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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (696947)	8/16/2005 8:30:19 PM
From: Mana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

No matter that she is grieving for her son and probably very angry because his loss was for nothing. Where is your compassion? She is exploiting the death of her son. She doesn't deserve any compassion. She has a clear political agenda and is pissing on her son's memory to achieve it.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (696947)	8/17/2005 5:29:19 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Fighting Hate Speech With More Speech Dean's World Joe Gandelman worries that criticism of Cindy Sheehan may provoke a popular backlash. I think, however, that Jeff Goldstein has the best and most measured response to that concern (link below). Cindy Sheehan has asked for attention, in a world where her free speech is as protected as ours. So far as I am concerned, this has nothing to do with "defending the President" (he's a big boy, he can take care of himself) and everything to do with countering the horrible fascist propaganda she's been spouting--about how our people over there are just murdering and killing, about how those who died did so for nothing, and so on. Those of us who've got family and friends over there have a right to respond to the things Sheehan is saying. She's not a martyr--she's a person who suffered a horrible loss but instead of respecting her son's choices she's trying to use his death in a cause he almost certainly wouldn't agree with, and that most of her family doesn't agree with. It's not mean or nasty to point this out, and neither is it mean and nasty to point to the horrible people she's snuggling up with and accepting help from. deanesmay.com themoderatevoice.com proteinwisdom.com