Cindy Sheehan - nobody's fool
posted via Sweejak
August 13, 2005
I just got back, decided not to stay the night, I still have a job
and needed to get back although as the sun was going down I started
to regret it and am now thinking of the weekend.
Driving in I got the creepy feeling that I was approaching a sort Neo
Mordor illuminated with Kleig lights. The rains had lifted and the
sun started baking turning the air into a hot mist.
Cindy Sheehan appears to be nobody's fool, I watched her do an
interview and she fielded tricky MSM questions flawlessly. I saw no,
nada, handlers or advisors hanging around. She is not going to be
easy to smear, they will have to take her out of context (Drudge) or
use other trickery.
Lots of lefties, lots of independents, vets, Code Pink, media from
all over. Some arrived who heard about it while travelling decided to
change course and head to Crawford. Continual flow of people arriving
and leaving so it was hard to get a count. At any one time there were
probably 200 out on the roadside and maybe another 70 or so at the
Crawford Peace House in town. Truthout says that the official count
was 705 not including media. This is out in the middle of nowhere on
the side of a country road, not an ideal place for any gathering.
The police presence was at a minimum and they were not threatening in
the least. If I can judge by the stories of the previous few days the
police have decided to let this thing ride for now. The mood was
energized and friendly with clusters of people involved in
discussion. The most interesting to me was a woman, a wife of a
Baptist minister, who pulled along side the cross planters and
decided to engage in a debate. I left when the conversation turned to
SUV's. In ranching country people actually use SUV's. Anyway, after
planting crosses the debate was still ongoing with utterly frustrated
protesters... it's the cognitive dissonance! Towards the end they had
decided that they would get some guitars and seranade the minister's
wife with Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth". All was not
lost as the debate got cast into a different direction by talking
about what we can agree on which happened to be quite a lot. I could
go on about this because it was an unexpected turn and it adresses
one of my favorite memes, but in the end she agreed to go to a 'teach
in" or something like it and traded cell phone numbers with an
activist from the evil city of LA. Did we break a Baptist?
A thousand crosses were planted ( with rubber mallets for pity's
sake) along the road to W.
Oh, and the fire ants? As overblown as any other terror alert.... and
call me a dreamer but Cindy Sheehan is a hero.
Most interesting day, a few pics not very good ones but I did shoot
some good video I think:
OUR UNFEELING PRESIDENT One Mother's Stand Camp Casey Attacked Bedlam at Bush’s Ranch Smearing Cindy Sheehan
Conservatives are attacking her as a dupe of the left who's exploiting her dead son. Some relatives have piled on too. But the grieving mother says her well-timed Crawford visit is "my idea, my mission, my vision." Cindy Sheehan: Rosa Parks or Jane Fonda?, thanks Walter Every Mother's Son By William Rivers Pitt
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.- Stephen King
