"Democracy Is Under Attack - Let's Take it Back" Cynthia McKinney

[ElsewheresDaughter]

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/080503_take_it_back.html
This women has been vindicated and the DNC better sit up and pay attention!!!!

How proud I am to stand at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem USA!

Thank you Reverend Butts, Bob, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Sonia Sanchez, Ralph Carter, Hakim, the Coalition of Artists and Activists, and all who worked hard to put this rally together. And thank you for inviting me.

How appropriate that we gather here at this Church, with all its rich history of proud resistance and indignant defiance of a social order that relegated the giants of their day to second class citizenship.

And what an honor for me, to stand among the giants of our day, if only for a moment, and see America's landscape from their gaze.

What this rally means, is that America's vista has now become as ravaged in its pristine hillside villas as it has always been for those of us who muddle

behind the cities' shadows.

Our people are dying.

On the streets of America our people are dying.

Gathered tonight in this room are people from all walks of life; and for that reason, this is a very dangerous meeting for the powers that be.

They would like to see us divided.

I'm not just saying that. They wrote that in their COINTELPRO papers; about how they would keep blacks separated from each other, and separated from Africans, and separated from other people of color, and most importantly, separated from progressive activist whites. They wrote that they would discredit black activists so they would lose favor within their community and within our American community. They also wrote that they would replace authentic black leaders with what they called "clean Negroes" whom they had groomed to be more loyal to them than to us. Those aren't my words, they're their words.

Well, they were silly enough to write it down, and we were smart enough to read it. So we're not fooled.

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[Pocho]

1. OUR DEMS HUNG HER OUT TO SWING IN THE WIND

for what she said about our opponents also spoke too telling of us.

But they didn't strangle her. Far from it. One ought read her entire magnificent speech and particularly its finish.

She concludes:

"when a long train of abuses and usurpations, . . . evinces a design to reduce (a people to life) under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

And with that, a rebellion became a revolution....We need a revolution!...And it needs to start with us."

Can you support our troops? Or, are you really for the other guy's?

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. GOOD!

for Cynthia McKinney. She tells it like it is.

[Andy_Stephenson]

3. Very

GOOD

[Q]

5. The great leaders of the Democratic party...

...are being marginalized by GOPers and DLCers alike.

- But it is these 'liberal' leaders who inspire us to better things...not the fence sitters worried about taking a stand.

[AfricanDonkey]

4. Seriously, as a black man, Cynthia McKiney is C-R-A-Z-Y

She is 100% nutball. I wouldn't vote for her if it was her versus Bush because at least I know Bush wouldn't try and cure poverty by ordering that everyone go out and buy cream cheese and eat it (yes, that is something she advocated for).

Seriously, she has a serious mental problem. The CBC (congresional black caucuss) who backed her to the bitter end in that primary fight said they wouldn't "touch her with a 10ft pole at this moment".

[Classical_Liberal]

6. Citatition from a non right wing rag?

?

[AfricanDonkey]

9. citation?

I was in Georgia visitng my uncle during the election. I saw her speak 5 times. She should check herself into a mental clinic. Im not trying to be funny here, Im dead serious. She was delerious at each rally. Her eyes kept running around in cricles around her head, up, down, left, right and thats where she talked about curing poverty by making everyone eat Cream Cheese.

[catzies]

17. Gee that's too bad. My brother and his family

lived in her district and they voted for her. :shrug:

I hear you, but all I can say is I just want more women in power anyway. There are plenty of male nuts in government, so why not some female nuts? :think: I just want parity, 50/50 just like the population.

[onehandle]

18. You're a student from Johannesburg...

Your Uncle is here in Georgia?

I heard her speak several times. No mention of cream cheese.

Could it be that you're a troll?

[Pocho]

7. I'LL TAKE THAT KIND OF CRAZY ANY DAY.

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[AfricanDonkey]

10. Im not a Cream Cheese kinda person, thanks though!

[AfricanDonkey]

11. Im not a Cream Cheese kinda person, thanks though!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. sounds as if someone took a wrong turn back at the fork in the road

:shrug:...Rep Cynthia McKinney was 100% correct in what she said on the floor of the house...100%...the dems who hung her out to dry should hang their collective heads!!!

[AfricanDonkey]

12. I have no idea what she said on the House floor, i know what she said in

one of her rallies. And I don't think Cream cheese is the answer to human poverty.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. how McKinney lost GA seat

Cynthia McKinney, Georgia Democrat lost her primary bid due to Georgia’s open primary policy that allowed 40,000 Republicans to cross party lines and vote against her.

[pnb]

20. Uh, not quite...

The best that anyone who actually studied the numbers could come up with was that a little over 3,000 republicans voted for Majette and the margin of victory was over 19,000. It was democrats who voted for Majette.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

14. what Cynthia said...

Cynthia McKinney

The most courageous member of Congress.

Out of 535 members of Congress, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was the first to break the consensus of silence and point to the obvious - that the Bush administration had received advance warnings of an attack, and that this called for a full investigation, without limits on what line of questioning is acceptable. After saying so in March, she was vilified without mercy in the press, until it became clear that many more people were believing her and supporting her than the pundits and spin managers imagined.


Washington Post story of April 12. More than two weeks later, someone at the Post actually decides to report on McKinney's radio interview, setting off a chain reaction. A Georgia senator calls for her lunatic head. A Bush spokesman is shocked - shocked! - that anyone thinks the president came to power in an illegitimate election. A spokesman of the Carlyle Group associates McKinney with "Roswell, New Mexico," the location of a supposed crash by an alien UFO in the 1950s, and "the grassy knoll" on Dealey Plaza in Dallas, the spot from which many people say they witnessed President Kennedy being shot at by a second gunman in Nov. 1963. Ari Fleischer later used the same spin. (Was it really so smart to mention the grassy knoll? Last time I heard, 80 percent of the American people still expressed a preference for the laws of physics over the findings of the Warren Commission.)

McKinney statement of May 16, after the White House made its first admission of foreknowledge. Suddenly, she's not a "conspiracy theorist" or a nut anymore

One need not agree with McKinney's every stand on the issues to understand the importance of supporting her on this one. She is certainly outspoken, more so than any other member of Congress except perhaps for Ron Paul, a truly maverick Republican from Texas. Who else in either chamber has the guts to speak openly about Henry Kissinger's war crimes, the CIA murders of Patrice Lumumba and Salvador Allende, domestic political repression under the COINTELPRO program, the possible U.S. government role in the assassination of Martin Luther King, or the clandestine U.S. role in sparking the Rwandan genocide of 1994? And few indeed are those who still refuse to stand down and stop recalling that the Bush administration came to power in an illegitimate coup.

[Pocho]

19. I WISH YOU WOULD STOP TALKING LIKE THAT

Cowed member of the Paper Bag Society, DU Chapter
"They're crazy, not me. All's nice. I want it to be"

Certainly no conspiracies here. All reasonably explained
JFK, Jack Ruby, Hale Boggs, Warren Commission, CIA, Martin King, Malcom X, Bobby Kennedy, Abby Hoffman, FBI, John Lennon, Fred Hampton, Che, Contras, Iran, Echelon, John Jr., Osama, Touch screen voting, Nov.2000, 18,181, Skull & Bones, 9/11, Anthrax, Wellstone, NSA, Nov.2002, DLC, Saddam, WMD, Dr Kelly, Arnold.(Earn PBS Blindy Points by adding others which tin hatters see as conspiracies but which we know are just a normal coincidental part of life.)

[bpilgrim]

15. looks like another donkey that needs a slap...

:evilgrin:

speaking in absoloutes is not a very convincing way to make your case.

peace

[whathappened]

16. these suckers

have drove all of us to the edge of being ready for the funny farm , she wasnt nuts , she was pissed , just like condee they haunted that poor man 24/7 on tv until his whole state thought he was a murderer , yes beleave what you want , but the wing nuts are working very hard to get rid of all the touble makers out there who have any kind of voice we mite want to hear , what ya going to do when they come for you , and say hey you look like your nuts