PEACE & The Cindy Sheehanization of America...
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Subject: PEACE & The Cindy Sheehanization of America...
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:53:58 -0400
Folks:
Cindy writes "My First Time", but I say "it's about time!"
It's time to STOP and just do nothing.
It's time for all good men and women to lay down on the public parkways and byways of America and just do absolutely NOTHING!
Period.
The simple, yet powerful message is that this "NOTHING" actually means "SOMETHING".
This "something" is what's being abused and taken for granted - ie. the energy, light, truth, goodness and love which We The People all receive from our creator God on a second by second basis.
I believe we are past the point of marching, pointing, blaming and shaming. It's time to simply DO NOTHING for the expression of this NOTHING will be THE most powerful force on the planet.
One year ago on October 2, 2004 over 1000 individuals dedicated the installation of a beautiful bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of 135th anniversary of his birth in 1869.
>>http://www.skokienet.org/whatsnew.html
Gandhi Memorial Unveiled. On October 2nd, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, over one thousand people gathered to honor his memory and unveil his statue in Skokie's Heritage Park. Read more about it in the Skokie Review. Visit the Gandhi Memorial website.>>
On my long marathon training runs I run right by this memorial on my way south to Chicago's lakefront. I strongly believe that Gandhi's vision of manifested peace through non-violent activism at the grassroots level is beginning to take hold in our country. Each time I pass by this memorial I say a prayer for peace in praise of this vision - that it may finally be realized and celebrated in our wonderful world.
I have personal experience with this simple act of laying down on a public parkway to do absolutely NOTHING. I performed this act in the fall of 1979 right here in Evanston at the corner of Foster and Sherman Avenue. I don't need to go into the details as to the who, what, when, where, how and why I did this, but suffice it so say that it was a seed of divine truth that was planted very deeply in my soul.
This is the vision: DO NOTHING!
For, like Dr. King, "I Have A Dream" which will never go away until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."ยน ...
Peace and God Bless,
Fred Smart
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
My First Time
A message from Cindy Sheehan
The rumors are true this time. I was arrested in front of the White House today. It was my first time ever being arrested.
We proceeded from Lafayette Park to the Guard House at the White House. I, my sister, and other Gold Star Families for Peace members and some Military Families requested to meet with the President again. We again wanted to know: What is the Noble Cause? Our request was, to our immense shock and surprise, denied. They wouldn't even deliver any letters or pictures of our killed loved ones to the White House.
We all know by now why George won't meet with parents of the soldiers he has killed who disagree with him. First of all, he hates it when people disagree with him. I am not so sure he hates it as much as he is in denial that it even happens. Secondly, he is a coward who arrogantly refuses to meet with the people who pay his salary. Maybe the next time one of us is asked by our bosses to have a performance review, or we are told we are going to be written up for a workplace infraction, we should refuse to go and talk to our bosses citing the fact that the President doesn't have to. The third reason why he won't talk to us is that he knows there is no Noble Cause for the invasion and continued occupation of Iraq. It is a question that has no true answer.
After we were refused a meeting with the Disconnected One, we went over to right in front of our house, the White House, (in front of the gate of course) and we sat down and refused to move until George came out and talked to us. We actually had a good time singing old church songs and old protest songs while we waited. I tied a picture of Casey on the White House fence and apparently, that is against the law, too.
After three warnings to get up and move off of the sidewalk in front of our house, we were arrested. It is so ironic to me that the person who resides in our White House swears to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. The person who is the (p)resident of the White House now has no concept of the Constitution. He was appointed by the Supreme Court for his first term, invaded and continues to occupy a sovereign country without a declaration of war from the Congress, and violated several treaties to actually invade Iraq, too. Not to mention the condoned torture that pervades the military prisons these days. These are all violations of the Constitution. The Patriot Act and denying us our rights to peaceably assemble are serious breaches of the Bill of Rights. George is so hypocritically concerned about Iraq developing a Constitution while he ignores and shreds our own Constitution.
Being arrested is not a big deal. Even though we were arrested for "demonstrating without a permit" we were protesting something that is much more serious than sitting on a sidewalk: the tragic and needless deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and Americans (both in Iraq and here in America) who would be alive if it weren't for the criminals who reside in and work in the White House.
Karl Rove (besides just being a very creepy man) outed a CIA agent and was responsible for endangering many of our covert agents worldwide. Dick Cheney's old company is reaping profits beyond anyone's wildest imaginations in their no-bid contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and New Orleans. John Negroponte's activities in South America are very shady and murderous. Rumsfeld and Gonzales are responsible for illegal and immoral authorization, encouragement and approval of torture. Not to mention, violating Geneva Conventions, torture endangers the lives of our service men and women in Iraq. Along with the above mentioned traitors, Condi lied through her teeth in the insane run-up to the invasion. The list of crimes this administration has committed is extensive, abhorrent, and unbelievable. What is so unbelievable is that WE were arrested for exercising our first amendment rights and these people are running free to enjoy their lives of crime and to wreak havoc on the world.
The fine for "demonstrating without a permit" is $75.00. I am certain that I won't pay it. My court date is November 16th. Any lawyers out there want to help me challenge an unconstitutional law?
"Lord I have no plans of my own, save those you shall reveal to me." - Dean Fagerstrom
