… fortunately ex-Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney prerecorded a pithy message to the world, previously featured on this blog with the title A Green Leader with Guts in late December 2008:
McKinney, who ran as the Greens Presidential candidate in 2008, is currently banged up in an Israeli place of detention. It’s been several days now.
Predictably, the sycophantic pro-Zionist western media has given this incident a pathetic amount of coverage. Much of it has been sneering and disparaging.
The Spirit of Humanity - hijacked by Zionists
Her crime?
Along with a score of human rights activists, Cynthia McKinney was attempting to symbolically breach the cruel Israeli blockade of Gaza, which long preceded Israel’s brutal military attack in January this year – and which continues to this day, making reconstruction impossible.
Cynthia sees this as an first-order outrage.
Unlike most western politicians, she has the courage to say so. And for the second time in six months, McKinney boarded a small boat in late June, loaded with urgently-needed relief supplies, and sailed towards Gaza. The video above shows McKinney after the first relief boat was rammed by Israel, endangering those aboard and terminating the voyage. This time, the Israelis are holding McKinney in detention. Let’s hope they aren’t torturing her in Facility 1391.
Earlier today I wrote to the Australian Greens imploring them AT THE VERY LEAST to protest the arrest of Cynthia McKinney.
Would Bob Brown expect his American counterparts to protest if he was locked up on a trip to Tibet?
I think so.
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