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Published on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
2006: The Year the Chickenhawks Will Go Home to Roost
by Cindy Sheehan
Since hot, hot Camp Casey in August, some amazing grass roots actions
have taken place all over the country. People are starting to speak up and
Congress has begun to take action against the criminal and neo-Fascist
regime that tried to take over America.
From Camp Casey to Katrina to use of chemical weaponry and
extraordinary rendition to illegally spying on American citizens without due
process, Bushco has miserably failed our country and the world. We as
Americans said "enough is enough." We sacrificed a lot when we showed up in
DC and other cities around the country in the hundreds of thousands to
protest against and show that we withdraw any consent to be governed by
murderous thugs. We started to peacefully, but forcefully resist the notion
that this government has any right to govern us when they have betrayed
their offices and their sacred trusts as "defenders" of the Constitution so
horribly.
This was also the year that we also began to hold such Republicans in
Democratic clothing like: Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, Joe Biden, and
Diane Feinstein (list is my no means all inclusive) accountable for their
support of what George is doing in Iraq. When we as Democrats elect our
leaders we expect them to reject and loudly repudiate the murderous and
corrupt policies of this administration: not support and defend them.
There are Camp Caseys in front of Hillary's and Chuck Schumer's
offices in Long Island every Friday, as well as one in front of Diane
Feinstein's Los Angeles office on Fridays, also. There has been a Camp Casey
in front of Kay Bailey Hutchinson's office in Dallas since August. Several
protestors have been arrested in Dallas exercising their First Amendment
rights. We need to let these warmongers, as well as the Republican
warmongers, know that we mean business when we say "bring them home now."
Set up Camp Caseys in front of your Senator's or Congress person's office if
they support George in his wars of aggression.
Gold Star Families for Peace is planning many activities for the first
part of 2006. I would like to give you all a heads up on them, so you can
make your plans accordingly to support us and to join us if at all possible.
On January 31st , we will be in Washington, DC for the State of the
Union address when George gets in front of Congress and the world and lies
through his teeth about how great everything is going in Iraq and here at
home. His idiotic policies have ruined Iraq and New Orleans and made the
world a more dangerous place.allowing that terrorist attacks have tripled
world wide since he decided to "fight them over there." He also may be
laying the ground work for further acts of needless aggression against Syria
and Iraq. GSFP and representatives from other peace organizations and
refugees from New Orleans will be gathering in DC to give the "Real State of
the Union." Check our website for place and time.
For the Love of God, Can't you Make Him Stop? Recently, it was
revealed that George only interacts with four people: Laura, Condi, Karen
Hughes and his Mom. His Mom, the Ice Queen who didn't want her "pretty mind"
burdened with the images of flag draped coffins coming home, lives in
Houston. On President's Day, (Feb. 20) we will be demonstrating in front of
her house to implore her to forget about the obscene profits that her family
and their friends are making off of this occupation and to beg her to
finally do the right thing and make her son stop this insane war OF terror
against the world. George and Dick are defiling the highest offices of the
world and they need to resign. On President's Day, when we have the day off,
we need to demonstrate against the ones who are illegitimately in power,
anyway. If you can't make it to Houston, organize your own President's Day
protest.
The Camp Casey Peace Foundation will hold its first annual Peace
Festival and Concert on April 4, 2006. April 4 th is the day Casey and
Martin Luther King, Jr were killed. We want to turn it into a true day for
celebrating peace. The Camp Casey Peace Foundation will be awarding the
Casey Sheehan Peace Prize, a cash prize, to a young peace activist every
year. We want to foster the growth of solving problems non-violently and
young people are the ones who get killed in the gray haired old men's wars.
We are working on an exciting event and we will announce more details as the
event draws closer.
Camp Casey Easter edition: We will be heading back to our leased land
in Crawford April 11th to Easter, which is April 16th. Easter is a time of
renewal and hopeful promises. Casey was killed on Palm Sunday and his body
was returned to us in the cargo section of a United Airlines flight on Holy
Saturday and we buried him two days after Easter. Last Easter Season was so
painful to us. This Easter we will again be demonstrating in front of the
man's home who is responsible for such pain and abject heartache in the
world. But, we will be there with a renewed sense of hope that the
Chickenhawks will be sent out to pasture this year. Like Michael Moore, I
want to be a fly on the wall when Bush and company are hauled out of the
White House in handcuffs. Impeachment is not necessary for people who never
were elected.eviction is what is needed. If you can't join us in Crawford,
set up your own Camp Casey near you.
In 2005, we learned that we have the power. We learned that we can't
rely on the propaganda media or the empty promises of most of our elected
leadership. We learned that we need to be the change that we desire to see.
We learned that one person can and does make a difference.
We cannot relax in 2006. We cannot slip back into the evil of apathy
and complacency that the neocons rejoice in. We need to keep pounding,
working, and fighting. We need to support organizations like Gold Star
Families for Peace, Veterans for Peace , Code Pink and Iraq Veterans Against
the War , or the Peace organization of your choice so we can continue our
struggle for peace with justice. We need to support true American patriots
like John Conyers who is calling for an investigation and censure for the
lies that have cost us so much of our national human treasure.
2006 will be a great year for the people of our country. I know it.
It won't be easy, but we will prevail and the struggle will be worth
it.
Cindy Sheehan's book is Not One More Mother's Child is available here.
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