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By Cynthia McKinney Posted by Rady Ananda (about the submitter)
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In fact, the Democrats have just now made themselves complicit in impeachable crimes of the Bush Administration. On March 17, my birthday, at the antiwar protest at the Pentagon, I declared that by voting to fund George Bush's wars, the Democrats had become explicitly complicit in war crimes, torture, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.
The American people voted for peace in last November's election. And they voted for justice. We didn't get peace and we don't have justice.
What about a livable wage for America's workers?
What about the right of return for Katrina survivors?
What about repealing the Patriot Act, the Secret Evidence Act, and the Military Tribunals Act?
Why is impeachment "off the table"?
How can the Pentagon "lose" 2.3 trillion dollars!
Why can't we get that money back for jobs, health care, education, and our veterans?
One year to the day before he was murdered Dr. King, under tremendous pressure from other blacks and "civil rights leaders" to tone down his antiwar rhetoric, responded thusly:
"For those who say to me, 'stick to civil rights,' I have another answer. And that is, that I've fought too long and too hard now, against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concerns. I'm not gonna do that. But others can do what they want to do. That's their business. If other civil rights leaders, for various reasons, refuse or can't take a stand or have to go along with the Administration, that's their business. But I must say tonight, that I know that justice is indivisible: injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
I'm deeply disappointed on this Memorial Day 2007 in what the current leadership of both political parties has allowed our country to become.
Many of you know I'm a Star Trek Trekkie. And in a powerful exchange between Spock and Bones, the following is said:
SPOCK: "Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth."
BONES: "Or by misleading the innocent."
I believe the innocent people of our country have been purposely misled while the truth has been suppressed. I will continue to work to expose the truth—as I have done in the past. And I certainly hope that by next year's Memorial Day, the United States will have once again become the beacon of peace and justice and truth that we know it can be. And that Dr. King's sacrifice and that of his family will not have been in vain.
If you'd like to read more about me, just click on my website: www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com
Become a Fan (2 fans) -- Page 3 of 3 page(s)
The American people voted for peace in last November's election. And they voted for justice. We didn't get peace and we don't have justice.
What about a livable wage for America's workers?
What about the right of return for Katrina survivors?
What about repealing the Patriot Act, the Secret Evidence Act, and the Military Tribunals Act?
Why is impeachment "off the table"?
How can the Pentagon "lose" 2.3 trillion dollars!
Why can't we get that money back for jobs, health care, education, and our veterans?
One year to the day before he was murdered Dr. King, under tremendous pressure from other blacks and "civil rights leaders" to tone down his antiwar rhetoric, responded thusly:
"For those who say to me, 'stick to civil rights,' I have another answer. And that is, that I've fought too long and too hard now, against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concerns. I'm not gonna do that. But others can do what they want to do. That's their business. If other civil rights leaders, for various reasons, refuse or can't take a stand or have to go along with the Administration, that's their business. But I must say tonight, that I know that justice is indivisible: injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
I'm deeply disappointed on this Memorial Day 2007 in what the current leadership of both political parties has allowed our country to become.
Many of you know I'm a Star Trek Trekkie. And in a powerful exchange between Spock and Bones, the following is said:
SPOCK: "Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth."
BONES: "Or by misleading the innocent."
I believe the innocent people of our country have been purposely misled while the truth has been suppressed. I will continue to work to expose the truth—as I have done in the past. And I certainly hope that by next year's Memorial Day, the United States will have once again become the beacon of peace and justice and truth that we know it can be. And that Dr. King's sacrifice and that of his family will not have been in vain.
If you'd like to read more about me, just click on my website: www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com
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Poignant and Precious
by Rady Ananda on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 2:36:12 AM
Let's make Memorial Day be inclusive of non-Americans fallen
by Jay Janson on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 9:57:56 PM