Where is Cynthia McKinney? (Double Standards and 9/11 Inquiries)

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/childs03242004.html

Throughout the last few days I have watched and read the news in dismay. The congressional hearing on the intelligence of Sept. 11th has failed to call on the woman who was bold enough to ask the initial questions--Cynthia McKinney.

The more I watch CSPAN and read the articles published in daily media outlets, the more I become enraged. Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was the only elected official who had the guts to call for a congressional probing into Sept 11th, as well as bring President Bush's war profiting scheme to the light. She was called "looney", by her home state's junior senator, Zell Miller, a "bitch" by Rep. Cass Ballenger of North Carolina, a conspiracy nut, on a slippery slope and a host of other horrible and embarrassing names. The media had a field day with her remarks, and in doing so cost her the congressional seat in which she so boldly held.

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Was Cynthia mocked, despised and rejected because she's African-American, a woman, or something as small as being from the South? Are you telling me there is a double standard against educated southern women of color who go against voices of power--the good ole boy system, a system full of white men who call all the shots? I think that is what you're telling me as well as the rest of the world.
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if you don't wear a suit, you don't count

if you don't have a short, controlled haircut, you don't count

I back McKinney and always have

[Tim4319]

1. She needs to be heard, right about now!

It would be nice for her to have her moment and discuss what she knows.

[madrchsod]

2. she was right

and the democrats deep sixed her. she was easy to dismiss and even easier to get rid of..she knew something smelled rotten but no one else did...till now

[noiretextatique]

3. cynthia mckinney got the lani guinier and jocelyn elders treatment

and yes: it was because she is a black woman...who wasn't towing the party line.

[seemslikeadream]

4. Roll Back this Coup, Mr. Bush

March 19, 2004

Haiti and the Impotence of Black America

Roll Back this Coup, Mr. Bush

By CYNTHIA McKINNEY

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Now, according to one of my investigative sources, one of the contracts that Preval put in place was with the Steele Foundation to provide presidential security. The Steele Foundation, headquartered here in the Bay Area, is reportedly very close to the Pentagon, with its former leader coming directly from the Pentagon's Office of Intelligence. Interestingly, it reportedly maintains an office in Miami, the home of the headquarters of the U.S. Special Operations Command, which was reportedly involved in training the rebels who ousted Aristide. So, at the time of Aristide's "capture," he supposedly was protected by a Pentagon-sanctioned security team that just happened to fail to secure him.

Additionally, according to this same source, some of the Dominican troops and Spanish and English-speaking paramilitaries trained by the U.S. during last year's Operation Jaded Task in the Dominican Republic were fighting alongside Haitian rebels in the north and on the southern coast of Haiti. We are told further that Haitian government authorities intercepted vans carrying new M-16s across the border from the Dominican Republic. According to the report I have received, Haitian authorities began intercepting vans carrying the weapons from the Dominican Republic beginning last year, and shortly after the U.S. military delivered 20,000 M-16s to the Dominican Army.....


Black America, vibrant with authentic leaders, in active partnership with all progressives, can change what is happening here at home and the policies being implemented abroad.

And so I end with a plea and a charge for us as a people to stand up, speak truth to power, don't cower, and say to those who control this awful machine, "It's time for you to stop, right now."

http://www.counterpunch.org/mckinney03192004.html

[seemslikeadream]

5. The Screwing of Cynthia McKinney

Did I mention to you that (ex-)Congresswoman McKinney is black? And not just any kind of black. She’s the uppity kind of black.


What I mean by uppity is this:


After George Bush Senior left the White House, he became an advisor and lobbyist for a Canadian gold-mining company, Barrick Gold. Hey, a guy’s got to work. But there were a couple of questions about Barrick, to say the least. For example, was Barrick’s Congo gold mine funding both sides of a civil war and perpetuating that bloody conflict? Only one Congressperson demanded hearings on the matter.


You’ve guessed: Cynthia McKinney.


That was covered in the . . . well, it wasn’t covered at all in the U.S. press.


McKinney contacted me at the BBC. She asked if I’d heard of Barrick. Indeed, I had. Top human rights investigators had evidence that a mine that Barrick bought in 1999 had, in clearing their Tanzanian properties three years earlier, bulldozed mine shafts . . . burying about 50 miners alive.


I certainly knew Barrick: They’d sued the Guardian for daring to run a story I’d written about the allegations of the killings. Barrick never sued an American paper for daring to run the story, because no American paper dared.


The primary source for my story, an internationally famous lawyer named Tundu Lissu, was charged by the Tanzanian police with sedition, and arrested, for calling for an investigation. McKinney has been trying to save his life with an international campaign aimed at Barrick.


That was another of her mistakes.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16172

[seventhson]

6. Don't forget PNAC-DLC whore Paul Begala calling her nuts

His former partner (Mark McKenna) is advising Karl Rove

They are texas energy lobbyists gone wild (Begala and McKenna)

blackoperators IMHO (and I got banned from Democrats.com forum for saying so)

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Let's hear from her about 9/11, then let's hear Kerry choose her for Veep.