October 25, 2005

10 Responses to “if you can’t reach her,”

1. Katherine Coble Says:
   October 25th, 2005 at 10:52 am

   So does this strike anyone else as grisly? Almost as though she and others can’t wait for that 2000th death so they have something to build a new PR campaign around….

   Almost as though the 2000th American Soldier to die in Iraq is the equivalent of being the one millionth Shop-Rite customer. It’s just tacky.

2. Grayson Says:
   October 25th, 2005 at 12:11 pm

   Remember though, all of her actions are from the heart. Not staged or contrived. No sir.

3. John Hutcheson Says:
   October 25th, 2005 at 12:29 pm

   One might call the nearly 2000 deaths of American troops and the 24,000 Iraqi civilians rather grisly as well.

   I don’t know the heart of Ms. Sheehan, but individual acts of protest against unjust laws or perceived unjust wars are part of a great tradition of American dissent.

   kinda like some ‘uppity’ black thinking she should be able to ride in the front of a bus.

4. Bob K Says:
   October 25th, 2005 at 1:27 pm

   John, On today of all days, let’s not lob the grenade of equivalence with Cindy Sheehan on the grave of Rosa Parks.

5. John Hutcheson Says:
   October 25th, 2005 at 3:13 pm

   You and I may like/admire Rosa Parks a lot more than Cindy Sheehan, but while we admire what Parks did, lets not mothball the spirit of dissent and honor Parks in the abstract.

   Protesting a war that seems unnecessary and destructive may not be as popular and may seem self -aggrandizing (in the manner Sheehan has chosen), but sometimes the gesture has to be irritating and noisy to be noticed.

   I wouldn’t begin to assign moral equivalancy between Parks and Sheehan, but they both are expressing against something they consider wrong and immoral.

6. Katherine Coble Says:
   October 25th, 2005 at 4:04 pm

   “One might call the nearly 2000 deaths of American troops and the 24,000 Iraqi civilians rather grisly as well.”

   Oh, I do. I think they’re horrible and tragic and sad. But I also think all lives are of equal value in the eyes of God and to stage an event around a jackpot number is degrading and devaluing to all of the other lives and their subsequent deaths.

   Her event may be more easily noticed, but it is also more easily disregarded for the same reason.

7. Lee Says:
   October 25th, 2005 at 5:11 pm

   Maybe she’ll stop tying herself up to the fence when US soldiers are no longer killed, in her words, “for lies and for a PNAC [Project for the New American Century] agenda to benefit Israel…”

   Ahh, comparing Rosa Parks to an Anti-Semite.

   http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/8/21/155719.shtml

8. John Hutcheson Says:
   October 25th, 2005 at 6:13 pm

   I don’t particularly like Cindy Sheehan and I certainly don’t agree wth her ant-semetic statements. My point is that her protest against the war is in the same spirit as many other people who have made bold/irritating statements aganst what they perceive as injustice or immoral.

9. John Hutcheson Says:
   October 25th, 2005 at 6:14 pm

   doh! anti-semetic above should of course be anti-semetic

10. John Hutcheson Says:
    October 25th, 2005 at 6:18 pm

    someday I’ll learn to spell - anti-SEMITIC

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