As soon as Obummer took office I saw the antiwar movement disintegrate. People who took great joy in slamming and mocking W, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al (rightly so) could not bring themselves to utter a peep against the man who continued the same crimes and actually intensified them...
The era of Trump revived Russiaphobia to a level I wouldn't have thought possible. I couldn't have rational conversations with people who I once thought were intelligent.
Covid just cemented all this madness and showed me that there isn't much chance of forming cohesive opposition if so many are so easily co-opted/confused or just plain clueless. It seems it all must come crashing down and we'll have to start again from scratch.
I know there are many people on the right side so I try and "Keep the Faith" but the power of propaganda is so overwhelming. We do our best.
My realization came when, during some fundraiser for Gore in 2000, the host praised Gore for serving in Vietnam...because the opponent was a fortunate son National Guardsman. I thought, "Wasn't Vietnam the war the broke your party in two, with the anti-war folks left standing? Now you're proud of serving in that war?"
Thank you for being a genuinely liberal person and not a performative “liberal” like all those who rejected you/us!
As someone who has always been on what was considered “the left”, just a reminder that there are actually many of us in the health freedom movement - and liberal/conservative, left/right doesn’t really mean much anymore.
You have always been and continue to be on the side of human dignity, freedom and compassion - and for that I am most grateful!!!
The thing that is so off-putting to me on the conservative side of the health freedom movement is that they call piggies like Pelosi, Newsom, Biden, Obama, etc "commies." Yikes! If only!
Today's post is even more thought-provoking than usual; thus, I have many thoughts swirling in my head. But today has been energy-sapping due to cumulative, although minor, annoyances, so the thoughts refuse to coalesce into the usual verbose text.
But even though I can't get it together, I must "ditto" your righteous indignation, aka high dudgeon, at the appalling abuse and degradation of the traditional "Left" lexicon-- the term "left" itself is a good example.
It's the nature of politics and ideology that people will forever disagree, dispute, and argue over terms and definitions. But it's sad and infuriating that the would-be leftish progressives have caught up to, and even surpassed, the legacy right-wing red-bashing and ignorant hyperbole.
thank you Cindy. I fully understand. The endless insanity around me saddens me, and occasionally overwhelms. But people are waking up and the sheeple do need to at least apologize. Actually many need to go to prison, for life and be treated as a minimum as Julian Assange is being treated for revealing truth.
some good news? George Galloway soundly defeated the Conservative and labor candidates for UK Parliament and will be going back as an MP. that news perked me up a bit this morning.
Cuckoo for the CLot Shot? Oh, darn, the activists went Cuckoo for the Beninton Man, Cuckoo Obama. They went for Reagan when he died, and then the sucker cock Billy Clinton. They went cuckoo for Hillary and for GOre and Tipper was a hell of a stage performance. Cuckoo for Ellen and George W watching MLB.
Cuckoo for Hollywood, Cuckoo for scientism, cuckoo for Wall Street and green stocks and Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The cuckoo birds were already cuckoo for hearts and minds, and NGOs from hell.
Good stuff, this transformation.
Cancelled?
Teacheres like myself, at UTEP, 1983, fighting against cuckoo English Departments, female president, George the Guv, and the slime media, my own boys and girls in print.
But you have to chug along, chug along. Thanks for the memories.
You probably don’t remember, but I met you in Grass Valley, I think around 2001 when you came to speak (on a cold rainy day) at Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters’ community room. When you were done speaking I came up and told you “I don’t have many heroes, but you’re one of them”. I just wanted to let you know, that has not changed. Thank you Cindy! ❤️
That makes sense. “You are either with us, against us” started his term in 2021. I lose track of time 🤔. I lost lots of “friends” from not getting clot-shotted. At the time I considered it an IQ test.. Still do..
Cindy - you, Max Blumenthal, and Ryan Cristian (The Last American Vagabond podcast) helped keep me sane during the height of the covid madness when so many other "lefties" were losing their goddamn minds. Or, I should say, what was left of their minds after getting suckered into "Russiagate" and Trump Derangement Syndrome. Anyway, thank you. 🙏
Thank you Cindy for speaking out non-stop for the last 20 years after your beloved son was killed by the US war machine. It's so sad that someone thought you might have voluntarily withdrawn from public life when in fact you were "cancelled" by rabid covidian "peace activists". I salute your courage and honesty!
That person who was reaching to you was doing so out of admiration, so I hope you were able to contact that person with some appreciation. However, I concur with your righteous indignation about those who shunned us truth-tellers about the insanity around the "remedies" for covid. Now, we are to expect that ALL injections (maybe by this fall) will be MRNA. As for me, not one more of any kind. "They" the career criminals in the Medical Industrial Complex, have forfeited a great deal of trust by their abject complicity, save for the brave minority who stood with us and exposed the deceptions. Most medical professionals are now part of the proletariat, subordinated to the drug-pushing cartels we know so well, who have also captured government agencies and the mass media.
As I told you via email, it's not about the very sweet message from the person---and, you, the one who INVITED ME TO MAINE IN THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY, AND I CAME!!!! I think you know that I was respectful when I reached out to him.
You invited me even before Camp Casey--you are an OG. xo
Yes, I recall well, and you were a trouper to endure minus 4 degrees with a slight wind when I met you. But you were very well received by the antiwar folks to whom I introduced you. Hmm OG "old goat?"
I feel the same way, Cindy. I continue to be astonished by my fellow activists who know all about the truth about 911, the forever wars, Israel etc. who took the jab and bought into all of the bs. "Wear a mask if you come to the weekly vigil! Show proof of vaccination to come to the protest/demo that is inside and wear a mask. " I've had it with all of them and I won't support anything they are pushing. So validated that you are on the same page. Good company indeed!
Thank you for staying true to your principles, Cindy, and choosing to reject the magic needle juice and be cancelled for it, rather than kowtowing to the mass pressure to comply. In going through this, you were one more (sorely needed) beacon in the darkness for the rest of us who refused to inject the Kool-Aid and got cancelled for it by almost all of our activist friends too. I don't expect most people to ever apologize for how they treated the non-compliant during the last few years, but I do think that the more years that pass, the more obvious it will become to everyone who is still alive that complying was the self-destructive choice. Stay strong, and thank you for being true to yourself and for sharing your experiences with all of us. Have you ever read "The New Order of Barbarians" speech behind closed doors from 1969? It helps make more sense of all the folks who seemed aware of the corruption in the world B.C. (Before Con-vid) but then were totally suckered by the psy-ops of the last 10 years or so.
I say the last 10 years or so, because I think a lot of groundwork was laid during that time with the anti-Trump and anti-Russia hysteria to prepare the public for the Covid clotshot compliance con. And it worked way better than I ever expected it to, unfortunately.
Cindy, since you are a public figure with an easily read Substack site it is difficult to believe this person could not locate you if they were sincere. Sounds like a bullshitter.
It was nice to hear from Ray, though---maybe the person wanted to also connect with Ray? Who knows the person seems nice, but, there is no way in hell to judge sincerity via email
Totally great post! I've been on this "Beat" for years and years, but your "Protestations" on the subject have beaten me by leaps and bounds. Thank you, Cindy Sheehan! I don't even know what to write next, except that I appreciate your dedication to the idea that we can all live in a better, more fulfilled world. No more "Death Star"--Fuck that! Pornography is the only "Game in Town," which many of the young ones know, or don't know, and that's the "Game," Bob Barker, or Donald Trump, style. Do people even get this information?
I responded to this , and we have all been through some type of war. ( whether it’s revolution , or invisible civil war)
The underlying tone of war .. is always the same ..,is that one side thinks it’s better, or knows more, or just spite , demeaning an individual or their work , cutting corners, may gain from profits ie land, money, status..etc..
This sounds defensive and anti your post on civil dissent. Like you, I represent my thoughts and the injustices that have been done to me for no reason.( just like other people and their injustices that may be for no reason) . And I simply discuss the out of control corruption that most people seem to feed of and enjoy regardless of whom it impacts.
It is my understanding that these forums are for healthy debate, civic talk, and folks participating should not take things personal unless they are singled out.
Is anyone else having problems putting the heart, or replying to comments?
Not me
As soon as Obummer took office I saw the antiwar movement disintegrate. People who took great joy in slamming and mocking W, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al (rightly so) could not bring themselves to utter a peep against the man who continued the same crimes and actually intensified them...
The era of Trump revived Russiaphobia to a level I wouldn't have thought possible. I couldn't have rational conversations with people who I once thought were intelligent.
Covid just cemented all this madness and showed me that there isn't much chance of forming cohesive opposition if so many are so easily co-opted/confused or just plain clueless. It seems it all must come crashing down and we'll have to start again from scratch.
I know there are many people on the right side so I try and "Keep the Faith" but the power of propaganda is so overwhelming. We do our best.
Exactly---even though there are a lot of historical examples of movements being compromised, this was the modern death of the antiwar movement.
My realization came when, during some fundraiser for Gore in 2000, the host praised Gore for serving in Vietnam...because the opponent was a fortunate son National Guardsman. I thought, "Wasn't Vietnam the war the broke your party in two, with the anti-war folks left standing? Now you're proud of serving in that war?"
Thank you for being a genuinely liberal person and not a performative “liberal” like all those who rejected you/us!
As someone who has always been on what was considered “the left”, just a reminder that there are actually many of us in the health freedom movement - and liberal/conservative, left/right doesn’t really mean much anymore.
You have always been and continue to be on the side of human dignity, freedom and compassion - and for that I am most grateful!!!
I agree. Those are just labels meant to confuse, compartmentalize, and demonize people.
The thing that is so off-putting to me on the conservative side of the health freedom movement is that they call piggies like Pelosi, Newsom, Biden, Obama, etc "commies." Yikes! If only!
Today's post is even more thought-provoking than usual; thus, I have many thoughts swirling in my head. But today has been energy-sapping due to cumulative, although minor, annoyances, so the thoughts refuse to coalesce into the usual verbose text.
But even though I can't get it together, I must "ditto" your righteous indignation, aka high dudgeon, at the appalling abuse and degradation of the traditional "Left" lexicon-- the term "left" itself is a good example.
It's the nature of politics and ideology that people will forever disagree, dispute, and argue over terms and definitions. But it's sad and infuriating that the would-be leftish progressives have caught up to, and even surpassed, the legacy right-wing red-bashing and ignorant hyperbole.
Don't get me started! 😠
Yeah. Also when the libs call Trump a "Russia lover." None if it makes any sense....
Fascist pHARMa Pigs!
thank you Cindy. I fully understand. The endless insanity around me saddens me, and occasionally overwhelms. But people are waking up and the sheeple do need to at least apologize. Actually many need to go to prison, for life and be treated as a minimum as Julian Assange is being treated for revealing truth.
some good news? George Galloway soundly defeated the Conservative and labor candidates for UK Parliament and will be going back as an MP. that news perked me up a bit this morning.
You're still one of my heros...
Cuckoo for the CLot Shot? Oh, darn, the activists went Cuckoo for the Beninton Man, Cuckoo Obama. They went for Reagan when he died, and then the sucker cock Billy Clinton. They went cuckoo for Hillary and for GOre and Tipper was a hell of a stage performance. Cuckoo for Ellen and George W watching MLB.
Cuckoo for Hollywood, Cuckoo for scientism, cuckoo for Wall Street and green stocks and Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The cuckoo birds were already cuckoo for hearts and minds, and NGOs from hell.
Good stuff, this transformation.
Cancelled?
Teacheres like myself, at UTEP, 1983, fighting against cuckoo English Departments, female president, George the Guv, and the slime media, my own boys and girls in print.
But you have to chug along, chug along. Thanks for the memories.
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/oppenheimers-of-the-ashkenazi-population
Keep on chuggin'
You probably don’t remember, but I met you in Grass Valley, I think around 2001 when you came to speak (on a cold rainy day) at Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters’ community room. When you were done speaking I came up and told you “I don’t have many heroes, but you’re one of them”. I just wanted to let you know, that has not changed. Thank you Cindy! ❤️
Not 2001. I didn't do anything until Casey was killed in 2004. I do remember that event, though. It was probably in 2005. <3
I went to Grass Valley on a beautiful spring day before we did Tour de Peace (my bicycle ride across the country). That was also a great event.
That makes sense. “You are either with us, against us” started his term in 2021. I lose track of time 🤔. I lost lots of “friends” from not getting clot-shotted. At the time I considered it an IQ test.. Still do..
Who the Gods would destroy they first make cuckoo.
Cindy - you, Max Blumenthal, and Ryan Cristian (The Last American Vagabond podcast) helped keep me sane during the height of the covid madness when so many other "lefties" were losing their goddamn minds. Or, I should say, what was left of their minds after getting suckered into "Russiagate" and Trump Derangement Syndrome. Anyway, thank you. 🙏
Much love!
Hey, I can respond to comments again!
Thank you Cindy for speaking out non-stop for the last 20 years after your beloved son was killed by the US war machine. It's so sad that someone thought you might have voluntarily withdrawn from public life when in fact you were "cancelled" by rabid covidian "peace activists". I salute your courage and honesty!
I can write comments, but I cannot reply to comments???????
Let's see if this posts!
I think it's fixed!
That person who was reaching to you was doing so out of admiration, so I hope you were able to contact that person with some appreciation. However, I concur with your righteous indignation about those who shunned us truth-tellers about the insanity around the "remedies" for covid. Now, we are to expect that ALL injections (maybe by this fall) will be MRNA. As for me, not one more of any kind. "They" the career criminals in the Medical Industrial Complex, have forfeited a great deal of trust by their abject complicity, save for the brave minority who stood with us and exposed the deceptions. Most medical professionals are now part of the proletariat, subordinated to the drug-pushing cartels we know so well, who have also captured government agencies and the mass media.
As I told you via email, it's not about the very sweet message from the person---and, you, the one who INVITED ME TO MAINE IN THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY, AND I CAME!!!! I think you know that I was respectful when I reached out to him.
You invited me even before Camp Casey--you are an OG. xo
Yes, I recall well, and you were a trouper to endure minus 4 degrees with a slight wind when I met you. But you were very well received by the antiwar folks to whom I introduced you. Hmm OG "old goat?"
I feel the same way, Cindy. I continue to be astonished by my fellow activists who know all about the truth about 911, the forever wars, Israel etc. who took the jab and bought into all of the bs. "Wear a mask if you come to the weekly vigil! Show proof of vaccination to come to the protest/demo that is inside and wear a mask. " I've had it with all of them and I won't support anything they are pushing. So validated that you are on the same page. Good company indeed!
Adelante!
Thank you for staying true to your principles, Cindy, and choosing to reject the magic needle juice and be cancelled for it, rather than kowtowing to the mass pressure to comply. In going through this, you were one more (sorely needed) beacon in the darkness for the rest of us who refused to inject the Kool-Aid and got cancelled for it by almost all of our activist friends too. I don't expect most people to ever apologize for how they treated the non-compliant during the last few years, but I do think that the more years that pass, the more obvious it will become to everyone who is still alive that complying was the self-destructive choice. Stay strong, and thank you for being true to yourself and for sharing your experiences with all of us. Have you ever read "The New Order of Barbarians" speech behind closed doors from 1969? It helps make more sense of all the folks who seemed aware of the corruption in the world B.C. (Before Con-vid) but then were totally suckered by the psy-ops of the last 10 years or so.
I say the last 10 years or so, because I think a lot of groundwork was laid during that time with the anti-Trump and anti-Russia hysteria to prepare the public for the Covid clotshot compliance con. And it worked way better than I ever expected it to, unfortunately.
Cindy, since you are a public figure with an easily read Substack site it is difficult to believe this person could not locate you if they were sincere. Sounds like a bullshitter.
that's what I was thinking---plus facebook.
I am very easy to find, i think....
It was nice to hear from Ray, though---maybe the person wanted to also connect with Ray? Who knows the person seems nice, but, there is no way in hell to judge sincerity via email
Totally great post! I've been on this "Beat" for years and years, but your "Protestations" on the subject have beaten me by leaps and bounds. Thank you, Cindy Sheehan! I don't even know what to write next, except that I appreciate your dedication to the idea that we can all live in a better, more fulfilled world. No more "Death Star"--Fuck that! Pornography is the only "Game in Town," which many of the young ones know, or don't know, and that's the "Game," Bob Barker, or Donald Trump, style. Do people even get this information?
"I am not very interested in being associated too closely with establishmentarians who disguised themselves as revolutionaries."
Profound, Cindy. Profound. Covid has made the world a much more foggy place to be...in more ways than one.
I responded to this , and we have all been through some type of war. ( whether it’s revolution , or invisible civil war)
The underlying tone of war .. is always the same ..,is that one side thinks it’s better, or knows more, or just spite , demeaning an individual or their work , cutting corners, may gain from profits ie land, money, status..etc..
I think we can agree on that.
I agree with most of what you say, but, I don't understand a lot of it.
You seem upset with me, so I feel like I was not out of line asking for clarification
I still don't know
This sounds defensive and anti your post on civil dissent. Like you, I represent my thoughts and the injustices that have been done to me for no reason.( just like other people and their injustices that may be for no reason) . And I simply discuss the out of control corruption that most people seem to feed of and enjoy regardless of whom it impacts.
It is my understanding that these forums are for healthy debate, civic talk, and folks participating should not take things personal unless they are singled out.
I can ask for clarification because I am not sure why you got upset? I hope I am being civil.