Let's Take Our Country Back

I HATE censorship - even when those who believe differently than myself are the victims. Facebook has deleted a posting by Cindy Sheehan, calling those who would protest the CIA drones in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan - mainly the civilian deaths as a result. I don't happen to agree with Cindy Sheehan. I feel that sometimes there will be civilian casualties (even in "surgical" strikes) against an enemy who is cowardly enough to hide behind its women, children and elderly. But that's not the point!

If you know anything about Facebook, then you'll know that there are thousands of causes posted to which one can contribute time, postings or money. Many are controversial and not a single one gets 100% support. Why would Facebook censor this cause this time? Either someone has demanded it, or the administration at Facebook has made a call - a really BAD call, if you ask me!

No matter how you feel about Cindy Sheehan or her idiology, she has suffered something that not a whole lot of us have suffered - she lost her son to the war in Iraq - he was killed in Sadr City, April 4th, 2007 while defending our rights to have our opinions and to live safely as Americans. Here's from an article at The Narcosphere:

Cindy Sheehan said Facebook deleted an invitation to the CIA Drone Protest in Langley, Virginia, scheduled for Jan. 16, 2010. Sheehan said "the CIA is becoming overly involved in terrorizing populations." Sheehan joins a powerhouse of women activists to lead the CIA Drone Protest, including Cynthia McKinney, Ann Wright, Kathy Kelly and Debra Sweet.

"We had an event with over 250 confirmed guests and it was deleted by Facebook," Sheehan said. "We are going to the source of one of the big problems in the US Empire -- the CIA -- to protest its extra-judicial killings of people in Pakistan. We are against the use of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and manned aerial vehicles, but we believe that it is very dangerous that the CIA is becoming overly involved in terrorizing populations," Sheehan said.

I'm all for shutting down Facebook AND Google, if they want to practice censorship or offering private information to "officials".

Freedommonger