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Cindy Sheehan Is Pictured As A Cartoon Freak

She is "a crazy little fish in finding Nemo …" Ken McCracken 

In this recent dissent jabwork, this headline-grabber mentioned "eight anti-war/social justice activists here in the US" that were raided by the FBI. Yet she did not want to mention even a single word to let the public know why those "activists" [not underground activists?] were visited [raided?] and confronted by intelligence and security agents. The fact that there was a raid was enough to trigger her march down the road.

But that’s the kind of activism this supposedly frustrated Mom since her soldier son died in Iraq, espoused.

She flares up with a mouthful of rackety-yak when Muslim terrorists were rounded and confined in Guantanamo. In her protest march, she opens here mouth wider than that of the dinosaur and bellows her revolutionary idiosyncrasies loud enough to attract the Media. She is mysteriously well-funded she could travel to Cuba, the Middle East or anywhere anytime she wants, especially to any place where her protest or activism is needed.

But in her radical campaign against the imprisonment of Muslim terrorists, she didn’t give a damn for the public to know the reason why those murderous scumbags that rise from the bowels of the earth to kill were caught, imprisoned or detained in the military camps. As if to Cindy, they are angels that the Military plucked from heaven, just to make their life miserable!

Anyway, Cindy’s only concern was because terrorists are imprisoned, it is a great opportunity for her to mount a protest – just protest to make the military authorities look bad while she grabs the headline and at the same time somehow get paid, according to her critics.

Her son volunteered for military assignment in Iraq. Specialist Casey A. Sheehan was killed on April 4, 2004. Casey was brought home in a casket and as a hero, was buried with honor, which Cindy protested because in her mind, her son did not die for his country. She organized a vigil in Texas – near the ranch of then President George W. Bush – protesting that Bush murdered her son when he sent Casey to Iraq to fight not for the United States but for Israel.

The Left and an avalanche of radical organizations nationwide, like the anti-war Code Pink organization, the Weather Underground Movement, Peace Movement, United for Peace & Justice, etc. used Cindy’s gripes to promote their revolutionary cause. The maddening anti-Bush Media caught up with this unusual event and made it the year’s headlines of anti-war protest.

Millions of Americans across the country believed Cindy took advantage of her son’s death. She exploited her son’s demise as an opportunity to change her miserable life. In sadness, Cindy shed crocodile tears in public in the wake of her son’s burial. She had dishonored her son’s heroic death … giving away his life to serve his country -- when she took advantage of it by projecting herself into the limelight. She realized she can do a Hollywood act in public, and at the expense of her son’s death, she is now rich and life is not just good but a thousand-fold much better for her now.

Like a runaway bus, the wilder Cindy gets the better for her. For her brand of radical activism, she is the darling of Al Jazeera, the anti-US mouthpiece in the Middle East. You are reading Cindy’s article in this website culled from Al Jazeera.

Ken McCracken: You gotta hand it to her – she just keeps swimming, like the crazy little fish in Finding Nemo. Only that little ditzy fish was a lot more likeable than Madam Sheehan. Can Egypt keep her, by the way?

Click here and continue reading: http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/delusions_of_importance_cindy_sheehan_is_interviewed_by_al_jazeera/


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