Fasting the Cindy Sheehan Way

Jamba Juice and ice cream are allowed for certain wacko's hunger strikes.

Sheehan Arrested...Again

Cindy Sheehan's goal must be to see the inside of jails in all 50 states. She can check New York off her list:

Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist whose son was killed in the Iraq war, was arrested with three other protesters in New York on Monday after a rally with women from Iraq.

...

On Monday, she had joined a delegation of women from Iraq at the rally at the United Nations, urging the United Nations to help prevent civil war in Iraq.

About 20 protesters went to the U.S. mission to the United Nations to deliver a petition with 60,000 signatures seeking an end to the war. Nobody from the mission received them so Sheehan and three other American women sat down in front of the building, refused to leave, and were arrested.

Oddly, she was hanging out with Iraqi women who thanked the President for removing Saddam. That's certainly not Cindy's position. She called the liberation of Iraq "George Bush's unjust war."

"Peace Activist Sheehan Arrested in NY Protest"

Cindy Let Us Down

Cindy Sheehan won't run for Senate:

Cindy Sheehan, the anti-Iraq war activist whose son was killed in the conflict there, put an end to speculation on Thursday that she would launch a long-shot bid to become a U.S. senator from California.

Sheehan, speaking in front of San Francisco City Hall, said she would not run for the office.

"If I thought that running for Senate would bring our young people home more quickly I would do it in a minute, but I am not convinced that that would do so," Sheehan said.

A campaign would have pitted her against California's senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat who is one of the state's most popular politicians.

Although experts and polls suggest Feinstein, in office since 1992, will win reelection easily, a campaign by Sheehan would have provided her with a platform for her anti-war message.

Lots of Daily Show writers' work just got tossed into the trash. Thanks, Cindy.

"Anti-War Mom Sheehan Will Not Run for Senate" [via GOP Bloggers]

Crying Victim

Cindy Sheehan thinks she was so "scrutinized," and that the MSM didn't do the same to President Bush. Yeah, right! Then why does Cindy get big pics in Time and Vanity Fair?

"Poor Cindy Sheehan"

Her 15 Minutes are Up

What do you do when you hold an anti-war/Bush bashing rally and no one shows up? If your Cindy Sheehan you close up shop.

"It's Over"

Turkey Day in Crawford

Wacky Cindy Sheehan is a glutton for punishment. She'll be spending her Thanksgiving in Crawford, TX demanding the U.S. pulls out of Iraq. When she sets up camp again she'll be violating local law:

After President Bush and Sheehan left on Aug. 31, McLennan County Commissioners Court voted to ban parking on 23 miles of roadway near Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch and prevent people from camping, eating, or placing portable bathrooms in ditches along all county roads.

Sheehan, the California mother of 24-year-old Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who died during his first week in the Iraq war, plans to break at least one of the new laws Nov. 22, shortly after she arrives on the turf that made her famous.

The “civil disobedience” event is just the first of a series of spectacles she's planning as Bush spends the holiday at his ranch, including a small Iraqi meal for Thanksgiving dinner and an anti-war rally the following Sunday.

I don't like Sheehan and her ilk, but they have the right to speak out against their President and this war. I'm disturbed at McLennan County Sheriff Larry Lynch's statement:

We're going to have our forces out there and we'll do whatever is necessary.

If you're one of the unlucky deputies in McLennan County, you have my sympathy this Thanksgiving. Instead of spending time with family and frinds around a big bird you'll be squelching the rights of anti-war nuts while giving them more attention than they deserve.

"Second Helping of Sheehan for Thanksgiving" [via Jessica McBride]

Protest Freaks

I watched C-SPAN's coverage of CindyFest 2005. These goofs couldn't help themselves. The protest was suppose to be against the Iraq War, but Palestine had to be mentioned along with globalization, Cuba, and gay marriage. Surprisingly in the time I watched no one wanted to "Free Mumia!" He must be passe. The Cuban 5 is where it's at. Here are some highlights lowlights:

• Virginia Setshedi, South African Community Activist (C-SPAN's description) chanted, "Free, free Palestine!" Then she complained about policies coming out of Washington, D.C. causing poverty across the globe. Half of what she chanted was impossible to understand.
  
  

• My sister's response to Gloria La Riva head of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five: "Free the Jackson 5!" This is the same Gloria La Riva who was the target of Tim Blair in 2004. The same woman who complained of the lack of social justice in the U.S. ignored the oppression in Cuba. But at least "You will never see a Jerry Springer or Cristina show on Cuban television."
  
  

• My sister was then "offended" by Mahdi Bray's awful impersonation of Martin Luther King, Jr. The executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation tried his best to emulate MLK's verbal starts and stops.
  

The best part was the ANSWER organizers making the crowds endure all the speakers with their Leftist pet causes that had little to do with the Iraq War. A new speaker would come up and the crowd would moan loudly. They wanted to march, but the ANSWER gang hushed them. Getting "valuable" C-SPAN TV time before an audience of over 50 people was too tempting to pass up.

I now just watched Cindy Sheehan's talk. She sounded like a kindergarden teacher. "You're a part of history!" "Pat yourselves on the back." "Thank you. I love you." Such eloquence hasn't rung in my ears since...since this loon said the Yakuza sent Hurricane Katrina to New Orleans.

Sunday, you have a chance to support the President, our troops, and the Iraqis fighting for peace, security, and freedom. Unlike the Left, you will speak one message with one voice. Say it loud. Say it proud.

"Count the Causes: The 'Whatever' Protest"

"Crowds Opposed to Iraq War March on D.C."

Signs of the Times

The anti-war, anti-American Bush bashers tried really, really hard to focus only on the Iraq War. Dr. Rusty Shackleford sharp eyes shows not everyone could pull it off. And notice the grin on Cindy Sheehan. It isn't so much a job well done as the high from being the center of attention once again.

"Conspiracy Theories Abound at Sheehan Antiwar Rally"

UPDATE: Kris at Reflections of a Libertarian Republican was at the protest and documents the anti-police and anti-capitalism on display. [via Michelle Malkin]

Hall of Shame

When watching Cindy Sheehan prance around our nation's capital this weekend protesting the Iraq War remember these "proud" moments in her recent past:

• Cindy blaming Hurricane Katrina on President Bush's environmental policies. I didn't know she was an environmental scientist.
  
  

• Cindy confusing Hollywood make belief with reality when Martin Sheen visited Camp Casey:
  

  We ended the day reciting a rosary, led by Martin Sheen. Martin said Camp Casey was "holy ground" and he met with the Iraqi veterans and with me. I called him my "dream President." I am so happy that at least I was able to meet with a President, if a TV one, who turns out to be a very nice guy on top of everything.

• Once upon a time Cindy liked the President. My how times have changed.

• Cindy didn't even want to invade Afghanistan.

• Cindy denounced her country:
  

  I was raised in a country by a public school system that taught us that America was good, that America was just. America has been killing people, like my sister over here says, since we first stepped on this continent, we have been responsible for death and destruction. I passed on that bullshit to my son and my son enlisted.

  
  In the same speech she defended Lynne Stewart, convicted Leftist lawyer who helped 1993 World Trade Center terrorist Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
  

Cindy's Radical, Anti-War Friends

On this weekend's anti-war protests, James Joyner writes,

The organizers are mostly from the radical, America-hating fringe while the overwhelming majority of the crowd are surely either hippie wannabes or honorable citizens simply gathering in peaceful protest against a very controversial war. One wonders, though, how the Post would cover a pro-war event sponsored by similarly radical groups?

Indeed, as best as I can tell, the Post hasn't even bothered to cover the Support the Troops counter-protest, which has none of that taint.

Stop the Bleating! and Chris Hall both dig into the background of one "novice" anti-war protester.

Go support the troops and oppose Cindy Sheehan and her radicalism.

"Antiwar Rally Sponsored by Radical Groups"

A Contrast

What a way to ruin the National Book Festival. Bring in a bunch of America bashers with the Stallinist ANSWER as chief organizers. It's impressive that President Bush did take seriously the concerns of the thousands of protesters coming to Washington, D.C. He said they have "good intentions, but their position is wrong."

Contrast that with some of the performers at tomorrow's concert. They will include Steve Earle and the Coup. Earle is the country-rock singer who told Rolling Stone,

No one could have predicted the amount of damage Bush would do to this country in four years. I wouldn't have believed it. I thought, "Oh, God, another idiot. We survived his father, though. We can survive this." But this is a totally different beast.

Then there's the Coup. Their claim to fame was almost coming out with an album with the World Trade Center twin towers on fire. Founder Boots Riley argued with his record label to keep the cover saying, it was "supposed to be a metaphor for the capitalist state being destroyed through the music."

If you're anywhere near Washington this weekend head over there to support the war and our brave troops.

"Capital Girds For Weekend Of War Protests"

UPDATE: Gateway Pundit monitors some of the MSM coverage of the protest moms.

Cindy's Ad Campaign

Cindy Sheehan will be showing up in Washington, D.C. Thursday to promote an anti-war ad campaign:

The print ads, with the tag line, "They Lied, They Died" will run in 14 major newspapers covering several congressional districts across the United States. The TV ad will begin airing on Washington, DC cable and nationwide on CNN this Thursday with a combined buy of over $1 million.

One of the groups behind the campaign is Win Without War. On their web site they state:

We share the commitment to countering terrorism and weapons proliferation, but oppose the doctrine of unilateral military preemption. We believe that international cooperation and enforceable international law provide the greatest security for the United States and the world, and the greatest opportunity for people to live in free, healthy, and just societies.

Be wary of anyone using the unilateral canard. Just because the U.N. (i.e. Germany, France, and Russia) didn't give the U.S. (and Great Britain, and Spain, and the Netherlands, etc.) permission to liberate Iraq doesn't mean it was "unilateral." In the next sentence WWW mentions "enforceable international law," but fails to admit one of the reasons stated for going to war was to enforce U.N. resolutions:

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 (1990) authorizes the use of all necessary means to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 660 (1990) and subsequent relevant resolutions and to compel Iraq to cease certain activities that threaten international peace and security, including the development of weapons of mass destruction and refusal or obstruction of United Nations weapons inspections in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 (1991), repression of its civilian population in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 (1991), and threatening its neighbors or United Nations operations in Iraq in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 949 (1994);

Whereas in the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (Public Law 102-1), Congress has authorized the President `to use United States Armed Forces pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 (1990) in order to achieve implementation of Security Council Resolution 660, 661, 662, 664, 665, 666, 667, 669, 670, 674, and 677';

Whereas in December 1991, Congress expressed its sense that it `supports the use of all necessary means to achieve the goals of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 as being consistent with the Authorization of Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (Public Law 102-1),' that Iraq's repression of its civilian population violates United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 and `constitutes a continuing threat to the peace, security, and stability of the Persian Gulf region,' and that Congress, `supports the use of all necessary means to achieve the goals of United Nations Security Council Resolution 688'

The groups behind WWW are your typical Leftists: Greenpeace, MoveOn, NAACP, Rainbow/Push Coalition. It includes TrueMajority, the Ben Cohen organization that funded Sheehan's publicity stunt in Crawford, TX.

"Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Mothers, Win Without War Launch TV, Newspaper Ads"

Cindy Said What?

Last week in Columbia, SC before a rollicking crowd of 50 said,

My son should be here right now. When he got back from Iraq he was supposed to come back to Fort Jackson to do some more training. He was changing his specialty, so it's really hard for me to be here. My son was an honorable man, and I know the troops are honorable and they're doing the best they can do and we honor them, but we figure the best way we can support them now is to bring them home so nobody has to die.

In Cindy's mind U.S. troops cause all the death and suffering in Iraq. Never once does she blame the Islamists for bombing civilians and coalition troops.

If Sheehan had her way U.S. troops would have never liberated Iraq. But that wouldn't have stopped people dying. In fact, without Iraq's liberation Saddam would have continued his reign of terror. Ironically, outsiders pro- and anti-war alike didn't know about Saddam's mass graves until the U.S. invasion. Here's what was found in one grave:

The victims are believed to be Kurds killed in 1987-88, their bodies bulldozed into the graves after being summarily shot dead.

One trench contains only women and children while another contains only men.

The body of one woman was found still clutching a baby. The infant had been shot in the back of the head and the woman in the face.

"The youngest foetus we have was 18 to 20 foetal weeks," said US investigating anthropologist P Willey.

"Tiny bones, femurs - thighbones the size of a matchstick."

Mr Kehoe investigated mass graves in the Balkans for five years but those burials mainly involved men of fighting age and the Iraqi finds were quite different, he said.

"I've been doing grave sites for a long time, but I've never seen anything like this, women and children executed for no apparent reason," he said.

And how about this information about a large grave near Hillah:

"About 20 percent of them were buried alive, because they had no bullet wounds, but their hands were tied and they were blindfolded," said Amer Shumri, an official from the governor's office in Hillah.

The myopic Mother Sheehan ignores these facts. That's because these facts would put hte Iraq War and President Bush in a better light. Her friends and bankroll wouldn't like that.

"Sheehan Leads "Bring them Home" Tour to South Carolina"

Rally in D.C.

People who support U.S. troops and honor the mission they're bravely conducting have an opportunity to counter communist-inspired Cindyfest next weekend. Redstate.org has the details. What's really great is if you can get a group to go to Washington, D.C. transportation can be arranged. So stand your ground and oppose the America-hating Left.

Bankrolling Cindy

Redstate.org has a new area set up to document the wackiness of anti-American Cindy Sheehan. Nick Danger has a good post puncturing the idea that Sheehan is some grassroots phenomenon. She's a useful idiot in the hands of well-funded Leftists.

"The Blonde Ditch Project"

Sheehan's Red and Black Friend

Cindy Sheehan could easily silence critics about her communist connections if she would stop associating with them or call them her friends. Power Line reports on Sheehan's praise of Malik Rahim, admitted communist and Black Panther. Here's a man with no love for a nation that protect his right to speak anti-Americanism.

"The Friends of Cindy Sheehan"

Cindy Sheehan: Useful Idiot

Cindy Sheehan was an August story. In a slow news time her protest outside President Bush's Crawford ranch garnered significant media attention. When you combine little news in late summer and a MSM inclined to attack Bush any chance they get you get the "Mother" Sheehan freak show.

I've been ignoring Sheehan. I figured she would just fade away when here 15 minutes of fame ran out. Too bad for us the Bush-bashing, anti-war Left sees a good thing in her. When President Bush left Crawford a few weeks back, Sheehan started following him like a stalker.

There is something about the company you keep. Sheehan has become an arrow in the quivver of the Stalinist International ANSWER when she is the star of next weekend's anti-war protests in Washington, D.C. These ANSWER people have to always mention the "plight" of cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. What's really disturbing is ANSWER's support for totalitarian regimes like North Korea and Cuba.

Let me make it clear: I'm not opposed to anti-war protests. Not all protesters and Bush-bashers are Communists or support totalitarian regimes. Sheehan's problem is she's said plainly anti-American statements. The most recent was her ridiculous notion that U.S. troops are occupying New Orleans.

I've had it with the America bashing led by a mother who can't accept the free choice of a dead son. The gloves are off. America needs to know more about the Left's latest useful idiot.

"Saddam's Useful Idiots: Stalin Would Be Proud"