Cindy Sheehan bows out

justabubba · #1 (**permalink**) 05-28-2007, 07:08 PM

i anticipate this declaration will yield polarized responses

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"Good Riddance Attention Whore"
by CindySheehan

I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes.

I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day Morning. These are not spur of the moment reflections, but things I have been meditating on for about a year now. The conclusions that I have slowly and very reluctantly come to are very heartbreaking to me.

The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a "tool" of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our "two-party" system?

However, when 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 guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of "right or left", but "right and wrong."

I am deemed a radical because I believe that partisan politics should be left to the wayside when hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike. It amazes me that people who are sharp on the issues and can zero in like a laser beam on lies, misrepresentations, and political expediency when it comes to one party refuse to recognize it in their own party. Blind party loyalty is dangerous whatever side it occurs on. People of the world look on us Americans as jokes because we allow our political leaders so much murderous latitude and if we don’t find alternatives to this corrupt "two" party system our Representative Republic will die and be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland. I am demonized because I don’t see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person’s heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?

I have also reached the conclusion that if I am doing what I am doing because I am an "attention whore" then I really need to be committed. I have invested everything I have into trying to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither. If an individual wants both, then normally he/she is not willing to do more than walk in a protest march or sit behind his/her computer criticizing others. I have spent every available cent I got from the money a "grateful" country gave me when they killed my son and every penny that I have received in speaking or book fees since then. I have sacrificed a 29 year marriage and have traveled for extended periods of time away from Casey’s brother and sisters and my health has suffered and my hospital bills from last summer (when I almost died) are in collection because I have used all my energy trying to stop this country from slaughtering innocent human beings. I have been called every despicable name that small minds can think of and have had my life threatened many times.

The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think. I have tried every since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives. It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most.

I have also tried to work within a peace movement that often puts personal egos above peace and human life. This group won’t work with that group; he won’t attend an event if she is going to be there; and why does Cindy Sheehan get all the attention anyway? It is hard to work for peace when the very movement that is named after it has so many divisions.

Our brave young men and women in Iraq have been abandoned there indefinitely by their cowardly leaders who move them around like pawns on a chessboard of destruction and the people of Iraq have been doomed to death and fates worse than death by people worried more about elections than people. However, in five, ten, or fifteen years, our troops will come limping home in another abject defeat and ten or twenty years from then, our children’s children will be seeing their loved ones die for no reason, because their grandparents also bought into this corrupt system. George Bush will never be impeached because if the Democrats dig too deeply, they may unearth a few skeletons in their own graves and the system will perpetuate itself in perpetuity.

I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost. I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble.

Camp Casey has served its purpose. It’s for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford , Texas ? I will consider any reasonable offer. I hear George Bush will be moving out soon, too...which makes the property even more valuable.

This is my resignation letter as the "face" of the American anti-war movement. This is not my "Checkers" moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.

Good-bye America ...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.

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle....2F12530%2F1525

Zoe · #2 (**permalink**) 05-28-2007, 07:38 PM

I wondered when she would succumb to despair. Kinda feel that way myself.

amepro · #3 (**permalink**) 05-28-2007, 07:55 PM

What's there to say? A sad situation.

Colin-D · #4 (**permalink**) 05-29-2007, 09:31 AM

It really is too bad, she was working for peace without political motives and for that she was shot down by both sides.

Sadistic-Savior · #5 (**permalink**) 05-29-2007, 09:59 AM

No, it's not too bad. It is too funny. Talk about poetic justice. That is hysterical.

Especially this part:

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Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes.

[...] However, when 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.

Suprise Cindy! heh heh

Really, I would have been far more shocked if they HADNT turned on her But the sad truth is that she really is, in her heart of hearts, just another attention whore. And this little editorial is just more evidence of that. I guarantee you, we havnt heard the last of her. There's no such thing as bad attention eh?

Revolutionary · #6 (**permalink**) 05-29-2007, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Sadistic-Savior";p=&quot

No, it's not too bad. It is too funny. Talk about poetic justice. That is hysterical.

Especially this part:

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Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes.

[...] However, when 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.

Suprise Cindy! heh heh

Really, I would have been far more shocked if they HADNT turned on her But the sad truth is that she really is, in her heart of hearts, just another attention whore. And this little editorial is just more evidence of that. I guarantee you, we havnt heard the last of her. There's no such thing as bad attention eh?

Wow what a heart felt response.

This woman loses her son, fighting a war that you (in the minority) agree with and this is how you treat her?

What compassion....is this the way you feel about all the mothers who have lost a son in the war? Or every American who disagrees with the war?

Sadistic-Savior · #7 (**permalink**) 05-29-2007, 10:34 AM

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Wow what a heart felt response.

All of my responses are heart felt. I really do think she's an attention whore...from the bottom of my heart.

See? I even used an emoticon. And I NEVER use emoticons. Thats how heart felt my response is.

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This woman loses her son, fighting a war that you (in the minority) agree with and this is how you treat her?

Yes. I call her what she is. I didnt call her a bіtch or a ѕlut or a сunt. I called her an attention whore.

And she isnt doing me or her son any favors by emboldening our mutual enemy.

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What compassion....is this the way you feel about all the mothers who have lost a son in the war?

No, just the ones that exploit their son's deaths for attention.

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Or every American who disagrees with the war?

No, there are lots of people that disagree with the war who are not attention whore. Elaenor Clift comes to mind.

BoogiePeople · #8 (**permalink**) 05-29-2007, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Revolutionary";p=&quot

This woman loses her son, fighting a war that you (in the minority) agree with and this is how you treat her?

Yeah...she also failed to mention that she lost a husband, kids, and practically all her friends and family because they disowned her.

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What compassion....is this the way you feel about all the mothers who have lost a son in the war?

Oh, so you think that "every" mother who's lost a son in the war thinks like she does? I got news for you...she was a minority. She disgraced her son by politicizing and mocking everything that he fought for. No...there's absolutely no compassion here for that wackjob. I hope she enjoys the rest of her lonely life, looking at pictures of a family that's now rejected her.

(Oh, and that's "from the heart.")

Colin-D · #9 (**permalink**) 05-29-2007, 03:03 PM

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Yes. I call her what she is. I didnt call her a bіtch or a ѕlut or a сunt. I called her an attention whore.

And she isnt doing me or her son any favors by emboldening our mutual enemy.

Wow, that is ridiculous. You are accusing someone who is using one of their rights to criticize an unjust war and you are accusing her of treason. You know that just by opposing the war you are not emboldening the enemy! That is such BS and you know it.

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No, just the ones that exploit their son's deaths for attention.

She did not exploit her sons death, she is using her platform to speak about something she is passionate about. She lost a son in the war that she and most of the world knows is unjust. She has a right to be angry and bitter and you sir obviously have non compassion at all.

Revolutionary · #10 (**permalink**) 05-29-2007, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by BoogiePeople";p=&quot

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Originally Posted by Revolutionary";p=&quot

This woman loses her son, fighting a war that you (in the minority) agree with and this is how you treat her?

Yeah...she also failed to mention that she lost a husband, kids, and practically all her friends and family because they disowned her.

Standing up for what you believe isn't always easy......but i doubt you know that.

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Originally Posted by BoogiePeople";p=&quot

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What compassion....is this the way you feel about all the mothers who have lost a son in the war?

Oh, so you think that "every" mother who's lost a son in the war thinks like she does? I got news for you...she was a minority. She disgraced her son by politicizing and mocking everything that he fought for. No...there's absolutely no compassion here for that wackjob. I hope she enjoys the rest of her lonely life, looking at pictures of a family that's now rejected her.

(Oh, and that's "from the heart.")

She feels responsible for her son's death because of the values she imposed on him.
Her son was fighting so that people with views that are opposed like hers don't face criticism and mockery like what you and Sadistic Savior have done.

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