Camp Casey and Germany

[paineinthearse]

This reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw yesterday in Brookline (birthplace of JFK):

"48% of Americans agree with 98% of the rest of the world".

By email.

From: Casey's Mom
To:
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 1:48 PM
Subject: Camp Casey and Germany

Camp Casey and Germany
Cindy Sheehan

I have been invited to speak to the European Union Parliament in March in Strassbourg, Germany . My message will be one of peace and non-violent unity against the out of control murderous and disastrous policies of the Bush Administration. I wrote extensively about meeting with other world leaders in my article, "Friends don't let Friends Commit War Crimes." (www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206Q.shtml)

My message to the EU will focus on "we the people" forcing the leaders of all countries to work diplomatically and peacefully to solve problems. It is time we reach across artificial borders of lines drawn on a map to forge bonds of love and friendship with all members of humanity no matter what color, religion, language group or nationality that other person is. Killing other members of the human race is barbaric and abhorrent and should never be used to solve conflicts. This is so important with the current beating of the war drums against Iran, and we must not let off the President of Iran for his inflammatory and non-peaceful statements. The wonderful and innocent citizens of Iran don't deserve the fate that the undeserving citizens of Iraq received and are receiving on a daily basis still.

In the frenzy and excitement of my trip to Germany, some well meaning pacifists in the area have scheduled me to set up a Camp Casey outside of Landsthul, Germany, in front of the military hospital. I won't agree to do that.

The Camp Casey movement is pro-peace and pro-soldier. We love our troops so much that we want them to come home alive from the fiasco in the Middle East.

Camp Caseys have been set up all over the USA and the world and they are set up in front of the seats of power. The politicians and the war machine got us into this war, our soldiers are trying to protect each other and do the best that they can do under horrifically difficult circumstances.

The Camp Casey in Germany could be moved to a place where people with decision making power can see it. The soldiers have very little to say in their fates after they enlist (which is an entirely different subject) but especially the ones who have already been wounded in the service of their country…no matter how evil and greed-serving the phony mission is.

Let's set up Camp Caseys in front of recruiter's offices to stop our children from even enlisting to wear a uniform for the war profiteers. Let's set up Camp Caseys in front of the Pentagon…Congress…Congressional offices…embassies…the White House…propaganda media centers…war profiteers…President's vacation homes…Karl Rove's DC home…the list for valid protest locations is endless...but not in front of our troops.

Our struggle is with the industrial military complex and the people who put our soldiers in harm's way in the first place for no valid reason and who are keeping them in harm's way despite all evidence that this war is a nightmare and a mistake.

Let's leave our soldiers out of our protests. They have been put through so much by their commander in chief and his callous cronies already.

Cindy Sheehan is the proud mother of Spc. Casey Sheehan who was KIA in Sadr City, Iraq, on 04/04/04. She is the author of Not One More Mother's Child available at www.koabooks.org. Cindy is also the founder and President of Gold Star Families for Peace ( www.gsfp.org). Above all, Cindy is the very proud mother of Carly, Andy, and Janey Sheehan who hold down the fort in California.

[Dragonfli]

1. Go Cindy...

[acmejack]

2. The cover that should have been in a civilized Country

Very touching!

[Dragonfli]

4. A Cover Created For The "Civilized Underground"

If you like it - copy it and circulate it - with my permission and blessing.

[acmejack]

8. Many thanx, Dragonfli

[mom cat]

3. I love the way that she urges people to leave the troops out of those

who we protest. That lady has got courage and compassion.

[az chela]

5. We need to get busy and get these things done that Cindy

is suggesting.If we dont and we lose all our rights and freedoms we have only ourselves to blame!!!
Please I am begging all of you here on DU.Get involved,end the war get rid of bush co.If we dont who the hell will???If we let them keep on as they have been then we can kiss this country goodbye and realize that thousands died for nothing

[az chela]

6. Just a suggestion

How about we all print this out and put in on our to do list and pick something that we can do and get organized and call your friends and neighbors and start the movement for Casey and all our great people who have been killed or injured.

[europegirl4jfk]

7. Please tell Cindy that Strasbourg is in France

Okay, it's just a few miles from the German border but the EU Parliament is still in France.

[paineinthearse]

9. "Strassbourg, Germany "

OOPS. And it's spelled Strasbourg. Thanks, europegirl4jfk. Let's note the correction and move on to support the idea. God bless Cindy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassbourg

Strasbourg
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Strasbourg (French: Strasbourg, pronounced /stʀazbuʀ/; Alsatian: Strossburi; German: Straßburg) is the capital and principal city of the Alsace région of northeastern France, with approximately 650,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 1999. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the préfecture (capital) of the Bas-Rhin département.

The city's Germanic name means "town (at the crossing) of roads". Stras- is cognate to the English street from the German equivalence of the word, Straße, while -bourg from the German -burg ("fortress, town") is cognate to the English borough.

Strasbourg is an important centre of manufacturing and engineering, as well as of road, rail and river communications.

Strasbourg is the seat of the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights and it hosts a seat of the European Parliament, together with Brussels.

[Citrene]

10. I just can't begin to share how proud I am that this is the stand Cindy

has taken.

Peace, Cindy!