ATLANTA - Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was scheduled to return from Tel Aviv on a flight that landed in New York at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday.
McKinney and a group of 20 were detained last week by the Israeli Navy while they were trying to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza. They were accused of violating Israel's blockade. McKinney was detained because she refused to sign a document acknowledging it.
David Josue, a close associate of McKinney, told 11Alive News, she refused to sign the document because it was written in Hebrew and she did not know what she was being asked to sign.
It wasn't her first run-in with Israeli authorities, but her father said he hopes it will be her last run-in.
"She's driving her mother crazy," said Billy McKinney, a former state lawmaker. "I'll tell her to please have some regard for her mother. I understand because I had the same inclination during the civil rights movement."
http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=132172
Good for Cynthia for refusing to sign their document written in Hebrew. As sneaky as that govt is. there is no telling what she'd be signing away!
ReplyDeleteWell, actually, hat's a lie but this was the local Channel 11 news, they will never tell the truth, even if they're themselves were slave owners not too long ago. They only covered that much because she is a local. I seriously doubt that CNN or FAUX had even that much on them
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It's not like CK wasn't being watched. The attacks against her now are astonishing. Have you read any of the comments? The venom coming from them, and the number of them, would dishearten anyone.
Game is on. No more play acting.
No, I really have no idea what they're saying but I can imagine. My disgust for the corporate media has become parallel with my disgust with Bush. I refuse to read, watch or listen to anything that's operated by those creeps. TI found this little blurb referenced in one of the progressive sites I visit and to go and research it. The news, in particular, turn my stomach inside out!
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WE control your televison set. WE control the horizontal and the vertical. The outer limits was right. LOL
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own - for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone." - Rod Serling, introduction to episode "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" [orig. air date March 4, 1960]
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