Re: Joan Baez was against War ot


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>> Dancin Bear wrote:
>> > CRAWFORD, Texas -- Joan Baez was against the Vietnam
>> > War and she showed
>> > it _ appearing at marches, once even blocking the
>> > entrance of a military
>> > induction center.
>> >
>> > The folk singer is against the Iraq war, too, and she
>> > showed her support
>> > Sunday to protesters camping out near President Bush's
>> > ranch.
>> >
>> >
>> > Peace activist and singer Joan Baez arrives at Cindy
>> > Sheehan's anti-war
>> > camp near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas,
>> > Sunday, Aug. 21,
>> > 2005. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
>> > Peace activist and singer Joan Baez arrives at Cindy
>> > Sheehan's anti-war
>> > camp near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas,
>> > Sunday, Aug. 21,
>> > 2005. (AP Photo/LM Otero) (Lm Otero - AP)
>> >
>> > Baez took to the stage for about 500 people on an acre
>> > lot offered by a
>> > landowner who opposes the war, performing such classic
>> > peace anthems as
>> > "Song of Peace," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and
>> > "Swing Low, Sweet
>> > Chariot."
>> >
>> > Not far way is the camp started by Cindy Seehan, whose
>> > son Casey was
>> > killed in Iraq.
>> >
>> > "In the first march I went to (opposing Vietnam) there
>> > were 10 of us.
>> > This is huge," Baez told the relatives of fallen
>> > soldiers before
>> > performing just up the road from the ranch.
>> >
>> > For Baez, an anti-war movement was inevitable.
>> >
>> > "It was the final tear for the overflow and you can't
>> > stop running
>> > water," she said. "Cindy's was the final tear."
>> >
>> > Downtown, more Bush supporters arrived at a pro-Bush
>> > camp that had been
>> > set up as a reaction to Sheehan's. As of Sunday
>> > afternoon, more than 150
>> > people had visited the large tent with "God Bless Our
>> > President!" and
>> > "God Bless Our Troops" banners and a life-size
>> > cardboard cutout of Bush.
>> >
>> > "When we saw this, we said, `Thank God you're here',"
>> > said Frances Lee,
>> > who came from Douglasville, Ga., with neighbor Brenda
>> > Bohanan. They
>> > planned to hold pro-Bush banners down the street from
>> > the protesters.
>> >
>> > "We said, `We wanted y'all to know that there are
>> > people from all over
>> > the United States that care'," Lee said.
>> >
>> > The pro-Bush camp is called "Fort Qualls," for Marine
>> > Lance Cpl. Louis
>> > Wayne Qualls, 20, killed in Fallujah last fall. His
>> > father, Gary Qualls
>> > of Temple, said the anti-war demonstrators are being
>> > disrespectful to
>> > soldiers.
>> >
>> > Sheehan's 24-year-old son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan,
>> > also died last year
>> > in Iraq. He is among more than 1,800 U.S. soldiers
>> > killed since the
>> > March 2003 invasion.
>> >
>> > Sheehan, of Vacaville, Calif., started the anti-war
>> > demonstration on
>> > Aug. 6 and vowed to remain until Bush agreed to meet
>> > with her or until
>> > his monthlong vacation ends Sept. 3. She flew to Los
>> > Angeles last week
>> > after her 74-year-old mother had a stroke but is
>> > expected to return to
>> > Texas in a few days.
>> >
>> > Bush has said he sympathizes with Sheehan but won't
>> > change his schedule
>> > to meet with her. She and other families met with Bush
>> > about two months
>> > after Casey died, before she became a vocal opponent of
>> > the war.
>> >
>> > Besides "Fort Qualls" camp, a few Bush supporters have
>> > stood with signs
>> > in the ditch across from the demonstrators' camp. Down
>> > the street,
>> > another group of about a dozen set up tents and
>> > pro-Bush signs on
>> > private property over the weekend.
>>
>> Cindy Sheean's 15 minutes were up 30 minutes ago. Joan
>> Baez' 15 minutes
>> were up 30 YEARS ago. I'm old enough to remember her
>> opening of Live
>> Aid in Philly in 85'. She sang "Amazing Grace" and "We
>> are The World"
>> accapella. It was cringe inducing and until this day I
>> never understood
>> the attraction. She is just another artist with a big
>> mouth and they
>> are a dime a dozen these days!
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> That's right! Why don't they stick to music or acting? The
> media plays along
> and tries to portray celebrities as experts in gov't
> affairs.. Sean Penn are
> you listening?
>
>
Ok - you shut Rupert Murdoch's mouthpieces up, and I'll
speak to Penn.
Deal?


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