Adventures in My Mind
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Aug 13, 2005
The blogs are busy talking about Cindy Sheehan. So is traditional media. I just watched a report on my local CBS affiliate here in Pittsburgh. I've heard stories or reports on NPR everyday for the last week.
One reporter called her the poster child for the anti-war movement. I guess I grudgingly agree with that epithet. Grudgingly because I really hate the term to begin with. Poster child is a necessarily exploitive term. The person on the poster, whether it's one of Jerry's Kids or a grieving mother posting a vigil on a dusty Texas road, has one aspect of their lives become the sole defining attribute. One has MD the other a son who died in a foolish war. Each is much more than that.
The flipside, of course, is that Sheehan has also become a lightning rod of protest herself. Bus loads of so-called troop supporters have been arriving daily in Crawford to inform her of their disgust for her position. After all what right does she have in protesting the President's choice to lead us to war in Iraq? Doesn't she know that the only way to support the troops is to unquestioningly approve of such actions? Isn't it perfectly clear that the price of freedom is her son's life? I'm not so sure. Clearly, neither is she.
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