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 Eminems 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.
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!"
LOL!
Is it a secret?
"fascinating career of Rep. Cynthia McKinney "
LOL I can think of lots of words I would use to describe Cynthia McKinney and her life and fascinating is definitely NOT one of them. She was my congresswoman and when I think of reasons not to be sorry I left Atlanta, she tops the list.
Traffic is second, in a list of two. My list of why I am sorry I left is much longer.
You're right, that's why I think the perps were Dims.
McKinney's award wouldn't have been known outside the liberal circle without this act of vandalism. Now, it makes news and the Dims get to imply it was "ev-il Republicans". I wouldn't be surprised if she did the deed herself.
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