Posted on 02/02/2006 2:51:12 PM PST by WestTexasWend
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) returned home to Georgia on Sunday from a triumphant weekend at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where an award-winning documentary about her life premiered.
Her mood quickly soured, however, when she found the front yard of her district home littered with VCR tape in an apparent act of vandalism.
“Obviously, someone wants to send a message that they know where I live and can have access to my front yard to do unkind things,” she said in a statement released by her office.
The incident has been reported to police.
According to a release from Sundance, the film, “American Blackout,” is a “stylish hard-hitting documentary that recounts the fascinating career of Rep. Cynthia McKinney and the suppression of the black vote historically and during the recent presidential elections in Florida and Ohio.”
The film is directed by Ian Inaba, the creator of Eminem’s controversial “Mosh” video, released only days before the 2004 elections.
Appearing in the film are Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio).
On Saturday, the documentary won a Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award for documentary films.
“We are pleased with the success of ‘American Blackout’ at Sundance Film Festival and hope everyone who cares about our country will make a point to see it,” McKinney said.
Oh my. Litter in the front yard.
Why doesn't it make front page news when the kids TP'd my trees?
Which is it? Littering or vandalism..they ain't the same thing miss Drama Commie
She probably orchestrated the whole incident herself.
Has she blamed it on the Jews yet?
My thoughts.
How many Conservatives would
A. See the movie
B. Become enraged by it
If we attacked everyone who blamed us for everything,we would be doing this full time.
She is a crank.
PS...someone keyed my new truck. Must be a Liberal who is pissed I had a GB sticker on my bumper
Did you call Officer Barbrady?
Good point I wouldn't discount. Her ilk has been caught doing self inflicted "hate crimes' a few times
Cindy oh Cindy, did all those rascals spell your name right?
Wow crime of the century. How will she rebuild after such devestation?
Am I missing something here, or does this weird woman have even less sanity and credibility than Lyndon LaRouche? Why is a (so called) documentary on her winning any kind of award?
How about Bush?
The author of this article sounds like he was laughing his a** off as he wrote this.
Being the optimist I thought maybe someone draped the tape in a friendly manner to celebrate her film. But that would be a glass half full view and that is one a Dem. could never have. And if the person was doing it as a fun thing they certainly aren't going to admit it now.
An award winning documentary of Cynthia McKinneys life called American Blackout? Man: You just cant make up stuff like this.
Cynthia's mind has been blacked out since birth.
What kind of award did it win? The BET waste of an hour award?
Good Lord. Someone really, REALLY needs to be given something productive to do.
Probably ol' Tubbie blamed it on Hurricane DeShawn. There may not be two less-qualified people in all of congress than Tubbie and McKinney. And no it's not based on the color of their skin, but rather, the lack of content of their character.
another right wing conspiracy.
But then the police made him get back into his car.
Oh no. Litter in the front yard. This is too horrible for words.
ROTFLMAO!!!
My whole neighborhooood is bbbblack at night, this is getting series!!
Anyone know where Karl Rove was Saturday night? Hmmmmm . . .
Did she play the tapes? There might have been a message for her on them.
She probably did orchestrate it because we wouldn't have heard about her lousy movie otherwise. She will do anything for attention.
I wonder why Sheehan wasn't there.
Didn't she also sit in Harry Reid's seat at the SOTU address knowing full well that she would be asked to move??
IMO .. I'll bet Cindy knows who put the video tape on her front lawn
Sorry, I can't find any pics. The AJC won't report on this story for at least 4 days.
Yes, she did!
Sheila Jackass-Lee has to be fuming that a film wasn't made about her.
What does this say about Sundance?
Must have been The JEEEEWWWWSSSSSSSS./sarc
A Rovian plot.
Film critics these days.....
Something tells me her film forgot to mention these tidbits relating to her career:
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 : (ABDUL RAHMAN ALAMOUDI DONATES TO DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN CYNTHIA MCKINNEY) On 9/11/01,while the United States was reeling from the attacks of violent Muslims,al-Amoudi was one of several influential Muslims who rushed sizeable contributions to the Cynthia Mc Kinney for Congress campaign: earning her lone opposition to American retaliation. - "Clinton Era "Good Will Ambassador" Arrested," multi-sourced, 9/29/03 , vanity VIA FREEREPUBLIC
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 : (ALAMOUDI DONATION TO DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN CYNTHIA MCKINNEY - HER SECOND LARGEST FUNDRAISING DAY IN 2001) Alamoudi also gave Cynthia McKinney $2,000 on Sept. 11, 2001, according to a Federal Election Commission (FEC) report. His donation was part of the total of 24 donations worth $13,850 on Sept. 11, 2001—her second-biggest fundraising day of the year, according to FEC records. - source : FEC reports via freeper Browardchad
2002 : (AL AMOUDI CONTRIBUTES $2000 TO CYNTHIA MCKINNEY CAMPAIGN) In 2002, Mr. [Abdurahman] Alamoudi contributed the maximum $2,000 to the campaign of Representative Cynthia A. McKinney, a five-term incumbent from Georgia who received substantial financial backing from Arab-Americans. The contribution caused outrage among voters in McKinney's district, because Mr. Alamoudi was among those named in a suit filed by families who lost members in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. After the attacks, Ms. McKinney suggested that President Bush had ignored warnings because a fight against terrorism would be good for businesses allied with his family. -- NY Times [spinning]
JANUARY 9, 2002 : (ALAMOUDI OF AMC ON HAMAS & HEZBOLLAH) AMC on terrorism: "We are all supporters of Hamas! Allahu Akhbar! ... I am also a supporter of Hezbollah" (AMC founder Abdurahman Alamoudi, Associated Press, Jan. 9, 2002). -freeper TLBSHOW
AUGUST 16, 2003 : (LONDON, UK : ABDULRAHMAN ALAMOUDI IS DISCOVERED AS HE ATTEMPTS TO FLY TO SYRIA WITH LIBYAN CASH; ALAMOUDI ADMITS HE INTENDED TO LAUNDER LIBYAN MONEY THROUGH SAUDI BANKS AND INTO THE US) It began on Aug. 16, when British authorities at London's Heathrow Airport discovered Alamoudi with $340,000 in sequentially numbered $100 bills as he attempted to fly to Syria. British officials say Alamoudi admitted he had received the money from the Libyan government [see "British Special Branch Report: Alamoudi Received Cash From Libyan 'Jihad Fund.'"].
...During his detention with British authorities, Alamoudi said specifically that he intended to launder the Libyan money back into the United States through Saudi banks, according to a summary provided by Special Agent Gentrup: "Alamoudi told officers that he intended eventually to deposit the money in banks located in Saudi Arabia, from where he would feed it back in smaller sums into accounts in the United States." According to reports of the questioning, Alamoudi said he believed it was against the law for anyone to bring more than $10,000 in cash to the United States at any single time, and used the Saudi cutout. In reality, U.S. law sets no limits on cash entering the country but does require the bearer to report amounts of $10,000 or more.
"Alamoudi was adamant that this was the only such transaction in which he was involved," according to the criminal complaint. However, under further questioning by the Special Branch of New Scotland Yard, Alamoudi "conceded he had been involved in other similar cash transactions involving amounts in the range of $10,000 to $20,000." - "Alamoudi and Those Bags of Libyan Cash," by J. Michael Waller, Insight, 10-13-2003
Of course it won an award at Sundance. We would have expected nothing less.
OCTOBER 13, 2003 : (THE ST. PETE TIMES' MARY JACOBY SAYS ABDULRAHMAN ALAMOUDI LED EFFORTS TO INSTALL RADICAL MUSLIM CHAPLAINS INSIDE THE US MILITARY & THE PRISON SYSTEM) Journalist Mary Jacoby, who reports on domestic Islamist networks for the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, tells Insight that Alamoudi spearheaded efforts to install radical Muslim chaplains inside the U.S. Armed Forces and the prison system. ...In 1993, through his American Muslim Council (AMC), he [Alamoudi] spun off the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council, one of three Islamic organizations to certify chaplains for the military. That same year, according to a pro-Alamoudi briefing published by aljazeerah.info, "AMC supported the launching of ... the National Islamic Prison Foundation." The purpose, counterterrorism experts [would later] say, was to take over Islamic chaplain programs and install more militant Muslims to indoctrinate inmates inside the U.S. prison system and network them after their release back into society. Sources close to the federal investigations tell Insight that more arrests are expected. The probe could prove damaging to key allies of President George W. Bush. Federal investigators tell Insight that one of the names that keeps coming up in the activities they are looking at is that of Grover Norquist, the influential GOP "big-tent" organizer and chairman of Americans for Tax Reform, a respected conservative umbrella group. Norquist was Alamoudi's most influential Washington facilitator, authorities believe, noting that Norquist reminds friend and foe alike that he is close to the president's powerful political strategist, Karl Rove. - "Alamoudi and Those Bags of Libyan Cash," by J. Michael Waller, Insight, 10-13-2003
2003 late : (FBI SAYS ABDULRAHMAN ALAMOUDI'S AMF FUNDED OREGON TERRORISTS BILAL & FORD) The FBI submitted evidence showing that Alamoudi's American Muslim Foundation (AMF), a charitable offshoot of the AMC, funded two suspected terrorists in Oregon who were arrested a year ago. Ahmed Bilal and Patrice Lumumba Ford received payments from the AMF's Portland, Ore., branch as they conspired to aid the Taliban regime in Afghanistan that at the time provided safe haven to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization. Bilal recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to aid the Taliban, and Ford faces charges of materially aiding al-Qaeda and conspiracy to wage war against the United States. - "Alamoudi and Those Bags of Libyan Cash," by J. Michael Waller, Insight, 10-13-2003
They should have got Alamoudi to appear in her video!
they broke off my wiper on my land rover for the same thing. I agree this seems staged for publicity
Ian Inaba is a journalist for the Guerrilla News Network. He directed the video for "Mosh" by Eminem and Chronic Future's "Time and Time Again". He also directed the original video for the Nine Inch Nails song "The Hand That Feeds", but it was never completed and never released as the band was unhappy with the result. The job then went to Rob Sheridan.
Inaba also contributed to GNN's book True Lies, about black box voting.
Guerrilla News Network is an independent news organization with headquarters in New York City and production facilities in Berkeley, California. Our mission is to expose people to important global issues through cross-platform guerrilla programming.
GNN was co-founded by Stephen Marshall and Josh Shore in the summer of 2000. The partners first joined forces at MTV (Josh had brought Stephen in to consult on some radical television ideas for the station) when they finally realized that the mainstream networks would never allow their hi-impact brand of television content and design to reach prime-time. GNN's inaugural project was a NewsVideo called The Diamond Life. Completed in the fall of 2000, the video features the music of Peter Gabriel and was produced in conjunction with his non-profit organization, WITNESS.
Shortly after, GNN rounded out the core partnership with reporter Anthony Lappé; and investment banker-turned-producer Ian Inaba. Since 2000, GNN has grown from its critical mass audience from approximately an initial 300 unique visitors/day to an average of 25,000 and a high of over 300,000. Their first DVD compilation, Ammo For The Info-Warrior (play trailer: broadband, mediumband) features NewsVideos that have received hundreds of thousands of views on the net and been shown in film festivals and on television networks around the world. Among them is the Sundance-award winning short, Crack The CIA and the 2003 Media That Matters Film Festival Media Activism Award winner, Copwatch. In 2003, they produced AfterMath, a 30-min. documentary investigating the unanswered questions surrounding 9/11. Since its release, AfterMath has played in festivals and at public venues across the United States and Europe and has been translated into four languages.
It's all so incestuous, isn't it?
(He said as he took his 200th sip of Chivas).
What a psycho.
First she attends a filmfest then she runs home to trash her front yard.
Oh my!!!LOL
“Obviously, someone wants to send a message that they know where I live and can have access to my front yard to do unkind things,”
Gee, that would be sooooooo hard especially with the internet and all.
Best to make "unkindness" a hate crime eh?
Is the title of the film "Those Damned Joooos!"
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