Exodus Mentality said ...
If I had a dime for every time I have been accused of eccentric behavior. It's always eccentric when you day or do things that make the plantation residents uncomfortable. Speak the unadulterated truth about anything, and you will qualify.That's Cynthia's major problem. She will tell the truth on you in a hot second. And what's worse, she knows enough about these things to make people who profit from keeping the truth quiet, very uncomfortable. I hear the plantation rumbling now. Because no matter what they do, she just won't seem to go away.
Cynthia McKinney
A Letter From An Israeli Jail
"This is Cynthia McKinney and I’m speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned for trying to take medical supplies to Gaza, building supplies – and even crayons for children; I had a suitcase full of crayons for children.
While we were on our way to Gaza the Israelis threatened to fire on our boat, but we did not turn around. The Israelis highjacked and arrested us because we wanted to give crayons to the children in Gaza. We have been detained, and we want the people of the world to see how we have been treated just because we wanted to deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.
At the outbreak of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead [in December 2008], I boarded a Free Gaza boat with one day’s notice and tried, as the US representative in a multi-national delegation, to deliver three tons of medical supplies to an already besieged and ravaged Gaza.
During Operation Cast Lead, US-supplied F-16s rained hellfire on a trapped people. Ethnic cleansing became full-scale, outright genocide. US-supplied white phosphorus, depleted uranium, robotic technology, DIME weapons, and cluster bombs – new weapons creating injuries never treated before by Jordanian and Norwegian doctors. I was later told by doctors who were there in Gaza during Israel’s onslaught that Gaza had become Israel’s veritable weapons testing laboratory, people used to test and improve the kill ratio of their weapons.
The world saw Israel’s despicable violence thanks to Al-Jazeera Arabic and Press TV that broadcast in English. I saw those broadcasts live and around the clock, not from the USA but from Lebanon, where my first attempt to get into Gaza had ended because the Israeli military rammed the boat I was on in international water… It’s a miracle that I’m even here to write about my second encounter with the Israeli military, again a humanitarian mission aborted by the Israeli military.
Let’s change the world together and reclaim what we all need as human beings: Dignity. I appeal to the United Nations to get these women of Ramle, who have done nothing wrong other than to believe in Israel as the guardian of the Holy Land, resettled in safe homes. I appeal to the United State’s Department of State to include the plight of detained UNHCR-certified refugees in the Israel country report in its annual human rights report. I appeal once again to President Obama to go to Gaza: send your special envoy, George Mitchell there, and to engage Hamas as the elected choice of the Palestinian people.
I dedicate this message to those who struggle to achieve a free Palestine, and to the women I’ve met at Ramle. This is Cynthia McKinney, July 2nd 2009, also known as Ramle prisoner number 88794."
6 comments:
Exodus Mentality:
Cynthia McKinney is a role player.
As long as SHE IS NOT THE EXCLUSIVE LEADER of a people who, in their island nation HAVE NO ONE ELSE TO LOOK TO but HER for leadership via her policy pronouncements - they are fine.
The fact that she is doing what she does in the context of a more complex society in which there are multiple forces to counteract her "Speaking Truth To Power" then the people who follow her won't starve.
waaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaa go back to Africa Mckinney….humanitarian aid lol i brought crayons for them to eat lol!!
This is what happens .,blacks think now every one is supposed to bow down to them and they invented everything omg what BS …..
I luv it this is what you pathetic scared americans get ,this isn’t even america anymore…..All this African american BS ….these people are not even loyal to this country…..
Gee, WHY ISN'T THIS STORY HEADLINING ANY MAJOR NEWS SITE??? A Congresswoman got f'n imprisoned by a foreign state on an aid mission!!!
This woman should be nominated for sainthood. She is NOT driven by lobby dollars, but even acting against them sheerly out of humanitarian compassion!!!
Isn't this letter equivalent to MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail?"
Instead, she gets buried deep in alternative blogs, safely tucked away from the public consciousness.
Constructive Feedback or Confusing Feedback. I don't get what you said at all. Who is starving where because of what Cynthia did or did not do when?
Are you comparing Cynthia to Fidel? What "role" is she playing?
[quote] Who is starving where because of what Cynthia did or did not do when?
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Notice I said "IF" the ideology that she possesses was the exclusive institutional mindset which was charged to FEED THE PEOPLE, lest they starve......they would not do too good.
At some point it is time to put down the Actor-vist shoes and become a MANAGER.
OK, I can follow that. Now explain why Sister Cynthia has to do all that by her damn self, or else risk criticism from people doing arguably far less than she.
Perhaps her ROLE is that she has MANAGED to wake up a few formerly unconscious plantation type Negroes by ACTING OUT against what she perceives to be injustices.
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