[Peace-discuss] Fw: Justice for Trayvon Martin Also Means Joining the International Struggle Against U.S. Lawlessness

Sun Apr 8 17:07:43 UTC 2012

Cynthia has moxie.

"In an unnecessary war, patriotism is just racism made to sound noble".

On 4/8/2012 10:31 PM, David Johnson wrote:
> *From Cynthia McKinney, *
> *former democratic party U.S. Congress Woman from Atlanta, who 
> resigned from the democratic party in disgust and ran as the 
> Presidential candidate for the Green Party USA in 2008.*
> **
> *David J.*
> * *
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* David Sladky <mailto:tanstl at aol.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, April 08, 2012 2:33 AM
> *Subject:* Fwd: Justice for Trayvon Martin Also Means Joining the 
> International Struggle Against U.S. Lawlessness
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>   Justice for Trayvon Martin Also Means Joining the International
>   Struggle Against U.S. Lawlessness
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> Wed, 04/04/2012 - 00:16 --- Cynthia McKinney
> *by Cynthia McKinney*
> "If the number of persons murdered by the police were included in the 
> sum of executions, America would rank third in executions globally -- 
> just behind Iran." The Trayvon Martin horror reminds us that U.S. 
> foreign policy mirrors its domestic behavior towards Blacks and 
> browns. "If leadership inside the U.S. will do this to their own 
> citizens, what is done to others outside the U.S. should come as no 
> surprise."
> *Justice for Trayvon Martin Also Means Joining the International 
> Struggle Against U.S. Lawlessness*
> *by Cynthia McKinney*
> "/The United States Department of Justice, according to the ACLU 2009 
> report, has done virtually nothing to combat the clear evidence of 
> systemic racism the nation."/
> As a mother of a young Black man whom I pray for nightly and worry 
> daily about his life being violently ended either by someone 
> marginalized by the unjust social structure of U.S. life or by some 
> rogue officer of the law or one pretending to be a policeman, I offer 
> my sincerest condolences to the Martin family and friends over their 
> loss of their son Trayvon. Each loss is irreparable and I have no 
> words that can succor the pain that this entire nation is feeling.  
> Further, I wish to extend my compassionate sympathies to the hundreds 
> of thousands of victims of police brutality, racial profiling, and the 
> millions wrongfully ensnared in the American gulag prison-industrial 
> complex.
> All of my life, no matter how my reputation has been assailed and 
> vilified, I have struggled to promote justice and dignity to those 
> people most adversely affected by the racist, intolerant, predatorily 
> capitalistic, and venal society that feels more every day like when 
> Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, or Martin Luther King, or martyred Floridian 
> Harry T. Moore walked the Earth decades ago.
> April 4, 2012 will mark the 44^th anniversary of the assassination of 
> Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. April 29, 2012 marks the twentieth 
> anniversary of the Los Angeles Uprising of 1992. According to Dr. 
> King, the U.S. was "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world." 
> Forty-five years later this fact remains true with some frightening 
> new additions. The U.S. imprisons more of its citizens per 100,000 
> persons than any other nation on earth. In 2011, the USA ranked fifth 
> in the world in execution of prisoners, and annually police murder 
> scores of citizens. If the number of persons murdered by the police 
> were included in the sum of executions, America would rank third in 
> executions globally---just behind Iran. In spite of the fact that the 
> United States ratified the International Convention on the Elimination 
> of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), which obligates all 
> levels of government to comply with the treaty, the United States 
> Department of Justice, according to the ACLU 2009 report regarding the 
> persistence of racial profiling in the United States, has done 
> virtually nothing to combat the clear evidence of systemic racism the 
> nation.* *Therefore, I cannot say that anyone can be certain that 
> justice will be served to the many Trayvon Martins and their grieving 
> families. It is sobering and hurtful to believe that America's first 
> Black President and first Black Attorney General will allow this 
> nation to possibly descend into greater levels of intolerance and 
> tension, when the laws and mechanisms to address the problems exist on 
> the books.
> "/I cannot say that anyone can be certain that justice will be served 
> to the many Trayvon Martins and their grieving families."/
> This should be an easy one for the people of this country to face. 
> President Obama called for us to push him to stand for the people. Now 
> is the time for us to push so hard that President Obama has no choice 
> but to stand and show us -- who are tired of mourning Stolen Lives in 
> this country -- that he is able to lead as well as compromise and bow 
> to his political rivals.* *President Obama, along with the people of 
> this country, can act and begin to remove the legacy of hatred, 
> violence, and injustice before the U.S. is consumed by it -- because 
> our community of leaders and followers lacked the will to be a better 
> society.
> To the people who care and sacrifice daily for the marginalized and 
> the dispossessed among us, I wish to remind you that I led a 
> Congressional delegation to the United Nations World Conference on 
> Racism in Durban South Africa in 2001 despite President Bush and 
> Zionists daring us to go It was my hope that the African American 
> leadership would discover the realm of international law, as was the 
> dream of W.E.B. Dubois, William Patterson, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X, 
> and Dr. King. The traditional Civil Rights leadership must become more 
> effective and adroit in presenting the plight of our human rights 
> before the international community.* *We have enough experience to 
> know that our progress has always been linked to international 
> pressure because we are in a "majoritarian democracy" that tramples on 
> the rights of minorities. We must push within and without the United 
> States to bring the egregious slaughter of our young people and the 
> mass incarceration and oppression of Black and Brown people to an end 
> using all tools that we can secure. We cannot wait for another 
> so-called "random slaying."
> "/Now is the time for us to push so hard that President Obama has no 
> choice but to stand and show us that he is able to lead as well as 
> compromise and bow to his political rivals."/
> It is clear that the President does not speak in our names when he 
> denies the existence of racism (in the United Nations follow-up Durban 
> conferences) as he has done twice. We know that we are world citizens 
> with rights that every Mark Furman, Rick Santorum, or George Zimmerman 
> must respect -- even if our only venue for redress is before the 
> people of the world. Chattel slavery and Jim Crow Apartheid were, in 
> part, overturned because of the joint domestic and international 
> efforts. Let us honor the agreement of Dr. King and Malcolm X to have 
> a two-fold struggle for our human rights and full freedom. In the 
> 1940s, we called this the Double Victory over Nazism and fascism 
> abroad and racism and Jim Crow at home.
> At home, the U.S. tolerates extra-judicial killings, violation of 
> human rights, persecution, racial discrimination, and genocide -- yes, 
> genocide. So, if leadership inside the U.S. will do this to their own 
> citizens, what is done to others outside the U.S. should come as no 
> surprise. The real answer lies in what "we the people" of the United 
> States are going to do differently to stop this madness. Clearly, what 
> we've all collectively done in the past is not nearly enough. If you 
> harbor any doubt about that, just ask young Trayvon.
> /Cynthia McKinney is a former congresswoman from Georgia, and 2008 
> Green Party presidential candidate./
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