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A LIFETIME OF TALKING
TRUTH TO POWER
AIN'T
NOTHING LIKE FREEDOM
by
CYNTHIA
McKINNEY
Green
Party Candidate for President 2008, and former
Congresswoman
'Cynthia
McKinney's passion to bring about social and
political
change through peace and politics is very
inspirational to all who have
the honor, like myself, of knowing her or will come to
know her by reading something
of her life in this challenging book.' -
Mairead Corrigan MaGuire, Nobel Peace
Laureate,1976
"McKinney, an extremely
realistic and well-informed person, unlike anyone
in Washington or the media, remains confident that truth and
justice will prevail.. America and the
Constitution will be safe the day
Cynthia McKinney
or a similar person is president of the
United States." excerpt from "Cynthia McKinney on
Leadership"by PAUL CRAIG
ROBERTS, former Asst. Sescretary, US Treasury
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Foreword
by Mike Ruppert / 9
Introduction
The Third Time Must Be the Charm! / 14
Chapter One
The Life I Live / 22
Chapter Two
From a Different Culture / 32
Chapter Three
How to Steal an Election / 42
Chapter Four
Overseeing the Pentagon / 46
Chapter Five
What Hurricane Katrina Exposed / 60
Chapter Six
America the Beautiful / 70
Chapter Seven
A Global View / 81
Chapter Eight
The U.S./World Conference on Racism Fiasco / 107
Chapter Nine
Tree Shakers and Jelly Makers / 122
Chapter Ten
The Politics of Love and Hate / 132
Chapter Eleven
Election Protection / 149
Chapter Twelve
No Rainbows Without Rain / 153
Chapter Thirteen
Running for President in 2008 / 158
Chapter Fourteen
Stone Mountain, Israel and Gaza / 178
Chapter Fifteen
Racism Where You Least Expect It / 204
Chapter Sixteen
I'm Still Grieving / 207
Chapter Seventeen
The Power of Organizing / 212
Chapter Eighteen
It Doesn't End Here / 218
FOR THE RECORD
Appendix I:
Letter to Clinton on U.S. Foreign Policy in
Africa / 231
Appendix II:
Letter to George W. Bush on the Congo /235
Appendix III:
Statement, Joint Sub-Committee Hearing on Sudan
/ 238
Appendix IV: Statement:
UN Commission on Human Rights / 242
Appendix V:
McKinney v. The Atlanta Constitution et al. /
246
Appendix VI:
Gus Savage: AIPAC Campaign Funding to Defeat
Candidates Critical of Israel / 257
Appendix VII:
Legal Complaint on Crossover Voting / 274
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Elected six times
to the House from the state of Georgia,
Cynthia McKinney
cut a trail through Congressional deceit
like a hot ember through ash.
She discovered legislators
who passed laws without
reading them. Party leaders who colluded across party
lines against their constituents'
interests. Black-skinned
individuals shilling for the
white status quo.
She excoriated government
lassitude over Hurricane
Katrina, uncovering dark secrets.
She held the only critical
Congressional briefing on 9/11,
introducing counter-
testimony of scholars,
investigators, former intelligence
agents.
As a member of the House
Armed Services Committee, she
held Rumsfeld to account for malfeasance by military
contractors and missing billions
in the Pentagon's budget.
Then she hammered him on the reasons for the failure of
NORAD air defenses on 9/11.
She read truth into the Congressional
Record, held town
halls and hearings, led protests,
showed up while others
played along to get along, took the side
of the people
against the will of the Party. And when she
got too truth
seeking and speaking, the Republicans rigged
the
Democratic primaries to boot her out, leaving behind a
trail
of achievements mostly won singlehandedly as a result of
her service on the House
International Relations, House
Agriculture, House Armed
Services, and Budget
Committees and
the Select Committee on Hurricanes
Katrina and RElected
six times to the House from the state of
Georgia,
Cynthia McKinney
cut a trail through Congressional deceit
like a hot ember through ash.
She discovered legislators
who passed laws without
reading them. Party leaders who colluded across party
lines against their constituents'
interests. Black-skinned
individuals shilling for the
white status quo.
She excoriated government
lassitude over Hurricane
Katrina, uncovering dark secrets.
She held the only critical
Congressional briefing on 9/11,
introducing counter-
testimony of scholars,
investigators, former intelligence
agents.
As a member of the House
Armed Services Committee, she
held Rumsfeld to account for malfeasance by military
contractors and missing billions
in the Pentagon's budget.
Then she hammered him on the reasons for the failure of
NORAD air defenses on 9/11.
She read truth into the Congressional
Record, held town
halls and hearings, led protests,
showed up while others
played along to get along, took the side
of the people
against the will of the Party. And when she
got too truth
seeking and speaking, the Republicans rigged
the
Democratic primaries to boot her out, leaving behind a
trail
of achievements mostly won singlehandedly as a result of
her service on the House
International Relations, House
Agriculture, House Armed
Services, and Budget
Committees and
the Select Committee on Hurricanes
Katrina and Elected six times to the
House from the state of Georgia,
Cynthia
McKinney cut a trail through
Congressional deceit
like a hot
ember through ash.
She
discovered legislators who passed laws without
reading
them. Party leaders who colluded across party
lines
against their constituents' interests. Black-skinned
individuals
shilling for the white status quo.
She
excoriated government lassitude over
Hurricane
Katrina,
uncovering dark secrets. She held
the only critical
Congressional
briefing on 9/11, introducing counter-
testimony of
scholars, investigators, former intelligence
agents.
As a
member of the House Armed Services Committee, she
held
Rumsfeld to account for malfeasance by military
contractors
and missing billions in the Pentagon's budget.
Then she
hammered him on the reasons for the failure of
NORAD air
defenses on 9/11.
She read truth into the
Congressional Record, held town
halls and hearings, led protests,
showed up while others
played along to get along, took the
side of the people
against the
will of the Party. And when
she got too truth
seeking and
speaking, the Republicans
rigged the
Democratic
primaries to boot her out, leaving
behind a trail
of
achievements mostly won singlehandedly as a result of
her
service on the House International
Relations, House
Agriculture,
House Armed Services, and Budget
Committees
and the Select Committee on
Hurricanes
Katrina and
Rita Elected
six times to the House from the state of Georgia,
Cynthia McKinney cut a trail through Congressional
deceit
like a hot ember through ash.
She discovered legislators who passed laws without
reading them. Party leaders who colluded across
party
lines against their constituents' interests.
Black-skinned
individuals shilling for the white status quo.
She excoriated government lassitude over Hurricane
Katrina, uncovering dark secrets. She held the
only critical
Congressional briefing on 9/11, introducing
counter-
testimony of scholars, investigators, former
intelligence
agents.
As a member of the House Armed Services Committee,
she
held Rumsfeld to account for malfeasance by
military
contractors and missing billions in the Pentagon's
budget.
Then she hammered him on the reasons for the
failure of
NORAD air defenses on 9/11.
She read truth into the Congressional Record, held
town
halls and hearings, led protests, showed up while
others
played along to get along, took the side of the
people
against the will of the Party. And when she got
too truth
seeking and speaking, the Republicans rigged the
Democratic primaries to boot her out, leaving
behind a trail
of achievements mostly won singlehandedly as a
result of
her service on the House International Relations,
House
Agriculture, House Armed Services, and Budget
Committees and the Select Committee on Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita
But McKinney rose again like a Phoenix, answering
the call
to run as 2008 Green Party candidate for
President,
challenging the corrupt two-party stranglehold on
American democracy. Then it was on to the Freedom
Flotilla to Gaza, to be seized on the high seas
and
imprisoned in Israel. On to Tripoli, to serve as
witness to
the NATO terror bombing of Libya. On to Malaysia
to serve
on the War Crimes Commission...
Often introduced as the Sojourner Truth, the
Harriet
Tubman of our age, McKinney reflects here on the
Biblical
figures of Esther, Deborah and Naomi.
This is the Cynthia McKinney saga as it stands to
date--
what she saw, what she learned, and how she fought
for
change.
ABOUT CYNTHIA
McKINNEY
Cynthia McKinney is an
internationally renowned peace advocate and
human rights activist. She began this
important work on Day One of her political
life and hasn't looked back. With her
opinions, actions, and even her sense of
style, McKinney has inspired both admiration
and controversy. In 1988, McKinney won a House
seat in the Georgia Legislature against all
odds. She was the first African-American woman
to represent Atlanta and Fulton County in an
at-large district in Georgia's history. She
became a household name when she challenged
the state's leadership to abide by the Voting
Rights Act and grant fair representation to
all of Georgia's residents, including the more
than 30% who are of African descent. She
appealed directly to the United States Justice
Department and won. In 1991, speaking from the
"well" of the Georgia House of
Representatives, she made national headlines
when she challenged President George Herbert
Walker Bush's decision to make war against
Iraq. Despite the vilification by the state's
pro-war establishment, her voice for justice
and peace was heard by the people.
In 1992, McKinney won a seat
in the U.S. House of Representatives in a
newly created district, drawn from Atlanta
to Savannah. Again, Cynthia made history by
becoming the first African-American woman to
represent Georgia in the U.S. Congress.
Cynthia voted against every war-funding bill
put before her. During her tenure, her
district was re-drawn several times and
re-numbered. McKinney protested the new
boundaries, but was still reelected to the
seat until the pro-Israel Lobby targeted her
because of her support for peace in
Palestine. After 11 September 2001, McKinney
stated that based on her readings, the
President had received warnings and that the
matter deserved independent investigation.
The criticism she received as a result,
combined with being targeted by the
pro-Israel lobby, contributed to her defeat
in the 2002 election; however, she ran for
the seat again and was re-elected in 2004.
Once again in Congress, McKinney was a vocal
critic of the government's response to
Hurricane Katrina. Cynthia introduced
legislation to release the documents related
to the murders of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. and Tupac Shakur. She was the first
Member of Congress to file Articles of
Impeachment against President George W. Bush
and Cynthia was forced out of Congress once
more in 2007 when she was targeted for
defeat, again, by donations from pro-Israel
contributors that flooded into her
opponent's campaign coffers. Late in 2007,
Cynthia became a Green Party Presidential
Candidate. Cynthia won the Green Party
nomination for U.S. President and in 2008
ran for President.
In December 2008, Cynthia
made international headlines when the Free
Gaza boat she was aboard was rammed by the
Israeli military as she was attempting to
deliver medical supplies to the people of
Gaza during Israel's Operation Cast Lead.
Cynthia and her fellow humanitarian
activists, rescued by Lebanon, never made it
to Gaza. In 2009, Cynthia attempted to reach
Gaza again, this time armed with crayons,
coloring books, and school supplies for the
children. She and her fellow human rights
workers became the Free Gaza 21 after their
boat was overtaken in international waters
by the Israeli military and they were
kidnapped to Israel. Cynthia spent 7 days in
an Israeli prison. Finally, Cynthia entered
Gaza by land in July 2009 with George
Galloway's 250-volunteer-strong Viva
Palestina, USA.
In 2011,
Cynthia led a DIGNITY Delegation of
alternative and independent journalists to
Libya while US and NATO bombs, laced with
poisons including depleted uranium, targeted
civilian populations. She then edited The
Illegal War on Libya (Clarity Press,
2012). Afterward, she completed a successful
29-city peace tour in the United States and
Canada to promote a more peaceful U.S.
foreign policy. Cynthia now travels the
world speaking out on human rights, nature's
rights, and peace while she completes her
studies toward obtaining a Ph.D.
INVITE CYNTHIA TO SPEAK!
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