** Seems that barking moonbat leftie is on her way to the UK. I mean come on its bad enough with the bloody Guardian readers, George Galloway and his mad mullah bunch. Throw in the pc looneys and our country is in a world of shit, now you yanks are letting the moonbat come over here.... Now dont get me wrong the US has given the world many fine things from Jack Daniels to cool movies from Hollywood, but alas also some bad things like Mc Donalds & KFC (the UK versions of these suck big time, and are nothing like the US versions) and now Cindy's on her way.
link : http://www.sundayherald.com/52063
CINDY Sheehan, the campaigning American mother who lost her soldier son in Iraq, is to visit the UK before the end of the year.
Sheehan’s representatives have said that the visit, thought to include trips to Downing Street and the Scottish parliament as well as a number of speaking events, will also include a second meeting with Glasgow mother Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son Gordon was killed in Basra in June 2004.
Sheehan and Gentle were keynote speakers at an anti-war rally in Washington last weekend.
The American, whose 24-year-old son Casey was killed in Iraq in April 2004, has become an international figurehead for anti-war activists. ** And looneys with vauge theorys about aliens/bush/the right wing taking over the world etc...
Organisers of an anti-war rally in Edinburgh on November 12 have revealed that they are hopeful she will be in the UK by then and that she will join protesters in a Scotland-wide demonstration.
Karen Pomer, spokeswoman for Sheehan, said that although the campaigner had become very busy, coming to the UK was a priority.
“I only have Cindy’s immediate schedule, but it is true that we are trying to arrange something for the future. It looks like she is going to be free in November, so that might be a possibility.”
Gentle said that Sheehan and her supporters will join her plans for Camp Gordon – a protest site modelled on the one Sheehan set up in memory of her son, named Camp Casey – when she is in the UK.
“They are making arrangements to come over,” she said.
Gentle appeared on stage with Sheehan and George Galloway MP at a massive anti-war rally in Washington DC last weekend. ** Yes Galloway the bitch of Saddam Hussain, that wonderful MP who spits bile at the UK at every opportunity.
Gentle said: “I went all over Washington and the states around it with Cindy Sheehan. I also met lots of other military families. It was very emotional.”
US President George W Bush was picketed for weeks while holidaying this summer at his Texas ranch by Sheehan, who has become a divisive figure in the US media for her stance against the war in Iraq.
Bush was criticised for not emerging from his ranch to speak to her during the protest, in which some pro-Bush supporters drove over white crosses laid out by the roadside to symbolise the Iraqi dead. Sheehan’s protest also prompted supporters of Bush’s policy in Iraq to launch a speaking tour titled You Don’t Speak For Me, Cindy! Despite the media battering she has received in the US, Sheehan has carried on with her campaign.
Keir McKechnie, of Glasgow’s Stop The War Coalition, said he was hopeful that Sheehan would be able to join protesters on November 12.
“We don’t know exactly when Cindy Sheehan will be arriving in the UK, but we are working hard to arrange a visit at the moment.”
At the Washington DC rally last weekend supporters of Sheehan and Gentle erected two exhibition tents called Camp Casey and Camp Gordon after the deceased soldiers.
McKechnie said a similar protest point would be used in the UK in the run-up to November 12.
Andrew Burgin of Military Families Against The War (MFAW) said Sheehan’s visit looked set to take place before Christmas.
“Cindy Sheehan was booked up to come to the UK a few months ago but the visit was cancelled, so she already has a plane ticket which she could use to come in November.
“Stop The War is organising an international peace conference on December 10, so it would be good to see if Cindy could be at that too. She is much in demand.”
On Monday, at a side rally after the weekend’s main protest in Washington DC, Sheehan was among 370 protesters who were arrested outside the White House for carrying banners bearing the names of the dead and staging what they called a civil disobedience demonstration.
She was charged with the offence of “demonstrating with out a permit”.
McKechnie said he believed that having Sheehan in the UK as the Stop The War campaign ramps up its demand for troops to leave Iraq by Christmas would “have a major impact”.
He explained: “It will, firstly, show that this movement is an international movement – it is not isolated mothers like Rose Gentle that have the courage to stand up and be counted, it is a truly international problem.
“We would take Cindy Sheehan to 10 Downing Street and to the Scottish parliament to show the strength of opposition to the war in Iraq.
“I think it would be a major embarrassment for Tony Blair and others in government who want grieving families to go away.
“I can’t think of a better protest than bringing Cindy Sheehan and Rose Gentle together in this way to show the bankruptcy of British and American policy in Iraq.”
McKechnie added that many other families are now contacting his organisation because of their fears for relatives in the armed forces.
“A lot of military families are only now getting the courage to come out and speak up against the war,” he said. “Increasingly the families of soldiers who have died, who are serving in Iraq or may have to serve in Iraq in the future, are coming forward and talking about their fears and objections to the war. In Scotland, especially where there are discussions about sending more troops out to war, there are hundreds of relatives who are massively apprehensive about what will happen.”
McKechnie said that having Sheehan and Gentle together in the UK would aid the anti-war movement as a whole.
“I think this will result in a powerful movement of families such as those of Rose Gentle, Cindy Sheehan and Reg Keys [whose son Tom was killed in Iraq in 2003 and who stood against Tony Blair in this year’s general election].
“I can see a coalition of families coming together to speak with one voice – an international voice – in a solid network of people who are vehemently opposed to the war.”
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