Former POTUS candidate celebrates Independence Day in Israeli Prison
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By Meryl Ann Butler
OpEdNews
Sunday, Jul 5, 2009
Cynthia McKinney
Former Green Party presidential candidate
Cynthia McKinney remains in an Israeli prison after the humanitarian
aid vessel she was a passenger on was captured by Israeli Occupation
Forces. The ship was bringing suitcases of crayons for children,
medicine for the ill and dying in Gaza, and bags of cement for
reconstruction.
Twenty-one on board the Spirit of Humanity were abducted, including
Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire, who said by phone that there were
several injuries sustained. She is now on a hunger strike in prison, in
support of the people of Gaza. Both she and McKinney have been able to
make infrequent cell calls.
If this kind of naval piracy involving another POTUS candidate had
happened in Somalia, or North Korea, or Iran, one expects that there
would have been a frenzied response: statements by our Secretary of
State, by our President, and Navy seals and helicopters swarming the
area, and non-stop news coverage until the kidnapped Americans were
rescued.
Not so with the captured passengers and crew of the Spirit of Humanity.
The media, our president, and our secretary of state, are all strangely silent.
Which cat has got their tongues? The one who is turning into the oppressors it say it will "never forget"?
Perhaps a bit of forgetfulness might be balm for the angry soul.
Cynthia McKinney and Dennis Kucinich Chat at SOA protest
I'm keeping an eye on www.kucinich.us to
hear what fellow POTUS candidate and Congressman Dennis Kucinich has to
say about this. A call to his congressional office indicated that he
was collecting information on this travesty and that a statement would
be forthcoming. The Congressman's brother, Frank Kucinich, passed away
unexpectedly on June 30, the third sibling that the Congressman has
lost in 18 months. So any comments from his office are not expected
until after his brother's Mass, scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Monday.
Cynthia McKinney
McKinney has a planned phone call update later today, stay tuned.
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