This is Horseshit
By Cindy Sheehan
"It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists
will we be?" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
07/08/08 "ICH" -- - -You know, I don't care if it's not proper
for a Congressional candidate to say: "horseshit." I don't care
if it is not a good "tactic" to get kicked out of a
Congressional non-impeachment hearing that was just a bunch of
horseshit anyway. I don't care if I get accused of being too
"extreme" for bucking the (cyst)em by doing everything form
camping in a ditch in Crawford, Tx to non-violent civil
disobedience to, lately, running for Congress as (oh no!) an
independent.
If people can't see how this nation is teetering on the
precipice of financial ruin and dragging the rest of this planet
down with us as we destroy our ecology, too…and if people don't
realize how desperate our situation is, then I must say, that's
horseshit!
I am angry. No, I am incensed that hundreds of thousands of
people are dead, dying, wounded, displaced from their homes or
being imprisoned and tortured by the sadists that reside or work
at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the approval of their
accomplices down the road in Congress. I am furious that I
buried my oldest son when he was 24 years old for the
unrepentant lies and the unpunished crimes of the Bush mob. Are
you incensed? If not, maybe you should ask yourself: "Why?"
Hypothetically: "Why am I not enraged that my country has killed
or hurt so many people for absolutely no noble cause in my name
and with my tacit approval?"
I am steamed that the working class has to, once again, pay for
the excesses of the capitalist criminals that feeds its
rapacious appetite with the flesh and blood of our children and
won't rest until it owns every penny in this world and has all
the power.
You may say, "But Cindy, it is not polite to be angry or to use
such strong language in public." Horseshit! In my opinion, every
citizen in this country should rise up in anger and DEMAND that
George Bush and Dick Cheney not only be impeached and removed
from office, but be tried and convicted for murder and crimes
against the peace and humanity!
We should all walk off of our jobs and refuse to work and refuse
to be cogs in the wheels of psychotic consumerism until our
troops, military contractors and permanent bases are removed
from Iraq and Afghanistan. We should, but most of us won't. We
won't because it may mean that we would lose something of
"value." Material possessions are so transitory, as are our
lives. We can leave a lasting impression by our courageous
activism and moral sacrifice, or we can leave a pile of rusting
metal or rotting wood. I choose the former for myself.
We should come out of our comas of too much TV news and not
enough non-biased information to push for alternatives to fossil
fuels that are clean and renewable and protest nuclear
facilities and off-shore oil drilling like we used to in the
olden days when people actually cared enough about not poisoning
our world to get off of their couches or (today) out from behind
their computer screens to do something constructive instead of
complacently shelling out hundreds of dollars a week for
gasoline and food.
I get so pissed off when one of my supporters has a tooth ache
and can't afford to go see a dentist to fix it or when my sister
has had a cough for almost two years and doesn't have the health
insurance she needs to get fully well. And when I think that
almost 50 million people in this country are non-insured or
under-insured, I see red. Why, in one of the wealthiest
countries in the world, do some have the "privilege" of being
fully insured and healthy, when health care is a basic human
right, not a privilege for the elitists? My heart hurts every
night when the men who sleep propped up against my campaign
office, huddled under their blankets against the San Francisco
chill, wish me a "good night" and I can't choke the same words
back to them, or do much of anything but give them coffee to
keep warm and books to read to help pass the time. My campaign
office is being visited on a daily basis by Iraq war vets who
can't access the help they need to get physically or mentally
healthy---and I am "extreme" because I actually want things to
really change and choose to act on this desire and not sit
around passively pretending that this horseshit doesn't exist?
Since Casey died, even though every day I am filled with pain
and longing, I have tried to be the poster-mom for this pain
telling my neighbors and fellow Americans how it feels to be
profoundly hurt by the Military Industrial Complex and that it
wouldn't be too long before the cancer of BushCo would strike
every American home and now that this prediction is awfully
coming true, I see more and more apathy and less and less
action.
Three years ago today, I first sat in a ditch in Crawford, Texas
and three years later, we are in dire straits, my friends, and
the prognosis is not good, unless we all make a conscious effort
to sacrifice some of today's comfort for the sake of our
children and grand-children's futures.
Sixty-three years ago today, the monsters of the US war machine
dropped a WMD on hundreds of thousands of innocent women and
children and since then, this nation has just descended into a
further spiral of war and profiting from war and preparing for
war and more profiting from war; which is destroying every
aspect of our society and we MUST reclaim our very souls from
the Military Industrial Complex before it is too late.
Please don't wait for November, or January or for the Dawning of
the Age of Aquarius because every second we allow this demented
pattern to continue, is one second too long!
Get moving!
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