My last blogging on Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan ended with a look at the time remaining for her relevance:<\/p>\n
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Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan, the very publicly grieving and liberally financed mother of fallen Casey Sheehan<\/a>, is on the verge of wrapping up a 25-state tour against American involvement in the Iraqi theater. Haven’t heard much about it? Well, that’s because August is over and the media has a new flavor-of-the-month by the name of Katrina, in turn now on the clock.<\/p>\n
Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan, however, refuses to go softly into that good night of anonymity. After a failed NYC rally, Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan has decided to go whining<\/a> into that good night with a claim of injury.<\/p>\n
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan said Tuesday she was hurt slightly in a scuffle that erupted when police broke up a rally as she was at the microphone.<\/p>\n
An organizer was arrested for using amplification without a permit.<\/p>\n
“I was speaking and someone grabbed my backpack and pulled me back pretty roughly,” Sheehan said in a telephone interview Tuesday, referring to the rally Monday in Union Square.<\/p>\n
“I think their use of force was pretty excessive for someone that didn’t have a permit,” said Sheehan, who said she was not roughed up directly by police but was jostled when officers broke up the rally and arrested organizer Paul Zulkowitz.<\/p>\n
“I was shoved around,” said Sheehan, the grieving mother whose 26-day vigil near President Bush’s Texas ranch sparked anti-war protests around the country.<\/p>\n
Zulkowitz was released after being given a summons for charges of unauthorized use of a sound device and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n
Paul Browne, the chief police spokesman, said Sheehan had finished speaking when officers arrested Zulkowitz, who had been repeatedly warned that he didn’t have a permit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Meanwhile, Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee<\/a> has decided to try to slam the door on the legend of Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan with a one-two combination.<\/p>\n
First, the left hook<\/a>, a potentially premature look at the rally in question and its ramifications:<\/p>\n
Do not be overly surprised if history decides that September 19, 2005, was the day that the anti-war movement died in the United States.<\/p>\n
In a true-blue New York Metropolitan area of 22 million people, the anti-war movement’s greatest star, a woman with “absolute” moral authority according to the NY Times own Maureen Dowd and branded the “Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement” by hopeful liberals, Cindy Sheehan managed to draw just 150 supporters, or 0.00068-percent of the tri-state metro area, to her well-advertised speech in Hyde Park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Then the right cross<\/a>, an actual comparison of Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan to Rosa Parks:<\/p>\n
Rosa Parks… was the figurehead of a cause that fought to free an entire race who were being oppressed in their own country.
\nCindy Sheehan… was the figurehead of a cause that fights to defeat one man.<\/p>\nRosa Parks… fought the system to obtain constitutional rights.
\nCindy Sheehan… says our constitution isn’t worth fighting for.<\/p>\nRosa Parks… was “tired of giving in.”
\nCindy Sheehan… wants for nothing more than for the United States to give in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMr. Owens has more, so go give him a gander. Meanwhile, my lingering question about Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan is this: Is there some sort of methadone equivalent for limelight addiction?<\/p>\n
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Related — Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan blogging:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Sheehan Departs Crawford, Vows Something<\/a><\/li>\n
- On the Scene in Crawford<\/a> (a photoblogging adventure)<\/li>\n
- New Sculpture on the Battlefield<\/a><\/li>\n
- Fallen Soldier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mother Vows Vigil to See Bush<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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