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	<title>Comments on: Israeli Naval Force Blocks Humanitarian Aid from Entering Gaza</title>
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		<title>By: Judo Nimh</title>
		<link>http://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/israeli-naval-force-blocks-humanitarian-aid-from-entering-gaza/comment-page-1/#comment-5341</link>
		<dc:creator>Judo Nimh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obviously Ritt Greves posted a very long  3 page post in an attempt to bury my last comments concerning Cynthia McKinney.

So I will post them again:

Here is link to a youtube video showing Cynthia McKinney, unedited, in her own words, at a news conference she herself called, less than a year ago where she claims that the US Department of Defense secretly executed 5000 American citizens and buried their bodies in a swamp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjewdHb8UY

People can simply watch this video so they can see Cynthia McKinney in all her unedited glory so they can make up their own minds if she a nut case or not and if a person who believes the US government  massacres its own citizens secretly has any credibility on other topics like say when she speaks out on Palestine.

I also posted links to an extremist white nationalist racist Internet radio program called “The Information Underground” that Cynthia McKinney gave a one hour interviews to last month and has since given more. Listen and hear for yourself:

http://theinfounderground.com/archives/TiU.Radio.30th.April.09-guest.Cynthia.McKinney.mp3

For example, about 45 minutes into this interview the host asks Ms. McKinney if quote &quot;The Jew Emanuel, who we know has jew citizenship and speaks Jew language is really the secret Jew controller of Obama&quot; to which Cynthia McKinney responds in agreement.

It is also important to point out that previous broadcasts of this same extremist radio program Cynthia McKinney has given repeated interviews to has other programs posted on their web site such as:
 
“Jewish Domination and the World as we know it”
“Jews behind every rock”
“Jewish takeover of Christianity”
“The International Jew Bankers”</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obviously Ritt Greves posted a very long  3 page post in an attempt to bury my last comments concerning Cynthia McKinney.</p>
<p>So I will post them again:</p>
<p>Here is link to a youtube video showing Cynthia McKinney, unedited, in her own words, at a news conference she herself called, less than a year ago where she claims that the US Department of Defense secretly executed 5000 American citizens and buried their bodies in a swamp.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjewdHb8UY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjewdHb8UY</a></p>
<p>People can simply watch this video so they can see Cynthia McKinney in all her unedited glory so they can make up their own minds if she a nut case or not and if a person who believes the US government  massacres its own citizens secretly has any credibility on other topics like say when she speaks out on Palestine.</p>
<p>I also posted links to an extremist white nationalist racist Internet radio program called “The Information Underground” that Cynthia McKinney gave a one hour interviews to last month and has since given more. Listen and hear for yourself:</p>
<p><a href="http://theinfounderground.com/archives/TiU.Radio.30th.April.09-guest.Cynthia.McKinney.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://theinfounderground.com/archives/TiU.Radio.30th.April.09-guest.Cynthia.McKinney.mp3</a></p>
<p>For example, about 45 minutes into this interview the host asks Ms. McKinney if quote &#8220;The Jew Emanuel, who we know has jew citizenship and speaks Jew language is really the secret Jew controller of Obama&#8221; to which Cynthia McKinney responds in agreement.</p>
<p>It is also important to point out that previous broadcasts of this same extremist radio program Cynthia McKinney has given repeated interviews to has other programs posted on their web site such as:</p>
<p>“Jewish Domination and the World as we know it”<br />
“Jews behind every rock”<br />
“Jewish takeover of Christianity”<br />
“The International Jew Bankers”
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		<title>By: Ritt Steven Greaves</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ritt Steven Greaves</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Friends,

this may be late, but better late than never.  Catch this footage of the Israeli navy terrorizing the Spirit of Humanity on June 29-30.  http://www.ricenpeas.com/2009/July/cynthia_mckinney_intvw.html

Also, here&#039;s an editorial on the matter.  The Israeli state terrorists tried for hours to scare the Free Gaza folks back to Larnaca, threatening to fire on them if they didn&#039;t turn back.  And when they hijacked their boat and kidnapped them, dragging them off to Israeli prisons, holding them for a week and pressuring them to sign confessions written in Hebrew that stated guilt over entering Israel illegally, nobody would sign; they deported the people forbidding them from entering Israel and the Occupied Territories for ten years.  As if Israel had the right to say who may or may not enter another country (*Palestine IS a country, and a state, though the US and Israel fail to recognize this). . .

Here&#039;s an editorial on the topic:
Marin Voice: What happened to human rights?
By Ritt Steven Greaves
Posted: 07/10/2009 12:06:36 AM PDT


FORGIVE ME for taking this personally: On June 30, my girlfriend was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers, yet our local daily said she was &quot;intercepted.&quot;
Is this what a criminal does when he assaults you at gunpoint, drags you home, locks you up and then demands you sign a confession that you broke into his house before he&#039;ll let you go?

Israel did precisely this with 21 civilians from 11 nations with constitutions protecting human rights. 

I guess Israel thinks it can violate certain norms of civilized conduct. Renaming its piracy &quot;intercepting&quot; and its that claim &quot;nobody on board was harmed,&quot; precludes any need for an investigation.

But Israel&#039;s June 30 hijacking on the high seas and kidnapping an unarmed crew, most of whom were jailed, Kathy included, was no one-shot tale. 

For me, it&#039;s a Main Street kidnapping by a stranger bent on ransom - acquisition of all occupied Palestinian territories. 

In fairness, the July 1 Marin IJ story - &quot;San Rafael woman on Gaza boat intercepted by Israel&quot; - understandably missed some facts, given its deadline and the difficulty of tracking sources halfway around the world. 

So, here are missing pieces I gathered days afterward.

The IJ&#039;s wire service reported correctly, &quot;the Israeli navy ... forced (the boat) to an Israeli port,&quot; but concluded incorrectly: &quot;Nobody on board was harmed.&quot;

The boat&#039;s crew members, who were held in Ramle&#039;s Givon Immigration Detention Facility, disagree: People were injured.

From her jail cell, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire told Democracy Now, &quot;Our little boat was boarded by fully armed (Israeli Defense Forces) in masks (and) full riot gear ... we were ... 25 miles off the shore of Gaza.&quot;
Kathy told me the previous night four Israeli gunboats terrorized them five hours. They&#039;d roar up, spotlights glaring, &quot;threatening to shoot if we didn&#039;t return to Cyprus,&quot; and then veer away sharply so their wakes would rock the little ferry violently.

Maguire said that the lives of the crew were &quot;put at risk.&quot; She said: &quot;They cut offÉ our satellite communications. So we were in grave danger of actually being killed at that point.&quot;

This was the second IDF-induced near-death experience for ex-Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, who was aboard the Free Gaza&#039;s boat, Dignity, last December when Israeli ships thrice rammed it 60 miles offshore. 

Only because it was plywood-reinforced did it not sink.

In her &quot;Letter from an Israeli jail,&quot; McKinney wrote, &quot;Israelis hijacked ... us because we wanted to give crayons to the children of Gaza.&quot; 

&quot;This is not about us in cells,&quot; another imprisoned activist said. &quot;It&#039;s about the denial of human rights to the people of Palestine - in particular the inhumane blockade of Gaza (whose majority still) are ... being denied food and medical supplies.&quot;

It&#039;s also about recovering from the 22 winter days during which Israel with F-16s, drones and &quot;Apache&quot; helicopters killed 1,500 Palestinians, including 250 graduating policemen, injured 6,000 and destroyed 14,000 homes, 240 schools, 219 factories and 58 medical centers.

&quot;The purpose of our mission,&quot; Free Gaza attorney Huwaida Arraf said, &quot;was to highlight to the world Israel&#039;s blatantly illegal collective punishment of Gazans our government is doing nothing about.&quot;

Tell President Barack Obama and Congress what Kathy told me last Thursday morning:

&quot;We want our property, boat and cargo returned to us unaltered, and want to get back aboard to complete our mission of delivering aid to our brave friends in Gaza. And open Gaza&#039;s borders, fully, now.&quot;

Ritt Steven Greaves of San Rafael is active in local peace and justice groups. His girlfriend, Kathy Sheetz, was released and has returned to the United States.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Friends,</p>
<p>this may be late, but better late than never.  Catch this footage of the Israeli navy terrorizing the Spirit of Humanity on June 29-30.  <a href="http://www.ricenpeas.com/2009/July/cynthia_mckinney_intvw.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ricenpeas.com/2009/July/cynthia_mckinney_intvw.html</a></p>
<p>Also, here&#8217;s an editorial on the matter.  The Israeli state terrorists tried for hours to scare the Free Gaza folks back to Larnaca, threatening to fire on them if they didn&#8217;t turn back.  And when they hijacked their boat and kidnapped them, dragging them off to Israeli prisons, holding them for a week and pressuring them to sign confessions written in Hebrew that stated guilt over entering Israel illegally, nobody would sign; they deported the people forbidding them from entering Israel and the Occupied Territories for ten years.  As if Israel had the right to say who may or may not enter another country (*Palestine IS a country, and a state, though the US and Israel fail to recognize this). . .</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an editorial on the topic:<br />
Marin Voice: What happened to human rights?<br />
By Ritt Steven Greaves<br />
Posted: 07/10/2009 12:06:36 AM PDT</p>
<p>FORGIVE ME for taking this personally: On June 30, my girlfriend was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers, yet our local daily said she was &#8220;intercepted.&#8221;<br />
Is this what a criminal does when he assaults you at gunpoint, drags you home, locks you up and then demands you sign a confession that you broke into his house before he&#8217;ll let you go?</p>
<p>Israel did precisely this with 21 civilians from 11 nations with constitutions protecting human rights. </p>
<p>I guess Israel thinks it can violate certain norms of civilized conduct. Renaming its piracy &#8220;intercepting&#8221; and its that claim &#8220;nobody on board was harmed,&#8221; precludes any need for an investigation.</p>
<p>But Israel&#8217;s June 30 hijacking on the high seas and kidnapping an unarmed crew, most of whom were jailed, Kathy included, was no one-shot tale. </p>
<p>For me, it&#8217;s a Main Street kidnapping by a stranger bent on ransom &#8211; acquisition of all occupied Palestinian territories. </p>
<p>In fairness, the July 1 Marin IJ story &#8211; &#8220;San Rafael woman on Gaza boat intercepted by Israel&#8221; &#8211; understandably missed some facts, given its deadline and the difficulty of tracking sources halfway around the world. </p>
<p>So, here are missing pieces I gathered days afterward.</p>
<p>The IJ&#8217;s wire service reported correctly, &#8220;the Israeli navy &#8230; forced (the boat) to an Israeli port,&#8221; but concluded incorrectly: &#8220;Nobody on board was harmed.&#8221;</p>
<p>The boat&#8217;s crew members, who were held in Ramle&#8217;s Givon Immigration Detention Facility, disagree: People were injured.</p>
<p>From her jail cell, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire told Democracy Now, &#8220;Our little boat was boarded by fully armed (Israeli Defense Forces) in masks (and) full riot gear &#8230; we were &#8230; 25 miles off the shore of Gaza.&#8221;<br />
Kathy told me the previous night four Israeli gunboats terrorized them five hours. They&#8217;d roar up, spotlights glaring, &#8220;threatening to shoot if we didn&#8217;t return to Cyprus,&#8221; and then veer away sharply so their wakes would rock the little ferry violently.</p>
<p>Maguire said that the lives of the crew were &#8220;put at risk.&#8221; She said: &#8220;They cut offÉ our satellite communications. So we were in grave danger of actually being killed at that point.&#8221;</p>
<p>This was the second IDF-induced near-death experience for ex-Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, who was aboard the Free Gaza&#8217;s boat, Dignity, last December when Israeli ships thrice rammed it 60 miles offshore. </p>
<p>Only because it was plywood-reinforced did it not sink.</p>
<p>In her &#8220;Letter from an Israeli jail,&#8221; McKinney wrote, &#8220;Israelis hijacked &#8230; us because we wanted to give crayons to the children of Gaza.&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;This is not about us in cells,&#8221; another imprisoned activist said. &#8220;It&#8217;s about the denial of human rights to the people of Palestine &#8211; in particular the inhumane blockade of Gaza (whose majority still) are &#8230; being denied food and medical supplies.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also about recovering from the 22 winter days during which Israel with F-16s, drones and &#8220;Apache&#8221; helicopters killed 1,500 Palestinians, including 250 graduating policemen, injured 6,000 and destroyed 14,000 homes, 240 schools, 219 factories and 58 medical centers.</p>
<p>&#8220;The purpose of our mission,&#8221; Free Gaza attorney Huwaida Arraf said, &#8220;was to highlight to the world Israel&#8217;s blatantly illegal collective punishment of Gazans our government is doing nothing about.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tell President Barack Obama and Congress what Kathy told me last Thursday morning:</p>
<p>&#8220;We want our property, boat and cargo returned to us unaltered, and want to get back aboard to complete our mission of delivering aid to our brave friends in Gaza. And open Gaza&#8217;s borders, fully, now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ritt Steven Greaves of San Rafael is active in local peace and justice groups. His girlfriend, Kathy Sheetz, was released and has returned to the United States.
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		<title>By: xyz</title>
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		<dc:creator>xyz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Character assassination is it, Hamid ?

Why do you consider it character assassination to post a link to a youtube video showing Cynthia McKinney, unedited, in her own words, less than a year ago claiming the US Department of Defense secretly executes thousands of American citizens?

How is it character assassination to simply direct people to a video so they can see  Cynthia McKinney in all her unedited glory so they can make up their own minds if she a nut case or not and if she is to be believed on topics other than supposed secret US Government mass executions, like say when she speaks out on Palestine.

Why it character assassination to post links to an extremist white nationalist racist Internet radio program called &quot;The Information Underground&quot; that Cynthia McKinney gave a one hour interview to last month.

http://theinfounderground.com/archives/TiU.Radio.30th.April.09-guest.Cynthia.McKinney.mp3

Is it character assassination  to point out that previous broadcasts of this same extremist radio program she appeared on have titles such as
 “Jewish Domination and the World as we know it”
&quot;Jews behind every rock&quot;
 “Jewish takeover of Christianity”
 “The International Jew Bankers”</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Character assassination is it, Hamid ?</p>
<p>Why do you consider it character assassination to post a link to a youtube video showing Cynthia McKinney, unedited, in her own words, less than a year ago claiming the US Department of Defense secretly executes thousands of American citizens?</p>
<p>How is it character assassination to simply direct people to a video so they can see  Cynthia McKinney in all her unedited glory so they can make up their own minds if she a nut case or not and if she is to be believed on topics other than supposed secret US Government mass executions, like say when she speaks out on Palestine.</p>
<p>Why it character assassination to post links to an extremist white nationalist racist Internet radio program called &#8220;The Information Underground&#8221; that Cynthia McKinney gave a one hour interview to last month.</p>
<p><a href="http://theinfounderground.com/archives/TiU.Radio.30th.April.09-guest.Cynthia.McKinney.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://theinfounderground.com/archives/TiU.Radio.30th.April.09-guest.Cynthia.McKinney.mp3</a></p>
<p>Is it character assassination  to point out that previous broadcasts of this same extremist radio program she appeared on have titles such as<br />
 “Jewish Domination and the World as we know it”<br />
&#8220;Jews behind every rock&#8221;<br />
 “Jewish takeover of Christianity”<br />
 “The International Jew Bankers”
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		<title>By: Hamid</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hamid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Zahir,  Thank you for remaining cool headed, and please continue your blog. Regardless of the invectives thrown around, 2 wrongs don&#039;t make 1 right and the crimes of Hamas are no excuse for inhuman behavior on the part of Israel or character assassination on the part of either side&#039;s supporters.  Let&#039;s hope that over time the people of reason will prevail over the vocal and destructive extremists.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Zahir,  Thank you for remaining cool headed, and please continue your blog. Regardless of the invectives thrown around, 2 wrongs don&#8217;t make 1 right and the crimes of Hamas are no excuse for inhuman behavior on the part of Israel or character assassination on the part of either side&#8217;s supporters.  Let&#8217;s hope that over time the people of reason will prevail over the vocal and destructive extremists.
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		<title>By: judo nimh</title>
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		<dc:creator>judo nimh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>to a. savage

Did you bother to watch this youtube video of Cynthia McKinney by clicking on this link ? Please watch it and then comment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjewdHb8UY 

Cynthia McKinney in this video from last year claims that the United States government secretly murdered 5000 prisoners in Louisiana and secretly disposed of their bodies in a swamp.

Honestly, a. savage, does she seem seem sane and rational to you in this video? Or does she sound in this video more typical of the kind of talk you could hear in a mental institution from an an unmedicated paranoid schizophrenic ? 

Answer honestly.

I am not saying she is a bad person necessarily, only that she has an obvious mental disease, and has a tendency to mix up reality and hallucinations when making public statements so she is really not the best choice as a spokesmen for the Palestinian people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>to a. savage</p>
<p>Did you bother to watch this youtube video of Cynthia McKinney by clicking on this link ? Please watch it and then comment.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjewdHb8UY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjewdHb8UY</a> </p>
<p>Cynthia McKinney in this video from last year claims that the United States government secretly murdered 5000 prisoners in Louisiana and secretly disposed of their bodies in a swamp.</p>
<p>Honestly, a. savage, does she seem seem sane and rational to you in this video? Or does she sound in this video more typical of the kind of talk you could hear in a mental institution from an an unmedicated paranoid schizophrenic ? </p>
<p>Answer honestly.</p>
<p>I am not saying she is a bad person necessarily, only that she has an obvious mental disease, and has a tendency to mix up reality and hallucinations when making public statements so she is really not the best choice as a spokesmen for the Palestinian people.
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		<title>By: a. savage</title>
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		<dc:creator>a. savage</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That said, i must state that Hams HAS agred to recognise israel as part of a process of negotiations . 

So now Netanyahu&#039;s blocked them with his notion of israel as a &quot;Jewish state&quot; --- something not even a considerable segment of traditional Jews themselves would agree to recognose.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That said, i must state that Hams HAS agred to recognise israel as part of a process of negotiations . </p>
<p>So now Netanyahu&#8217;s blocked them with his notion of israel as a &#8220;Jewish state&#8221; &#8212; something not even a considerable segment of traditional Jews themselves would agree to recognose.
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		<title>By: a. savage</title>
		<link>http://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/israeli-naval-force-blocks-humanitarian-aid-from-entering-gaza/comment-page-1/#comment-4559</link>
		<dc:creator>a. savage</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So now Cynthia Mckinney is a &quot;lunatic&quot; . 

Of course she is, since Amnesty&#039;s Edith  was last called  a&quot;loony&quot; by the same invective spiller . 

For me Cynthia McKinney is a HIGHLY PRINCIPLED member of the U.S.Congress&#039;s Black Caucus &amp; a CONSISTENT voice for the black people..

As a sign of her integrity,  what better  credential need i mention than the fact that she has been one of the VERY FEW U.S. Congresspersons to stand up  against the powerful AIPAC Israeli lobby who make &amp; break U.S. Presidents &amp; politicians .

Portraying the black people&#039;s REAL leaders as antiSemites &amp; &quot;crazy extemists&quot; has been a hugely OVERPLAYED tactic by the FBI from Hoover&#039;s day . 

The Black Panthers were targetted by this identical charge of racism &amp; anti -Semitism, as their excellent NY leader Dhoruba Bin Wahad has detailed.

Cynthia  McKinney isn not an anti Semite.

The  REAL antSemites are people like israel&#039;s founder David BenGurion who called  Holocaust survivors the &quot;dust of the earth&quot;, the real antiSemites are the israeli banks who have stolen billions of Holocaust survivors&#039; wealth &amp; allowed these elders to live in poverty. 

The REAL anti Semitic state is israel, FOR THERE&#039;S NO COUNTRY ON EARTH WHERE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS ARE MORE LOOKED DOWN UPON THAN IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL.

That said, i would merely add that i don&#039;t take seriously someone who attacks Ms. McKinney as &quot;schizophrenic&quot;. 

This just shows typical settler breeding,  typical settler culture. 

This settler source moreover says Hamas &quot;violently seized power&quot;, when it is very well known who won the last Palestinian elections -- Fatah or Hamas. All international observers know the truths about that election.

As far as Gaza&#039;a concerned, we know whom the world believes today --- israel, or Ms McKinney.

And concerning &quot;illegal&quot; tunnels, i am no Amnesty member, just a one who knows through history that it is the PRACTICE of ALL l SOVEREIGN peoples to arm themselves against a heavily armed , indeed nuclear  stockpiling, power.

Re Hamas not recognising israel -- NO ONE will recognise a state that identifies with ONE RELIGION alone when there are other faiths among its populace, &amp; NO self - protecting people will recognise  a neighboring state that has NO CONSTITUTION &amp; NO DESIGNATED BORDERS .

 NO ONE. 

For to recognise such a state -- nowTHAT would be a REALLY  crazy thing to do, a TRULY schizophrenic, &amp; ultimately DOWNRIGHT SUICIDAL  thing to do.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So now Cynthia Mckinney is a &#8220;lunatic&#8221; . </p>
<p>Of course she is, since Amnesty&#8217;s Edith  was last called  a&#8221;loony&#8221; by the same invective spiller . </p>
<p>For me Cynthia McKinney is a HIGHLY PRINCIPLED member of the U.S.Congress&#8217;s Black Caucus &amp; a CONSISTENT voice for the black people..</p>
<p>As a sign of her integrity,  what better  credential need i mention than the fact that she has been one of the VERY FEW U.S. Congresspersons to stand up  against the powerful AIPAC Israeli lobby who make &amp; break U.S. Presidents &amp; politicians .</p>
<p>Portraying the black people&#8217;s REAL leaders as antiSemites &amp; &#8220;crazy extemists&#8221; has been a hugely OVERPLAYED tactic by the FBI from Hoover&#8217;s day . </p>
<p>The Black Panthers were targetted by this identical charge of racism &amp; anti -Semitism, as their excellent NY leader Dhoruba Bin Wahad has detailed.</p>
<p>Cynthia  McKinney isn not an anti Semite.</p>
<p>The  REAL antSemites are people like israel&#8217;s founder David BenGurion who called  Holocaust survivors the &#8220;dust of the earth&#8221;, the real antiSemites are the israeli banks who have stolen billions of Holocaust survivors&#8217; wealth &amp; allowed these elders to live in poverty. </p>
<p>The REAL anti Semitic state is israel, FOR THERE&#8217;S NO COUNTRY ON EARTH WHERE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS ARE MORE LOOKED DOWN UPON THAN IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL.</p>
<p>That said, i would merely add that i don&#8217;t take seriously someone who attacks Ms. McKinney as &#8220;schizophrenic&#8221;. </p>
<p>This just shows typical settler breeding,  typical settler culture. </p>
<p>This settler source moreover says Hamas &#8220;violently seized power&#8221;, when it is very well known who won the last Palestinian elections &#8212; Fatah or Hamas. All international observers know the truths about that election.</p>
<p>As far as Gaza&#8217;a concerned, we know whom the world believes today &#8212; israel, or Ms McKinney.</p>
<p>And concerning &#8220;illegal&#8221; tunnels, i am no Amnesty member, just a one who knows through history that it is the PRACTICE of ALL l SOVEREIGN peoples to arm themselves against a heavily armed , indeed nuclear  stockpiling, power.</p>
<p>Re Hamas not recognising israel &#8212; NO ONE will recognise a state that identifies with ONE RELIGION alone when there are other faiths among its populace, &amp; NO self &#8211; protecting people will recognise  a neighboring state that has NO CONSTITUTION &amp; NO DESIGNATED BORDERS .</p>
<p> NO ONE. </p>
<p>For to recognise such a state &#8212; nowTHAT would be a REALLY  crazy thing to do, a TRULY schizophrenic, &amp; ultimately DOWNRIGHT SUICIDAL  thing to do.<br />
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		<title>By: Lola</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lola</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Piracy by any other name...well, apparently, is not really piracy if it&#039;s committed by one of the US&#039;s goons.  Or unless, of course, the ship that&#039;s hijacked is full for weapons for said goon, then all bets are off!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Piracy by any other name&#8230;well, apparently, is not really piracy if it&#8217;s committed by one of the US&#8217;s goons.  Or unless, of course, the ship that&#8217;s hijacked is full for weapons for said goon, then all bets are off!
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		<title>By: Judo Nimh</title>
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		<dc:creator>Judo Nimh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One of Amnesty International&#039;s primary functions is to fairly investigate accusations of mass atrocities and if the evidence proves the case, publicly accuse the government responsible, and you rely on your reputation to have your accusations taken seriously.

Featuring on your web site the views of a person like Cynthia McKinney, when you all are fully aware of the fact that she regularly makes insane lying accusations of atrocities like that the United states government murders thousands and secretly disposes of their bodies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjewdHb8UY 

This is completely destroying Amnesty&#039;s credibility, and will naturally lead to an assumption that the fairness and accuracy of any other findings you publish against other countries is equivalent to and as much to be believed or trusted as McKinney&#039;s schizophrenic delusional babel is. 

Really, explain to me why should anyone believe a single word you report  about any country in the world when you featured on your own web site a person you yourselves admit is a wack job and specificly lies about the very exact crimes your whole organizations basis of existance is to be able to credibly accuse other countries of doing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of Amnesty International&#8217;s primary functions is to fairly investigate accusations of mass atrocities and if the evidence proves the case, publicly accuse the government responsible, and you rely on your reputation to have your accusations taken seriously.</p>
<p>Featuring on your web site the views of a person like Cynthia McKinney, when you all are fully aware of the fact that she regularly makes insane lying accusations of atrocities like that the United states government murders thousands and secretly disposes of their bodies:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjewdHb8UY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjewdHb8UY</a> </p>
<p>This is completely destroying Amnesty&#8217;s credibility, and will naturally lead to an assumption that the fairness and accuracy of any other findings you publish against other countries is equivalent to and as much to be believed or trusted as McKinney&#8217;s schizophrenic delusional babel is. </p>
<p>Really, explain to me why should anyone believe a single word you report  about any country in the world when you featured on your own web site a person you yourselves admit is a wack job and specificly lies about the very exact crimes your whole organizations basis of existance is to be able to credibly accuse other countries of doing.
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		<title>By: Judo Nimh</title>
		<link>http://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/israeli-naval-force-blocks-humanitarian-aid-from-entering-gaza/comment-page-1/#comment-4497</link>
		<dc:creator>Judo Nimh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Zahir Janmohamed, regardless of your denials to the contrary, you have in deed with this prominent blog post, associated Amnesty International with well known crazy person Cynthia McKinney who last year made serious claims that the United States Government secretly executed 5000 prisoners and disposed of their bodies during Katrina? (you can see her make this crazy claim here in this youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjewdHb8UY 

It is amazing to me that both Amnesty International or the Palestinians would allow their cause to be hijacked by this insane lunatic, McKinney, especially after McKinney has been making regular appearances on extreme racist right wing internet radio talk programs to promote Nazi like conspiracy theories regarding Jews. 

What does this say about Amnesty Internationals credibility when they issue reports about real cases of governments mass murdering their own citizens like in Sri Lanka or Iran or elsewhere, when Amnesty features on their web site a raving loony liar like  McKinney, who makes false claims of massacres against the US?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Zahir Janmohamed, regardless of your denials to the contrary, you have in deed with this prominent blog post, associated Amnesty International with well known crazy person Cynthia McKinney who last year made serious claims that the United States Government secretly executed 5000 prisoners and disposed of their bodies during Katrina? (you can see her make this crazy claim here in this youtube video:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjewdHb8UY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjewdHb8UY</a> </p>
<p>It is amazing to me that both Amnesty International or the Palestinians would allow their cause to be hijacked by this insane lunatic, McKinney, especially after McKinney has been making regular appearances on extreme racist right wing internet radio talk programs to promote Nazi like conspiracy theories regarding Jews. </p>
<p>What does this say about Amnesty Internationals credibility when they issue reports about real cases of governments mass murdering their own citizens like in Sri Lanka or Iran or elsewhere, when Amnesty features on their web site a raving loony liar like  McKinney, who makes false claims of massacres against the US?
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