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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 .

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:

01/18/2010

Haiti 2010: A new edition of unwelcome Katrina [the hurricane devastated New Orleans in 2005]
Päsident Obama's response to the tragedy in Haiti have been robust in terms of deployment of military and miserably at what do the Haitians in particular: food, first responders with appropriate specialized equipment, doctors, nurses and medical facilities and equipment as well as engineers, heavy equipment and heavy excavators. Sadly, President Obama sent to President Bush and Clinton and thousands of Marines and U.S. soldiers. In contrast, Cuba has already sent 400 doctors on site and more. Cubans, Argentinians, Icelanders, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and many others are already in place and working - they save lives and provide injured. Senegal has offered Haitians country if they want to move back to Africa. The United States announced a day after the tragedy, that one was considering to bring an entire Marine Expeditionary choir, "to help restore order," although the "disorder" was caused by an earthquake, the Haitian had struck. Since 1751, 1770, 1842, 1860 and 1887 had experienced an earthquake in Haiti more. But I remember the falsified reports of chaos and violence that led to the deployment of military, including Blackwater in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. A Katrina survivor noted that people eat and a roof over your head you need, but the U.S. government sent men with rifles. I am very concerned that we seem to be back at this point. From the moment I came to U.S. aid for Haiti, more like an invasion, as a humanitarian relief operation.
On Day 2 of the tragedy of a C-130 aircraft landed with a military reconnaissance team in Haiti and the rest of the troops should arrive a little later. The purpose of this team was called to determine who, what military equipment would be needed. A special operations team of the Air Force should also arrive to take control of air traffic. Now there are reports that the U.S. is not letting in aid - again everywhere the shadow of Hurricane Katrina. On the orders of President Obama's "flying military aircraft over the island and made ​​maps of the destruction." So, then, was the first U.S. contribution to humanitarian aid, which was used in Haiti, reconnaissance drones, which features more often serves to arms caches and air-ground hold-missile batteries on the lookout as to damaged infrastructure. The nature of the U.S. response was clear: aircraft carriers, naval transport ships, four C-140 airlift and evacuation to Guantanamo. At the end of Day 2, the United States had evacuated after reports the Washington Post about eight (8) severely injured patients to Guantanamo, in addition to the embassy staff, "was the U.S. ambassador and his staff identified as a priority."
On Day 3, we learned that other U.S. ships, including destroyers were on their way to Haiti. Interestingly, the Washington Post reported that the constant use of force, which is coordinating the U.S. response to events of mass immigration from Cuba or Haiti, the events monitored, but their operations had not yet begun. It was spicy in itself that these two countries by a permanent task force to be served, the treatment of their nationals is completely different, because Cubans are immediately accepted by the U.S. government, the citizens of Haiti, however, be interned.
The rear admiral of the U.S. Coast Guard James Watson assured IV of the Americans: "Our main goal now is to prevent that, and we are with the Department of Defense work, the State Department, FEMA and all agencies of the federal government in order to minimize the risk that Haitians . want to flee their country, "Watson said:" We want to send them this relief supplies to enable them to live in Haiti. "

At the end of day 4, the U.S. had been reported as more than 800 U.S. citizens evacuated. For those of us who have followed events in Haiti before the tragic earthquake, it is important to make several points that worried:

1. The continued exile of Haiti's democratically elected and very popular, but twice deposed, President, the former priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
2. The more persistent, unexplained occupation of the country by United Nations forces, Haitians have murdered the innocent and unlikely because of "security" there are. (I myself have seen them on the roads that lead only to sparsely populated areas of Haiti, but have beautiful beaches.
3. The construction of the fifth-largest U.S. embassy in the world in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
4. Mining and port licenses and contracts, including the privatization of Haiti's deep-sea ports, as certain offshore and shipping arrangements within the United States on environmental and other reasons would be possible.
5. The massive presence of foreign NGOs [nongovernmental organizations], which would be unnecessary if, instead, an appropriate policy of the United States and other governments to the people of Haiti would make a little political and economic self-determination.

Therefore we do here draw attention to the writings of Mrs. Marguerite Laurent, whom I met in her capacity as a lawyer for the deposed Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Mrs. Laurent reminds us of the oil off the coast of Haiti and an oil refinery to be built there as a shipping terminal for U.S. supertankers. Mrs. Laurent, also known as Ezili Danto leadership of Haitian Lawyers Network (HLLN) is known, writes:

There is evidence that the United States have found several decades ago, oil, but decided on the basis of the geo-political circumstances and interests of big business these years to keep the Haitian oil reserves as a reserve for the time when the oil would dry up from the Middle East . This is described by Dr. Georges Michel in an article dated 27 Described in March 2004 that deals with the history of oil exploration and oil reserves in Haiti and the investigation of Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin [2 Geoscientists]. [...] There is also good evidence that these very large U.S. oil companies and the precedents with their monopoly of construction and weapons companies decades ago made ​​plans to take advantage of Haiti's deep-water ports either for oil refineries or to put oil tanks or depots where crude oil is stored and was later shipped by small tankers to serve U.S. and Caribbean ports. This is explained in detail in a paper on the Dunn Plantation at Fort Liberte in Haiti. [...] Ezilis HLLN turns out, these two papers on Haiti's oil reserves and the work of Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin, to provide a perspective that can be found either in the mainstream media or elsewhere, in terms of economic and strategic reasons why the have built in tiny Haiti "[Haitian attorney Marguerite Laurent extent that] - United States after the Bush regime change in 2004 in Haiti, its fifth largest embassy in the world - apart from the U.S. embassies in China, Iraq, Iran and Germany.
[...]
The appointment by President Bush to help Haiti by President Obama in my opinion is a slap in the face. After President Bush's idea after Hurricane Katrina and the fact that even today the survivors of Hurricane Katrina who want to return, have still not received an opportunity to come home, the appointment may be great for the collection of donations, but I doubt that they are good is a good sign for the Haitians. Not least was the coup and the kidnapping of President Aristide, under the aegis of the Bush presidency.

And finally, do those who appreciate French literature, that is among the most popular writers in France, Alexandre Dumas, the son of a Haitian slave, and Victor Hugo, who wrote: "Haiti est une lumière." ("Haiti is a light"). In fact, Haiti is one of millions of light: a light that shines on the methodology and the evil of slavery, to the successful slave rebellion, a light for national unity and the concept of freedom, the rights of human beings and human dignity. Haiti is a light. And a shining example that can shake the enemies of the black liberation. Haiti's light that shines on the evil spirit of some individuals who exercise power over others but also to overcome the human capacity through unity and a common goal of evil is precisely the reason why some parts of the world with Haiti ever since 1804 in the war were , the year of Haiti's constitution as a republic.

"Reverend" Pat Robertson's racist failures did not surprise me. Robertson's comments are an exact mirror image of the statements that gave Napoleon's cabinet, as the Haitians had beaten the French. But Robertson's comments in 2010 revealed much more: Haitians are not the only ones who understand their importance in the fight against hatred, imperialism, and European dominance.
This annoying, steadfast, stubborn, non-Western, proud-African nation on this land that we call Haiti, knows his history and knows that it is the dominant empire of those days and the former global elite that it supports, beaten has - the France of Napoleon. It knows that it defeated the armies of England and Spain.

The Haitians know that they used their status as a free state it in order to help rid the Latin Americans from Spain, by fighting on the side of Simon Bolivar and money mustered. Their example inspired their still enslaved African brothers and sisters of the American mainland, and even before the Haitians were released, they fought against the British in the United States during the Revolutionary War and won a decisive battle in Savannah, Georgia, where I visited the Statue reminiscent of that victory.

The Haitians know that France imposed reparations because they were made ​​free, and Haiti paid them fully, however, that President Aristide called on France to repay that money ($ 21 billion as of 2003).

The Haitians know that their "brother", the then Secretary of State Colin Powell, the world over the kidnapping and the second dismissal of the President lied. (Sadly, there should not be the last time that Colin Powell lied to the world.) The Haitians know all too well that high-ranking blacks in the United States are capable of helping them, but also to cheat them.

The Haitians also know that the United States, their political representatives and their own soldiers have installed on Haitian soil, when the U.S. felt that it would be necessary. All this is an attempt to control the indomitable Haitian spirit that radiates to the rest of the oppressed world sorely needed light.

While the tears of the Haitian people are my own - and I remember their tremendous capacity to love - dim my broken heart and my eyes are not wet my ability to comprehend the serious threat that can see, my friends in Haiti now faces.

I shudder at the thought of that policy to "rollback" [= pushing back] on some foreign policy advisers believe President Obama could use an extended U.S. military presence in Haiti as a springboard for the suppression of areas in Latin America, the self- liberated from a neo-colonial U.S. hegemony. I would find the idea abhorrent that such a thing would even try under the presidency of Barack Obama. We must all keep a watchful eye on Haiti and other parts of the world that swim today because of an unstoppable advance of the U.S. military machine in the blood.
So I put so firmly on this Memorial Day, the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, that it was illegal Lantern Spike-operation of their own U.S. government, which obliterated the hope and the light of Dr. Martin Luther King. Any offer of humanitarian assistance, which is rejected by the U.S. military (formerly of the CARICOM, the Caribbean Community, doctors without borders, Brazil, France, Italy and even the Red Cross Society of the United States) - just as it was done after Hurricane Katrina - and the expected arrival of 10,000 U.S. troops to this day, are a lasting reminder of the existential threat that hovers over the brave, proud people of the Republic of Haiti.

This opinion is Cynthia McKinney I certainly have reason to concern myself too intense with Haiti. I am also grateful for the tutoring history and the completely different perspective, looking out from the politician, the Haitian tragedy and evaluated. Above all, one has paid me, Haiti is not a poor country - quite the contrary. It is really rich, rich in history and natural resources. The latter has been shown in the past, as in Haiti paid France $ 23 billion in gold in "reparations" for its independence. That should give us pause!

Here is another example of the eloquence of Cynthia McKinney.

Tags: Cynthia McKinney , Dr. Georges Michelet , Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin , earthquakes , oil reserves from Haiti , Ezili Danto , Gaza , Haiti , Marguerite Laurent

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