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July 9, 2006
A Hunger Strike Versus a Pathetic Sham
An excellent post on Elephants in Academia draws the starkest of contrasts — on one hand there is the hunger strike by Guillermo Fariñas; on the other, the self-serving farce being performed by Cindy Sheehan and her limousine leftist Hollywood friends.
A little background is in order, since you are unlikely to have heard about Fariñas on the nightly news. He's an independent journalist in Cuba who has been on a hunger strike since January 31 in protest of the Castro regime's refusal to let him and other journalists use the Internet to transmit their work to the world beyond that island prison.
Fariñas has been hospitalized, and has undergone emergency surgeries to address complications from not eating. If not for an occasional IV drip, he would have starved to death by now. He got this word to Reporters Without Borders:
I want all Cuban citizens to have the right to an Internet connection, but also for the independent press to be able to report on the government's activities, and if I must be a martyr for Internet access, so be it.
At the other end of the spectrum, Cindy Sheehan has allegedly gone on a diet and threatens to stay on it so long as the USA continues to defend democracy from Islamofascism in Iraq. As Elephants in Academia points out, this diet could include "soy chai lattes, smoothies, protein shakes, etc." The idea of Mother Moonbat actually suffering from real hunger is laughable.
Funnier still is the "rolling fast" in which some of her Hollywood pals will be participating, whereby the fast passes from one publicity-hungry celebrity to another, so that no one has to stay on it long enough to get the munchies. Ironically, one of the clowns taking part in this is Danny Glover, who has been very vocal in his support for Castro's dictatorship.
Hat tip: Decision '08
Posted by Van Helsing at July 9, 2006 9:19 PM
Comments
Glover does ballet too, whats that tell ya?
Posted by: Bensittin at July 10, 2006 1:18 PM
The contrast tells us much.
But Cindy and her cohorts probably believe their 'fast' is a real sacrifice. For them it is not facts or evidence but feelings that count.
Posted by: K at July 10, 2006 1:46 PM
