For Cindy in Oslo tonight
O Mighty Queen of Heaven,
Frigg, Mother of Baldr,
Whose painful loss you bear with dignity
And many tears when none are there to see,
Who knows all and is silent,
I do beseech Thee now
On behalf of my friend Cindy
Who bides tonight where the sky-lights play
In the lands of the ancient Gods
Hear now the voice of the Winnili-kin
Of one who bears the Thunderer’s name
Descendant of the Odal lands of Insubria
Who knows yet the tale of the Langobards!
Hear now the Valkyrie Randgríðr
Whose name I have earned the right to bear!
I do beseech Thee, Mother of a lost Son
To hear the heartfelt need of my friend
Who too has lost a son
To cruelty and injustice
Mighty Asynga, Ur-Wife,
Hear the loss of my dear friend
And of us all
And weave Ye from it victory
And a return to a just peace!
Mighty Wife of Odin
Mother of long lost Baldr
Keeper of the Keys, I trow
That a mead I shall brew to thank Thee
Of finest honey and vanilla and ginger
For paying heed to my voice tonight
And granting sweet victory to my dear friend
As fearless and indomitable as any Valkyrie herself
The honorable Cindy Sheehan!
H/T to Big Yellow, as always, for the video.
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Very nice indeed.
I’ve been thinking of Cindy lately too. Do you know the poem, Why Should Not Old Men be Mad by Yeats
She has worked so hard in the movement and with such passion. She did what she could. But shaming leaders and protesting does very little. The oligarchy is so solidly in power they don’t care what any of us think. They have more than half the people of any country so drugged with hyper-media and the control medium called “entertainment” that this is rapidly reminding me of Jonestown. I think more than half the people in our country would drink poison if their favorite personality told them to.
Any way, all praise to Cindy.
so insane that this woman who helped turn the tide of public opinion about the Iraq war and the Bushies was hounded by equal ferocity by both the Democrats and the Republicans, and not just by the pols. Where do we go those of us who refuse to believe in change that says once again that war is peace. When liberals embrace the Bush/Obama Doctrine and reject someone like Cindy Sheehan where so we go we ‘extremists’?
Glenn Greenwald
Friday, Dec 11, 2009 03:12 EST
The strange consensus on Obama’s Nobel address
http://www.salon.com/news/opin…
Indeed, Obama insisted upon what he called the “right” to wage wars “unilaterally”; articulated a wide array of circumstances in which war is supposedly “just” far beyond being attacked or facing imminent attack by another country; explicitly rejected the non-violence espoused by King and Gandhi as too narrow and insufficiently pragmatic for a Commander-in-Chief like Obama to embrace; endowed us with the mission to use war as a means of combating “evil”; and hailed the U.S. for underwriting global security for the last six decades (without mentioning how our heroic efforts affected, say, the people of Vietnam, or Iraq, or Central America, or Gaza, and so many other places where “security” is not exactly what our wars “underwrote”). So it’s not difficult to see why Rovian conservatives are embracing his speech; so much of it was devoted to an affirmation of their core beliefs.