Hunger Strike for Peace!

Good luck with all that, but you know how the mainstream media works, they will have a 2 minute segment on this and forget it, so in the end is it worth it? Also, I hope Cindy is very careful with how she does this, fasting for that long can be VERY dangerous.

 

I've really tried, but just cannot understand hunger strikes. A lack of nourishment makes one weaker, and less able to deal with adversity and opposition. I admire her efforts, and I'm obviously not in her shoes, and will refrain from outright judgment. But I just don't understand that particular protest tactic... it just seems to play only into the hands of one's opponents.

I would admire her much more if she... I dunno... maybe if she took up martial arts fulltime as an alternative.

 

Fasting as a protest attracts attention, which is why people do it.
To call attention to whatever their cause is.
Dick Gregory is like a professional faster. He does it a coupla a times year, or used to, for a variety of causes.
And yes, avoiding solid food for 2 months could be considered extreme, but everything you need to live just fine can be taken in liquid form, which happens to anyone who gets their jaw broken--it's wired shut for a couple of months.

 

:sunglasse

 

Hunger strikes will just leave you hungry. Political America, more likely than not, wont care. If it did, Why are there so many starving people on the streets? It barely focuses on that, why the hell would it focus on someone who's willing to do that? They may write about it, but more likely than not, they wont care.

 

its kinda funny that celebrities are going on a hunger strike.

I see celebs do it all the time, such as paris hilton, nicole richie, the ohlsen twins, and lindsey lohan, to name a few........

 

never fast. it leaves you weak in a time when you need strength. i suspect this has been a suggestion made to cindy by a fifth column that has infiltrated her group. cindy should start watching her step otherwise she'll have a car "accident" or suddenly contract cancer.

 

It seems to me that it would cause more panic in the government if people over-ate instead of fasting.

The Federales would just see fasting as a way to lower American obesity and encourage it.

I say that everyone should fatten up!

 

Sometimes a personal "ritual" of sorts can be constructive, even if you don't take it seriously in a religious sort of way. When traveling long distances by car, my "ritual" was to listen to one particular recording of "Cold Rain & Snow." Years later Zappa's "Peaches en Regalia" was the start of every night shift. Practicing card sleights has become practically a meditation form to me. Other people I know may burn a candle or stuff like that. Smudge sticks and stuff can be an odd take on introspection, it seems to me.

My wife was once burning a candle, knowing a friend was in crisis. She didn't often do this. So I asked her if she thought it might actually affect things, wondering what she really thought it could do. "I have to keep an eye on it. I don't forget my friend's problems. And maybe, in that reminder, I'll think of something I can actually DO to help."

Personally I'd be thinking a lot if hungry, but probably not about how to feed other hungry people! But I can certainly understand it from a "focus inward" point of view. As a public relations move, but I'm not sure that it's effective, but it would be hard to really prove one way or the other.

 

hopefully she starves herself to death.....

 

I hope the idiots starve to death.

 

then nobody would post in these forums dood.