This article appeared in The BlackList Pub recently. I'm reposting it here, because I don't think many understand the length to which the repuglycons have gone to steal the government and democracy away from "WE, THE PEOPLE." But Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman from Atlanta, GA, is a good case in point.
She is also the reason why we can't allow any further incursions on our Black elected officials, and why, also, we must make it our business to expand the numbers of Black representatives in the House and the Senate.
I think we may need to begin teaching classes in political savvy in our churches, and other institutions where we as Black people gather. We appear to be asleep at the switch - or caught off guard far too often for those who have lived under the thumb of oppression and racism for as long as we have.
I remember when the redneck blue dog racist democrats and the repuglycons banded together to vote Cynthia out because she was telling the truth and raising questions no one else had any guts to bring to the table.
They crossed party lines, registered repuglycon and voted for her opponent. This has placed Atlanta under the rule of the most rapacious group of thugs in the history of the US Congress - outside of the days of slavery. Not enough of us were awake, aware and active to rally the vote back in her direction when the next election cycle came up. It makes you wonder just what they're doing down there in Hotlanta - a noted "Chocolate" city, that they could not rally enough Black votes to make a come back for this sister.
Anyway, this is her statement in its entirety. I strongly suggest you click on the references as well - for the corroborating information that she is providing here. I think you'll find it quite interesting.
While it is true that I was “booted” by pro-war Democrats who worked in concert with like-minded Republicans, your assertion of my being booted for “peddling conspiracies” deserves a deeper look. My booting, by the way, resulted in the GOP takeover of my home State of Georgia, an outcomethat seemingly makes both pro-war Democrats and Republicans (now called “globalists”) comfortable. Therefore, I want to take a deeper look at what I did “peddle:”
1. That Presidential candidate George W. Bush worked with his Florida Governor brother, Jeb, to orchestrate election theft in the 2000 Presidential election. Now that the public has caught up with the facts that I put on the table in 2000 and 2001 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdPhXuTzQeI), this position is supported by evidence that is available to all;
3. That the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund (https://www.vcf.gov/faq.html) was really set up to thwart 9/11 wrongful death lawsuits because it prevented victims’ survivors from getting justice in US Courts; I felt that victims and victims’ survivors should be able to sue the culprits as well as receive support from the Fund. The President recently vetoed legislation that would allow lawsuits to move forward against Saudi Arabia and Congress just overrode his veto. Fourteen years later, I am pleased that, once again, my position has been supported by evidence that has been clearly available to all for at least a decade;
4. That the US was not justified in attacking Iraq in 2003. The most thorough investigation into the 2003 decision to go to war against Iraq is the Chilcot Report (http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/the-report/) which found that war was not the last option and that U.S. allegations of Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq were not justified. Now that the public has caught up with the facts that I put on the table in 2002, this position is supported by evidence that is available to all;
5. That the then-Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, failed to perform his job during Hurricane Katrina and that thousands needlessly died because he failed the Gulf States and the country. After joining with Republicans and writing a Congressional Report on the subject that is available to the public (www.nola.com/katrina/pdf/mainreport.pdf), my position is supported by evidence that is available to all;
6. That a specific allegation had been made to my Congressional Office that thousands of bodies had been dumped in Louisiana swamps after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Now, we know that 9/11 human remains were dumped in a landfill (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/us/panel-recommends-more-oversigh...) with such action having been deemed “dereliction of duty,” so who has conducted an independent investigation into what happened in Louisiana, in particular, with respect to body disposal?
7. That racism exists in Capitol Hill Police Department similar to what exists in other police departments around the U.S. and that I was a victim of that discrimination after I supported a lawsuit filed by Black police officers after one of their superior officers used the word “nigger.” Black police officers have been waiting fifteen years for justice and recently held a demonstration in support of their claim (http://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/former-capitol-police-call-atte...). One need only hear the moving testimony of the U.S. Senate’s lone Black GOP Member and his interactions with the Capitol Hill Police (http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/floor-speeches/tim-scott-blac...) to understand that my experience was surely possible. Now, again—after the fact— that the public has caught up with the evidence that I put on the table in 2006, my position is supported by evidence that is available to all, sadly now most of all, the family of Keith Lamont Scott and all of those young people who were just recently in Charlotte’s streets.
If only the press had decided to investigate my assertions rather than castigate me for making them! Maybe things would be far different than they are today in Iraq, Libya, Louisiana, and elsewhere. But, instead of investigation of the inconvenient or unpleasant facts that I repeatedly put on the table, the response was a frenzy of specious journalism and spurious assertions where true journalism was needed. Your column, with mention of my name, is an example of that. Such “reporting” is precisely why Trump’s attacks on the media resonate so well with the American and global public. The polling data on the public perception of the U.S. media is a damning indictment of the rolethe media has played in this country for too many years. That is why the U.S. public more and more now seeks its information from foreign media outlets, the internet, “alternative” media, and less and less from “newspapers” like yours.
Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction. OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING!
"My weapon is media, lectures, protest, organization." Kenneth S. Carr (Dedon Kamathi)
“It’s organized crime. All you do is you call the Republicans the Genoveses and you call the Democrats the Gambinos. The people at the top, they treat it like a crap game. It’s their crap game, like they’re making lots of money. Occasionally, somebody at the table shoots each other, but the moment anything threatens their crap game, they all unite to protect it. ... They’re both controlled by the same financial, economic and corporate interests.” -Michael C. Ruppert (excerpted from the film America Freedom to Fascism)
"We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The biggest weapon in the hands of the oppressors is the minds of the oppressed." Steve Biko
"Make your spirit flexible, and nothing will ever bend you out of shape." Wisdom by Taro Gold
NOW THAT YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network, a group formed to address the rise in private prisons, and Black men (and women) being incarcerated for crimes that would normally be considered a misdemeanor, or for specious allegation - is convening a two day planning conference in Atlanta, Georgia, centered around resistance to police brutality and judicial injustice. The chartered bus left NYC Thursday evening and arrived in Atlanta, GA around 12:30 on Friday, where they hooked up with The Stop Mass Incarceration Network's Meet and Greet event at the Castleberry Inn & Suites
Below is the agenda for the weekend. Any of you who are either planning to travel to Atlanta this weekend, are already in Atlanta, but didn't know this was happening, or who have relatives in Atlanta who should be part of this momentous event, please make sure you share this with them. Stay Blessed & ECLECTICALLY BLACK Gloria
We Won’t Go Back! Get On the Bus! We Say NO MORE! Get On the Bus!
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network (SMIN) has issued a draft Call for a Shutdown Day on April 14,
a day of massive resistance all over the country, with students at
thousands of schools going on strike, taking over buildings and more;
and people gathering in cities nationwide to disrupt America’s business
as usual. And SMIN is developing a plan of resistance to build up to
April 14.
If
you want to see the horror of police wantonly murdering people STOPPED
and are ready to get down to serious work to STOP it, come to this
planning meeting in Atlanta. Be part of enriching and further developing
the plans for the Shutdown Day in April. And be part of developing a
plan for resistance that builds up momentum to a powerful day of
resistance in April.
The
authorities have declared that the normal routine of this society will
continue to include wanton police murder of Black and Latino people.
This normal routine must be disrupted.
Come to Atlanta on February 7 & 8, & be part of planning out how to do that!
Click here for the tentative agenda.
Help make this meeting a success by making a needed contribution.
Join the New York Delegation to Atlanta - Feb. 7, 8
Join
the NYC delegation to the National Planning Meeting of the Stop Mass
Incarceration Network in Atlanta on Saturday, Feb 7th and Sunday, Feb
8th. We have purchased a block of tickets to travel together by bus to
Atlanta – leaving Thursday, Feb. 5 in the evening. The cost is $80
round trip.
The Interdenominational Theological Center
(ITC) is located on the Atlanta University Center, which is not far
from our host hotel, Castleberry Inn and Suites. The Atlanta University
Center is the largest contiguous consortium of African American higher
education in the U.S. The center consists of four historically black
colleges and universities – Morehouse College, Morehouse School of
Medicine, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University. Address: 700
MLK Dr. SW.
Host Hotel: Castleberry Inn and Suites
is located in Downtown Atlanta's Historic Castleberry Hill Art
District. It is a 15 minute walk to the Atlanta University Center and
the Interdenominational Theological Center. When making a reservation
during this weekend, please mention "Stop Mass Incarceration Network"
to obtain the special rate. Address: 186 Northside Drive SW. Phone: 404-893-4663.
Help make this meeting a success by making a needed contribution.
