Cindy Sheehan "retires"

fendrock
Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:05:24 +0000

I haven’t been following all of this too closely but – I found it sad and surprising that there was so little sympathy for Cindy Sheehan when she first lost her son and tried to speak to the President.

I’d like to think of protest movements as a way in which people raise their concerns, create public debate, and bring about meaningful change.

Contrast this to Sheehan being ignored by the President {how could any president refuse to meet with a grieving mother?). Her activism resulted in the purchase of land, which, to at least mark her effort, I would expect to become a peace park or some such.

Instead, the opposition would like to buy it – symbolically, a negation of her efforts.

Stalemate.