From Cynthia McKinney: Thousands Rally and March in Washington, D.C. to "Let
Gaza Live"


Today I participated in ANSWER's march and rally, "Let Gaza Live" in Washington,
D.C.  Attendance was excellent despite the weather.  Among the many friends in
attendance, I met a young man and his daughter who had come all the way from
Greensboro, North Carolina to participate.  The crowd was one of the most
diverse that I have ever seen.  I think our message is reaching deep into our
country's heartland.  Here are my remarks:

Cynthia McKinney
"Let Gaza Live"
Washington, D.C.
January 10, 2009

We don't see the images.  They are neatly censored from our view in this
country.  But everywhere else around the world the carnage that is Gaza is being
seen and the people are revolted by what they see.

They see dead babies, decapitated bodies, defenseless relief workers killed. 
Maimed men, makeshift morgues, mortified mothers.

They see exploding white phosphorus shells, cluster bombs, depleted uranium
munitions.

They see what is reportedly the world's fourth most powerful military using all
of its power against a defenseless people.

In fact, they are witnesses to 15 days of war crimes, crimes against humanity,
ethnic cleansing, and genocide.

They see Hugo Chavez expel Venezuela's Israeli Ambassador and they see lawmakers
in Ecuador condemn Israel's actions, calling for an investigation into Israel's
crimes against humanity. 

And despite the obvious facts of an Israeli-sponsored terror campaign against
Palestinians in Gaza, a piece of territory roughly twice the size of the
District of Columbia, they see the U.S. Congress support a resolution totally
supporting Israel, even though Israel is in violation of U.S. and international
law.

They see Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, swaggering in insult to black
America by initially refusing to seat Roland Burris from Illinois in the Senate,
yet that same Reid cowers before the pro-Israel lobby, and they wonder why.

And sadly, they see the U.S. President-elect, who roared onto the scene like a
lion, remain as quiet as a lamb in the face of the utter inhumanity of Israel's
actions, and they wonder why.

And then, they see us.  Gathered here in front of the White House, reaffirming
our own humanity, and that of millions of people around the world, including in
Israel, who disagree with this death and destruction.  The tears of the
Palestinians roll down our cheeks, even as we bury our own victims of police
murder.

A new day is coming in U.S. politics.  We will use the power of our vote to
change U.S. policy.  We will no longer check our values at the door and support
politicians and political parties that fail to deliver.

Not one more bomb to Israel.

In defense of humanity, we will not give up and we will win.


--
The shock, awe and heart attacks that followed Madoff's confession that he was
'running a Ponzi scheme' drew as much anger for the money lost and the fall from
the moneyed class as for the embarrassment of knowing that the world's biggest
exploiters and smartest swindlers on Wall Street, were completely 'taken' by one
of their own.  Not only did they suffer big losses but their self-image of
themselves as rich because they are so smart and of 'superior stock' was utterly
shattered:  They saw themselves as suffering the same fate as all the schmucks
they had previously swindled, exploited and dispossessed in their climb to the
top.  There is nothing worse for the ego of a respectable swindler than to be
trumped by a bigger swindler.  As a result, a number of the biggest losers have
so far refused to give their names or the amount they lost, working instead
through lawyers fighting off other losers.
--James Petras

"And advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes
may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically
useful tool."
--PNAC, Rebuilding America's Defenses, p. 60

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies,
one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea
acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties
should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals
out" at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in
policy.
--Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in our Time
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