Sheehan Tests Texas-Style Free Speech Again

[babylonsister]

http://www.minutemanmedia.org/TM%20081606.htm

Sheehan Tests Texas-Style Free Speech Again
by Cynthia Hall Clements

For better, for worse, in sickness, and in health, Cindy Sheehan is back in Texas to ask politely for an audience with (or to mercilessly torment in the media, whatever, same thing) President George W. Bush to discuss his policies in that never-win-land of (or that we're about-to-round-the-corner-in, if you are politically deluded) Iraq.

Recently in Crawford, Sheehan began what might become an annual vigil—in its second year now--until Bush leaves office none too soon. She is laying siege outside his summer refuge, his getaway from all that ails him the rest of the year in Washington and overseas. It's Bush's chance to stick his head in the Texas clay soil—see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil—and wish his political problems away upon a star.

Instead of camping in a roadside ditch near the Bush compound this year, Sheehan recently bought a real estate lot with the insurance money she received after her oldest son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004. Some of the "natives" were less than amused with her purchase and said so in quiet, and inhospitable, fashion for local Texas folk.

One anti-peace protestor, a self-righteous patriot by any other name, clarified America's First Amendment rights of protest and free speech when Sheehan first set up camp. He eloquently proclaimed, "Freedom of speech is good until it gets out of whack." Who needs the courts to interpret our constitutional rights when we've got Bubba?

Self-described "peace mom" is on a mission from God—or the higher being of her choice—and she refuses to go quietly into that good night. Probably many a turn-a-blind-eye Bush supporter prays that Sheehan would just flee the state, to Oklahoma or New Mexico, perhaps, much like the Texas House and Senate Democrats did in 2003 to attempt to prevent forced partisan redistricting. Out, out, damn Democrats! "We don't want you around here no more," chant Texas Republicans.

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[patrice]

1. Your choice of phrasing here . . .

"refuses to go quietly into that good night" is scaring me, since I don't know what that operation she had recently was for. Do you?

[elehhhhna]

2. minor gyne, per the news. No biggie.

[babylonsister]

3. I also heard minor gyno problem. And FWIW, I didn't write this. nt

[patrice]

4. Oh right, I see that you didn't, I just goofed.

Thanks for the info about CS.

[Nevernose]

5. Hold it right there! "Bubba" is the Big Dog's nickname.

And GO CINDY!