CINDY, PLEASE DON'T PROTEST BLUE ANGELS

[yellowjacket7]

BRUNSWICK — The Navy's fighter demonstration team, the Blue Angels, returns to Brunswick next month after a six-year absence, and standing nearby to protest the display of military power will be the nation's most prominent peace activist, Cindy Sheehan. Sheehan gained national attention this month by staging a vigil outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. She is scheduled to join a group of local war protesters who will march from the Brunswick Mall to the Brunswick Naval Air Station on the morning of Sept. 10, her publicist confirmed Monday.

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Anti-war protesters are expected to stage a rally outside the main gate Saturday. The rally's featured speaker will be Sheehan, whose son was killed while serving in Iraq. She will speak to the group about her experiences in trying to gain a meeting with the president.

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I don't see how protesting a military base, especially one that has been slated to be closed by BRAC helps her cause. I can't continue to support her if she goes along with this.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/050830blueangels.shtml

[Don Claybrook]

1. whatever

Glad you felt compelled to register to post just so you can complain about Cindy Sheehan.

Have a great day.

[DancingBear]

2. Countdown 5..4..3... n/t

[achtung_circus]

18. I like mine better.

[Just Me]

3. Oh, please!

:eyes: Could you be MORE OBVIOUS? :eyes:

[Mutley]

4. okay.

good luck with that. :hi:

[oasis]

5. Do whatcha gotta do. Cindy will do well by following her instincts.

[DS1]

6. Unfocused protests?

Never heard of it.

[frictionlessO]

21. Whatcha mean?

Just curious.

[HadItUpToHere]

7. her publicist?

that doesn't have a very good ring to it, IMHO.

[FreedomAngel82]

12. *snicker*

Cindy has a publicist? News to me. I've been following her since the John Conyers dsm hearing.

[wakeme2008]

14. Mmmm

The spokeswoman, Jessica Smith of Fenton Communications, a Washington, D.C.-based public relations firm, said Sheehan canceled a trip to Italy to participate in the Brunswick rally.

[HadItUpToHere]

23. why did you emphasize italy?

i'm not sure what you're trying to say-
my point is that when cindy starts having a publicist, she loses some of that homegrown/homespun quality that makes her cause work.

[uppityperson]

32. She is not Cindy's publicist.

I have heard rightwingers and counterprotestors complaining that Cindy has people helping her, and people and groups who have joined in the protest and are backing her now, and this is bad. This is not about Cindy. She is the face of the movement, the galvanizing force, but it is about Bush and the Iraq occupation and all of us. Rather like Rosa Parks is one big face for the civil rights movement, but the civil rights movement was not about Ms. Parks.

What makes her cause work is all of us getting involved and demanding accountability from Mr.bush, and congress, and getting the hell out of Iraq. That is what will make her cause work.

And she definetly needs and appreciates people helping her and coordinating stuff and getting involved since this is about bush and Iraq and all of us.

[WilliamPitt]

29. She accepted the invitation to Italy before Camp Casey was even concieved.

[wakeme2008]

33. OK if this Italy thing was a before Camp Casey thing

It just sounded bad coming out now, IMHO.

[WilliamPitt]

27. Really?

OK.

Handle two dozen visits to all corners of the country, including every request for radio, TV and print media interviews, plus accomodations and logistics for travel. Yourself.

That's what publicists do. If she didn't have one, she'd have no time for anything else but making plans.

Give me a break.

[HadItUpToHere]

39. yes, really-

as i've said previously, having a publicist detracts somewhat from the homespun(?) quality that she started out with...imho.

I am still entitled to my opinion, aren't i?

it might be that her publicist was mentioned for that very reason- i'm not familiar with the political leanings of the newspaper/reporter responsible for the article linked to the original post.

but- does she or doesn't she...?
another respondant to my post claims the woman is not cindy's publicist- and you seem to be saying she is...

and i don't begrudge her having a publicist, btw- i was only commenting on the perception it can create in people's minds.

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[smurfygirl]

9. yawn

:popcorn:

[blue sky at night]

10. yellowjacket7.........our country is going down the toilet..........

hope you have fun listening to the sound of "Freedom". This thing is a lot bigger now than Cindy, you can't stop a snowball rolling down the hill. We are gonna miss you..........should we send a fruit basket?

[frictionlessO]

11. How slanted can they be!? Shes not going there to protest the Blue Angels

or the base or military power shes going there on a bus tour to protest the war!

Don't believe everything you read especially when there is obvious agenda ingratiated bias.

[LunaSea]

13. I know what happened to you yellowjacket....

A cure is available, as soon as you are ready.

[uppityperson]

15. DO YOU KNOW HOW ANNOYING ALL CAPS IS?

Why don't you contact her directly since I don't think she's had time recently to hang out on DU reading advice? :crazy:

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. Actually, I would love to protest that myself. A monster waste

of taxpayer money and jet fuel for 1960's cold warrior "entertainment"

[bowens43]

17. Blah Blah blah blah.........

go home.

[Nitrogenica]

19. THIS JUST IN: Bush's PR firm has him doing photo ops..

while people's lives are tragically ending on a grand scale. Well I guess you gotta put your PR above everything else.

[yellowjacket7]

20. Ok, I apologize - I think the article was biased against Cindy

Or it has twisted her plans to protest. Can anyone confirm with more details?

[uppityperson]

24. Can anyone confirm that the article was biased? I will.

I confirm it.

[charlie]

26. It's pretty straightforward

No bias or twisting that I can tell. She'll be there. She's the featured speaker.

Guess you'll have to drop your support.

[frictionlessO]

31. Uhm actually it is pretty biased she is not going there to protest the

military or its "power". She is going there to speak out against the war in Iraq and hopefully put a stop to needless wars in the future.

Though i do understand wher you may be coming from, Cindy is pretty damn focused on that.

[FreedomAngel82]

34. Uh look at this whole thread

[kiraboo]

22. I'll be there to see her.

Sure gonna miss you! :cry:

Not.

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. Welcome to DU

Enjoy your brief stay.
:hi:

[bloom]

28. She has been protesting the war for quite awhile.

The only thing that is new is the publicity.

If people start saying they are against the war - but only if being against it does not hurt their local economy - then the protests are meaningless. You are either against the war or you are not. I am against it. Period.

And I fully support Cindy in her protests as well.

[RummyTheDummy]

30. Her publicist?

WTF?

[Kurovski]

35. Nothing, not one damn thing, will stop the truth now.

No amount of belly-aching or nit-picking or "second thoughts".

No Rovian tricks, no "swift-boating", no lies will stop what has started.

So I wouldn't sweat it if I were you.

The country will right what what Bush has disrupted, whether you like or support Cindy, or whether you don't.

[elehhhhna]

36. i smell popcorn.

[elehhhhna]

37. Rec'd for Greatest.. Sorry I went to Crawford now. You've totally turned

me around.

thanks!

[Kurovski]

38. Heheh! YEAH! Me too. I'm like, totally for the war now!