Cindy Sheehan Claims She Will Fast on Hunger Strike

Cindy Sheehan has made the official announcement on Michael Moore's website. She will be "fasting" from July 4th through September 1st. As always, it pays to look carefully at the fine print and the details.

On a side note, Codeoink's homepage contains only one instance of Crazy Cindy's name and that appears way down the page in some text about a Mother's Day "Peace Vigil". The paragraph at the top of the page, the one that focuses on the upcoming hunger strike, doesn't mention her at all. The paragraph contains a link to another, purpose-built site, dedicated exclusively to the hunger strike. The homepage of that site mentions Cindy's name...only once. Don't buy any green bananas, Cindy.

Over at Michael Moore's site, the homepage doesn't mention Crazy Cindy at all! You have to go to the "Must Read" section to find Cindy's announcement that she will be on a hunger strike. The "Must Read" section is essentially a soapbox that Moore has put in his backyard so visiting moonbats can stand on it while they scream at passers-by beyond the fence. Cindy, you're being kicked to the curb!

There stands Cindy, railing against George Bush, America and Capitalism. Her current rant is that she will be fasting, with her last meal to be eaten at her birthday party at Busboys and Poets, in the Langston room. The restaurant is named in honor of Socialist writer Langston Hughes. From six PM until eight PM, the Langston room will be the venue for "Cabral/Truth Circle, a TransAfrica Event". When the "TransAfrica" event ends and the tables have been cleared, Jodie Evans (Google her, she calls herself a "Green", but she's as Red as can be) will be hosting Sheehan's b'day bash starting at 9 PM. It's Cindy's turn to stuff her face in front of 200 fellow travelers. It's her last chance to chow-down before the Great Fast. Or is it?

The Codeoink sites leave Cindy plenty of "wiggle-room". Will she really be subsisting on water and juice only for 60 days? Or will it be a "rolling" fast. Or maybe it will be a Ramadan-style fast in which you go hungry during the day and the eat like a pig once the sun goes down? We want details, Cindy.

We all know that Cindy has a few extra pounds to spare. She could try Phentermine, Slim-fast or Hoodia. She could go for the gastric bypass surgery. She could try some kind of exercise program. But as her general appearance indicates, she just doesn't care. She wasn't going to go on any fad diet. But all that's about to change, maybe.

Codeoink, Crazy Cindy's parent company, has announced a hunger strike. They even put up a website, troopshomefast.org, to make sure everyone understands what they are doing. The concept of a hunger strike is pretty much self-explanatory, so I wondered why Codepink thought anybody would have trouble "understanding" it.

The answer is found via the "Why Are We Fasting?" link. There's really nothing there except a quote from Mahatma Gandhi and links to two sub-pages. One sub-page has Medea Benjamin conducting a self-serving interview with someone named Diane Wilson. Both are co-founders of Codepink. Wilson explains that she is a "a fourth-generation shrimper from Texas and mother of five" (and the relevance of that would be?) and describes her past success in using her fasts in the past to bully multi-national corporations into doing her bidding. By her logic, if she skips dinner tonight to make the sun rise, and it does in fact appear in the East tomorrow morning, then it worked! Her logic is as fuzzy as a bunny's tail, but she's not going to let that stop her. The other page is a short primmer on hunger strikes throughout history.

The purpose of both web pages is the same, namely to redefine what a hunger strike is. When most people think of a hunger strike, they think of Gandhi, the creator of modern India, starving himself nearly to death. The Hindus, Moslems and Sikhs each feared that if he died, THEY would be blamed for his death and the resulting bloodshed that was sure to ensue. It was a brilliant tactic, employed by a truly great leader who was willing to die for the cause of peace. THAT produced spectacular results! This is NOT what Codepink has in mind.

You will NOT see Cindy Sheehan (God knows she could lose a few pounds in the interest of better health) wasting away to nothing. Willie Nelson is so emaciated that he cannot afford to lose even five pounds. Dick Gregory fasts all the time. Big deal.

Now we can see why Codepink thinks it is so important that the public "understand" (meaning "accept") their new definition of a hunger strike.

Bottom line: This is "relay fasting", in which most participants give up solid foods, substituting high-calorie fruit drinks, for a day or two, and then pass an imaginary "baton" to someone else. It is a pathetic, cheap, publicity stunt, like everything else Crazy Cindy does.

In Iraq, the vast, vast majority of deaths are sectarian violence between Iraqis. The average man or woman is focused on putting food on the table and not getting blown up while waiting in line for gas or being kidnapped while leaving the office at the end of the day. I would be fascinated to know the name of just twelve ordinary Iraqis who give a rat's hiney whether Crazy Cindy starves to death or not. I doubt that there are more than a dozen people, other than fellow Moonbats, in the U.S. who would be saddened. I am certain that there are millions of Americans who would say "Good riddance and goodbye". I am equally confident that, aside from a handful of Euro-Moonbats, nobody on that continent cares either.

In the end, it is just one more scheme to achieve Cindy Sheehan's twin goals of prolonging her 15 minutes of fame and undermining America.

But maybe I am wrong. In concept, a hunger strike or fast is a diet plan for someone who is angry about something. The concept also assumes that someone, somewhere, cares whether the angry person eats or not. Nobody, in this case, particularly cares. Cindy will pretend to starve, and we'll have to pretend that we give a hoot.

Maybe we'll see Cindy weighing in at 110 pounds in a few weeks. And maybe monkeys will fly out of Abe Lincoln's nose on Mount Rushmore. Let's wait and see. We're watching you, Cindy. Put down the burger and step back from the table. No, Cindy! Put it down! Oh God, no! She ate it! Oh well, she can start fasting again...tomorrow. We'll see a thinner, more sincere, Cindy any day now, I'm sure of it.

Or maybe Cindy and Holly Near will have to resort to some form of cannibalism.