"This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip,” said Cynthia McKinney, a former U.S. Congresswoman and presidential candidate, as she and 20 human rights workers and journalists from 11 countries on a boat attempting to break the blockade of Gaza were abducted and being dragged by an Israeli gunship to jail in Israel.
“President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that’s exactly what we tried to do. We’re asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey.” Noble laureate Mairead Maguire was also aboard, and all 21 are now in Israeli jail cells.
We urge people to take immediate action to have the Israeli government release Cynthia McKinney and the others on the Free Gaza vessel, the Spirit of Humanity, when it was boarded by Israeli Occupation Forces and forcibly hauled to Israel. (The people to contact are listed below.)
If any other country did this, it would be called “piracy.”
Other than Martin Luther King Jr., name a person who has demonstrated the level of intellectual courage and moral fortitude that it would take to stand up to the Israel lobby.
5 comments:
She has an absolutely crazed look in her eyes and I have taken her to task for her shenanigans before. HOWEVER, in this instance, she stood up for the right thing and I admire her for it.
To deprive people of food, medicine, water etc when they are in need is utterly shameful. Screw all that war talk; regular people are the ones who suffer.
Every dog has his day.
$200 that the PhariseeOfTheUnitedStates Obama just looks the other way like absolutely nothing happened..in fact, he already has.
Just like Gaza.
But MAD PROPS to Cynthia. I love this woman! We need more true progressives like her and Ron Paul!
This is why I voted for her. She has the courage to take on the status quo.
"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
Expediency asks the question - is it political?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.” – Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
Sister McKinney, like Dr. King only has one question, is it right?
And if it's right, she does it.
Yeah, though she walks through the valley of the shadow of death, she fears no evil.
Cynthia McKinney is the baddest Black Woman since Mrs.Fannie Lou Hamer, Ida Wells-Barnett and Harriet Tubman.
I love how our kosher media completely blacked this story out.
Isn't "pro-Semitism" the real problem in this country?
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