Diary: Time to Jump Start the Anti War Movement

This latest dagger in the back should be the final one except of course to the fawning, brainless O-Bots who only were lured into politics to worship the false idol reality TV prez and the denial stricken progressives who assure the rest of us to keep waiting for the chess master to set up his grand master plan and he will like Michael Jordan then dance spinning dervishes past, around and through bewildered opponents who never knew what hit em. Despite what will prove to be futile efforts by exiled DNC chairman Howard Dean to bring pressure for the public option as the old hunting saw goes, it's time to call in the dogs and piss on the fire...this one's over.

Now what?

Which brings us to the question of what thehell happened to the anti-war movement? When Bush was riding tall in the saddle there were millions in the streets (although you would never know it with the corporate media focusing on celebrity sleaze and indoctrination) as well as a serious coalition to bring an end to the illegal wars and murders of brown people in far away lands. Now of course the opportunistic DemocRATs smelling foot soldiers in their war to return to the guardians of all things corporate smelled their opportunity and to an astoundingly swift and successful degree co-opted much of the liberal side of the peace movement and merged it with the Obama Generation newbies. But with the champagne not yet flat after the coronation balls to celebrate the coming of the new king the drones were already flying and the cruise missile liberals were totally down with it now as long as it was their guy in the White House. It has been an endless series of betrayals ever since, the wars still rage, a ruthless stone cold killer named General Stan McChrystal has been sent into Afghanistan to perform his black ops magic, Pakistan is ready to go up in flames, Iraq is again erupting and sooner or later Obama is going to have to be pressured into greenlighting an Israeli strike on Iran - much easier to justify now that his poll numbers are sinking like whaleshit to the bottom of the sea.

This is unconscionable, intolerable and with the financial cost of sustaining the empire destroying the domestic economy it is unsustainable.

The only hope for progressives, liberals and the left in general is to jump start the anti war movement and to do it soon. There is a glimmer of hope that this can happen with a bit of help from the principled left - remember Cindy Sheehan? She used to be a high profile figure before the Rahm Emanuel wing of the DemocRAT party threw here under the bus. Well...she's back and is planning an audacious protest at Martha's Vineyard where Obama will be retreating for his summer vacation much like the one where she showed up at Chickenhawk Ranch down in Crawford so many years ago. Here is the press release from her blog Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox:

Cindy Sheehan heads to Martha's Vineyard to Confront Obama on the War

August 16, 2009

For immediate release:

Next week, Cindy Sheehan will join other like-minded peace activists to have a presence near the expensive resort on Martha's Vineyard where President Obama will be vacationing the week of August 23-30.

From her home in California, Ms. Sheehan released this statement:

"There are several things that we wish to accomplish with this protest on Martha's Vineyard.

First of all, no good social or economic change will come about with the continuation or escalation of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. We simply can't afford to continue this tragically expensive foreign policy.

Secondly, we as a movement need to continue calling for an immediate end to the occupations even when there is a Democrat in the Oval Office. There is still no Noble Cause no matter how we examine the policies.

Thirdly, the body bags aren't taking a vacation and as the US led violence surges in Afghanistan and Pakistan, so are the needless deaths on every side.

And, finally, if the right-wing can force the government to drop any kind of public option or government supported health care, then we need to exert the same kind of pressure to force a speedy end to the occupations."

Cindy Sheehan will arrive on the Vineyard on Tuesday, August 25th.

For more information, or to request an interview with Cindy Sheehan please contact:

Laurie Dobson
lauriegdobson@yahoo.com
(207) 604-8988

or

Bruce Marshall
brmas@yahoo.com(802) 767-6079

How much coverage is this going to get in the corporate media? ZERO is my bet.

And will she be confronted by the Secret Service who had no such issues with the assault weapon toting goon in Arizona?

By definition every President of the United States is a war criminal, Democrats and liberals brought hell forth against the murderers Johnson and McNamara and set off a social movement that shook this country to it's very roots.

Time Again....