Reply #7: Cindy is not part of ANSWER

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ANSWER is a coalition of very diverse groups with very diverse goals. Those groups range from organizations demanding Israels withdrawal from Palestinian territory to Save the Whales.

The complaint by many is that allowing these various groups to have their say at an anti-war rally dilutes the message.

The problem is that the funding, organization, beuraucratic rangling for permits, negotiations with city officials, etc. for these large scale events, have in the recent past been handled by ANSWER because nobody else has the funding nor the organization to pull it off.

After every event, a huge contingent of people spend a huge amount of time pissing and moaning about how ANSWER did this or that, but I have yet to see anyone actually DO anything except whine.

The ANSWER discussion is completely unrelated to the Sheehan discussion. Cindy is not ANSWER and ANSWER is not Cindy.