[Marxism] Cindy Sheehan: âBrought to You By Boeingâ

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

âBrought to You By Boeingâ
Journey for Humanity and Accountability
Final Day of Tour
By Cindy Sheehan

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/25225

Before I headed to our âGather-In of Heartsâ in Central Park West this
afternoon, I was watching NBCâs Meet the Press. Except for a brief
excerpt about the Alberto Gonzales hearing this week, the entire show
was about Obama vs. Hillary. Should Obama hit harder? Should Hillary
ignore him since sheâs the frontrunner? How will this affect the
primaries? Will it affect the primaries? Fox and CNN are trying to
distract us from real news that affects us all by âround the clock
reporting on Lindsay Lohan and NBC uses the shiny keys of Obama &
Clinton, two people whose campaigns together have each raised enough
money to pay for about five hours of the illegal and insane occupation
of Iraq.

I was wondering when Tim Russert would get around to talking about the
refugee crisis that BushCo and Congress Inc. have created in the Middle
East which is rapidly destabilizing the entire region, not just Iraq. Or
how about we talk about the impending invasion of Iran that Dick Nukeâem
the VP of War is jonesing for? And wouldnât it be nice if we heard some
cons for an invasion of Iran instead of the neocon pro-war all the time
crap? There is so much heartache and violence in the world. There are
too many of our brothers and sisters going without the bare necessities
and NBC wants us to care about two people who are co-opted into the
power elite and are feuding over foreign policy when they are both
Senators who have power right now and could affect the process
positively if they werenât busy campaigning for elections that are
months away.

I was wondering when the real discussion was going to occur until I saw
those five words: âBrought to you by Boeing:â the number one
aerospace/defense contractor in the world according to Fortune 500.  The
next show after Meet the Press is The McLaughlin Group which is brought
to a gullible American viewer ship by The Oil & Natural Gas Council.

I was at a Rage Against the Machine concert last night watching the
thousands of young people in the audience from stage right. The crowd
was as filled with life as the band and I was amazed at all the energy.
I wondered if the crowd knew how socially and politically radical the
words are to Rageâs music and are not just as mesmerized by the pounding
music and Tom Morelloâs amazing guitar playing as I am? I was wondering
how the peace and justice movement could harness that energy in a
positive direction to really shutting down the machine that is brought
to us by Boeing and The Oil and Natural Gas Council among thousands of
other companies that profit off of war and our politicians who let the
machine tell them how to govern to keep that same machine well oiled
while stealing financial and human resources right out from under the
noses of families and communities.

Before Casey was killed, I did not rage against the machine that has
been grinding up our soldiers and murderously oppressing other
populations for generations. As a matter of fact, I practically threw my
own son under the wheels of the machine. Despite my vague misgivings
about the machine and my desperate worry about Casey going to Iraq, 
I watched him leave through tear soaked eyes and a worry-laden heart.

Rage, rage, rage against that machine! Donât let it eat up you or your
children because it uses our flesh and blood to engender enormous
profits and while sending our children off to war to use up their
airplanes, bombs, guns, bullets, uniforms, helmets and boots, the
machine is sending its children off to expensive private schools to
raise more machine heads.

It is impossible to bring back the lives that have been stolen by the
machine, but it is never to late to save the future. I am hoping that my
candidacy against Nancy Pelosi in Californiaâs 8th will be able to put a
little sugar in the tank of the machine.

The machine is powerful and heartless but if we all stand up to it, we
can finally dismantle it this time.

Thanks for your overwhelming support of our Journey for Humanity and
Accountability! We have been welcomed everywhere and feel the energy for
impeachment building and the energy for a peopleâs campaign for humanity
and accountability growing.

The next stop for our group will be to Jordan and Syria to visit Iraqi
refugee camps and to take money and supplies to the refugees. To help go
to www.thecampcaseypeaceinstitute.org to donate and please put âFor
Iraqi Refugeesâ in the subject line.

I will be formally announcing my Independent candidacy for Congress in
San Francisco on August 6th, which besides being the day the machine
dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, is the two year anniversary of the
day we went to Crawford, Texas and established Camp Casey.




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WALTER LIPPMANN
Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
writer - photographer - activist
http://www.walterlippmann.com
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