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11/07/2005:

"Missing the Bus: When Conscience Bows to Calculation"

...There is nothing less risky than praising a dead icon. There is nothing more risky than standing with a living one who, to use John Kerry's words for Rosa Parks, "speaks truth to power".

...Imagine if two planeloads of the US Congress, containing the same worthies who descended on Detroit with such alacrity, had gone to Texas this summer and camped out in the ditch outside Bush's Ranch...

But Cindy Sheehan is alive and troublesome. Rosa Parks is dead and safe. Therein lies the difference.
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