> Cindy Sheehan: "The Secret Service is Trying to Intimidate Us"
7 August 2005, 23:29
We can all draw encouragement from the conduct and example of this brave woman.
Those, who would tempt to belittle her effort, are better recall the history of the bereaved mothers of Soviet soldiers (young conscripted men, many of them just barely late teens) who had been killed in Afganistan. Their protests had burst empty of all propaganda effort of the Soviet state. In time, both politicians and the military ’brass’, had learned to dread the effect they had on the population and they played an important role, in pressuring them, to withdraw the troops.
We can all draw encouragement from the conduct and example of this brave woman.
Those, who would tempt to belittle her effort, are better recall the history of the bereaved mothers of Soviet soldiers (young conscripted men, many of them just barely late teens) who had been killed in Afganistan. Their protests had burst empty of all propaganda effort of the Soviet state. In time, both politicians and the military ’brass’, had learned to dread the effect they had on the population and they played an important role, in pressuring them, to withdraw the troops.