The star-spangled banner, which I can now see whipping in the wind outside an airport terminal where I am writing this, does not fill me with pride: it fills me with shame, and that flag symbolizes sorrow and corruption to me right now. The flag represents so much lying, fixed elections, profiting by the war machine, high gas prices, spying on Americans, rapid erosion of our freedoms while BushCo literally gets away with murder, torture and extreme rendition, contaminating the world with depleted uranium, and illegal and immoral wars that are responsible for killing so many. A symbol that used to represent hope to so many around the world now fills so many with disgust.Don't hold back, Cindy: Tell us what you really think.
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006
"Thoughts" for Independence Day
From an Independence Day reflection written by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, as she flatly abandons principled dissent and replaces it with Chomskyite babbling:
Certainly does not surprise me. Her protest has more and more become about extending her fifteen minutes and less about her son. If her protests were worth anything, her son's name (which is Casey by the way) would be more recognizable than her own. Instead, she has proven that she is nothing more than a bitter, unhinged anti-American.
ReplyDeleteRick, I've read that rant a couple of times. Where are the "thoughts"?
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