Cynthia McKinney
I confess that my sympathies this charismatic former congressman for the US state of Georgia and presidential candidate (2008) of the United States Green Party flying with extraordinary ease: Cynthia has something of a diva: not wonder you is not only beautiful, and it would if they like the black also Barbara Hendricks, would sing the next best operatic aria - no, she's also really good - in other words particularly brave; Cynthia McKinney has often showed great character in politics, inexorably she puts herself on the side of the weak and disenfranchised, passionate she swims against the tide and has something of a tribune of the people, in short - it is a Voice of America, which I miss in no case want; sometimes it is meant to hear even a modern, female Martin Luther King speak. Needless to say that nothing could be heard in the German media group of the person and the Cynthia McKinney Aktvitäten and read is ...
Cynthia went with the powerful US and their henchmen, the politically correct, have often vastly unpopular: So 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 capital punishment.
On 21.5.2001 she said in a speech at the Anti-Discrimination-Comitee headquarters in San Francisco:
"There are many Mitlieder 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 any assurance that supported the military superiority of Israel, there would be no support for me. And in fact, I did not sign the guarantee, and there was no support for me. Year after year I suffered silently, because I refused to sign this assurance. And then I went to work like a slave who has gefundnen a way to buy his freedom ... I wanted to be free ... free, the votes in the Congress of the United States dispense as I saw fit, not how prescribed it to me. "
Cynthia McKinney is an experienced politician. She sat (for the Democrats) twice in the House of Representatives for Georgia: 1995-2002 and 2005-2007.
Just because they had taken on their participation in various committees deeper insight into the US policy, she was not satisfied with the official explanation of the events of September 11. They brought together victims relatives, lawyers, journalists, scientists and strongly support the call for a new investigation of the facts and background information, as they are with the report of the official "9/11 Commission" did not want to be satisfied.
Caricature ". Caution arrogant Dumpfbacke approaching 'Did not you see my pin?'"
This earned her a smear campaign by the media, of which it could but be impressed in their zest little.
Cynthia sat down several times in person for the besieged and bombed Gaza and escorted humanitarian shipments there; most recently in June 2009, when they 21 volunteers from 11 different countries (above all US and England) accompanied on the auxiliary boat "Spirit of Humanity" to Gaza. On the ship itself, the Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire was (1976 for its peacekeeping mission in Northern Ireland). The boat brought urgently needed aid for the reconstruction of the destroyed houses (the Israelis left no cement in Gaza), medicines and toys. For this purpose, however, it did not come. The boat was stopped by the Israeli navy, surrounded with military boats and boarded, arrested all occupants and detained a week in Israel.
Cynthia McKinney: "The is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a humanitarian mission on its way to the Gaza Strip. President Obama has just asked Israel about letting happen humanitarian goods and materials for the reconstruction, and that's what we tried to do. We ask the international community to demand our release so we can bring our trip to an end. "
It was only natural that I was interested and Cynthia McKinney's opinion on the current disaster in Haiti. I found their point of view very enlightening, some information distressed me greatly. Therefore, here the translation of its opinion: (more ...)
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