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I have been an extremist for peace and against war for all of my life before becoming the director of a nonprofit peace organization. I remained a peace activist for almost 20 years in that position -- but have now become an extremist for peace and against war once again -- whether it be the Israeli/US "genocidal war" in Gaza; the illegal US presence in Syria following years of meddling in Syria through brutal proxies; opposition to the US/UK targeting of Yemen just a few days ago after years of Saudi/US cooperation in a devastating war there....the list goes on. We must never be silent on issues of life and death! Thank you, Cindy Sheehan, for continuing to inspire us all.

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I always enjoyed your peace organization's efforts to educate the masses. I would go to the annual meetings every year. You are amazing.

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Great message and great speech. Cindy. Faced with a beyond extreme enemy, we should all remain extremely dedicated to overthrowing them. Casey would be proud - and MLK Jr. of course, who in a 1967 speech to the board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said, "The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism."

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Very nice journal of your life. I always enjoy reading your about your life and observations and rage and dogmatic search for peace in this insane world run by psychopaths.

Now the US is (again) bombing to shit people who make $100 a year. What's next?

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Goddess knows!

xo

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The evil-doers seem to have taken the motto: "Psychopaths of the World Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Humanity!"

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If anyone wants to make this into a bumper sticker or poster, go for it!

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I am an extremist human. I refuse to excuse society for supporting inhuman policies and actions.

I support human beings, not mobs.

More and more I understand deep down what George Carlin felt. He said that he didn't like people who wear the same hats. 😂

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Bravo Cindy! That is wonderful. And it brought to mind this quote said by Martin Luther King on April 4,1967.

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent. “—MLK

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Jan 15Edited

Thanks for revisiting your thoughtful and poignant speech. I risk lowering the tone by recycling an MLK Day polemic that I've posted in various forms for years:

Sadly, it's almost become a cliché to observe that Dr. King's life and beliefs have been purposely repressed and denied by a long-term, top-down consent-manufacturing campaign, aka Big Lie propaganda. This is obvious from an examination of the way the MLK federal holiday is observed.

The official celebration of "Martin Luther King Day" has increasingly advanced the agenda of expurgating the memory and meaning of MLK's radical leadership, especially the powerful anti-war, anti-empire, and anti-capitalism views King espoused during his final months of life as he continued to evolve politically.

Instead, as numerous critics have observed, Dr. King has been formally reduced to a "plaster saint", a gifted orator and civil rights advocate whose legacy begins and ends with promoting "non-violence" and public service. The hideous depersonalized sculpture that's the centerpiece of the Washington DC "MLK Memorial" ironically captures the ugly deceit informing this official rehabilitated conception of King's life and work.

With the cooperation and blessing of complacent moderates in and out of power, the mainstream narrative imposed a Booker T. Washington façade on Dr. King's life work. Thus, the generations who came after King's death are instructed that MLK was all about "volunteerism" and, yes, public "service". Local news stations in my city reverently proclaim this holiday as "The Doctor Martin Luther King Day of Service", and showcase saccharine "human interest" stories of schoolkids doing volunteer work and the like to honor MLK's ostensible legacy.

Thus, King is reduced to being a benevolent "uncle", a House Negro "role model" exemplifying polite and submissive "volunteerism".

This sanitized emphasis on submissive, compliant "service" fortuitously leaves no room for the possibility that any decent, responsible kid might be out there dabbling in radical counterculture, or actually agitating for social change as King did. Instead, they are adjured to meekly and reverently line up like choir members to perform civic "service" in honor of King's memory-- as if King's message is "Help to row the boat, don't rock it!"

To be fair, this year for the first time I saw opinion pieces in the online version of the remaining Philly newspaper, The Inquirer, pushing back on the now-settled sanitized memory of King. But even those challenges reinforce the Big Lie by arguing that honoring King with volunteerism and public service is commendable and desirable, but isn't "enough" to conquer social ills like warmongering and racism.

Meanwhile, local mass-media still piously refer to the holiday as "The Martin Luther King Day of Service". It gives me the fantods.

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Afterword: today, January 15, 2024, I had the bitter déjà vu experience of beginning my day with the local newsradio's pious glurge extolling the MLK "Day of Service" holiday. Every time I tuned in at the top of the hour for news of an impending snowstorm, I was treated to newsreaders chirping approvingly about MLK-inspired volunteers "rolling up their sleeves" while performing community service.

I'm not knocking "community service", but I deeply resent co-opting Dr. King's true history and legacy by substituting pious glurge. Bah! Humbug! 😡

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Great post as always. I'm sure Casey is somewhere really proud of you. You are always on the correct side of the issues. You have made such a great difference and you are a wonderful example to all of us.

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Amazing how all the peaceful people are called "extremists" by extreme people who do not respect human life.

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Bravo. And, even more urgent today.

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Words by which to struggle!

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Great message Cindy. God bless

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Dear Cindy Sheehan,

I, with friends of mine and with tens of thousand others drove down to Washington D.C. and protested against the war in Iraq early in 2003 before it started. Our voices made no difference. The war machine was in full swing and never budged a split second. The war was based on lies. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. The brother in Law of Saddam Hussein left Iraq and went to Jordan. He was immediately debriefed by the American Ambassador in Amman, Jordan. He told the Americans that Saddam Hussein did not have any weapons of Mass Destruction. The Atomic Weapons' inspector Hans Blix had the same message to the Americans that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction

In addition, Iraq had nothing to do with 911. Saddam Hussein hated and despised Usama Bin Laden. The rush to war was to destroy Iraq's military capability, to destroy its social structure of free education and free health care for all. America cannot stand educated Arab Nations. These would be a threat to its darling nation Israel. It sent our sons to fight an illegal war, against the will of the United Nation. Your beloved son Casey and other American sons died in that war and over a million Iraqis were bombed in a shock and awe American brutal assault. That was a distilled and concentrated criminal act on the part of the USA.

Our government is out of control. We, as citizens, have very little leverage to change policy. Look at the genocide taking place in Gaza right now. 26,000 civilians were killed since October 7, Gaza's homes, high rises, schools, bakeries, hospitals, shops, livelihoods, industries, churches, farms, and trees have been destroyed with American 2000 ton bombs. Journalists, teachers, doctors, nurse, poets, and UNRWA workers were killed. Our Commander in chief Biden will not order a cease fire as requested in the Security Council and by over 143 nations in the General Assembly who voted for a ceasefire.

In spite of the lack of response to the wishes of the citizens, we will continue to march and state our opinion and demand a return to peace.

We have the power of the word. We should always begin by talking. But our government reacts with weapons. This is how animals behave. They attack each other. We are given the power of reason and speech; we construct edifices to solve our problems in discussions as in the UN but we prefer to attack, attack and attack some more.

I will never stop resisting in the hope that one day we will elect a government that will truly represent its people. On January 13, 2024 there was a March on Washington in support of the Palestinians and an end to the War on Gaza and to demand a ceasefire. The march that stopped the capital was not even mentioned in the news. Our Media is also controlled. BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO DEMAND PEACEFUL MEANS TO ADDRESS CONFLICTS in the hope that one day our government will respond.

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“When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” — MLK

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indeed it does. One must hold fast to that reality.

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MLK was a revolutionary. The fact his image and legacy have been reduced to a benevolent older man is indicative of the dumbing down of American education and its wicked stepsister: capitalism. Ms Sheehan has been on the side of truth telling to power hungry men and women and the US military industrial complex since her son’s murder. You either stand with her or you hide the horrifying truth from your own psyche. The United States and its retro philosophy of “manifest destiny” to “spread democracy” while causing death and destruction has made us the most hated empire in the world. That won’t be forgiven when that “arc of justice” bends in the right direction once and for all. And it will. And It is.

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Bless you for revisiting this speech, sentiments even more urgent now than they were in 2005 sad to say.

I am an extreme champion of Team Human! I fight the war against humanity and all natural life perpetrated by control freak technocrat parasites who have infiltrated with their intentionally toxic tech, every level of bureaucracy and the markets with their total slavery agenda.

NOT MY BRAIN/MIND! NOT MY BODY! NO WAY, NO HOW, NOT PLAYING YOUR STUPID-ASS VIDEO GAMES! I AM LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD CREATING ART AND PERFORMANCES!

The more I learn about this stuff, the more sickened, nauseated and horrified I get, and I wonder what kind of inhuman psychopath loonies make this crap and want to use it!?

I DO NOT COMPLY! NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL! May more and more wake up and resist and cultivate their health.

I have a landline and a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, all the tech anyone should ever want or need. I never had and refuse to ever have one of those infernal mobile devices that are designed to enslave you.

My loathing of AI and all things NANO and digital knows no bounds!

Apoplectic livid rage hardly describes the intensity of emotions I have had and am having over what these malignant globalists are perpetrating!

There is no noxious crime that the evildoers desiring to lord it over us won't commit to maintain their stranglehold on power. A groundswell critical mass resistance to their murderous enslavement plans is needed urgently!

THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough! Mistakes were not made, it was always malice aforethought.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EVEN WORSE FRAUD THAN THE PLANSCAMDEMIC! SO-CALLED GREEN TECH IS A GIGANTIC SCAM! MINING AND MANUFACTURING 'GREEN' PRODUCTS NEEDS COAL, GAS AND OIL AND MINING RARE MINERALS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THAN LEGACY PRODUCTS. SCREW YOUR DAMNED AGENDA! Climateviewer.com

Creative performing arts, fine arts and literary arts are the best part of being human and the thing the globalist predator technocrat megalomaniac total slavery control freaks most want to destroy.

Too many 'sheeple' are brainwashed to blindly obey authority figures on the media or in daily life in corrupt system ruled by control freak psychopaths who use propaganda lies to enslave their subjects and they are dumbed down to be obedient by 'education' institutions. Fortunately I was raised to question everything. This transcends party lines. We need a system that punishes psychopaths and rewards compassion and sharing, we need a system that actually follows The Constitution in reality.

There is a fate worse than death - I would rather die than be a robotized slave of technocratic overlords! This is my hill to die on!

Kudos to Cindy Sheehan's heroic efforts and success in the struggle. We the People must always be aware of the existential threats lurking behind this fight!

How I stick my thumb in the eyes of the grotesque billionaire bastards pushing their enslavement agenda and how I embrace being fully human.

Fighting the globalist predator technocrat psychopath megalomaniac TOTAL SLAVERY AGENDA one performance at a time!

Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Entertainer!

As an entertainer, I have been devastated and practically destroyed by the closure of all performance venues and then when they reopened, because MY BODY, MY CHOICE - being made a total untermenschen pariah outcast in NAZI NIGHTMARE LAWLESS 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' JAB CROW APARTHEID/DISCRIMINATION/SEGREGATION HELL NYC WHERE THE MAD/DRUNK WITH POWER TYRANT POLS DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES. I am trapped here with zero financial resources to leave or do anything else about this 'wish I were dead' endless misery life has become. The tragic irony is that my SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE performances are all about health, miraculously overcoming age (68) and injury to achieve feats of flexibility few can attain at any age. So BIG PHARMA who wants to addict every person on the planet to their toxic products hate people like me who prove that we do not need them if we eat healthy organic food and exercise daily!

https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/amazingamycontortionistuniqueyogadancer

I try and live and embody the creative performing artistic world and life I so fervently want existence to be about.

They can stick their f*cking damned NANO, Digital IDs, AI, jabs and chips up their asses where the sun don't shine!

All manner of lies and propaganda spew forth from the upper echelons in governments worldwide who are completely intertwined with the global criminal ruling class that wants to commit the worst atrocities imaginable and suffer no consequences. And their corruption slithers down the chain of command creating petty tyrants everywhere.

Supporting this excellent post with a statement and useful links. https://virustruth.net

We the People are facing HORRIFYING TECHNOCRATIC PSYCHOPATHY TO DESTROY HUMANITY AND ALL NATURAL LIFE!

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back!

We must never lose sight of the larger picture of the vile malignance we are fighting against.

There is an insidious global ruling class plot to enslave all life on earth behind all the madness and suffering inflicted on We the People.

How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!

RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!

Other than getting rid of nuclear weapons which I support 100% the rest of the anti-nuclear peace movement and CLIMATE CRISIS propaganda is parroting UN utter GARBAGE, a complete surrender to the ENSLAVEMENT AGENDA by the diabolical despots of Davos - ruling class criminals who lust for total power and control and all of whom should be tried and jailed for life and their malign organizations dismantled: the UN, the WEF, the IMF, the WHO, the BIS, NATO, Blackrock, Vanguard, The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, The Bilderbergers, the CFR et al.

There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, geoengineering, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!

APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!

MAKE THE WORLD AND AMERICA 2019 (comparatively speaking), AND FREE AGAIN!

NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT MONKEYSHINES! WAKE UP ALREADY!

TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.

NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.

STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!

NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.

https://wrenchinthegears.com

https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com

https://pandemicfacts.info

https://wearehumanwearefree.org/7-days-campaign/

https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/covid-19-roadmap-12-step-plan-to-create-a-totalitarian-new-world-order-were-on-number-8-headed-towards-number-9/

https://questioningcovid.com

https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1581-james-corbett-breaks-down-the-great-reset/

http://www.stopcp.com/GlobalResetPSYOP/GlobalResetPSYOPMindMap.html

https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/09/04/breaking-major-investigative-report-by-association-of-french-reserve-army-officers-finds-covid-19-pandemic-to-have-a-hidden-agenda-for-global-totalitarianism-nanotech-chipping-of-all-5g-irradia/

Pam Popper: https://makeamericansfreeagain.com

Del Bigtree: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/highwire

https://www.technocracy.news

Naomi Wolf: https://dailyclout.io

www.nojabforme.info

https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-must-awaken-from-corona-coma-reject-great-reset-robotic-technocracy-assert-common-humanity/5745213

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Casey is in all our hearts, Cindy.

Murder Inc. only survives with a little love from academia.

STDs are spreading nanosecond to nanosecond..

Peace

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulokirk/p/academics-have-allowed-anal-probes?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5i319

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