Cynthia McKinney
I confess that my sympathies this charismatic former Congressman for the US state of Georgia and presidential candidate (2008) of the US Green Party fly with extraordinary ease: Cynthia has something of a diva: do not be surprised when you is not only beautiful, and one would if they like the black also Barbara Hendricks, would sing the next best operatic aria - no, she's also really good - that is 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 - is a Voice of America, which I miss in no case want; sometimes thinks you can hear even a modern, feminine Martin Luther King speak. Needless to say that nothing can be heard in the German media group of the person and the Cynthia McKinney Aktvitäten and read is ...
Cynthia went with the powerful leaders of the US and their henchmen, the politically correct, have often vastly unpopular: So they refused repeatedly in Congress to vote for military aid to Israel, they turned against the war in Afghanistan and in Iraq. She is fighting for the abolition of the death penalty.
On 21.5.2001 she said in a speech at the Anti-Discrimination Commitee 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 they told me that if I would sign no 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 help for me. Year after year, I suffered silently, because I refused to sign this statement. And then I went to work as 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 express the way I saw fit and not as one it told me to do. "
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 she had taken over their participation in various committees deeper insight into the US policy, she was not satisfied with the official explanation for the events of 11 September. They brought together members of victims, lawyers, journalists, scientists and strongly support the call for a new investigation of the facts and background, as they are with the report of the official "9/11 Commission" would not be satisfied .
Caricature ". Attention arrogant dumbass on the march 'Have you seen my pin?'"
This brought her a smear campaign by the media, of which they had but to 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 she 21 volunteers from 11 different nations (before all US and England) accompanied on the support boat "Spirit of Humanity" to Gaza. The ship also Laureate Mairead Maguire was the (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 into Gaza in), 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 and imprisoned all inmates a week in Israel.
Cynthia McKinney: "This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a humanitarian mission on the way to the Gaza Strip. President Obama has just asked Israel about letting happen humanitarian goods and materials for reconstruction, and that's what we tried to do. We ask the international community to demand our release so we can bring our journey to an end. "
It was only natural that I was interested Cynthia McKinney's opinion on the current disaster in Haiti. I found her very enlightening perspective, some information distressed me greatly. Therefore, here the translation of its opinion: (more ...)
