maddening shroud
A fine tradition of treasonous behavior:
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo is a unique organization of Argentine women who have become human rights activists in order to achieve a common goal. For nearly three decades, the Mothers have united under two collective aims: first, that they were born again of their children and, second, that they have all become mothers to the victims of repression in Argentina. In protests, they wear while scarfs in remembrance of their lost children.
The Mothers Association was formed by women who had met each other in the course of trying to find missing sons and daughters. Their children were abducted by agents of the Argentine government during the years known as the Dirty War (1976–1983), many of whom were then tortured and killed. On April 30, 1977, a group of 14 mothers organized the first of an ongoing series of demonstrations on the Plaza de Mayo, in front of the Casa Rosada, Argentina's presidential palace.
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In later years, the association grew and become more persistent, demanding answers from the government as to where their missing children were. In opposing the government's agenda, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo began to see themselves as inheritors of their children's dreams and responsible for carrying forward their children's work...
“If he doesn’t come out to talk to me in Crawford, I’ll follow him to D.C., and I’ll camp out on his lawn,” she said, to a round of applause from her supporters. “I’ll go to prison. I don’t want to live in a country where people are treated this way.”
Sheehan’s actions, she said, were sparked by President Bush’s comments like those made last Wednesday in Grapevine to about 1,800 members of the American Legislative Exchange Council: “Our men and women who’ve lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and in this war on terror have died in a noble cause and a selfless cause.”
“We all know by now that that’s not true, and I want to ask George Bush, ‘Why did my son die? What was the noble cause that he died for?’” said Sheehan. “I don’t want [President Bush] to use my son’s name or my family name to justify any more killing or to exploit my son’s name, my son’s sacrifice, or my son’s honor to justify more killing. As a mother, why would I want one more mother to go through what I’m going through, Iraqi or American?
“And I want to tell him that the only way to honor my son’s sacrifice is to bring the troops home now.”
La Sheehan, of course, gives a whole new angle for shitbird masturbators like Ben Shapiro to play - of course he can't go to Iraq/Afghanistan/Whatever - who would stand and fight America's old women?
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