"Cuando comencé a decir que el Partido Demócrata tiene las mismas normas que el Republicano, el apoyo a mi causa comenzó a erosionar. Creo que nadie me prestó atención cuando señalé que el tema de la paz y la gente muriendo sin razón alguna no es cuestión de derecha o izquierda, sino del bien y el mal", agregó. (Cindy Sheehan).

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/05/30/index.php?section=mundo&article=030n2mun

En EU importa más el American Idol que la guerra, dice

Renuncia Cindy Sheehan a la lucha pacifista; vuelve a su hogar

DPA, THE INDEPENDENT

Washington, 29 de mayo. Cindy Sheehan, considerada el rostro del activismo antibélico estadunidense por protestar contra la guerra en Irak frente al rancho del presidente George W. Bush en Texas, anunció este martes que abandonará el movimiento pacifista y regresó hoy a California.

Estados Unidos se está convirtiendo en un "baldío fascista corporativo" facilitado por un sistema en el que ambos partidos -Republicano y Demócrata- son igualmente culpables, dijo. Además señaló que repetidamente fue atacada por los conservadores y liberales quienes la acusaron de ser una "prostituta de atención".

Sheehan publicó su carta de renuncia en Internet y se retiró hoy de Crawford, en Texas, para regresar a su casa en California. "Me iré a mi casa, seré la madre de mis otros hijos y trataré de recuperar algo de lo que hemos perdido", después de señalar que su lucha vació su cuenta de banco, erosionó su matrimonio y provocó tensiones en su relación con sus otros hijos. El hijo de Sheehan, Casey, murió a los 24 años en una emboscada en Irak, en 2004.

Este retiro se da unos días después que los demócratas desistieron de impulsar su plan para condicionar la aprobación del presupuesto de 100 mil millones de dólares destinado a Irak, a cambio de un cronograma para el retiro de las tropas estadunidenses de ese país.

El hecho causó un profundo malestar en el movimiento pacifista, que lo considera una capitulación ante el gobierno de Bush.

"Fui mimada por la así llamada izquierda mientras limité mis reclamos a George W. Bush y al Partido Republicano", indicó Sheehan.

"Cuando comencé a decir que el Partido Demócrata tiene las mismas normas que el Republicano, el apoyo a mi causa comenzó a erosionar. Creo que nadie me prestó atención cuando señalé que el tema de la paz y la gente muriendo sin razón alguna no es cuestión de derecha o izquierda, sino del bien y el mal", agregó.

Y se cuestionó: "¿Por qué me estoy sacrificando y por qué los demócratas se pusieron de rodillas ante George W. Bush?"

Sheehan también criticó al movimiento pacifista por sus pequeñas luchas internas, y señaló que el país como tal aún no está listo para dar los pasos necesarios para la paz.

Sheehan comenzó a protestar contra la guerra en junio de 2004, tras un encuentro con Bush tres meses después de la muerte de su hijo. La madre desconsolada y crítica recogió la atención mundial y comenzó a crecer el descontento con la guerra en Irak.

La también llamada Mamá de la Paz, dijo que lo más doloroso de toda su experiencia es que "Casey murió por nada... murió por un país al que le importa más quién será el próximo American Idol que saber cuántas personas morirán en los próximos meses", escribió.

Una baja más para la causa. La verdadera, no esa caricatura que ronda entre las penumbras. Que en realidad se alimenta de teorías trasnochadas, de la escoria del pensamiento humano. Una Voluntaria cuelga su palabra, se lleva la RESISTENCIA a casa, nos priva de su alegría, su paciencia, su amor desinteresado. Hold on! Sí hay interés: “…el temá de la paz…es cuestión…del bien y el mal”.

Si algo podemos sugerirle a Sheehan y a todos nosotros también es que debemos “interiorizar” que partidos y a veces “candidatos” son parte del sistema de poder, dice Mojarro; y Almeyra los llama “transitorios” para nuestros verdaderos objetivos a largo plazo, por esas utopías debemos luchar diariamente y sin descanso.

Eso de las pequeñas luchas internas no es en realidad un obstáculo si lo usamos como acicate, como retroalimentación, como crecimiento. Sólo los “impolutos” o los “ingenuos” pueden pretender que este DEVENIR es perfecto.

Eso del American Idol más importante que los muertos en Iraq, es precisamente el meollo de este asunto. Iba a decir así los están preparando, pero creo que la frase correcta sería así los condicionan. A lo mejor a estos los podríamos disculpar Cindy; pero hay otra especie que es más peligrosa: aquellos que saben que están traicionando y lo hacen concientemente, y a la sombra. Ya que son tan cobardes que son incapaces de exponer su palabra y actuar en concordancia. Por lo menos sabríamos, de su propia boca y de frente, que “Nos van a acabar”. ¡Cuidadito con esos!

M@roculto;

Norwich, G(ran) B(aja);

31/5/07

P.D.ANTI-ERUDITA. "You are out of your mind...your great learning is driving you INSANE". Acts 26:24 (NIV).

P.D.PACIFICA. "I don't need to FIGHT/To prove I'm RIGHT". - Baba O'riley (The Who).

Pilona de despedida.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/28/12530/1525

"Good Riddance Attention Whore"

by CindySheehan

Mon May 28, 2007 at 09:57:01 AM PDT

I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes.

* CindySheehan's diary :: ::

*

I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day Morning. These are not spur of the moment reflections, but things I have been meditating on for about a year now. The conclusions that I have slowly and very reluctantly come to are very heartbreaking to me.

The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a "tool" of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our "two-party" system?

However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the "left" started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of "right or left", but "right and wrong."

I am deemed a radical because I believe that partisan politics should be left to the wayside when hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike. It amazes me that people who are sharp on the issues and can zero in like a laser beam on lies, misrepresentations, and political expediency when it comes to one party refuse to recognize it in their own party. Blind party loyalty is dangerous whatever side it occurs on. People of the world look on us Americans as jokes because we allow our political leaders so much murderous latitude and if we don’t find alternatives to this corrupt "two" party system our Representative Republic will die and be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland. I am demonized because I don’t see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person’s heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?

I have also reached the conclusion that if I am doing what I am doing because I am an "attention whore" then I really need to be committed. I have invested everything I have into trying to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither. If an individual wants both, then normally he/she is not willing to do more than walk in a protest march or sit behind his/her computer criticizing others. I have spent every available cent I got from the money a "grateful" country gave me when they killed my son and every penny that I have received in speaking or book fees since then. I have sacrificed a 29 year marriage and have traveled for extended periods of time away from Casey’s brother and sisters and my health has suffered and my hospital bills from last summer (when I almost died) are in collection because I have used all my energy trying to stop this country from slaughtering innocent human beings. I have been called every despicable name that small minds can think of and have had my life threatened many times.

The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think. I have tried every since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives. It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most.

I have also tried to work within a peace movement that often puts personal egos above peace and human life. This group won’t work with that group; he won’t attend an event if she is going to be there; and why does Cindy Sheehan get all the attention anyway? It is hard to work for peace when the very movement that is named after it has so many divisions.

Our brave young men and women in Iraq have been abandoned there indefinitely by their cowardly leaders who move them around like pawns on a chessboard of destruction and the people of Iraq have been doomed to death and fates worse than death by people worried more about elections than people. However, in five, ten, or fifteen years, our troops will come limping home in another abject defeat and ten or twenty years from then, our children’s children will be seeing their loved ones die for no reason, because their grandparents also bought into this corrupt system. George Bush will never be impeached because if the Democrats dig too deeply, they may unearth a few skeletons in their own graves and the system will perpetuate itself in perpetuity.

I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost. I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble.

Camp Casey has served its purpose. It’s for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford , Texas ? I will consider any reasonable offer. I hear George Bush will be moving out soon, too...which makes the property even more valuable.

This is my resignation letter as the "face" of the American anti-war movement. This is not my "Checkers" moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.

Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.

It’s up to you now.

... RESISTENCIA a la antigüita.