Cynthia McKinney - one busy woman

Augusta Free Press ^ | June 19, 2006 | Max Friedman

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In between hitting cops and and playing the race card, wacko Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., keeps busy with the left on a number of subjects. Just pulling her file is a full day's work, but it is worthwhile keeping track of her activities if only to prove that she is not only a racist leftist, but also one who support all types of radical causes, especially if they are anti-American, pro-Communist, anti-Israel and anti-death penalty.

Never one to miss an opportunity to stick it to Israel, McKinney put a "Tribute to Rachel Corrie" in the "Extension of Remarks" in the Congressional Record of March 16, 2006. Corrie, as some readers know, was a leftist radical who helped protect Palestinian terrorists and their supporters from the Israeli authorities and the military. She was accidentally killed in 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer when she tried to stop it from razing a Palestinian home that was suspected of hiding terrorists/tunnels.

The following is the full text of her "Extension of Remarks" commemorating the third anniversary of Corrie's death (page E392).

"Mr. Speaker, today is the third anniversary of the murder of Rachel Corrie, an American who was crushed to death by Israel's American-manufactured Caterpillar bulldozers. Rachel was protesting the Israeli Army's illegal bulldozing of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip. The Corrie family has filed suit against Caterpillar, charging it with knowingly selling machines used to violate human rights."

From the Rachel Corrie Website I found a link to these lyrics by Ten Foot Pole entitled "Rachel Corrie."

"Rachel Corrie"

You heard of Rachel Corrie?

The press won't tell her story

Caught between a house and a bulldozer

She found out that Israel

Hates gardens and it will kill

Americans who help rebuild the Gaza Strip.

Let's pretend that everything will be OK

It's not our fault to look the other way

And go to films or dance lessons or

baseball games at night, and

trust elected leaders to chose right

I hurt for Rachel's father

To bury his young daughter

And her belief in human goodness

He taught her to fight violence

Now all that's left is silence

And the memory of her dignity

Let's pretend . . .

Rachel I hope you find justice or even a

garden where anyone can grow some food in peace

No guns, no need to fight. No poor, no black no white,

Heaven, you deserve a break from misery.

-- Thanks to Maarten Joostens for these lyrics.

Corrie never denounced the Palestinians' announced goals of destroying Israel, not did she denounce and act to stop the Palestinians from rocketing, bombing and shooting Israeli civilians who also tried to work in their gardens, to live peacefully in their homes, and to eat out at a café without being blown up.

Corrie also was a member of International Support Mission, a radically far-left, pro-Palestinian support group who like to act as human shields but whose members have also taken part in terrorism inside Israel. (See: "Solidarity With Terror", Lee Kaplan, July 2, 2004, at www.frontpagemagazine.com and as well as other FPM articles specifically about Corrie, using her name in the Search box at the site.)

Meanwhile, Rep. McKinney has also been busy supporting Communist front groups and other leftist causes, including the following:

Signer of "The Call" entitled "World Can't Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime", in support of the Feb. 4, 2006, demonstration in Washington, D.C. The group "World Can't Wait" is a newer Communist "united front" formed by avowed Maoist leader C. Clark Kissinger of the Revolutionary Communist Party and people from The Alliance for Global Justice, another leftist united front of Communists, Marxists, socialists and left-liberals.

Interestingly, as found in the WCW ad that appeared in The Washington City Paper on Feb. 3, tax-deductible donations for the WCW organization could laundered thru the AGJ, an old technique the far left has used successfully for fund-raising since the days of the Vietnam protests.

The ad had the following side-box information regarding donations. "Tax deductible donations of $100 or more to support the educational activities of World Can't Wait can be made by check payable to 'Alliance for Global Justice', earmarked 'for WCW' in the memo on the check. Mail to World Can't Wait, 305 Madison, #1166, New York, NY, 10165. The Alliance for Global Justice is a 501 (c)(3) organization.

McKinney's fellow signers of "The Call" include a "Who's Who" of the radical left including Edward Asner, Harry Belafonte, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., Jane Fonda, Jessica Lange, Rep. Major Owens, D-N.Y., Sean Penn, Harold Pinter, Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., Susan Sarandon, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Studs Terkel (the famous writer and identified member of the Communist Party USA), Gore Vidal, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Cornel West, Rev. Phi Wheaton and retired professor Howard Zinn.

With a few exceptions, the ad list included the most hard-core left members of Congress (Conyers, McKinney, Rush, Owens and Waters); the spoiled cream of the hate-America leftist writers (Pinter, Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut and Vidal); two of the top Marxist professors around, West and Zinn; the entertainment/Hollywood left of Asner, Belafonte, Fonda, Lange, Penn, Sarandon, producer John Sayles, Martin Sheen and assorted looney-tunes such as Al "Tawana Brawley hoax" Sharpton, Cindy "Moonbat" Sheehan (who apparently didn't buy a tombstone for her fallen soldier son whom she supposedly dotes on), and Vagina Monologues creator Eve Ensler, who is no Shakespeare.

However, McKinney has always kept good company with the America-hating left, so her being a speaker at the earlier Sept. 24, 2005 "The Whole World Is Watching" anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C. ,was just another accomplishment in her long line of anti-Americanism.

The sponsor of this event was ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism), a broad front created by the Stalinist, North Korea-supporting Workers World Party. This writer watched the protest on TV, and it was boring as was another one of theirs which I personally attended.

Among the speakers were such leftist luminaries as George Galloway, the anti-Semitic, pro-Saddam member of the British Parliament, Cindy Sheehan, Ralph Nader, Jessica Lange, convicted terrorism-supporter attorney Lynne Stewart, good old Al Sharpton, the leftist father of Iraqi terrorist murder victim and humanitarian Nicholas Berg, pro-illegal immigration activist Macrina Cardenas (Mexicanos Sin Fronteras), radical singer Patti Smith (with a voice that could drive the snakes out of Ireland), and the WWP leaders who hid under other organizational identities, including Larry Holmes, Brian Becker, Gloria La Riva, et cetera.

We should not forget former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark, a cofounder of another WWP front, International Action Center, which then created ANSWER. Clark's major affiliation with the WWP began sometime in the late 1980s, though he had supported their earlier front known as PAM (Peoples Anti-War Mobilization), and a slew of other Communist Party fronts, including those of the CPUSA and the Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyites) since the late '60s.

Terrorist support groups present through speakers included the old congressionally cited CPUSA legal front, the National Lawyers Guild (now an amalgam of Stalinists, Maoists, Castroites and assorted New Left Marxists/socialists); the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, led by WWP front supporter Mahdi Bray; Elias Rashmawi, a Marxist in the National Council of Arab Americans and ANSWER activist; Michel Shehadeh, "L.A. 8 defendant, a Palestinian activist framed COINTELPRO-style" (he was an avowed supporter of the Marxist terrorist PFLP, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, led by Marxist George Habash); Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines, a pro-NPA Marxist support group; Nicaragua Network, a Marxist-oriented pro-Sandinista group; Bayan USA, another Marxist-oriented Filipino group, and the Socialist Front of Puerto Rico, a Marxist-oriented group.

Rep. McKinney keeps some interesting company, doesn't she?

In clearing off my desktop, I found an old flier issued by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, the American Friends Service Committee, and Death Penalty Focus announcing a conference "Committing to Conscience: Building a Unified Strategy to End the Death Penalty", that was held Nov. 16-19, 2000, in San Francisco.

Participating organizations and individuals included the usual leftist suspects such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation and the Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project. Featured speakers listed on the brochure included some of our old leftist friends, including:

- Mike Farrell, an old FMLN and Sandinista supporter from the '80s.

- Danny Glover, the latest in a series of far-left black actors who follow the Communist line in supporting Castro, Chavez, the Sandinistas, et cetera. (Others included the leader of this group, the late actor and Stalinist/member of the CPUSA, Paul Robeson; the late Ossie Davis and his wife Ruby Dee; and our "Day'O" man, Harry Belafonte.

- Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., whose far-left activities go back to the 1970s on Vietnam.

- Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., the publicity seeking political nutcase from Wisconsin who has been eating too much cheese for his own good.

- Bianca Jagger, ex-wife of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, and longtime supporter of the Marxist Sandinista Front for the Liberation of Nicaragua and its Communist leader, Daniel Ortega.

- Dolores Huerta, a co-founder and longtime leader of the United Farm Workers of America (along with the late Cesar Chavez). She was also a speaker for the WWP/ANSWER protest of Sept. 24, 2005, one of among dozens of Communist fronts and causes she has supported since the '70s.

- Angela Davis, our resident Communist professor and leader of the CPUSA-split away faction known as the Committee of Correspondence.

What can one say about Cynthia McKinney that scores of books on abnormal psychology haven't said? She is so far left that even some Communists are embarrassed by her actions, but this doesn't stop the cell-phone wielding cop-basher from being reelected to Congress, from acting and sounding like a complete fool ("inappropriate touching"), being an anti-Semite (she gets it from her Jew-hating father), and from being a disgrace to American politics.

But then, again, looking at some of her congressional associates, as well as fellow leftist co-speakers/sponsors at events she participated in, it shouldn't surprise anyone that she is the perfect poster-child for the "Loony Left".

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More well-researched commentary from Max Friedman.

Here are a couple of his recent columns posted at FR:

The Betrayal of America

More on the Betrayal of America

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Max Friedman ping...

[Mr. K]

Has anyone else noticed bombings in Israel are way down since Saddam is no longer able to personally give US$25,000 to bombers families?

[martin_fierro]

Pancake Ping.

[JohnLongIsland]

so somebody clue me in on what's the difference between this ones and hillary's view?

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[b4its2late]

[cricket]

And McKinney's remarks re more definitive weaponry. . .the 'guns that shoot/kill innocent Iraquis and our soldiers. . .their weapons, et al. . .marketed for only one purpose and courtesy of whom; of couse have NOT been read into the Congressional Record. . .

I understand 'free speech'. . .differing opinions; but seems for elected Representatives; ideologies should be a boundary. Congress'people' are elected to SERVE our Country; not be paid by taxpayers, for their efforts to undermine our Constituion; and enhance our enemies.

When their actions. . .beliefs are SO at crosspurposes of America's best interest; why cannot these people be impeached. . .removed - at least censured - for their efforts; which are in fact treasonous and traitorous.

Sick of these morally bankrupt, self-serving, totalitarian-loving people, enriching themselves; who so brazenly undertake their task to destroy the good of our Country.

[Grampa Dave]

It is amazing how often Max's list of probably less than 100 mentally ill lunatics of the left cause problems for our country and back our enemies.

Throw about 2 dozen more rat $inators and Congressits in to Max's list McKommie's list of friends, and we would have a list of scumbags that cause many if not most of our domestic and foriegn problems.

[texan75010]

I can see by the picture of Rachel Corrie why McKinney would support her.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the post and ping. Friedman does a good job here of outing McKinney for who she is.

[BenLurkin]

Rachel . . . . . . hated America.

[The Shrew]

What can one say about Cynthia McKinney that scores of books on abnormal psychology haven't said?

Best line of an excellent article.

Regards,

TS

[Syncro]

It's a sad commentary that she got a pass on assaulting that officer.

Speaking of racism, every official that conspired to let her off is guilty of such to the greatest degree. Great article.

Gee, what a list of names! The usual suspects; traitors all.

[SW6906]

Not only did she hate America, she taught young impressionable children to hate America and Jews. She was evil. She deserved to die. May she rot in Hell.

[potlatch]

Hi I.T., meant to post this to you but posted it on the wrong thread, lol;

CYNTHIA

[GunnyHartman]

"Rachel Corrie, an American who was crushed to death "



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