Posted on 11/28/2009 11:41:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Congresswoman and U.S. Presidential Candidate (Green Party 2008), Cynthia McKinney, known for speaking truth to power, has again written to President Obama, this time with the subject headed: Please Bring Our Troops Home Now! (below)
Ray Songree of Kauia Truth and the Paul Revere Email Campaign wrote to his email list:
"Cynthia McKinney is one of the greatest heroines of our times. Very few elected officials have EVER spoke truth to power. That is all she does. There are many women on this email list. It really is your time to stand up and be heard, not as wannabe men, but as real real women, with all your hearts and souls and care and love. McKinney, like many on this email list, is a woman to be lauded, and I do!"
Following this links provides an example of what it means to be unafraid suggests Songtree: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6708378013583808332&q=911#
Open Letter to Obama: Please Bring Out Troops Home Now!
By Cynthia McKinney
November 22, 2009
Mr. President:
I am writing to urge you to announce an immediate cease-fire followed by a withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan in the fastest way consistent with the safety of our forces.
I urge you to end the use of Predator drones that kill civilians.
I call upon you to cease all covert operations in Africa, Asia, and North and South America.
Too many of your military advisors are implicated in torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the peace. Your Justice Department operates at the zenith of injustice, defending Bush Administration criminality in U.S. Courtrooms.
I wrote to you earlier suggesting that if you did not investigate the crimes of the Bush Administration, you would be viewed as their accessory. Sadly, war crimes and torture are now committed with your name on them.
Please bring our troops home now.
Cynthia McKinney
A peace demonstration is being organized for December 12, 2009 in Washington, D.C. The Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally, also known as the End US Wars Rally, is scheduled for 11am at Lafayette Park at the White House. I wholly endorse this rally and encourage all who can to participate in Washington, DC or to help a local peace organization committed to ending U.S. wars on that date.
For more information about the Washington, D.C. December 12, 2009 demonstration, please visit www.endUSwars.org, currently under construction.
P.S. President Obama's Department of Justice, unlike President Clinton's that refused to even prosecute, just took Lynne Stewart to prison and is trying to extend her sentence from 28 months to 3O years. Please take a moment and write a letter of encouragement to Lynne Stewart, the people's attorney, who is now Prisoner #53504-054 at MCC-NY. Her address is:
Lynne Stewart
53504-054
MCC-NY
150 Park Row
New York, NY 10007
Why no objection to the covert operations in Europe? Is she a racist?
Oh, it's the latest rage.
Everyone who is someone has been a presidential candidate.
And even some who isn't.
Can someone please explain to me, in simple English, exactly what “Speaking Truth To Power” really means?
tk in advance...
The classic useful idiot was one who followed the party line slavishly while not being part of the actual party structure—a foreign journalist with communist sympathies, for example. McKinney is not following the party line, therefore, she is not a classic “useful idiot”. She is a “true believer”.
“... end drones ...”
Hmmmmm ..?? Is this the person in Congress who informed Cindy Sheehan where to protest about “drones” ..??
And .. if McKinney divulged that information to Sheehan, SOMEBODY SHOULD ARREST McKINNEY FOR TREASON!!!
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