Letter from Prisoner 88794 by piratenews

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Letter from Prisoner 88794

POSTED BY: PIRATENEWS
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 12:34
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Thursday, July 2, 2009 6:40 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

US taxdollars at work in Israel

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Cynthia McKinney Demands Immediate Release After Her Gaza-Bound Boat Spirit Of Humanity is Seized by Israeli Navy

Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, whose relief boat was seized by an Israeli naval ship Tuesday for the second time in a year, is demanding the immediate release of her and 20 other activists.

McKinney, a longtime supporter of Palestinians, said her Greek-flagged boat, the Spirit of Humanity, was carrying medical supplies, cement, olive trees and children's toys to Gaza when it was boarded by the Israeli navy.

"This is an outrageous violation of international law against us," said McKinney. "Our boat was not in Israeli waters and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip. President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that's exactly what we tried to do. We're asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey."

The Israeli military issued a statement Tuesday saying that the boat had attempted to break a blockade of Gaza and was forced to sail to an Israeli port after ignoring a radio message to stay out of Gaza waters.

The statement said navy personnel boarded the freighter Arion without any shots being fired, and those on board were to be handed over to immigration authorities.

In a statement released by the Green Party, McKinney said she had sent appeals to Obama and the State Department for assurances of protection for the relief mission. She said the boat was sailing in international waters when it was seized.

The White House nor the State Department was immediately available for comment.

This isn't the first time a boat carrying McKinney has clashed with an Israeli navy ship. In December, McKinney was among 16 people aboard a medical supply boat that collided with an Israeli naval ship as it tried to enter coastal waters around Gaza.

At the time, the group claimed the Israeli military fired machine guns into the water in an attempt to the stop the boat's progress.

www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/30/cynthia-mckinney-aboard-boat-seize
d-israeli-navy-demands-immediate-release/

Yeah, Obama loves black people.

Remember USS Liberty?

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Thursday, July 2, 2009 9:03 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Israel stops children with American passports from leaving Gaza
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1196231/Israel-stops-childr
en-American-passports-leaving-Gaza.html

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Saturday, July 4, 2009 12:35 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

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Cynthia McKinney Refuses To Sign Israeli Deportation Order, Rots in Jail

We just received a report that Cynthia refused to sign a deportation order which contained a statement that she violated the Israeli blockade.

The US Embassy said that Israeli law requires that inmates who refuse to sign a deportation must be kept in jail for 3 days before they are sent away.

By this measure, It will be Sunday before we know when and if she will leave Israel.

Don DeBar
87 Ferris Place
Ossining, NY 10562
914 945-0815
dondebar@optonline. net

That's good legal advice: Never sign a confession, no matter what, especially when innocent.

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Monday, July 6, 2009 2:06 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

This is Cynthia McKinney and I’m speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned for trying to take medical supplies to Gaza, building supplies – and even crayons for children; I had a suitcase full of crayons for children.

I was brought to Israel against my will. I am being held in this prison because I had a dream that Gaza’s children could color and paint, that Gaza’s wounded could be healed, and that Gaza’s bombed-out houses could be rebuilt.

While we were on our way to Gaza the Israelis threatened to fire on our boat, but we did not turn around. The Israelis highjacked and arrested us because we wanted to give crayons to the children in Gaza. We have been detained, and we want the people of the world to see how we have been treated just because we wanted to deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.

At the outbreak of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead [in December 2008], I boarded a Free Gaza boat with one day’s notice and tried, as the US representative in a multi-national delegation, to deliver three tons of medical supplies to an already besieged and ravaged Gaza.

During Operation Cast Lead, US-supplied F-16s rained hellfire on a trapped people. Ethnic cleansing became full-scale, outright genocide. US-supplied white phosphorus, depleted uranium, robotic technology, DIME weapons, and cluster bombs – new weapons creating injuries never treated before by Jordanian and Norwegian doctors. I was later told by doctors who were there in Gaza during Israel’s onslaught that Gaza had become Israel’s veritable weapons testing laboratory, people used to test and improve the kill ratio of their weapons.

The world saw Israel’s despicable violence thanks to Al-Jazeera Arabic and Press TV that broadcast in English. I saw those broadcasts live and around the clock, not from the USA but from Lebanon, where my first attempt to get into Gaza had ended because the Israeli military rammed the boat I was on in international water… It’s a miracle that I’m even here to write about my second encounter with the Israeli military, again a humanitarian mission aborted by the Israeli military.

The Israeli authorities have tried to get us to confess that we committed a crime… I am now known as Israeli prisoner number 88794. How can I be in prison for collecting crayons to kids?

Zionism has surely run out of its last legitimacy if this is what it does to people who believe so deeply in human rights for all that they put their own lives on the line for someone else’s children. Israel is the fullest expression of Zionism, but if Israel fears for its security because Gaza’s children have crayons then not only has Israel lost its last shred of legitimacy, but Israel must be declared a failed state.

I am facing deportation from the state that brought me here at gunpoint after commandeering our boat. I was brought to Israel against my will. I am being held in this prison because I had a dream that Gaza’s children could color and paint, that Gaza’s wounded could be healed, and that Gaza’s bombed-out houses could be rebuilt.

But I’ve learned an interesting thing by being inside this prison. First of all, it’s incredibly black: populated mostly by Ethiopians who also had a dream… like my cellmates, one who is pregnant. They are all are in their twenties. They thought they were coming to the Holy Land. They had a dream that their lives would be better… The once proud, never-colonized Ethiopia [has been thrown into] the back pocket of the United States, and become a place of torture, rendition, and occupation. Ethiopians must free their country because superpower politics [have] become more important than human rights and self-determination.

My cellmates came to the Holy Land so they could be free from the exigencies of superpower politics. They committed no crime except to have a dream. They came to Israel because they thought that Israel held promise for them. Their journey to Israel through Sudan and Egypt was arduous. I can only imagine what it must have been like for them. And it wasn’t cheap. Many of them represent their family’s best collective efforts for self-fulfilment. They made their way to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. They got their yellow paper of identification. They got their certificate for police protection. They are refugees from tragedy, and they made it to Israel, only after they arrived Israel told them, “There is no UN in Israel.”

The police here have license to pick them up and suck them into the black hole of a farce for a justice system. These beautiful, industrious and proud women represent the hopes of entire families. The idea of Israel tricked them and the rest of us. In a widely propagandized slick marketing campaign, Israel represented itself as a place of refuge and safety for the world’s first Jews and Christians. I too believed that marketing and failed to look deeper.

The truth is that Israel lied to the world. Israel lied to the families of these young women. Israel lied to the women themselves who are now trapped in Ramle’s detention facility. And what are we to do? One of my cellmates cried today. She has been here for six months. As an American, crying with them is not enough. The policy of the United States must be better, and while we watch President Obama give 12.8 trillion dollars to the financial elite of the United States it ought now be clear that hope, change, and “yes we can” were powerfully presented images of dignity and self-fulfilment, individually and nationally, that besieged people everywhere truly believed in.

It was a slick marketing campaign as slickly put to the world and to the voters of America as was Israel’s marketing to the world. It tricked all of us but, more tragically, these young women.

We must cast an informed vote about better candidates seeking to represent us. I have read and re-read Dr Martin Luther King, Jr’s letter from a Birmingham jail. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined that I too would one day have to [write one]. It is clear that taxpayers in Europe and the US have a lot to atone for, for what they’ve done to others around the world.

What an irony! My son begins his law school program without me because I am in prison, in my own way trying to do my best, again, for other people’s children. Forgive me, my son. I guess I’m experiencing the harsh reality which is why people need dreams. [But] I’m lucky. I will leave this place. Has Israel become the place where dreams die?

Ask the people of Palestine. Ask the stream of black and Asian men whom I see being processed at Ramle. Ask the women on my cellblock. [Ask yourself:] What are you willing to do?

Let’s change the world together and reclaim what we all need as human beings: Dignity. I appeal to the United Nations to get these women of Ramle, who have done nothing wrong other than to believe in Israel as the guardian of the Holy Land, resettled in safe homes. I appeal to the United State’s Department of State to include the plight of detained UNHCR-certified refugees in the Israel country report in its annual human rights report. I appeal once again to President Obama to go to Gaza: send your special envoy, George Mitchell there, and to engage Hamas as the elected choice of the Palestinian people.

I dedicate this message to those who struggle to achieve a free Palestine, and to the women I’ve met at Ramle. This is Cynthia McKinney, July 2nd 2009, also known as Ramle prisoner number 88794.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 3:23 AM

HERO

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Originally posted by piratenews:
This is Cynthia McKinney and...I had a suitcase full of crayons for children.

Exploding crayons that the children can strap to their bodies.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 4:03 AM

FIVVER

I live in Georgia near what was Cynthia's district and had a ringside seat to her antics. Crayons are her primary means of written communication.

I'm surprised PN isn't ranting on about the Jewist-Neocon cabal that got her unelected.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 5:13 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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Originally posted by Hero:
Quote:
Originally posted by piratenews:
This is Cynthia McKinney and...I had a suitcase full of crayons for children.

Exploding crayons that the children can strap to their bodies.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

Quoth Geezer: "Cites, please?"

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 7:34 AM

HERO

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Quote:
Originally posted by Hero:
Quote:
Originally posted by piratenews:
This is Cynthia McKinney and...I had a suitcase full of crayons for children.

Exploding crayons that the children can strap to their bodies.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

Quoth Geezer: "Cites, please?"

Ask yourself why Crayon factories are located in cities that used to have munitions factories...

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 8:06 AM

KWICKO

Now who can argue with logic like that?

By that rationale, isn't your Jeep a U.S. Army Air Corps B-24 Liberator heavy bomber?

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 9:03 AM

HERO

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
By that rationale, isn't your Jeep a U.S. Army Air Corps B-24 Liberator heavy bomber?

Yes...or it could be a Jeep, since they made Jeeps in WW2 in Toledo, up the road from where mine came from, but B-24s were produced in Michigan at the Willow Run factory, the largest factory in the world.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 11:23 AM

CANTTAKESKY

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Originally posted by fivver:
I live in Georgia near what was Cynthia's district and had a ringside seat to her antics.

Whether or not you like her as a Congresswoman or even as a person, she doesn't deserve to be put in prison for bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza. Whether or not you think being on that boat in the first place was another "antic," the fact of the matter is the boat was in international waters when Israel illegally seized the boat, captured its crew, and put them in prison.

Imagine the reaction if a humanitarian boat was headed towards Iran and was captured by the Iranian Navy while still in international waters, with American citizens illegally imprisoned. It wouldn't much matter if those citizens were people we don't care for, would it?

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 11:43 AM

KWICKO

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Imagine the reaction if a humanitarian boat was headed towards Iran and was captured by the Iranian Navy while still in international waters, with American citizens illegally imprisoned. It wouldn't much matter if those citizens were people we don't care for, would it?

[Hoping Sarah Palin decides to make a missionary run to Iran...]

Kinda depends on who's on board, doesn't it?

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 12:34 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:

[Hoping Sarah Palin decides to make a missionary run to Iran...]

Palin dont even know what nation Israel is in.

(Palestine)

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