Go Cindy

Cindy Sheehan, who gave the Bush-era's peace movement a proper kick-off by camping out in a ditch down the street from the former president's ranch after her son died in Iraq, is still honing her protest craft.

Because really, to her, the Bush administration will never truly end until its key players are prosecuted.

On Monday, June 8, Cindy and friends will march on former President Bush's new home in the well-to-do Dallas suburb of Preston Hollow.

  Raw Story

And I have the day off. I should probably be there. But, Cindy, I’m more concerned about being sure I make it to meet my son who will be home on leave from Baghdad. Sorry. And good luck with that.

"Go away," resident Kathie Taub said. "Go back! Leave us alone!"

Taub said Sheehan had already protested and should "now leave everybody alone."

That’s the American spirit, Kathie. I defend your right to say something once. You had your say, Cindy. You lost. Go away.

I’m afraid Kathie, in her upper class womb, doesn’t understand the spirit of struggle. She probably never had to.

Of course, Cindy is quite comfortable being ridiculed by practically all sides (including her own). The "Peace Mom," as she became known, was hit by the right for criticising the invasion of Iraq and, eventually, by the left for being a perpetual spotlight-seeker.

Apparently “the left” doesn’t understand it either.

In spite of the sympathy I feel for her cause, I can't help but wonder what this is meant to accomplish ... Aside from, ah, annoying the neighbors. Looks like a lot of Dallasites feel the same.

Apparently neither do Stephen C. Webster and/or David Edwards who put together the Raw Story article.

Happily, there are a lot of comments to their article that set them straight about the right and reason to continue protesting when a war criminal goes unpunished and is allowed to live in luxury amongst us. I feel a bit encouraged.