You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

Cindy Sheehan for Congress!

Thanks for another insightful essay, Cindy!

I was amazed to hear that the very person who invited Ahmadinejad chose to make such rude public remarks about him.

and, we were treated to non-stop coverage of the protests against ahmajinedad yesterday, but not one blip about the thousands of people protesting bush there right now.

i know they are there because i was supposed to be there, but am under the weather so i stayed home.

the hypocrisy is making me throw up a little in my mouth.

cindy

The US house (of Congress) does not need to be cleaned. Burned to the ground and the ground salted, yes. But cleaned? No.

America has become the very disease that it said it fought against in WWII. But how many people know that 'shining lights' of Amrican capitalism like Henry Ford supported Hitler and his works? Or that Bush's grand-daddy was Hitler's banker, and much of the family fortune was derived from the deaths of millions of innocent Jews?

How many modern millionaires have their fortunes based on companies whose only product is death?

With the evidence of the past decade it is plain to see that the US is the moral companion of Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia, the Khmer Rouge Cambodia, and Idi Amin's Uganda, and Pinochet's Chile.

I wonder why there are so few like Cindy Sheehan in America, doing what she is so bravely doing, when so many know she is absolutely correct on every issue.

Cindy could be likened to the 'Racheal Carson' of politics. If we truely support her and she defeats Nancy Pelosi, Cindy will have a voice that none will be able to honestly ignore.

Cindy Sheehan may be that light at the end of the tunnel we so desperately need, if we wish to regain our freedom and be a true land of the free and home of the brave, where we can once again be proud to be known as an American.

Jan: I, too, was struck by disbelief that the president of Columbia acted so boorishly towards Ahmadinejad. Was the prez grandstanding? was he trying to placate wealthy contibutors to Columbia? Whatever his malicious rationale, the result was truly revolting.

Thanks, Cindy, for another incisive piece. Sorry, you're
"under the weather." "Under the weather" is an apt metaphor for what we all are indeed going through. Would we all realized how sick we were.

Cindy, be careful not to end up like another crusader... Rachel Corrie, murdered by Israeli soldiers for defending innocent Palestinians, crushed under the treads of a bulldozer.

If president Ahmadinejad was really trying to kill Americans like we're told, WHY would he want to come here and speak? That makes no sense at all.
A killer doesn't try to reason with his prey.
This is why bush hasn't met with any leaders of the nations that he's attacked. Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran have all been completely ignored. It's important to know who's trying to kill who.
Ahmadinejad came off as a reasonable man. Now in a panic to prevent any anti-war sentiment, the chickenhawks are rushing to the podium trying to discredit him. They make themselves more the fool with every word they speak.

The entire point of this exercise was to whip the sheeple into a frenzy prior to a 'Tonkin Gulf' incedent that give Bush a pretext for bombing another innocent nation into rubble....

Refreshing perspective. Thanks for not falling into the superhot, hyperbole topic of Israel (like virtually every other piece of analysis on this event seems to have done).

Fast-forwarding to Bush's speech this morning at the UN, during which he didn't even mention climate change, and quickly sped off so as to avoid meeting Ahmadinejad, we can add a little more. We can see that our president is afraid to take the tiny risk that even Bollinger took in hearing how the "petty dictator" responds. We can see that Mr. Bush is not interested in seeking out any truth, or any peace, or any understanding. Like Bollinger, like a kangeroo court, he knows it all already.

Cindy,

Wonderful essay. I've yet to hear you speak live or meet you but look forward to the day.

This essay clearly demonstrates our flaws - domestic and foreign - and the failure of the ruling elite to challenge Bush in the way they would challenge a foreign head of state.

I would add that I wrote letters to my representative and both my senators expressing outrage that the U.S. would go to war over WMDs when we ourselves hold the largest stockpiles of nuclear bombs and biological and chemical weapons. To top it off, we are violating the very U.N. resolution that we are holding over the head of Iran (and before the destruction - Iraq).

Thank you again Cindy for saying what so many of us believe.

I am just trying to keep a promise to myself not to let myself get worn out again.

I will be fine.
I won't let happen to me what happened to dear Rachel, or Casey.
I hope
Thanks for all of your kind words.
ME

Let's clean out our filthy HOUSE-- let's elect peace candidates to Congress, like Cindy! http://www.sheehanforcongress.us

I wonder how many government stooges/thugs are following Cindy ala Jennifer Flynn the AIDS activist?

cindy sheehan for president. i would love to see you as the first women president, and all the progressives you would choose to work in your administration, but at least i have total support for you to defeat pelosi for congress this time around...keep it up cindy , the angels are watching over you.

"I wonder why there are so few like Cindy Sheehan in America, doing what she is so bravely doing, when so many know she is absolutely correct on every issue...KEM PATRICK"

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The explanation is crystal clear to me now, after observing this situation for so long.

This "war" does not really exist in the heads of Americans. There is no draft, there are no photos of dead soldiers, there is no real coverage of this "war" in corporate media, which is nearly all of television.

There are more contractors in Iraq than soldiers. They send lots of money home. Word gets out that Iraq has been very, very good for many Americans and their families. Iraq pays the mortgage, the cars, the educations, and everything else for contractors and their families.

Americans, also, are truly uninformed. It appears that the majority of people working for corporations focus only on their next paychecks. Although unions have been busted and jobs exported out of the country, working Americans care ONLY when they lose their jobs, ONLY when it affects them personally. That's when they become informed...when it's too late.

We are also sheeple, for allowing a man to steal two elections, to set up the framework for a dictatorship, and to bankrupt us. We're too focused on our own little worlds.

And finally, we have pathetic "representation" in Congress, and the Judicial Branch is now politicized and morally bankrupt. We let it happen.

In case anyone was wondering about the term "the Ugly American". Seems these days it isn't limited solely to clumsy, culturally insensitive Americans abroad, rather should anyone from abroad venture to Americans shores--unless of course, you are some Right-wing despot or rabid Zionist racist--we welcome them with open arms.

Excellent piece, Cindy.

I apologize for the country I was born in by accident of birth to the people of Palestine, Iraq and Iran...Cuba, Guatemala, Greece, Viet Nam, er, maybe I should just say, the world.

As I said..time to burn it to the ground. And rebuild.

Cindy-
Yours continues to be one of the most fascinating journeys set in motion by the loss of our Democracy in 2000. Many of us have followed your progress as you have transformed your grief and indignation into service for the country and world. Your words and actions are a reflection of the light that lies sleeping within this forlorn nation. Thank you.

While the American government and it's poodle-like mainstream media has engineered yet another feat of propagandistic nonsense! Instead of actually debating what was said by the Iranian President in a "free exchange" of ideas, the masses have been steered toward mindless adherence to lame-duck scare tactics of a psychotic President and his men.

Screw the President of America! Screw the propaganda! Screw the mainstream media! We, the citizens, the workers, the educators, the artists, the real thinkers, need to take it to the streets! In fact, joining the UAW workers - who are in the fight of their lives to save tens of thousands of decent paying union jobs from being sent overseas - in reclaiming our dignity as a country; reclaiming our right to a fair and just economy; in reclaiming what is rightfully ours from those who took it from us!

The visit by the President of Iran might not seem related to the largest national walkout since 1976, but it is! This government and its obedient media have become professionals at the task of keeping our eyes off the ball.

Cindy, thank you for continuing to speak out. I hope you stay safe. I'm sending a little joke - hopefully you get a laugh out of it.

A teacher asked international students one question: What is your opinion about the shortage of grain in other countries?

African student: "What does 'grain' mean?"
European student: "What does 'shortage' mean?"
American student: "What does 'other countries' mean?"
Taiwanese student: "What does 'your opinion' mean?"

Don't lose sight of the fact that New York, and Columbis University, are AIPAC territory. This protest and Bollinger's cowardly attack have all the earmarks of the pro-Israel lobby. We know they want the US to bomb Iran, and for this they need to get some of the public on board. Unfortunately, they're playing to the deep hatred and fears of Jews by claiming that Ahmadinejad denies the holocaust and wants to destroy Israel--neither of which are true and both of which are based on deliberately distorted interpretations of his words.

Thank you and bless you, Cindy, for the first rational comments I have read on this issue.

I too was very disturbed by the tone of Scott Pelley's inverview with Ahmadinajad. If only the media would take the same tone with the "American Hitler," but we'll never see that. Shame on Pres. Bollinger for his rudeness and inhospitality. He has disgraced himself, his institution and our country, proving to the entire world the stereotype that Americans are even more rude and obnoxious than was already believed!

Keep up your great work, Cindy. It's an inspiration!

Bush will have plenty of company in hell... Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Pinochet, Marshall Petain, His Great grand-daddy William Walker (the American 'fillibuster' -mercenary-, no really, look it up), Papa Doc Duvallier, Musolini...

For all of my life, I have detested bullies and hypocrits, the arrogant, the greedy and the wilfully ignorant.

Consequently, throughout my life, as I have acquired political and economic awareness, I have also seen the successive governments of the United States of America repeatedly manifest all those characteristics which I find most disgusting.

I pity, but do not forgive, the massive number of citizens of the United States of America who seem so blinded by their feelings of superiority and entitlement that they can remain blissfully ignorant of the perversion of democracy that their own government has become.

As an outside observor (or "alien", as American authorities so glibly and condescendingly term anyone who is not "one of us"), I DO feel I have a right to comment upon, and even influence in my own small way, the assertions and actions of the various American administrations, since those administrations feel so entitled to dictate to the rest of the world what we should believe and how we should behave.

Cindy: I have followed your story from the beginning. You are among the true American patriots who has managed, through sacrifice and a passionate committment to the truth, to make a real difference. To get through the massive walls set up by the corporate information managers and propagandists that have so perverted political and economic thought in the United States of America. Bless you.

Eloquent Outrage, Cindy. And right to the heart of things. Your feet now fit in a multiplex of big footsteps choosing various paths that have gone before you.

Although I no longer wear any religious labels, preferring direct contact to an always immediately accessible Great Spirit that is Now Here Everywhere [Wow, look at that rose! Thank you ... or Hey, can we talk? I need help right now.], and thus IT has always been and IS, I still turn to one of the bravest and Greatest Revolutionaries of all for the model of outspoken courage, poise in the worst of circumstances, and a compassionate, tender Heart for all time:

Matthew, Chapter 23:

1Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2"The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. 3So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. 4They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

5"Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; 6they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; 7they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them 'Rabbi.' [Fortunately, Jesus was Jewish; otherwise he would be accused of being anti-semitic.]

8"But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers. 9And do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 10Nor are you to be called 'teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ. [which dwells within each of us as in "The kingdom of God is within."] 11The greatest among you will be your servant. 12For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

13"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

15"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

16"Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.' 17You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? 18You also say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.' 19You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. 22And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.

23"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

25"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

27"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. 28In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

29"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' 31So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!

33"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. 35And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.

37"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. 38Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord."

And Matthew, Chapter 5 - The Beatitudes:

1Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, 2and he began to teach them saying:
3"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
5Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
7Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
8Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
9Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called the children of God.
10Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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So what is so hard to understand, brother and sisters, especially you avid Bible thumpers?

So what is so hard to understand?
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And lastly from the same Revolutionary:

Love God with all your mind, with all your heart, with all your soul ...
And Love your neighbor [your fellow beings, near and far] like yourself ...

These are the two Greatest COMMANDMENTS ...

SO WHAT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?

ALL WE'VE GOT TO DO IS DO IT ... PEACE ON EARTH IN LESS THAN A SECOND, and THEN WE BIG THE WORK TO UNDO THE DAMAGE WE HAVE DONE TO A MAGNIFICENT CREATION THAT HAPPENS TO BE OUR HOME PLANET ...

SO WHAT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?

As usual Cindy hits it right on the button! I love this woman. If I were a believer I'd think she must be heaven-sent. I wonder if anyone, anywhere will be able to stand Americans at all by the time Bush and the Bushies get through ruining our reputation with their arrogance, ignorance, and hypocrisy. I suppose it is an inevitable part of our human nature that we will always be distributed in a bell curve ranging from Hitler and Bush to Gandhi and Einstein, but it sure gets frustrating trying to make civilization work with Bush and his ilk constantly undermining our efforts. It seems humanity's highest aspirations are always being thwarted by its lowest instincts. Can our thirst for enlightenment ever overcome our thirst for blood? I wonder.

Cee Miracles: Heres a simple way we Neo-pagans look at the world. 'An it harm none, do as you will'

Or the part from the Hippocratic oath: 'First, do no harm.'

I know, I know, some of my pevious posts asound anything like that... But when your house is rotting and infested with vermin... fire purifies.

How nice of the university to invite a guest and then abuse that guest. If they wanted to expose greater lack of manners and tact... Can't see how they could have done it short of tasering the guy. A real university wouldn't have acted in this manner, no matter how offensive the guest they should have acted politely. When the guest left, then it's acceptable to say "we won't have them back."

Thanks Cindy. Keep speaking the truth to power and the majority of voters in San Francisco will insert you into the Halls of Congress!!

Bless you Cindy!!!!!! Amazing how rare it is to hear the truth spoken in this country. When you replace that fascist Pelosi in Congress, it will be a victory worth celebrating.

How about everyone start planning now to go to California next year to help with the end of the campaign!! Or even better, start running your own campaign to kick your own local fascists out of Congress too!

PS ... "COMarc" is writing from Germany today. Its always amazing to get out of the US and away from all the BS. And its a good reminder that the rest of the world isn't as insane.

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Galen September 25th, 2007 1:01 pm

Cee Miracles: Heres a simple way we Neo-pagans look at the world. 'An it harm none, do as you will'

Or the part from the Hippocratic oath: 'First, do no harm.'

I know, I know, some of my pevious posts asound anything like that… But when your house is rotting and infested with vermin… fire purifies.

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I know. And that's the simplest way.

Actually just about every philosophy, whether formalized religion or atheististic groups or groups such as pagan or wiccan or philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, Kant include the simple: Do not treat others as you would not want to be treated ... or Treat others as you would want to be treated. In Western societies it is known as The Gold Rule; in others - the Universal Ethic. It is not in the biblical scripture per se, but variations are.

So now if we would put our actions out there as our mouth trumpets them, and decide to do that ... at last ... SIMPLE ...

And nothing is wrong with outrage ... "when your house is rotting and infested with vermin." Obviously, that otherwise kind and gentle REVOLUTIONARY, as above, said what he needed to say in no uncertain terms when the particular house he was personally familiar with was rotting and infested with vermin.

And, of course, these things that he said were meant to apply both personally and universally.

Gandhi said it too: Do no harm.

And again, I say, WHAT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND? Just decide to live that way.

Amen, Cee, amen.

To all the partiots speaking out now: Cindy, Walt and Merhseimer, Ray McGovern, Bill Christison, Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, Scott Ritter, Code Pink, and others thanks for your courage. We stand with you!

You tell 'em Cindy! My thoughts exactly ma'am!

Lest it slide into the memory hole:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/1114/

It most certainly is, in part, about what Israel wants and something we can't ignore by those suddenly revising the record or threatening to yet make the subject taboo. How do we ever confront the problem if we can't even SAY it?

Not sure how to quote or reply directly to someone but Sam Snedgegar, I think there is a common misconception that the wars are for oil....they're not.

They are for oil companies.

It guarantees them a source, as well as restricts the free flow of the major producers to the world market.

When you have an inelastic good like oil and you cut back supply you increase your revenue. It's that simple.

This is evident in the astronomical prices of oil we're presently experiencing, combined with the record profits earned by the oil companies.

Greenspan and others are trying to undertake some clever revisionism by painting an almost philantropic objective- securing oil for the greater good of American prosperity and not to be squeezed by the terr'ists in the Middle East. Well, if you believe the Bush Administration acts in a manner that is of popular benefit, rather than an elitist few, I have a levee in New Orleans to sell you.

The term "shadow" was first used by the renowned psychologist Carl Jung to describe the repressed or denied parts of the Self.

As Milburn has pointed out in his 1996 book - The Politics of Denial -the roots of this phenomenon can be traced to childhood. It is very common for authoritarian parents to absolutely reject and squelch/crush aspects of their children that they deem "unacceptable."

Every child is profoundly vulnerable during their early years, and clearly needs their parents' nurturance and love.
At the extreme rejection/abandonment can mean death.

Children who split off and deny massive aspects of their true self (especially those aspects their parents scorn, such as sexuality, self-centeredness, and aggressive impulses toward the parents) - will, when they become adults - unconsciously attribute this "bad self" to "The Other." Such 'others' may include minority groups in the society or external enemies. These groups will tend to be despised as inferior, evil, or dangerous.

And, once a person has come to believe that a particular group, such as Blacks, women, gays, Iranians, Iraqies, etc., are "bad" - they find it acceptable to take out their rage against them. While this process is often expressed domestically through citizens' support for specific socio-political agendas.

It has, during the last century, manifested in an extreme form through repeated episodes of genocide against Armenians, Cambodians, Jews, Bosnians, Tutsis, and others.

The best part of being in Germany is that I hadn't heard a word about this whole little charade. Partly that's because I speak very little German and thus wouldn't understand their news shows even if I was watching. And of course I'd never watch CNN or Murdoch's SkyNews that's on here. Al Jeezera's on here, but I don't speak Arabic either. But mainly, from where I write this evening this all seems so very bizarre and far, far away. Its hard to believe that the streets I've walked in the last few days and the world of Columbia Univ and this madness are in the same world.

Just scrolled up and saw the line about "what's so hard to understand." Poignant to someone walking in country where I don't speak their language much, and only some speak mine. About the only words I know are "bitte" and "danke" ("please" and "thank you"). But, I follow that golden rule, including smiling at others since I prefer others smile at me. And thus I am understood. :)

This is my first post on CD.

First of all, to Cindy Sheeehan, I just want to say thank you. I never have believed too much in heroes, but to the very few that I do have, I add you to my list. Keep up the work that you are doing; you make me believe there is good in this world. Whenever the world gets tough on you, as I expect it may do from time to time, just remember there are many of us out here who appreciate every nanosecond of your life that you've invested in making this world a better place.

Regarding the article, taking in conjuction with the 60 minutes interview the night before, I am fully convinced that Mr. Ahmadinejad's visit has been used conveniently to stir up propaganda in preparations for yet another war. The talking points were the same for Bollinger, as they were for Pelley. In particular, both men who're supposed to possess a bit more than average professional skepticism because of their fields, both repeated government delivered information (aka propaganda) regarding Iran's attack of US troops in Baghdad. This is especially disturbing because, if accepted as fact (which Pelley claimed it was), constitutes an indisputable cassus bellus.

However, both Pelley and Bollinger ignore the source of the info, the nature of the evidence, refused to mention Iran's denial or the history of fabricated stories used by the US military to march to war.

Scott Pelley made himself Bush's bitch & was quite inflated with himself because he was 'delivering words from President Bush" --it was embatrassing to see how he swelled like an infected member as he said his piece -- "you have made your country a pariah, isolated your people from the world", and Ahmadinejad just laughed, "Let's walk down any street in the world, a friend of mine and a friend of President Bush's -- and we'd see who is isolated, who is a pariah."

Columbia's president needed to demonstrate that he was a Very Good American, not like Ward Churchill or Norman Finkelstein or Andrew Meyer, that he is proud to march at the head of the Get-Iran-Now parade while at the same time reaping credit for supposedly standing up for free speech.

We need to toss these people into the gladiator ring the way the slaves in "Spartacus" did to their masters, and laugh as their overlarded hearts collapse . . .

"...surprised President Bollinger didn't have President Ahmadinejad tased..."

You might understand if you knew how much Jewish money is needed to keep Columbia afloat.

And you yourself let Israel have a free pass for nukes as if they were not proliferating and ought to be subject to the same UN sanctions as Iran.

Don't get me wrong; the war is about oil, not Israel, but the sorest thumb we've got in the mideast is our Jewish protectorate there. No big deal since our Iraq adventure is an open wound killing both American and Iraqi indiscriminately for the sake of oil.

1. it is about oil, and
2. Bush is a moron.

there is no 3.

"The fascist, near dictatorship of the Bush regime (a la Nazi Germany) has even intimidated universities to align with their hypocritical murderous rhetoric."

You are talking on my favorite topic, although even some may not understand or fully appreciate the true extent of this outcome, let alone the ignorant brain washed masses...AKA the consent manufactured by Bu$hCo's Fascist Kleptocracy and NeoCon Cronies etc...As I understand Gore Vidal latest take on this, America has arrived at Corporatist Fascism...

By the way, a great article Cindy...

Dichterfreund writes:

"Scott Pelley made himself Bush's bitch..."

he wishes - bush's bitch is g. betrayus, that hairy hunk of goober munching manliness.

now that everyone is beginning to understand the depth to which the country has sunk, and how close to the abyss we seem to be, i wonder when some action will be taken. not by the congress or senate but by the citzens, like oh say - the ones who write these boards.

we have let a lot of water pass under the bridge and rather than making the case one more time, as was done here, i'd like to see someone actually do something concrete, you know, in the real world.

i don't see anyone who is ready to "do" something/anything other than bitch the boards and congratulate the writer.

that has become, to me, the power of this moment, or rather, the lack of it.

when so many people see what needs to be done and yet do nothing.

much like, cindy, when your reverend friend who was wrestled to the ground while no one did anything about it.

or the student who got tasered.

someone said that all evil men need in order to succeed is the inaction of good men.

its nice to vent and all but as i say i don't see any action here.

if the test to post was based on a committment to do something these boards would be much shorter.

its all so much yada yada yada.

no one knows that better than bush.

To the *President-in-waiting* -Cindy Sheehan,
:)

Would that the contest for the leadership of America was based solely on the ability to write cogent, articulate and moving essays with complete heart and *SINCERITY* ... because, -on that basis- you would win hands-down over that babbling, arrogant, soulless, sold-out, cowardly, insane, decrepit and diabolical 'Bushbaby' creature, -and his maniacal cronies.

Whatever happens in the future dear sister, you have already shone *a very real LIGHT* into the darkness which those devils in power have foisted upon the human race.

The likes of you and, (eg) Dennis Kucinich, have *already* provided many Americans (and those abroad) with a bright flame of HOPE, in an otherwise very murky period of American / human history.

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Most people aren't aware that America has a very positive part to play in the future well-being of humanity, but it first needs to get over it's present impasse and materially-obsessed gluttony, delusions of grandeur, and depraved selfishness.
Once she has conquered these 'character flaws' she, -(like that other adolescent nation, Russia), -can begin to shine...

Eventually we will, -as a race, get back on track, -due not to the demons who have infested the corridors of power with their malevolent obsession with the barbarities of war, but due to those *many millions* of sane people (like your good self Cindy) who have now *SEEN THE LIGHT* - and work consistently to radiate and share their shining vision of a peaceful future.

**HOPE** is an essential and primary ingredient in social change, - without hope, people don't act or think positively, (creatively) to form a peaceful world.
But with *hope* in their hearts, people then become inspired, even FIRED!
And, as history attests, a fired-up people can achieve very real wonders!

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"God Bless America" parrot the unthinking ones, ~ little realising that this 'blessing' stuff will occur, -not for as long as they are sullying god's Earth, and spilling gallons of human blood via their demonic wars, but when they at last begin to LISTEN to what 'Big G' has said all along: "Love your brothers and sisters as yourself."

~~ only *then* do the blessings begin!

With love, unity, and success to all progessive brothers and sisters who read here,

UCD

I hear Bushieboy is bidding on this as new toiletpaper, to go along with his "2-ply US Constitution"

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A rare 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta valued at up to $30 million is due to be sold by The Perot Foundation at Sotheby's in New York in December, the auction house said on Tuesday.

The Magna Carta established rights of the English people and curbed the power of the king. The U.S. Constitution includes ideas and phrases taken almost directly from the charter, which rebellious barons forced their oppressive King John to sign in 1215.

Sotheby's said the Magna Carta was ratified and reissued with each monarch who succeeded John. It was enacted as law in 1297 by the British parliament when it was reissued by King Edward I. The copy to be sold is from 1297.

Sotheby's said there are fewer than 20 copies of the Magna Carta and that this copy, which has been on display at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington D.C., is one of only two held outside of Britain. The other copy, also from 1297, is owned by the Australian government.

David Redden, Sotheby's vice chairman, said the document "symbolizes mankind's eternal quest for freedom; it is a talisman of liberty."

Sotheby's said The Perot Foundation, created by billionaire former U.S. presidential candidate Ross Perot to make philanthropic grants, would use the money for its charities. The Foundation bought the Magna Carta in 1984.

Thanks Cindy.

All I would have added are:

The House of Saud regularly finances the operations of those Sunnis fight Shites in Iraq. Of course, these resources are also used against the occupiers.

The following quotes are quotes from Wright's Stolen Continents: The America's Through Indian Eyes Since 1492.

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." Thomas Jefferson,1784

"I never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are."
George Bush, 1988

I guess apple didn't fall far from the tree.

Cindy wrote exactly what I was thinking. Bollinger was just trying to cover his butt by insulting A. He is a coward.

Why is A being vilified? Did he cause 9/11? Did he use a bomb on any other country? Did he invade Iraq? And where is the proof of his sending arms there? What about the arms marked "made in the USA" found in Turkey?

How can all those protestors come out to demonstrate against A but not against the crummy war? Who's the real enemy to this country?