[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [hq2600] From Cynthia McKinney: Remarks at the DC "Let Gaza Live"March and Rally

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

> Forward from Stone Mountain, Georgia.

> Cynthia McKinney has such courage...to state the truth.
>> Cynthia McKinney
>> "Let Gaza Live"
>> Washington, D.C.
>> January 10, 2009
>>
>> We don't see the images.  They are neatly censored from our view in 
>> this country.  But everywhere else around the world the carnage that 
>> is Gaza is being seen and the people are revolted by what they see.
>>
>> They see dead babies, decapitated bodies, defenseless relief workers 
>> killed.  Maimed men, makeshift morgues, mortified mothers.
>>
>> They see exploding white phosphorus shells, cluster bombs, depleted 
>> uranium munitions.
>>
>> They see what is reportedly the world's fourth most powerful military 
>> using all of its power against a defenseless people.
>>
>> In fact, they are witnesses to 15 days of war crimes, crimes against 
>> humanity, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.
>>
>> They see Hugo Chavez expel Venezuela's Israeli Ambassador and they 
>> see lawmakers in Ecuador condemn Israel's actions, calling for an 
>> investigation into Israel's crimes against humanity. 
>>
>> And despite the obvious facts of an Israeli-sponsored terror campaign 
>> against Palestinians in Gaza, a piece of territory roughly twice the 
>> size of the District of Columbia, they see the U.S. Congress support 
>> a resolution totally supporting Israel, even though Israel is in 
>> violation of U.S. and international law.
>>
>> They see Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, swaggering in insult to 
>> black America by initially refusing to seat Roland Burris from 
>> Illinois in the Senate, yet that same Reid cowers before the 
>> pro-Israel lobby, and they wonder why.
>>
>> And sadly, they see the U.S. President-elect, who roared onto the 
>> scene like a lion, remain as quiet as a lamb in the face of the utter 
>> inhumanity of Israel's actions, and they wonder why.
>>
>> And then, they see us.  Gathered here in front of the White House, 
>> reaffirming our own humanity.  The tears of the Palestinians roll 
>> down our cheeks, even as we bury our own victims of police murder.
>>
>> A new day is coming in U.S. politics.  We will use the power of our 
>> vote to change U.S. policy.  We will no longer check our values at 
>> the door and support politicians and political parties that fail to 
>> deliver.
>>
>> Not one more bomb to Israel.
>>
>> In defense of humanity, we will not give up and we will win.
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