I Understand, Cindy
Just the other day, Cindy Sheehan announced that she’s had enough and isn’t going to play in the jungle known as the American political scene anymore. She was quite harsh in her comments, saying among other things:
“I’ve been wondering why I’m killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to George Bush”
The lame excuses offered by the Democrats for doing so can be sampled here.
Sheehan also added this scathing observation:
“I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the ‘left’ started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used.”
I’ve been in her shoes, trying to lead those who are too busy, or have “other priorities” which prevent them from doing the heavy lifting necessary to achieve common goals which they claim to desire. But fail to realize these wishes, and you have become the lowest of the low, lower even than those who cause delayed gratification, and you discover who your friends really are. It isn’t a long list.
In addition, Cindy Sheehan had this assessment of her fellow Americans:
“Casey did indeed die for nothing … killed by his own country, which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think. You are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it. It’s up to you now.”
A similar message was delivered by Bernard Weiner’s Shallow Throat:
Let’s face it, plutocrats in hock to or agreeing with corporate/military-industrial mentalities are in control of most of the leadership of both parties. Granted, the Republican leaders are much more authoritarian and greedy and vicious, but the Democratic leaders, lacking a unifying moral and political theory of governance, aren’t all that much better. Almost all of them owe their souls to the company store, as it were.
HardRight extremists running this Administration and the GOP in Congress have all sorts of bad news up their sleeves, including another major escalation of the Iraq War, aiding in an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and military installations, and clamping down even more on Americans’ constitutional rights, including the possible declaration of martial law.
Your guys blew your one best chance to stop this war, or at least to begin to bring it to a close.
Weiner presents the coming consequences of the Democrat’s craven collapse:
If the Republicans hold the White House in the 2008 election, we could have a kind of civil war inside the military right here in this country.
When General Petraeus tells the Congress in September that the U.S. is making ‘clear progress’ with the surge but needs another ten thousand troops and six months more time to turn around the situation in Iraq, there will be a political insurrection inside the Pentagon, with mass resignations of the highest-ranking officers in the military, conservative men and women willing to take on the Bush Administration and those officers who choose to stay and obey these reckless, likely illegal Administration orders. These officers of conscience will not acquiesce to more self-destructive madness, more wrecking of an already stressed, stretched-too-thin military and National Guard; more shredding of the[Constitution]…
Absolutely no power usurped by the Bush administration has yet been reclaimed by the Congress, even though they have significant powers yet to be exercised. All of the excesses of the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act are still available for uncontested abuse. Eleven state legislatures are acting, deliberating motions calling for impeachment, but there won’t be time to prevent the end of the Republic if the public continues to remain reprehensibly complacent about these momentous events.
It should be enough to frighten the hell out of patriotic Americans of all political stripes, but it doesn’t seem to register with many. Are we going to have to wait until it’s too late to do anything before the majority which opposes the Crawford Kid’s Oil Rustle notices that their freedoms are in danger? Sadly, that’s exactly how it looks. Those “other priorities” are far more important than the safety and security of our democratic republican traditions. As Ian Brockwell of Profindsearch.com wrote in The American Chronicle, “maybe there is some TV show that you want to watch first?”
Lady Liberty is now Kitty Genovese’s sister. Kitty Genovese was noisily murdered outside her home in Queens while 38 witnesses did nothing to save her. Lady Liberty is suffering her similarly public fate due to the knowledgeable neglect and failure to act by those who know what is going on, including the nearly 70% - a veto-proof majority if it were in the Congress where it is supposed to be - who oppose the continued conduct of Bush’s war. Too few are even lifting a finger to rescue her, even when prodded by the Likes of Ms. Sheehan.
It’s enough to make a person wish that the worst evils which could befall this nation do happen to it. Bernard Weiner’s Shallow Throat predicts that will come about:
There are growing rumbles from both inside and outside the government: If the situation after September looks hopeless in preserving the Constitution and re-establishing a sane foreign/military policy, and if key nations decide to retaliate against America by calling-in the U.S. debt bonds they hold (thus ruining the United States economy), nothing will be off the table inside this country…”
Nothing. And no one seems to care. Maybe it really is time to watch out for one’s self, and to hell with all of the morons who refuse to use their heads.
They don’t deserve to benefit from your your work, Cindy. You are doing the right thing, considering they are leaving you no other choice.
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