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Anti-Fascism Files

"Not in our name!"
By Mike Hersh
Mar 10, 2006

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I spoke with Cindy Sheehan just before she had to leave for medical tests in the DC area. She was badly hurt, much worse than when she was roughed up and jailed for wearing a t-shirt at the State of the Union. I saw her just before and after that fiasco as well. She showed me her bruises which hadn't fully healed before this latest brutality.

The violence against Cindy and others keeps escalating in parallel with the violence against our freedom and our Constitution. Bush, Cheney and the thugs working with them feel our pressure and they're responding with even more cruelty. It won't work. It never does. The more violent and irrational the criminals become, the more sleeping Americans will wake up and say, "Not in our name!"

I met Iraqi women who say the same is happening in their country. Under our flag and using our money, people who claim they protect us and represent us are killing and terrorizing men, women, and children in Iraq. Even as they're brutalizing peaceful people in the US. Not in our name. Increasingly criminals in power are oppressing Iraqis and Americans. These criminals won't stop on their own. We must make them stop. Together, we will make them stop.

This is one of the defining moments in our history. Anyone who cares at all about America and what our flag stands for must stand with us and make the thugs stop. Anyone who won't join us in non-violent adamant opposition against fascism and oppression - anyone who will not support us in our struggle for freedom and democracy - should be ashamed of themselves. Will the US be the US or will we become a neo-con / theo-con fascist tyranny?

Any NSA spies or pro-Bush trolls reading this, tell your masters the truth: Cindy is not intimidated and neither are the millions who agree with her that this war is wrong. This occupation is wrong. She's still the same ol' Cindy I met last year. She's hurt but she's still smiling and joking. She's not going away. She's getting more support every day. She is not afraid of you and neither am I. Feds tried to intimidate me in early 2001, and do you think it worked? Hell no.

Hundreds of people marched from the Iraqi embassy to the White House this week to deliver more than 100,000 Women Say No to War signatures. We'll be back on the 14th to shame the Bush Regime about their plans to evict Katrina survivors. Bush supporters understand this: You are on the wrong side of history. You will lose this struggle. We the people will not let you win.

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