Unoffical Camp Casey theme "Sons and Daughters"
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Sons and Daughters by Jesse Dyen
Ian (left) Jesse (right) sing "Sons and Daughters"
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Lyric:
How ‘bout your son
How ‘bout your daughter
How come it’s always poor folk
Who get shuffled off to slaughter
If you’re so gung ho
Why don’t you just go
In August of ‘05
A mighty voice did rise
She lost her precious son
And it can’t be undone
She went to see the king
A downright simple thing
She thought she’d tell him of
The depth of a mother’s love
How ‘bout your son
How ‘bout your daughter
How come it’s always poor folk
Who get shuffled off to slaughter
If you’re so gung ho
Why don’t you just go
And send us back our sons and our daughters
Send us back our sons and our daughters
Here comes the smear campaign
She must love Saddam Hussein
Well Mr. President
Why are you so hell bent
On keeping up the lie
‘Bout why our soldiers die
What is this noble cause
For which our young march off
How ‘bout your son
How ‘bout your daughter
How come it’s always poor folk
Who get shuffled off to slaughter
If you’re so gung ho
Why don’t you just go
And send us back our sons and our daughters
Send us back our sons and our daughters
So why not answer her
What cause her son died for
If you’re such a regular guy
Just look her in the eye
‘Cause this ain’t make believe
Beware the web you weave
Now go and fix your facts
‘Cause we’ve got Cindy’s back
How ‘bout your son
How ‘bout your daughter
How come it’s always poor folk
Who get shuffled off to slaughter
If you’re so gung ho
Why don’t you just go
And send us back our sons and our daughters
Send us back our sons and our daughters
Send us back our sons and our daughters
9:26 AM
I also like the Prairie Chapel Road song.Have you heard it?
8:37 AM
Many people feel the same way.I applaud you all.
11:01 AM
great job Kim and mari and Bily, thank you for going abd keeping us in PHX up to date.
5:28 PM
When is the Peace Mom returning?
5:54 PM
We do not have a solid date; the only thing I can confirm is ASAP considering the situation.
6:11 PM
Update from Cindy Sheehan
It was just announced at the Rally that Cindy's mother is out of ICU and she will be wrapping up a couple of things and then she will be on her way back home (to Camp Casey)
-Bily
6:44 PM
The fallout from one mom's voice
By Ellen Goodman | August 21, 2005
THE HEADLINE this morning labels her ''peace mom." It's a moniker that simultaneously personalizes and trivializes the lanky woman with the high-pitched voice who has been camping out in Crawford, Texas. It's a shorthand that both grants and diminishes her authority to speak out against the war, a moral authority won the hardest way possible, through the loss of her child.
We are now ending Week Two at Camp Casey. The August phenomenon of 2005 is not shark bites or missing women, but a mother who showed up at the president's vacation doorstep. Cindy Sheehan came impulsively, intemperately to ask the president of the United States why he ''killed" the ''sweet boy" whose brief life span is tattooed on her left ankle: ''Casey '79-'04."
If Week One was the Making of a Celebrity with dawn-to-dusk coverage, Week Two brought the backlash and the bloggers. Conservative cable kings like Bill O'Reilly proved that not even the death of a child grants you immunity from attack. Iconoclast Christopher Hitchens took her on with a glee he once reserved for Mother Teresa.
In Week One, antiwar groups found a face for their cause and promoted Cindy dot-orgs and meet-ups and vigils. In Week Two, prowar supporters have tried to make the war protest all about Cindy. She was dubbed the ''Poster Child for Surrender" and ''America's Most Embarrassing Mother." But, in fact, this woman with a reckless courage born of grief and anger -- ''I'm not afraid of anything since my son was killed" -- directs her challenge to the ''swing voters" of this war. She presents a different image to those uneasy Americans who have so far held their tongues and their doubts out of respect to the war dead and their families.
The activism of ''peace mom" has not made peace in her family. She and her husband grieved in different ways until the announcement: ''Husband of 'Peace Mom' Sues for Divorce." Aunts and uncles on the prowar side of the family criticized her for ''promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the expense of her son's good name and reputation."
Indeed, there's no way to know what Casey Sheehan would say about peace or mom. An altar boy who wanted to be a military chaplain's assistant, he ended up a Humvee mechanic and died rescuing injured soldiers. But the split in his family now echoes a split in the American family over how you pay homage to the fallen. Like the mom of fallen Army Spc. Wilfredo Urbina who wants success ''so all this pain will be worth it"? Or like Cindy Sheehan, who tells the president not ''to use my son's name or my name to justify any more killings"?
This war was sold to the public as a matter of self-defense against weapons of mass destruction. But the WMDs never appeared.
Next we were told that Iraq was the front line in the war against terrorists: ''better there than here." But evidence shows that the vast majority of the foreign fighters are not relocated terrorists but new recruits radicalized by the war itself. More recently, we were told to ''stay the course" to ensure democracy in Iraq. But as Iraqis wrangle over a constitution that may not look anything like ours, the list of rationales gets shorter and the support for the war gets weaker.
Taken altogether, the polls show a majority of Americans now believe that it was a mistake to send troops to war, that the results are not worth the loss of American life, and that the war has not made us safer.
The most powerful argument left is the one the president repeats again and again: ''And the best way to honor the lives that have been given in this struggle is to complete the mission."
Enter Cindy Sheehan.
Until now, the rallying cry ''Support Our Troops" meant ''Support the War." One seemed inseparable from another. Criticizing the war felt like criticizing the troops. But on a dusty, hot road in Texas, Sheehan worked to sever this link.
So the question is not whether the president will talk with her. He won't. It's not whether she speaks for her son. We'll never know. It's not whether she is ''just a mom" or an anti-Bush agitator. She's both. It's whether nearly 1,900 Americans died in a war of choice and how painful that is to acknowledge. It's whether we go on quietly honoring those deaths with more deaths.
No wonder ''peace mom" has become a target of the war over the war. If she succeeds, the White House has lost perhaps the final and most powerful justification they offer a disheartened American public. At that point, there's no way out of the Iraq muddle. Except out.
Ellen Goodman's e-mail address is ellengoodman@globe.com.
7:16 PM
Hey Jesse Dyen-- good job.
10:44 AM
More than one 'Gold Star' out there...
The tragedy of the far left's appropriation of a grieving mother of a dead soldier is the inevitable politicalization of all grief-wracked parents of war dead. We're seeing that now. Columnist Maureen Dowd solemnly declares that the moral authority of a Gold Star parent is absolute. But she assigns that authority only to Sheehan. What of the others?
5:41 PM
Moral authority is about to have a showdown in Crawford, Texas, where the parents of soldiers in Iraq will square off in the heat-shimmering periphery of President George W. Bush's averted gaze.
Cindy Sheehan, the bereaved mother who has gained international attention by posting herself outside the Bush ranch and demanding a (second) meeting with the president in the wake of her son's death, is about to have company of a different sort.
Not the supporters she's grown accustomed to - television crews, anti-war demonstrators, Democratic consultants and America's political left - but a small cavalry of opponents who feel as morally engaged about the war as she does.
Every movement has its backlash, and now Cindy Sheehan is getting her turn. Her sudden departure from Crawford to tend to her ailing mother in California changes only the characters in place, not the nature of confrontation.
On Aug. 27, a caravan of military families who support the war in Iraq is scheduled to arrive in Crawford. The backlash battalion, which is calling itself the "You Don't Speak For Me, Cindy" tour, is starting in San Francisco Monday and is composed of parents whose sons and daughters are in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Among those leading the caravan is Deborah Johns of Northern California Marine Moms, whose son, William, is a Marine in Iraq. Her sentiments are typical of other military families who sympathize with Sheehan but feel she's hurting others.
"I am deeply sorry for Ms. Sheehan's loss," said Johns, who also is starring in a commercial she is producing. "However, Ms. Sheehan's actions are only causing pain to those of us who have loved ones serving in the war against terrorism."
There are plenty of others like Johns, apparently. Blogger Arthur Chrenkoff ( http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2005/08/other-ways-to-grieve.html ) has compiled a list of equally bereaved parents who have lost children in Iraq, but who hold a different perspective.
Some of those critical of Sheehan feel that her public display is damaging to military morale and, therefore, dangerous to those still serving. Others have said she dishonors her son, who not only joined the military voluntarily, but who re-enlisted in August 2003, five months into Operation Iraqi Freedom. Whatever his mother may feel, Casey Sheehan apparently was not ignorant of the risks he faced.
Nevertheless, her message resonates with those who oppose the war. Sheehan has put a face on loss and provided an icon for dissenters. Strolling through Camp Casey, named for her son, she gets hugs and has her picture taken with new friends, prompting her to say she knows how Mickey Mouse feels at Disneyland.
Her sudden fame has also brought pain. Celebrity is often a harsh light, and Sheehan also is learning what all public people learn: The madding crowd is often vicious.
Despite the furor she has helped spawn, Sheehan says she's "willing to put up with cr-- if it ends the war a minute sooner than it would have."
Whatever she may mean by the "cr--," surely she isn't referring to other parents who have suffered equally but who disagree with her.
One such parent, Ronald R. Griffin, whose son, Spc. Kyle Andrew Griffin, was killed May 30, 2003, wrote eloquently in Thursday's Wall Street Journal:
"I lost a son in Iraq and Cindy Sheehan does not speak for me," he began. "I grieve with Mrs. Sheehan, for all too well I know the full measure of the agony she is forever going to endure. I honor her son for his service and sacrifice. However, I abhor all that she represents and those who would cast her as the symbol for parents of our fallen soldiers."
Griffin directed some of his commentary to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who wrote that Sheehan, because she had buried a child, had "absolute moral authority" in the debate about the war. Absolute moral authority is a tricky standard these days.
Must one be a veteran or have a child in the military to countenance war? Does losing a son give one greater moral authority than those whose children survive?
Griffin writes: "How can we all possess 'absolute moral authority' when we hold so many different perspectives? I don't want that title. I haven't earned that title."
No human being has absolute moral authority on this or any other issue, though I think I know what Dowd meant. That parents who bury their children have a right to complain and to have their voices heard. That's the theory, anyway.
In practice, of course, it means that people lost in their emotions get a pass from the usual standards of debate and fair play, as Sheehan has. That's about to change. As others arrive in Crawford who share Sheehan's grief and her moral authority - but not her politics - her free pass expires.
5:55 PM
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9:57 PM
Hey Bily, Mari, Jesse and Kim!
Great to meet you all! What a great experience...please come back...Dot and I miss you! =]
Ian here...aka the Irreverent Reverend Indy...(for independent)
Dot called today and said she misses us all very much.
Did not here yet if Jesse left or not, but what a moment was shared by all at 3:45 am when we first heard this moving and poigniant tribute.
I made a map for all to access of Camp Casey II and also would like to share my perspective of the Wedneday night Vigil.
Camp Casey II Map:
http://www.democracycellproject.net/forum/index.php?s=698e5f3ce13ae6c48082acb85f09e997&showtopic=834&st=0&p=3277&#entry3277
And for the Candlelight Vigil:
http://www.democracycellproject.net/blog/archives/2005/08/a_mothers_dream.html
You guys stay in touch...we may need you to bail me and Dot out of Jail...and if Fish comes back...we definately will! LOL!
Peace, Love and Compassion...
Ian =]
9:59 PM
Please say a prayer for all of our troops, and the families that are waiting for them to come back home!
Good job Jesse!
11:02 PM
Attention Knights of the Rock 'n Roll Table. I miss you already...
Fish here, reporting in from home. Funny how it almost doesn't feel like home anymore!
To all of you that haven't been able to make it to Camp Casey, your spirits were with us as we gathered round the table late at night w/ the guitars, candles, Cindy stones, cold beverages - Lone Star one night, Tecate the next!!!
Earlier this morning I was sitting on my porch drinking coffee, watching the horses, and reading all the quotes on the "Peace Cooler". Special thanks to Ian(the longest rant), and all others who contributed their thoughts. Whoever thought that a cold beer and a black sharpie could mean so much?
I hope to see all of you soon. I'll try to bring enough bail money for all of us...
Keep the fire burning!
Fish
6:40 AM
FISH!!!
WTF! You blew outta there so fast you were off like a prom dress!
I did not get to exchange emails and numbers with you.
Dot called today and said that apparently something has happened because everyone is suddenly being extraordinarily nice...stepford wife-like even!
Apparently Hal got his walking papers and was looking for a computer to get a ticket home.
I am trying to get back as soon as I can...FISH PLEASE COME BACK!!!
I may be up there as early as Thursday and if I can swing it...maybe even Wednesday night.
Peace my Brothers and Sisters!!!
Vive la Revolucion'!!!
Ian
10:00 AM
The Round Table Patriots
To all Round Table Patriots (you know who you are) poor Dot was almost to tears last night, but called today and told me things were much better.
BUT...
She misses us all so if you have her number please call...she may not get the call immediately because of reception issues, so leave her a message please...it would mean a lot to her...she is the only Round Table Patriot left at Camp Casey II and is holding down the fort. Although she is rubbing elbows with Joan Baez so life does not suck!
Thanks to Bily, Mari and Sweet Kim for leaving their tent for others to use...very kindly of you.
Please email soon and let us know what has happened since you have returned home...and about your plans to return (come on...we KNOW you all just can't STAND being away from us) LOL!
Later RTP
Ian =]
10:07 AM
Fish, Where are you? How do we get a hold of you? Let us know...
Knight of the Round Table,
Mari
10:41 AM
Hey Fish and Ian! I'm so glad we have the instant messenger thing going! We all miss you guys so much too. I watched the video footage last night and feel sadly disconnected from everything now. BUT I toasted to my new family last night and ran through the list of people I met and will take with me the the rest of my life. If we didn't switch info. you can call our # at the station 602-296-3600.
10:58 AM
****Continued....It is hard to do daily tasks. Everything seems irrelevent after this week.
I miss the round table warriors and our mascot Lokn!
Dot- Get a hold of us! We can't stop thinking about you and envying you. We miss you.
Sincerely, Truly, Always
Kim
11:03 AM
This is such important work. You've given voice to an important and much needed movement.
12:06 PM
Round Table Warriors! Damn, I like the sound of that.
"Vive la Revolucion" they cried between toasts and protest songs...
So good to see everyone reporting in. Damn it's wrong to be here instead of there. A hell of a lot cooler, but not quite right, huh?
So I spent the first part of the day negociating with the rental company about the scratches. You know it's a Red State so they weren't really going for the -
"Hey, Mr. Corporate Man, we were forced to park in a ditch with shrubs and fire ants and I guess that's just the kind of shit that happens when you're living in an oppressive, dictatorial, anti-free loving American type..." --- and he really wasn't tryin' to hear it.
Guess I'll get that estimate later...
In the meantime, spent the rest of the day making copies of Jessie's song and leaving it with friends. I think the moments shared at the round table with this song must signify something. We all knew it was 'meant to be' the first time we sang it together.
I'm gonna link it to Buzzflash and some of my regular sites. You guys should do the same. It could be one of the sounds behind a movement.
You never know! When you think of some of the best musical protest moments in history, it usually wasn't planned that way.
I've got all of Jessie's contact info for those 'Knights' that may need it. The song is great, the cause is right, and it made us cry...
Might even make Jessie famous.
Gotta go, time to pick up the kids...
Knight of the Round Table,
Fish
"The Revolution Starts Now"
Steve Earle
12:38 PM
Yes!
It is difficult to concentrate so I fly through tasks to try to get back and check who said what when and about what is going on ..confusing but you know what I mean. :/
Lokken has started her own movement...Puppies for Peace
Lokken has been working really hard on her mottos and would like your help in selecting the most potent of them she and Bones have come up with so far. No she has not been running up the phone bill...dogs re telepathic...I think they get the frequency from sniffing each others butts...but who knows... ;]
Their Mottos:
"We Can't Afford Another 28 Years of Bush"
(dog years being 7 to one of our's)
Make Peace not Poop!
One Nation Under Dog!
All you need is Love...and steak.
And my Fav...
Help Save America...Lift Your Leg on Bush!
Let me know what you think so we can get Lokken all dolled up for her big protest weekend!
Peace Out oh Ye Knoble Knights!!!
Sir Ian of Austin
12:55 PM
One more from the Dog House...
"HUMP BUSH"
ROFLMAO!!!
12:57 PM
Oh yeah, would love to see more pictures from the round table!!!
Tell me how I can get 'em...
BTW, Ian - would ya do me a favor?
Scratch Lokken's ass and tell her to stay...
Brother in Arms,
Fish
1:33 PM
Brethren
Days ago they were but strangers,
Hearing the cry of one mother’s tears
Heeding the call of all humanity…
What is left of it in this world.
Days ago they were but strangers,
Living lives of corrosive regret
All the while yearning to be heard
Above the deafening silence of apathy.
Days ago they were but strangers,
But by chance or cosmic fate
Did they arrive at the center of the Universe
To outstretched arms of hope and faith.
Days ago they were but strangers,
Now finding strength and inner calm
Within the hearts and souls of Brethren
Forever bound as one for Peace.
1:48 PM
Dot should be joining in soon. I just spoke with her on the phone. She is headed to a hotel tonight, as it was 105 degrees today. So keep posted to see what she has to report.
BTW, Great Poem, Ian...
Hey, are you guys going to Washington? I wasn't going to, but now I think I might...
Let me know
Mari-Mari
4:45 PM
I love the poem Ian! We told Dot we're all keeping in contact through this thread. She's going to try to check it out tonight and blog what's been going on. I guess Joan is staying till Thurs. No one wants to leave! Did you see the vet from the Daily Kos at Bushes little VFW Rally? If not check it out! I think we're posting it too!
Also check out the photos on Dem. Underground of the protest in Salt Lake City. The Revolution DOES start now! I'm ravenous for news since we've been cut off for a while. Let me know if you guys see any great stories anywhere!!
Fish, the cooler was brilliant. I wish I had put something together.
:] Kim
4:53 PM
Bush Diverts to Kennebunkport...
Finds Mothers of a Surprise waiting for him protesting!
Mari...my friends that ran the Kerry Blog now have the DCP...they will be organizing the marches and protests for their group and I was thinking seriously of going.
4:54 PM
www.democracycellproject.com
4:54 PM
Indy,
Larry wants to know if you are singing--
He wants to take the song to the White House and BLAST it.
www.democracycellproject.net
P.S. His room has room Sept. 24....
5:25 PM
Hey Karen!
Everyone...meet Karen From DC...
I am not singing on this recording...but the night Jesse first played it, Fish turned to him and said..."Man that is GREAT!...now play it again!!!"
And we ALL sang it and toasted to Casey and Cindy and to Jesse for his heartfelt song to the truth.
Although I did sing (if you call it that) quite a bit over the two mights we all spent at Camp Casey II. =]
Hey Will...(we can dispense with the Larry stuff) got a hammock?
Karen you may be overrun by an invasion of the Round Table Warriors for Peace come September 24th! LOL!
5:38 PM
ruh roh...
5:50 PM
Knock Knock!
Anyone home?
7:25 PM
Come to the DCP website...
www.democracycellproject.com
You must have Java installed on your machine to use the IRC (internet real time chat)
Go to the Discuss Menu and hit Live Chat
Enter your name and accept the cookie from the server.
Then you are in like flynn!
Real time talking to real people...
I am there and here...syncronicity!
7:27 PM
Karen,
Jesse Dyen is singing. He is still in Crawford- God love him! We told him the 1st night he pulled out his accoustic guitar, he's was going to be famous and wouldn't even know it because he's isolated in Texas! You can have Larry download the song and blast anywhere he wants!
That's why we posted it!
Welcome to the round table Karen!
8:10 PM
Hey Ian great poem, sorry I'm like the last to post anything, swamp as I re-align my inner matrix ;) I doubt that I'll be able to make Crawford again however I'm pondering the fessability of washingtonorbust LOL
FISH DUDE I can't believe you blew out with out a good-bye or at least a c-ya later but I'm glad you reached us online!
DOT you are amazing keep up the good work and get us a Photo of you at the camp!!
Lokken I'm so proud of your movement let me know if you need me to design a webpage sweetie >RUB RUB RUB< >woof woof<
Jesse keep up the good work we're doing what we can to get this wonderful song as much Air play as we can.
peace ya'll
-bily
8:11 PM
Hey there! I'm finally on. Damn, I stunk so bad I couldn't stand myself. I had to shower first. I'm staying at the glamorous Weston Inn in McGregor. Still haven't found my credit card, but the Peace House was so kind to put me up in a room tonight. Yessss. Guess I must have looked pretty damn whooped. I was in dire need of an iced-cold room tonight. Ahhhhhhh.
Jesse is going to perform live on the BradBlog tomorrow. Don't know the time. For the past 2 years, I've blogged on the BradBlog under the alias of TaterSalad. I heard that Brad was forgoing his vacation to head to Crawford. He arrived on Sunday night / Monday morning @ 2:00 a.m. Of course, I had to talk to Brad and he asked me to send any interesting people and stories his way. First person I thought of was Jesse and "Sons and Daughters". Brad said he'll put him on tomorrow ... EXCELLENT! This song will be a hit.
I miss y'all so very much. It is very, very lonely down here. Well, only in the wee hours. Last evening it was just Mary Ellen and I sitting around a table with no music, no singing, nothing ... boring. After the b*tch complained about my smoking under the tent, I just pulled up a chair outside my tent, finished my beer and had one more smoke.
Hurry back. I need some love!!!
8:12 PM
that last one was from me -Kim
:}
8:12 PM
Hey Dot! Hang in there honey. I'm working on getting down there again Fri through Sun. or Mon.
I am also getting some girls together to go to DC. I just talked to my mom for two hours and had her laughing and crying. I'm sorry I missed Sheila Jackson Lee. I just e-mailed her a thank you letter. I called Hagel too. Bushie or not, he's speaking out.
Dot, I am doing everything I can to get back to ya!
You little trooper!
Miss you all...
Kim
8:20 PM
I'm gettin' there as fast as I can Dot!!!
I have to appease the Republican Bosses remember! LOL! Oh, and the neighbor...ha ha ha ha ha!
Hey Everyone...now all we need is Jesse to sign on with Mary Ellen and the Table will be complete!
Dot, I'll take a look at your Wi-Fi to see if I can fix it when I get there...might just be a network setting.
SWEET!
This is too cool!
8:23 PM
We'll all go kick Larry (Karen's son) out of his room and have a PARTY!!!
Karen won't mind...will you Karen? :D
This is just the beginning...and D.C. will be one of the many battle grounds that we will conquer...
I don't know if any of you have seen this but the "Script" was written by a young DC councilman after the election...it is VERY inspirational and encites me to riot!
The Battle For America
http://www.thebattleforamerica.com/
Vive la Revolucion'!!!
8:28 PM
I'm going to check out www.democracycellproject. Guess I might as well be blogging on two sites, too!
Last evening was the first time I tried getting on the net at Camp Casey II. It was probably about midnight. I could have asked someone, but I didn't have the patience to deal with the "attitudes" ... just wasn't the same round table that I had grown to love. I'll check my settings and try logging on tomorrow. If I'm still having problems getting a connection, I'll leave it up to you, Ian. So, get your damn cute *ss down here soon!
Damn, forgot I had thrown my stinky clothes in the washer ... got to run down the stairs and will be right back.
8:34 PM
Kim and Ian are in the IRC chat at the DCP
Come on in the chattings fine!
8:53 PM
I'm back.
Just figured out why I wasn't cooling down. Thought for a moment I had a fever. No, I'm just an idiot tonight. I had turned on the heat instead of the cool air.
Broke down and grabbed a "warm" beer out of my car ... I had picked up three cases Monday ... and am now enjoying beer on the rocks. Might soothe my pain. Can't make it much worse.
Hey Kim! Thanks for calling again. I'll see if I can find a picture to download. If not, I don't mind being known in name only. I much prefer being behind the camera instead of in front of it.
FISH, where did you go? When did you leave? Why no good-byes? Will ya be back. Hope so.
MARI, enjoy the time you spend with your brother. Wish him my best and keep us updated on his time in Iraq.
BILY, miss you, too. Thanks for the voicemail message. I'll keep audioblogging as events occur. Hadi seems to think that we're going to have problems with the freepers this weekend. Sheriff Sid told me today that he has the vets prepared to protect women and children in case the cops have to "storm" the camps. Sorta frightening. Hmmm, what might they have planned? Sheriff Sid was way to serious for me. We'll just have to wait and see what transpires.
IAN, did you talk to Lynn today? I failed to get with Lisa or Ann today re the tents at Camp Casey II. I'll check with them tomorrow and see if have once again changed their undemocratic plans.
8:55 PM
Lynn, if that was her number, said hello and silence for a sec and then hung up... :(
9:12 PM
Mike Malloy 3rd hour tune in if you can or catch the stream at http://www.1010kxxt.com
10:10 PM
Great Job Bily!
Dot, Kim and I listened to you while on the IRC real time chat!
It was like a miny meeting of the round table!
Way to go!!!
12:05 AM
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12:06 AM
Excellent. Really enjoyed hearing your voice while we were in the Round Table meeting.
12:17 AM
Hey Ian, didn't get to comment on the poem...incredibly to the point!
What a great piece of work. Wonder if I can fit it on the cooler somewhere...?
There's still some space. I'm thinking about writing down the comments and posting them for others to see. Probably won't change the world, but should bring back a few memories for those Round Table Warriors in attendance.
Kim, get in touch with me so I can get some of the pics that were taken around the table. There's one close-up of the Cindy/Casey stones, the candle, your hat, and James' 'No War' shirt in the background. Did it turn out?
I'm gonna go ahead and post this email address to you guys:
catfishcooper0420@yahoo.com
Normally I wouldn't do this on an open board, but I figure the SS already got all my personal info the night they got pulled out of the ditch!!! LMAO!
Stay in touch,
Fish
6:19 AM
Hey Fish!
Lokken shook her leg and looked longingly at me when I scratched her back...she says, "Rank Rhoo Rish"...(Thank you in Great Dane)
We were wondering where you swam off to...and thanks...the words just flow because of the honesty and integrity and truth of the group...you peeps are just so inspiring to me, each in your own wonderful way.
Oh, and Fish...don't think you are getting off the hook that easy buddy...if at all possible, please come back...all the screaming meanies (well most) will be out of the picture or quite insignificant and this weekend promises to be exceptionally wonderful. Miss you man.
WHOO HOO! I am taking off Thursday and Friday to get back down to Camp Casey for the weekend!
Kim or Bily, if you talk to Dit Dot (her new knick kname) please tell her I will call her when I get off work this evening, still trying to figure out if I can make it tonight...but I am feeling the gravity pulling me back BIG TIME!
Ice, Fan, Wine for Whitney (peace offering) and Lokken...thats all I need...oh, and the rest of the Round Table Warriors to join all at Camp Casey II...All for one and one for All!!!
8:16 AM
Oh and BEER! Damn...sorry, oh gods of Barley and Malt and Hops!!!
Arghhhhhhhhh....beeeeeeeeerrr...
The cause of AND solution to all of life's problems...
8:24 AM
The date on this post is incorrect... it should be August 24th, not August 31st.
Just an FYI.
Keep up the good work.
10:33 AM
Fish
I hust sent some to ya!
the one w/ the hearts and hat is awesome.
-Kim
11:00 AM
Attention Round Table Warriors!
First off to Kim, thanks for the pics, will look at them next. In the meantime this is what I've been up to today...
Remember how we told Jesse he might be famous before he gets home? Here's a copy of an email I've been shooting around the globe today:
August 23, 2005
Sons and Daughters - written and performed by Jesse Dyen
Just returned from Camp Casey in Crawford, TX! I am sad to report, and this should come as no surprise, that some news coverage of this event is still biased when it comes to reporting the amount of people that are down there. There are more than a hundred permanent campers and the visitors have numbered in the thousands!
Camp Casey II is now in full swing. For those of you that do not know, this area was offered by a relative of the man who was firing his gun in the air close to where we were camped in the ditches. I would imagine he's still upset about that!
Also, the tent being used - including the chairs, tables, and kitchen are the same one that Mr. Bush used for his fundraiser that he attended when they passed by Camp Casey twice in one day. How ironic that they charged $2,000 a plate for the Chickenhawk, and we're now serving thousands for free.
I have attached a link to the song "Sons and Daughters" written and performed by Jesse Dyen of Oakland, CA. This was one of our late night 'Round Table Warriors' songs and quickly became the unofficial ‘theme song’ of the Camp.
http://www.crawfordorbust.com/Sons%20and%20Daughters.wma
The song is incredible and Jesse has given permission to distribute freely. Please spread this song around. Some of the greatest protest songs in history were never planned that way. This could be one of those songs...
I also highly recommend the sites www.meetwithcindy.org and also www.crawfordorbust.com for some great on-site pictures and audio blogs.
Thanks to the millions of you that have supported Cindy Sheehan and the rest of the Gold Star Mothers for Peace! I know their heart is with each and every one of you that support this movement.
No More Lies.
No More Lives.
Fish -
Texarkana, TX
.......hopefully there will be others with it stuck in their head all day long......
I am only a Fish. Still, I grok the fullness of our action!
11:27 AM
Round Table Warriors, James here I have spent two days in Orlando getting things Organized so I can come back and stay until the bitter end. Dot, I will be there tomorrow afternoon (Friday) and I will bring a six-pack of ice cold late night snacks :) Fish get your scaly self back asap. Miss everyone very much and can't wait to get back to my new family. Peace
8:12 AM
Very nice. Love the song. Keep up the good work!
8:53 AM
Cindy Sheehan disingenuous in denying that her son, Casey, died for Israel in Iraq
12:38 PM
Hey fellow KR3T (Knights of the Rock n' Roll Round Table) I just confirmed that Harrison on the Edge in LA did play Jesse’s song “Sons and Daughters”!!!
ROCK ON remember us when you are famous Jesse ;)
-bily
1:28 PM
That's what I wanted to hear...
Those Knights be Damned!
Fish
3:41 PM
Hey Fish, I DO want to see the photo when your done playin w/ it. Hey James! I most likely will see you guys this weekend. I posted myself for standby tomorrow, I will know about 3 my time tomorrow if it will happen! I hope Dot's offer to get me at the airport still stands....
Thanks for the update Dot!!! I saw they were building it (the helipad) and getting a bike for the king to ride if he shows. Ha ha! When he leaves though, we'll all have to tell his highness "he wears no clothes' since none of his cronies will!
-Kim
4:36 PM
Great News!
Ian, Jesse, Dot and Mary Ellen here from Camp Casey II.
Jesse got to play Sons and Daughters for Cindy last night at the meeting of the Round Table Warriors!
You All Were Sorely MISSED!
Dot and I were wondering if Kim has finalized her itinerary so we can get to Austin to pick her up.
Nothing really happened today but we are gearing up for the weekend!
Miss you all very much!
Dot and Ian
5:17 PM
I wish I could be out there with ya'll and I wish I could have meet Cindy >sigh< I'll be doing my part keeping things updated from here. But I'm sending instructions with Kim for each of you on how to call in Audio Blog! Maybe ya'll can help us really get this weekend covered, sounds like this is going to be a big one.
-bily
5:24 PM
Hey Guys-
I'm in DC saying "bye, bye" to my brother, who's headed to Iraq in October. I, too, wish I could be there this weekend. I have encouraged everyone I meet to go if they have the ability.
Hey, could someone tell me how Cindy reacted to Jesse's song...
Be sure to keep me posted. I check this blog like three times a day now. I simply can't NOT think about Crawford. I truly wish I could be there.
Good night, Knights...
Mari
9:10 PM
The Sunrise Report (sort of) from Camp Casey II
Mornin' All! I am very happy to hear that Native and Madam will be joining us in Crawford.
Well once again the Credo is enacted in full force:
1. Shoot self in foot.
2. Reload.
3. Shoot self in other foot.
4. Repeat.
The Movement has been hi-jacked.
It is no longer all Americans welcome.
The threats of arrest and banishment keep coming from the "leadership" for those that do not fall lock and goose-step in line with the ever tightenening restrictions driven by the "political consultannts and lawyers" who think they know it all.
Willie Nelson and Jackson Brown were to perform in solidarity with Cindy, but the powers that opress have BLOWN it and said, "No big name acts". As in our plight to restore America...the enemy is within our government and is now controlling the movement.
Al Sharpton, however, is to hold a prayer meeting with Cindy.
One good thing...
Bill Moyers will be here to interview Cindy and report on the movement at 10:00 pm CST please check your local listings on HBO or Showtime I think.
Any who are coming to Crawford please listen up!
The police have decreed that because of the massive numbers expected this weekend, the roads will be closed to vehicular traffic. However, shuttles will be either going to CC I or CCII in order to avoid predicted confrontations with Bush Supporters. Please just take the shuttle to Camp Casey II and Lokken and I will greet you with open arms...and cold bottled water.
The Today show broadcast live this morning and Cindy is at this moment holding her daily press briefing.
George and Laura Bush have been invited to the BBQ that will be held at Camp Casey II tomorrow.
Here is your chance W...be a man.
ROFLMAO!!! Sorry...I could not even blog that with a straight face much less say it!
I'll be checking in periodically throghout the day with further reports.
Here is to a peaceful and enlightening weekend.
Peace and Good Will to all.
Still Hopefilled in Crawford,
Ian =]
9:56 AM
amazing
chord chart please?
thanks
1:07 PM
I was moved by your heartfelt lyric. It IS "always poor folk who get shuffled off to slaughter".
Would you post your song or songs on soundclick? Our protest songs do very well on that site and we get down on King George pretty bad ourselves.
Search: Hillbilly Democrats MP3
Download your song on the free music sites and we'll help promote it.
Great song!
8:34 PM
For all wanting the latest please see the "Air America in Crawford" thread.
Jesse, James, Mary Ellen and all we spoke with send their love and support.
8:12 AM
I'm still working on Network air play. If anyone else has heard it around the world? Any one know if Cindy liked it enough to make it offical?
8:17 PM
Powerful song and anthem for this movement. With your permission, I'd like to perform it at a street fair in Doylestown, PA this weekend to keep the message alive.
6:54 PM
We saw this one on the Crawford site:
I'm an American Veteran (Infantry Hospital Corpsman, USMC/USN) and a songwriter opposed to Bush's war. 2100 empty chairs today and more each day until America wakes up. Please feel free to share my links with a Bush fan or two.
High res. 9.3 MB
http://www.tomsongs.com/images/Bushwhacked_0001.wmv
Low res. 4 MB
http://www.tomsongs.com/images/Bushwhacked.wmv
Sincerely,
Tom
www.tomsongs.org
5:13 AM
I was at Camp Casey 2 when this song was sung live. I have to say, it's a beautiful song, but it's even more emotional and meaningful when the families of fallen soldiers are on stage with Jesse.
5:50 PM
A
5:33 AM
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