I'm going to be there in some form or another...

[shelley806]

25. No More Blood for Oil..No More Blood for Oil..No More Blood for OilNo Mo..

No More Blood for Oil..No More Blood for Oil..No More Blood for Oil..No More BlooNo More Blood for Oil..d for Oil..No More Blood for Oil..No More Blood for Oil..No More Blood for Oil..No More Blood fNo More Blood for Oil..or Oil..No More Blood for Oil..No More Blood for Oil..No More Blood for Oil..No More Blood for Oil..No More Blood for Oil..No More Blood for Oil..

[Lorien]

26. Shades of M. K. Gandhi

He started with a handful of followers when he began his march to "make salt", and ended at the sea with thousands behind him. It would be wonderful to see the same happen here.

[Ellipsis]

27. kinda

:kick: