Cindy Sheehan leads protest at CIA, Cheney's house

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: Washington Post

LANGLEY, Va. -- A group led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has protested near the CIA's headquarters and former Vice President Dick Cheney's home in northern Virginia.

They were protesting the use of unmanned drone aircraft to attack al-Qaida and Taliban targets.

The group of about 70 people rallied alongside a highway near the CIA compound Saturday. About half then marched to Cheney's nearby street and stayed for 20 minutes. Police kept them from going down his street.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/16/AR2010011602242.html

[gateley]

1. ...and then they were gunned down. nt

[canetoad]

23. All I can say is

[dotymed]

34. Vader

will arrange an "accident" for her if she is not careful. Good luck Cindy. Stay safe.

[24601]

60. Why are you saying President Obama runs a police state? n/t

[donheld]

65. We'll there was an attempt i'm sure

but like before he shot a friend in the face instead of the target.

[wordpix]

2. i thought chain-ee lives on the Eastern Shore but maybe he has 2 or 3 mansions

like McCain, maybe he doesn't know how many he has

[Mr Rabble]

6. His primary is in McLean, Va. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Way to go Cindy!

Wish I was there :patriot:

[winyanstaz]

4. YOU GO CINDY!!!!!!

:) I love that lady..she has done more to wake people up than most.

[onehandle]

5. Pointless.

Dick is no long President.

I mean Vice-President.

Well, in their defense, it is confusing.

[hughee99]

9. Cheney doesn't even control his own bowels now. n/t

[twitomy]

17. Psssssttt, Hey Cindy, Get you GPS updated!

The guy your supposed to be protesting now is at Number One Observatory Circle

[EFerrari]

7. Go, Cindy!

[ProgressOnTheMove]

8. I'm loving how she will never give up the fight, glad she recognizes all raods lead to Cheney. :)

[defendandprotect]

11. Love Cindy -- nice post -- agree!!

:)

[ProgressOnTheMove]

12. +1

[defendandprotect]

10. If there ever was a citizen's house that deserved to be wiretapped....Cheney's would be it!!

The idea retirement home -- right on top of CIA!!!

Oh --- yeah!!

[TheEuclideanOne]

13. Okay, I think that this will be an unpopular question

but what is so bad about using unmanned drones to target Al-Qaida and the Taliban?

[EFerrari]

14. You mean, aside from the whole killing innocent people thing?

[proud2BlibKansan]

49. +1

[Solly Mack]

56. plus plus

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[dotymed]

35. Just

Read up on the "surgical strikes" made by these fly-bys.....

[libodem]

15. Good on her

I'm damn proud of her. Sounds like it was a peaceful protest, too, Even better!

[WileEcoyote]

16. Got Cindy a little attention.

This person is not the best representative of her cause. Her voice is usually annoying and alienating. Often borderline nauseating. Her sincerity may be genuine but not received that way by the world at large.

Sometimes you need a good front person. Cindy is not that.

[Hissyspit]

21. Well, I guess she will continue to express her right to dissent

until that "good front person" comes along. Let me know when they do.

[WileEcoyote]

31. I'm always reluctant to criticize Cindy

Am sure I sound insensitive and what not.

But I mean my god... A person's voice counts.

I didn't even mind Abbie Hoffman and other so-called "anti war rabble rousers". There's a time to make noise. Do it! I say.

But poor Cindy is not a gifted speaker. Her message will be lost on the masses from the irritating tone her vocal chords make. She may even do more harm than good to her cause. This needs to be stated.

Think about it: Let's say you're a Conservative smear artist (like anyone from Fox News). WHO would you highlight to throw the Peace movement in a negative light?

Your first choice would be Cindy Sheehan. Her voice plays to the middle American impression of "angry, whining Liberals".

This is not a fair representation of Cindy, but that is the automatic and widespread outlook of the average American.

So put her in charge of letter writing campaigns, fund raising, or anyplace where the only audience is her own kind. Even myself for instance. But don't you dare stick a microphone in front of her in anything resembling a national debate.

[proud2BlibKansan]

50. Your lack of reluctance to criticize Cindy is duly noted

I gave up a long time ago worrying about what Fox News thinks of her since anytime I have the need to read criticism of her I can come right here to DU.

[WileEcoyote]

53. What have you done in response to criticism of Cindy?

And what has Cindy done in response to criticism? Might be the better question.

Robert Kennedy Jr. is an example of a person, while not possessing the best speaking voice has brought people together and added credibility to his various causes. He is also brilliant, and works well on a sound, focused track of progressive liberal efforts. He also is getting a lot done. In this analysis I don't find his speaking voice all that irritating. Doesn't give me the feeling he's in it mostly to draw attention to himself.

I can't say that Cindy gives me that same impression.

[proud2BlibKansan]

55. You are asking the wrong person

I am a friend of Cindy's. I've done too much responding to criticism of her.

This is a new one though. I've never yet heard anyone criticize her because she isn't enough like Robert Kennedy Jr. Congratulations for being so original.

[Hekate]

37. I don't always agree with Cindy these days, but a bereaved mother has a right. I met her just after

... Casey was killed. She came out to Arlington West here in Santa Barbara, along with her family. We were having a ceremony in honor of Mother's Day, which was originally a Peace Movement idea before Hallmark Cards got hold of it. And Cindy came.

By God, a bereaved mother has a right.

Hekate

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[Hissyspit]

20. Yes, none of the brothers & sisters & daughters & sons of those civilians we

slaughter in the fairly indiscriminate & ineffective drone strikes will grow up to be dangerous enemies of the U.S. They will just think us peachy-keen.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16758

PESHAWAR: Of the 44 predator strikes carried out by US drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan over the past 12 months, only five were able to hit their actual targets, killing five key Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, but at the cost of over 700 innocent civilians.

[Divine Discontent]

24. ya know, I think these people come here because Liberals have better sites, and because of that

intellect, they want to be a part of it, and enjoy a well designed site.

You won't catch my ass on FR. Firstly, they're idiotic statements are painful (from the one time I read a thread someone linked to) and secondly, the site is shit, at least it was 3 years ago.

[Hissyspit]

25. It's still shit.

Meanwhile, DU is about to get a major upgrade.

[Divine Discontent]

28. LOL... that's right, pretty soon too. How interesting that will be - hopefully it'll have a

function that if enough of us alert on a post it will delete it or hold it for review or something. Can't wait to see the new revamp.

[argyl]

29. Freepers are geniuses. They have to be to navigate around that piss poor designed POS site.

[Divine Discontent]

22. glad you can understand English, written by intelligent people, unfortunately, we

DON'T BELIEVE IN TYPING IN ALL CAPS - IT MAKES ONE LOOK RIDICULOUS!

Oh, and guess what, I didn't read your blowhard statement. You're unworthy.

Here's to Cindy!!!! LOVE HER! The innocents that die because of these drones is unacceptable. I know to rethugs, who could care less how many non-whites get slaughtered, it's no big deal, but it is to people with a heart and a brain that work.

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[EFerrari]

27. How sad and stupid are you people.

I hope you don't electrocute yourself trying to toast bread.

[Hekate]

36. Already TS'd -- and so richly deserved. Disgusting troll. nt

[No Elephants]

44. Right back at ya!

[alp227]

30. Good, but why did she protest at a retired Vice President's home

but not the White House?

[Hekate]

38. Because Cheney is an effing war criminal and Barack Obama is not. That's why, genius.

:argh:

Hekate

[dotymed]

40. If Obama is not,

he is headed that way.

[Hekate]

42. No, he is not, but I doubt we can really have a meaningful dialog about it. nt

[dotymed]

46. I'm sorry I worked to get him elected.

He has continued most of bush's worst mandates and increased a few. Increased drone strikes that kill hundreds of civilians on each strike, no meaningful tax hikes for the wealthy, HC reform that only benefits insurance companies,continued eavesdropping on innocent Americans without court orders (before or after the offense), no war crimes investigation...etc...sorry but "I think we could have a meaningful dialog about it" if we keep it honest.

[proud2BlibKansan]

51. Actually he is killing innocent people

I think Obama is a good man. I voted for him. But his war policies are bad and innocent people are indeed dying. So the war criminal tag is not far fetched. Sadly.

[dotymed]

39. I think

she is going where it will make the most military difference. Cheney is still overseeing covert ops that he started. A wink and a nod from Washington, makes it okay.dubya and clinton were just "tasked" with overseeing the Haiti rescues. Dumya, is the one who intensified partisanship to unprecedented levels. I voted for and like Clinton, I realize that he is the best Republican President we have ever had. Come on, there is only one party with two faces. I hope we change this before 2012 and run Bernie Sanders, Alan Grayson..or whomever the MSM declares viable. Poor Dennis, they fucked him good.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

61. she has, over and over again

and she will continue to do so in DC

see http://peaceoftheaction.org/

why don't you join us?

[lib2DaBone]

32. Godspeed Cindy.....Watch Your Back.....

[EmeraldCityGrl]

33. Bravo Cindy...

for doing what a million others only talk about.

[Syntheto]

41. Okay, I don't get it...

...Cheney's been out of office for how long now? The CIA answers to the current president. This is a meaningless gesture. If Sheehan is antiwar, why isn't she in front of Clinton's house or the White House? The State Department and the Executive branch escalated the situation in Afghanistan, and just recently, too. I say, the more drones the better; that's our schtick, the other side uses suicide bombing, which is hardly a selective method to kill a particular individual. Cindy just misses dat ol' spotlight, I suspect. But she's gutless because she doesn't dare draw a crowd in front of the White House... just like people who dis Christianity but are too frightened to say a word about Islam. I'm underwhelmed.

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[twitomy]

47. In that case, since Obama and Biden

are carrying on the same policies as Bush/Cheney, including the continued use of drones, which is what she is protesting, then Obama and Biden are war criminals too. Why isnt she protesting them?

I know why.

Its not about "peace" or anti-war, its about (D) and (R)

[CJCRANE]

52. Sheehan isn't a Democrat. She ran against Pelosi in '08. nt

[Hekate]

54. Cindy is not a Democrat, and her running against Pelosi was one of the things I disagreed...

... with her doing, from a distance. But she's the one who lost her son in BUSH'S War, not me. It's all about ending war with her, as far as I can tell, and it overrides all other considerations -- again, as far as I can tell. I do know that she has continued to be close to the Veterans for Peace, among whom I count some personal friends.

Hekate

[twitomy]

57. If its all about ending the war with her,

then she should be protesting in front of the people in power NOW who can end the war. Newflash: Its not Cheney.

Thats why I think this is all disengneious bullshit.

[proud2BlibKansan]

59. Cheney needs to go to jail

He profited from Casey Sheehan's death.

[unkachuck]

66. "...she should be protesting in front of the people in power..."

....are guys like dickie ever really out of power?

....hang in there Cindy, and like others have said, watch your back....

[Hekate]

67. You've got it, Unkachuck. Darth Cheney and friends are not out of power...

... and their frightful legacy lingers on.

Hekate

[twitomy]

68. Oh please do explain how

Dick Cheney is giving orders to the military :eyes:

[PuraVidaDreamin]

63. Peace of the Action!!!

http://peaceoftheaction.org/

[PuraVidaDreamin]

62. You have no idea what you are talking about, do you?

http://peaceoftheaction.org/

[No Elephants]

45. Ya gotta love her. But, stay away from small planes, Cindy.

[Mari333]

48. her son passed away to fill cheney's bank accounts

you would do the same, any of you, if your child died for Cheney and his minions to fill their bank accounts.
in March she will be in DC to protest the Obama admin filling their bank accounts, too.

[Octafish]

69. + Infinity

Thank you, Mari333.

[proud patriot]

58. You mean cheney is not in Montana or Wyoming ?

where's he from?

[NeoConsSuck]

64. Transylvania

[classysassy]

70. Mrs Sheehan

a lady with ball,wish tyhose crooks in congress borrow one of hers.

[classysassy]

71. lady with balls

[robcon]

72. Her 15 minutes were up some time ago.

n/t

[yoyossarian]

73. I LOVE Cindy...

...and I HATE this motherfucker:



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