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Cynthia McKinney

I confess that my sympathies to fly this charismatic former Congressman for the U.S. state of Georgia and presidential candidate (2008), the Green Party of the United States with the greatest of ease: Cynthia has something of a diva: She is not only beautiful, and it would not be surprised if they, like the also black Barbara Hendricks singing the next best opera aria would - no, she's really good - that is very brave, Cynthia McKinney has often proved character in politics, inexorably, they will move to the side of the weak and disenfranchised, passionate she is swimming against the tide and has something of a tribune of the people, in short - it is a voice of America that I would not miss under any circumstances, talk sometimes think you even have a modern, female Martin Luther King heard. Needless to say that listening to the German media company of the person and the Other Activities Cynthia McKinney's nothing to read and is ...
Cynthia set out in the mighty U.S. and its henchmen, the politically correct, have frequently enormously unpopular: She refused repeatedly in Congress to vote for military aid to Israel, they turned against the war against Afghanistan and against Iraq. She fights for the abolition of the death penalty.

On 05/21/2001 she said in a speech to the Anti-Discrimination Comitee headquarters in San Francisco:
"There are many user may of Congress who want to be free. I am one of them. I wanted to be free to vote according to my conscience, but I was told if I did not sign a guarantee that supported the military superiority of Israel, there would be no support for me. And actually, I signed the guarantee does not, and there was no support for me. I silently suffered year after year, because I refused to sign this assurance. And then I went to work like a slave who has gefundnen a way to purchase his freedom ... I wanted to be free ... free to cast the votes in the Congress of the United States as I saw fit and not how prescribed it to me. "

Cynthia McKinney is a seasoned politician. She was sitting (for Democrats) twice in the House of Representatives for Georgia: 1995-2002 and 2005-2007.
Just because they had taken over their involvement in various committees deeper insights into U.S. policy, they were with the official explanation for the events of the 11th September is not satisfied. She led members of victims, lawyers, journalists, and scientists together strongly support the call for a new investigation of the facts and background, as it is with the report of the official "9/11 Commission" was not satisfied .

Caricature ". Warning arrogant Dumpfbacke on the march 'Have not you seen my pin?'"

This brought her a character assassination campaign by the media, from which she had but little to impress in their thirst for action.

Cynthia sat down several times in person and for the besieged and bombed Gaza and escorted humanitarian shipments there, most recently in June 2009, when she on the auxiliary boat "Spirit of Humanity" 21 volunteers from 11 different nations (most U.S. and UK), accompanied by Gaza . On the ship there was also the Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire (1976 for its peacekeeping operation in Northern Ireland). The boat brought badly needed aid for the reconstruction of destroyed houses (the Israelis did not come to Gaza cement), medicines and toys. This did not. The boat was stopped by the Israeli navy , surrounded by military boats and boarded, and arrested all the inmates incarcerated for a week in Israel.
Cynthia McKinney: "This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our ship was not in Israeli territorial waters, and we were on a humanitarian mission on the way to the Gaza Strip. President Obama has just asked Israel to allow humanitarian supplies to pass and materials for reconstruction, and that's what we have tried to do. We ask the international community to demand our release so we can bring our journey to end. "

It was only natural that I was interested also Cynthia McKinney's opinion about the current disaster in Haiti. I found her perspective very enlightening to me very worried some information. Therefore, here the translation of its opinion: (more ...)