Cindy Sheehan: What Really Happened

Cindy Sheehan was arrested during our dear leaders dear discourse on the State of the Union. She was arrested for being a "protestor". She was a "protestor" because she wore a shirt that said, "2245 Dead. How many more?".


Cindy Sheehan's Side Of the Story

Is this America worth defending?

What happened to "the land of the free and the home of the brave"?

What happened to "live free or die"?

What happened to "Give me liberty or give me death"?

What happened to "Freedom isn't free"?

How did America become so unworthy a standard-bearer for liberty?

How do we restore what has been lost?

America without liberty, America without freedom, America without bravery might be George Bush's America but it isn't mine. 'Tis nothing but an unfertile seed.

I think Bush's America the paranoid, America the fearful, America the totalitarian is doomed to failure because it promotes control over competence, and fear over hope, and power over ideas.

When are we going to have courage again?

When are we going to reclaim our pride in our freedoms and view them as strengths?

When are we going to be glad that an American citizen can sit in the same room as the president of the United States and respectfully dissent?

If we give up these things why should we bother to defend ourselves against our enemies since they represent our worth?

What land will our troops come home to?

When are we going to realize that toleration, liberty, education, and freedom are necessary to scientific advancement and therefore military strength? That to expect to forgo the former and maintain the latter is to be near a painful wisdom?

What is wrong with our Congressmen that an American citizen can be hauled away in their midst and they should not only tolerate it but stay and cheerlead the one most responsible for it?

This type of thing is a symptom of a disease that is afflicting what America means, and consequently what it means to be an American.

Think of the fearlessness of Lady Liberty as she stands on Ellis Island, breaking chains of oppression and holding her flame of liberty high above her head so that all the world can see it.

She does not cower.

She does not tremble.

She does not hide in a bunker.