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Saturday, January 13, 2007
T HE NOUN; SHEHAN
Take care there, lady!
I hate to see any one fall flat on their face - especially in public view. Unless Mrs. Cindy Shehan, considered by some to be among the first American mothers to lose a son in war time, I fear she will find the first part of her name - the friendly, folksy diminutive cut-down of a standard name she didn't like and protested it out of her life long ago.
Protesters, in general, have to be careful concerning how their audience is going to view them. It's so easy and enjoyable to be the clown, but that's specialized field wisely avoided by all those not talented to be the Court Jester. Other types might in include bodily fisticuff encounters of court room brain banging battles - both too formal and too usual and patterned by precedent. Simply, direct and often know to achieve desired results: be a pest.
The distraught Mother set about buying five acres of land in big, old Texas with insurance funds received as a result of her loss. just down the road few miles to President George Bush's oft televised ranch. She and friends erected signs who pointed the way and talked with ,to, at and over increasing groups and TV cameras offering the nation and the world of watchers stood by flat screens everywhere to see what then do-res where doing.
They were bugging Bush, of course.
Keep that picture of Cindy Shehan, if you remember, but shift with me to photographs front-paged in the world's leading newspapers or looming out unbelievably harsh and Baghdad-looking TV sequences crawling along barbed wire enclosures and sturdy masonry barricades showing Shehan standing before GITMO in Fidel Castro's Cuba begging President Bush to "STOP THE TORTURE!" She stand there echoing the words printed on large posters being paraded before the cameras rather than the prison almost as if they were intended to be used as "idiot cards" in sequences showing the harsh, inhumane, barbarous,bestial oh-so bad conditions knowingly condoned by Bush-Chaney.
Remember the changed image of Shehan - an improved hairdo, touch of make-up and large, silverly piece of jewelry dangling on a long, linked chain of like metal chain the camera pusher made you examine. The emblem was that of the cross with broken arms. I do not recall being informed here the necklace came from. We also have not being not told where the money comes from to ferry Shehan around the widening selection sites must feel need protection.
Cindy is gone. Probably working the five acre ranch down Texas way. More and more we see a Shehan.
Andrew McCaskey Sr. amccsr@adelphia.net 1-13-07
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