Long ago and far away I used to believe in the National Audubon Society. They were the world's best group for taking on development interests that would harm the habitat of birds. Then to appeal to more people they started to fragment their focus. At first Audubon was the bird group that hated a water project in North Dakota (and brought it to its knees only to "save" it in the House of Representatives 2 years later). But they stopped that focus and got into population control, global warming, and whatever issue was a hot topic that day.
Now we see Cindy Sheehan being a clone of Audubon.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_guantanamo_protest
She was great and effective when she started Camp Casey down the road from the Chimp's purchased-by-others ranch in Crawford. She made a great leap forward in the then-fledgling anti-war movement. You cant laud her enough for that. But Cindy lost focus, and probably in the glow of all her media attention.
Soon she was all over the place. Flying to Europe for peace rallies. Endorsing Hugo Chavez in Venezuela because he was opposed to the Chimp. Getting into issues for which she had no background. And now flying to Cuba to speak out against the atrocities at GITMO.
Granted, theres more than ample reason to be pissed about GITMO (hope she sees Oriente Warbler and Cuban Gnatcatcher while there) but what does GITMO have to do with the "grieving mom" persona she originally used to get everyone else's attention? Was her son killed at GITMO? I don't think so.
It appears now that Cindy is no different than any other attention grabber out there. Its too bad also. She had alot of people on her side and for her cause. Then she went Hollywood.
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