[PAA-Discuss] [hq2600] From Cynthia McKinney: Munich Speeches and Israel Shamir's "Ode to Cynthia"

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Hello!  I'm back from Munich with Peace Prize in my hands and on my way to
the University of Chicago to speak.  While in Munich, I spoke at the peace
rally--I'll tell you the Germans know how to put on a good peace
rally!!!--and at the International Peace Conference, where the Munich
American Peace Committee awarded me its Peace Prize.  What an honor!!!

Also, I mentioned that in 2002, Israel Shamir, situated in Israel,
recognized what was happening to me before many inside this country did.  He
wrote "Ode to Cynthia" while I was being spun in the vortex and after many
of my friends and supporters had lost confidence in me.  Israel's poem came
like manna from heaven--something sorely needed, sustenance for the body and
spirit.  I promised to send it and now I have it, including a Portuguese
translation, too!!!  I finally met Israel, his wife, and young son in
Ankara, Turkey in late December of last year.

1.  Cynthia McKinney 6 February NATO Rally Speech; Munich, Germany

Thank you for allowing me to come from the United States and participate in
this rally for peace.

My country has been hijacked by a criminal cabal intent on using the
hard-earned dollars of the American people for war, occupation, and empire.

As a result, the national leadership of my country, both Democratic and
Republican, became complicit in war crimes, torture, crimes against
humanity, and crimes against the peace.

As a Member of Congress from the Democratic Party, I drafted Articles of
Impeachment against George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice.  Later,
when Democrats voted to support more war rather than take care of the needs
of the people, I declared my independence from them and all national
leadership; the Green Party nominated me to run for President, which I did
on a platform of truth, justice, peace, and dignity.

I watched as Candidate Barack Obama came here to Germany to speak.  I saw
tears on the faces of many in the crowd who believed that, finally, there
was something worth believing in again.  That America had turned a page from
its evil playbook that had so outraged and disappointed the world.  That
good was finally about to triumph over evil.

I know that beleaguered people all over the world, victims of cruel and
deadly military, economic, imperial policies finally could believe in hope
and change.  And America could be believed in again.

Everywhere I went all over the world there were pictures of Barack Obama,
slogans “Yes, We Can,” and the words “Hope” and “Change” plastered
everywhere.

And after eight years of George W. Bush, Barack Obama seemed to be the man
the world was waiting for.

So when the Candidate became the President, we held our breath in
anticipation.

That torture and rendition; spying on innocent, dissenting Americans; war
and occupation; crimes against the U.S. Constitution and crimes against the
peace would end and that the United States would finally join the community
of nations.

Sadly, one year into the Presidency of Barack Obama, that is not the case.

On our front door step we have witnessed U.S. complicity in the overthrow of
President Zalaya in Honduras and the hostile takeover of Haiti by 20,000
troops with guns sent in when the devastated people needed food, doctors,
and heavy lifting equipment.

President Obama is expanding U.S. troop presence in Colombia, threatening
the people’s gains in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba, and Nicaragua.

President Obama has drones killing innocent people in Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Yemen, and Somalia.  And Administration lawyers are trying to figure out how
to legally kill U.S. citizens.  You even have U.S. assassination teams on
German soil!

Sadly, President Obama is guilty of every item I cited in my Articles of
Impeachment against President Bush.

Both Tony Blair and President Obama justify war in Afghanistan by citing the
tragedy of the September 11th attacks in New York and on the Pentagon.  But
my government has not told the truth about what really happened that day.  Just
like they lied to start a war against Iraq.

So what are we to do? Let us work together on behalf of truth, justice,
peace, and dignity.  I will struggle in the U.S. and I will struggle with
you:

Not one more dime for war.

We can’t give in and we can’t give up.  We must take our countries back.

2.  Cynthia McKinney 6 Feb International Peace Conference Speech

The most recent official report on employment states that 85,000 U.S. jobs
were lost in the month of December.  Everything I have read indicates that
things are going to get a lot worse in the United States before they get
better.

Already, the United States has slipped to 7th in the world’s best places to
live, behind France, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, and New Zealand. The
U.S. place in the world will slip more than that in the future if the brakes
are not put on current trends.

The United States is rapidly becoming a country even more divided:

Over 31% of Puerto Ricans live in poverty, making them the poorest ethnic
group in the U.S.  Meanwhile the war on Latinos continues with police
harassment, racial profiling, and deportations of the undocumented--for
driving, if you can believe that.

Approximately 166 legal cases winding their way through U.S. courts target
Palestinians in the United States who were trying to help Palestine, and
they are being prosecuted with new laws that would have been unthinkable a
generation ago—like the Secret Evidence Act.  My sister, Lynne Stewart, an
activist lawyer of conscience, sits in a U.S. prison right now because she
dared to represent a Muslim cleric who ran afoul of the U.S.  What a message
that sends to other lawyers committed to the notion that everyone at least
deserves a fair trial.

According to United for a Fair Economy, whose work I adore, Black
unemployment is now at 14.7 percent compared to 8.7 % for whites.  And in
2007, for every dollar of white wealth, a black family had just one dime.

>From the sub-prime banking scam alone, because of mortgage foreclosures,
Blacks and Latinos are currently experiencing the greatest loss of wealth in
recent U.S. history because 53% of blacks and 47% of Latinos were saddled
with sub-prime mortgages, as compared to only 26% of whites.  The greedy
banking class were in a feeding frenzy, feeding on black and brown hopes to
become a part of the American Dream.

According to a recent study, U.S. schools today are more segregated than in
the 1950s.  In our most diverse state, California, one-half of black and
Asian students attend segregated schools, as do one fourth of Latino and
Native American students.

And, young black girls are experiencing unwanted sterilizations and other
complications because of forced vaccinations with an experimental drug in
these schools.

In 1954, the Supreme Court found that segregation inherently meant
“unequal.”

Correspondingly, schools in low-income areas are highly unequal with not
even the slightest remediation of the root societal causes that strongly
affect student performance.

This of course feeds quite nicely into the prison-industrial complex that is
a nice money-maker for those with the disposable income to invest in the
private prisons of the U.S., or are lucky enough to have a business that
contracts with the prisons to employ U.S. inmates for pennies an hour.

Yes, the United States, imprisoning more people than any country on the
planet, has become an incarceration nation, but only for certain people.  Be
suspected of being a Latino driving without a drivers license and you can
get stopped and deported for having one tail light bulb that’s out; but
Presidents George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama can order the deaths
of hundreds of thousands of innocents all over the planet and they walk
around free without the worry of even a citizen’s arrest, let alone a
warrant from a real, legal Tribunal.

Incredibly, Whites whose fortunes were sinking in the pile of unkept
political promises and debilitating U.S. national debt were proselytized to
by special interest media that hatred of the “other” was OK.  There was
little national outrage when Pat Robertson said that Hugo Chavez should be
assassinated and then, more recently, when this man of the cloth opined that
Haitians suffered so much because they made a deal with the devil to throw
off French slavery.

Incredibly, while a record number of Blacks are seeking emergency food
assistance, and people of color are losing not only their homes, but their
dreams too, FOX News and CNN propagandize that it is those “others,” those
people of color who are responsible for the drowning of White America.  And
that includes President Obama who, one Southern Baptist preacher prayed to
God should die.  I wonder, who is his God?

True to fashion, the news that is watched by most people in the United
States refuses to tell the people the truth of the conditions facing too
many in our country and why.

However, according to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano,
certain Whites also constitute part of the problem: according to her they
are environmentalists and white supremacists. Interestingly, hatred spewing
from the likes of special interest television hosts seems OK as long as they
buy into the Republican/Democrat political paradigm and stay there.

Napolitano’s enemies of the state, White supremacists and environmentalists,
left that conformist paradigm over two generations ago.  And I believe that
any of us who leave that paradigm, and begin to think for ourselves and then
act politically on our own independent, critical analysis can begin to put
our country on the road to real independence from the special interests that
have overtaken every aspect of our governmental, legal, and political
apparatus, and like a parasite, has sapped the life from our body politic.

But leaving the acceptable political order puts us in the crosshairs of
those whose position and power come from it.

And because the United States today is a rudderless, leaderless, divided
society coming apart at the seams, now is the time more than ever that we
need to employ what public schools in this country stopped supplying long
ago:  critical thinking about where we want to stand as a community of
nations and where we in the United States want to stand as a country.

And this brings me to the real winners in the midst of this socio-economic
collapse.  Most people spend so much time looking at the losers in such a
scenario, and we must care about the innocent victims that pay the ultimate
price in the grand political power plays of our day.  But, we must not
neglect taking the time to study who it is that is actually sneaking off
with the stolen merchandise.

There are real winners and they are the ones whom George Bush called his
base:  that is, the haves and the have mores.

President Obama has hastened approximately 23.7 trillion of our hard-earned
dollars to them.  Therefore, the real purpose of our political activity must
be to thwart the wholesale theft of a nation under the guise of “Hope,”
“Change,” and “Yes we Can.”

That is the only purpose our political activities must now be geared toward.

It means then, that, those of us who have stepped outside of the
“acceptable” political paradigm must be willing to break bread with one
another and find common ground on which we can operate.  My experience has
been that such interactions only enhance future opportunities for positive
political interactions.

A careful read of the COINTELPRO papers will reveal that the biggest fear
inside the government was that the interests of those who pulled the strings
would get totally engulfed and swallowed up by Black people and White people
coming together during that time, of the civil rights movement and beyond,
and successfully pressing for a full justice agenda that encompassed both
domestic AND foreign policies.  If they were afraid of that then, I
guarantee you they are still afraid of it, now.

Secondly, the leadership of this new movement cannot be the leadership that
is responsible for the death of the truth, justice, and peace movements
inside the United States.

Going to the same people who caused the problem by abandoning their
publicly-stated convictions is not going to get us closer to the truth or
peace.

This means that we might have to thin our ranks, but we will at least know
that those deep in the trenches with us are not sleeping with the enemy.

Finally, we need a voting bloc that places peace and the budget priorities
of peace and people’s needs above any other special interest.  This voting
bloc will not support any candidate running for office from The War
Party.  Because
it should be crystal clear to everyone who cares about peace that we can’t
get from here to where we want to be by doing what those who are responsible
for this mess want us to do.  We’ve got to do something different in order
to take our country back and make our country better.

The fact is that unless we are willing to step outside of the box of
political conformity, we will continue to get what we’ve always gotten.

Now, finally for the record, let me say that I left Congress, not because I
wanted to, but because the special interests and the War Party wanted me
out.

What could I have possibly done to raise their ire?

Well, for the twelve years that I was in Congress, I:



1. Filed articles of impeachment against George Bush, Dick Cheney, and
Condoleeza Rice;

2. Voted against every Pentagon appropriation, considering it immoral to
spend so much money on war when millions of our children go to bed hungry
every night;

3. Defied Congressional Democratic Party leaders, by holding a Congressional
Hearing exploring the role of race and class in the government’s response to
Hurricane Katrina and introduced legislation to punish law enforcement that
prevented the mostly Black citizens fleeing the floodwaters from crossing
over from New Orleans into its mostly White suburbs;

4. Wrote legislation to ban the importation of coltan from the Democratic
Republic of Congo into the United States because of the horrific human
rights abuses committed during its mining;

5. Was the first Member of Congress to ask the Bush Administration of the
September 11, 2001 attack on the United States, what did it know and when
did it know it; and I

6. Led the Congressional Black Caucus Task Force at the 2001 World
Conference Against Racism, defying President Bush’s boycott.

Currently, I am an endorser of the Brussels Tribunal that cooperated in the
filing of a lawsuit in Spain against all the U.S. Presidents responsible for
war crimes in Iraq.

I participate in the Malaysia Peace Organization’s efforts to criminalize
war, establish a War Crimes Tribunal, and hold leaders accountable for their
wars.

And in December of 2008, I tried to take humanitarian supplies to the people
of Gaza after the start of Operation Cast Lead and the Israeli military
rammed and destroyed our boat.

In June 2009, I tried to take crayons to the children of Gaza and the
Israelis hijacked our boat, kidnapped us, took us to Israel, where I spent
seven days in an Israeli prison.

I do with my body what I did with my Congressional office.

I left Washington because the pro-Israel Lobby was able to utilize all of
its leverage inside both the Democratic and Republican parties target and
oust me.  They ousted me because I dared to believe that all human beings,
including Palestinians, have human rights.

In 2007, at a peace rally in front of the Pentagon, I did what I am now
asking one million U.S. voters to do:  I declared my independence from a
national leadership that had caused my country to become complicit in war
crimes, torture, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the peace.

I joined the Green Party and in 2008, ran for President of the United
States.  I traveled the length and breadth of my country and now I travel
the world carrying a message of truth, justice, peace, and dignity.  I spent
approximately 10 of the 12 months in 2009 outside of the country.

But, I’m being told now by my friends and supporters that it’s time to come
back home.  That the real heavy lifting is inside our country.  That if we
want life to be better for the people in the refugee camps all over the
world, that we’ve got to change the policies coming out of Washington, D.C.

My very first campaign theme was “Warriors Don’t Wear Medals, They Wear
Scars.”  And I’ve borne my scars in public for all the world to see.

And honestly, sometimes, I wonder if it’s worth it.  I take a look at where
the world is and I say what could I possibly do to stop this.

And then, I think of the people of Gaza whom I saw after Israel’s Operation
Cast Lead.  I saw in Gaza, the indomitable spirit of humanity.  Despite the
pain, the murder, the killing, the destruction--I saw life.  I experienced
love.

But we don’t have to go to Gaza to gain inspiration to continue to struggle.
If we just dare to look into the eyes of the homeless man looking for a warm
bed, or the tired face of a mother on her way to work at 6:00 in the morning
when it’s still dark, if we would just dare to love the nameless human
beings whose lives turn on the policies that powerful politicians choose to
support or ignore, I know we can become inspired.  And in the process, spark
some bit of hope in the desperate and the hopeless.

No one deserves to be hopeless.

So, I’ve come a long way to be with you.  And I thank you for the
invitation.

When we were organizing our “Emergency Anti-Afghanistan Escalation Rally” in
front of the White House, one of my supporters reminded me of my own saying:
"We must never give in when we are right."

Peace is right and we must never give up.

Thank you so much for giving me this time to share with you this evening.

3.  Ode to Cynthia by Israel Shamir

Ode to Cynthia

By Israel Shamir



Things must be bad indeed if a woman steps forward to the line of fire.
Nature arranged that a woman does not court danger unless her land and her
folks are in real trouble. But when she does, she teaches men a lesson of
manly behaviour.

When France was fading away, a shepherd girl Jeanne d’Arc took a heavy sword
and led the flower of French nobles to assault the walls of Orleans. When
cities of Republican Spain was strafed by the Nazi Luftwaffe, it was a
woman, Dolores Ibarruri, La Pasionaria, who said to her people: it is better
to die tall, than to live on your knees. In 1990, when Mikhail Gorbachev led
his country to disaster and disintegration, a year before the wealth of
Russia was embezzled in privatisation spree, only one person has dared to
raise her voice against the dictator in the parliament. She was the
indomitable Sashie Umalatov, an MP from the Chechen Mountains.

Now it is the turn of the US to feel the chilly wind of eternity on its
face. It came from unexpected direction. People of America became hostage in
the hands of a few men with too many dollars in their pockets and endless
greed in their hearts. For millennia, the difference of income, education,
and standard of living was not so vast in one land. The wealth of the nation
could provide every American with a superb education, perfect medical care,
happy childhood, secure old age, guaranteed home, and free time to open
one’s mind to new thoughts and old friends. America could be on its way to
the Golden Age of universal happiness and wisdom.

Instead of it, a small group of men squeezes the nation in order to add
another billion to their coffers. They would surely destroy the US by their
limitless greed. The devotees of Mammon, they are totally devoid of
compassion to the people they live amongst. They do not see the local people
as ‘their own kind’. If they want to show compassion, they send money to
Israel. Out of five dollars American taxpayer gives for aid, four dollars
land in the coffers of the Jewish state. They appear unstoppable, as the
politicians are scared of them and docilely raise their hands and sign the
pledge promising to send more money to Israeli generals. Support of Israel
is not a foreign policy. It is the covenant of the Mammonites, and you sign
it with blood. With Palestinian blood.

But one woman refused to sign the pledge. One woman, Cynthia McKinney, a
member for Georgia, dared to refuse. Four hundred congressmen signed it;
they preferred their own personal advancement to the good of the country.
Ancestors of Cynthia were slaves in her native Georgia. But she is one of a
very few free persons in the US Congress. As we Israelis were used to say
about our Golda Meir, she is the only man over there. She is a black woman,
but she is the whitest man of them all, they would say before the
Politically Correct era. She knew the billions of Israeli aid are needed for
the poor people of the United States, for her own Afro-American community.
She wanted to uphold the sovereignty of the people and congress of the
United States, in face of encroaching servility to the Jewish Lobby.

She is not alone. Another wonderful Afro-American congresswoman, Barbara
Lee, cast the only vote against the slaughter in Afghanistan; John Conyers,
Jessie Jackson Jr, and Maxine Waters supported the cause of Palestine on
different occasions. Ron Paul of Texas voted against all-house resolution
sending obsequious greeting to General Sharon. Nick Rahall, John Sununu,
David Bonior did not bend.

Cynthia was just more outspoken in seeing the evil. She said , “There are
many Members of Congress who want to be free. I am one of them. I wanted to
be free to vote according to my conscience, but I had been told that if I
didn't sign a pledge supporting the military superiority of Israel, no
support would come my way. And sure enough, I didn't sign the pledge and no
support came my way. I suffered silently year in and year out, because I
refused to sign that pledge. And then, like a slave that found a way to buy
his freedom... I went to work ... I wanted to be free ... Free to cast the
votes in the United States Congress as I saw fit and not as I was dictated
to”.

Now she stands for re-election, and her chances are dim, as the frightful
AIPAC, the spearhead of the organised Jewish community, targeted her. They
do not want to see independent and free congressmen on the Capitol Hill.
Their huge financial might, network of connections in the media and
universities are used to smother every free voice. They succeeded to unseat
Earl Hilliard, another Black Congressman, who did not bow to Sharon, and now
plan to do Cynthia in. If they succeed, the cause of freedom will suffer a
huge setback. If she succeeds, the myth of Jewish omnipotence will
evaporate, and America will look towards better days, as support or
rejection of segregated Israel speaks volumes about true agenda of a
candidate.

Cynthia is not ‘against Jews’, as there are many very good folks of Jewish
origin. While the organised Jewish community implements quite a disgusting
policy, in domestic and foreign affairs alike, there are wonderful
outsiders, ‘the remnant of Israel’. Rejected by the community and rejecting
it, they stand for integration in Palestine and in the US. Some of them have
supported Cynthia’s campaign; another outsider manages her campaign. Through
them, ‘you will be blessed by all people’, the Lord’s promise to Abraham is
made true.

I am not sure whether Rabbi Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun, a
“Progressive Jewish monthly” from California, will be equally blessed. Rabbi
Lerner has spoken in support of Cynthia McKinney, but demanded in return to
“call for Israel to be given either membership in NATO or a mutual defence
pact with the U.S.” Such a support defeats its purpose. As if the military
and political US backing of the racist Jewish state were not sufficient,
Lerner wants to establish it in law. Cynthia openly spoke against hegemony
of the Zionist Lobby, against Israel connection. Lerner offers to achieve
the purpose of the Zionist lobby under pretence of fighting it. This
sophisticated cunning is not unusual for crypto-Zionists, acting as deep
penetration agents outside their milieu, and Lerner already has performed a
similar task for the Zionists during Durban Conference . Next time, he will
fight heroin addiction by demanding the drug to be sold in every shop.
Cynthia and other congressmen should accept his offer of help for what it is
worth, but reject his demand of political payoff to Zionists.

Cynthia’s is not a divisive voice of Blacks vs. Whites, nor Democrats vs.
Republicans, neither Left against Right. She speaks for the people of the US
against foreign interests. She is the congresswoman who dared to remind of
the USS Liberty seamen, butchered by Israeli heavy machine guns and
missiles. She reminded her audience of the last stand of Faris Ode, the
brave Palestinian kid who faced the Israeli tank with a stone and was
murdered. She stands against corporate greed. She stands for the nature
deemed expendable by the Greedies.

This woman with a name from the love lyrics of Propertius, the delicate
Greek poet, who called himself ‘a pale knight in thrall of my angry
Cynthia’, is an all-American figure, brought forth by the spirit of America.
The great country does not want to die. In such moments, the land calls for
its sons and daughters to step forward to the line of fire. Cynthia heard
the call. Support of Cynthia is the ultimate test of love to America, of
belief in America’s future in the family of nations, as an equal and
friendly nation, not as an enforcer for creed of Greed.

It is paramount to rally around her, as the French nobles rallied to Jeanne
d’Arc. Whether you are a descendant of African slaves or Muslim immigrants,
a son of Confederacy or a Daughter of American Revolution, a freedom-loving
Jew or a born-again Christian - it is the time to unite for Cynthia and for
America.

4.  Ode to Cynthia in Portuguese

Em Ankara, capital da Turquia, no decurso da defesa da causa palestina,
encontrei-me com a maravilhosa Cynthia McKinney, que poderia ser o melhor
presidente dos E.U.A. Após este encontro comovente, ela escreveu na sua
lista:

*“Nem acredito neste momento! Israel Shamir escreveu a meu respeito e
levantou-me o ânimo quando eu estava no máximo abatimento. Mesmo no
longínquo  Israel, ele compreendeu as minhas dificuldades e atreveu-se a dar
voz à verdade. Dizem que por vezes a distância dá clarividência – e
certamente a dá no caso de Shamir, pois, ao observar os meus objectivos, ele
viu o que muitos nos Estados Unidos não conseguem ver. Apesar dos seus
escritos, nunca o tinha encontrado até agora, apenas há minutos! Falámos  no
mesmo local, esta tarde em Ankara. Ele já emitiu a sua mensagem para  a sua
lista e portanto eu incluo-a para vós.  Mandar-vos-ei a minha mensagem mais
tarde. Dir-vos-ei dos meus contactos, que fiz pelo mundo em prol da paz, e
também  para os Estados Unidos, de modo que possais mais facilmente
atingirdes os vossos objectivos de justiça, paz e dignidade na área da
política em que nós e o  mundo  mais necessitados estão. Nós somos parte de
algo muito maior que as nossas pessoas individuais, e o nosso momento é
agora.”*

Acrescento de seguida o que escrevi sobre Cynthia há anos:

*Ode a Cynthia*

*Israel Shamir*

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As coisas devem estar muito más quando uma mulher avança para a linha de
fogo. A Natureza dispôs que uma mulher não desafia o perigo senão quando a
sua pátria e o seu povo estão em verdadeiros apuros. Mas quando ela o faz,
ela dá aos homens uma lição de virilidade.

Quando a França desvanecia, uma pastora chamada Joana d’Arc pegou numa
pesada espada e guiou a flor dos nobres franceses no assalto às muralhas de
Orléans.

Quando cidades da Espanha Republicana eram bombardeadas pela Luftwaffe Nazi,
foi uma mulher, Dolores Ibarruri, La Pasionaria, que disse ao seu povo: é
melhor morrer de pé do que viver ajoelhado. Em 1990, quando Mikhail
Gorbatchov levou o seu país ao desastre e à desintegração, um anos antes da
riqueza da Rússia ser fraudulentamente dissipada numa orgia de privatização,
somente uma pessoa se atreveu a levantar a voz contra o ditador no
parlamento. Foi a indómita Sashie Umalatov, uma deputada das montanhas da
Tchétchnia.

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Agora é a vez dos EUA sentirem na sua face o vento gélido da eternidade. Ele
soprou de uma direcção inesperada. O povo da América tornou-se refém nas
mãos de alguns indivíduos com demasiados dólares nos seus bolsos e uma
infinita avidez nos seus corações. Durante milénios, a diferença de
rendimentos, instrução e nível de vida nunca fora tão grande num só país. A
riqueza da nação poderia prover cada americano de uma instrução soberba,
duma perfeita assistência médica, duma infância feliz, de segurança na
velhice, de casa própria, e de tempo livre para novos pensamentos e velhos
amigos. A América poderia estar a caminho da Idade Áurea da felicidade e
sageza universais.


Pelo contrário,  um pequeno grupo de indivíduos espreme a nação a fim de
acrescentarem outro bilião aos seus cofres. Eles sem dúvida destruiriam os
EUA com  a sua infinita ganância. Devotos de Mamona, eles estão totalmente
privados de compaixão pelo povo em que vivem. Não vêem as pessoas locais
como sendo da ‘sua espécie’. Se querem mostrar compaixão, enviam dinheiro
para Israel. De cada cinco dólares pagos pelo contribuinte americano,
quatro  entram nos cofres do estado judaico. Ninguém os impede, pois os
políticos têm medo e docilmente levantam as mãos e assinam o penhor de
enviar mais dinheiro aos generais israelitas. O apoio a Israel não é
política de estrangeiros. É o convénio dos Mamonitas, assinado com sangue: o
sangue palestino.

Mas uma mulher recusou-se a assinar o convénio. Uma mulher, Cynthia
McKinney, representante da Geórgia, atreveu-se a recusar. Quatrocentos
congressistas assinaram-no; eles preferiram  a sua atitude ao bem do país.
Os antepassados de Cynthia eram escravos na sua Geórgia natal. Mas  ela é
uma das muito poucas pessoas livres no Congresso americano. Assim como nós
israelitas costumávamos dizer de Golda Meir, ela é o único homem nele. Ela é
negra, mas o homem mais branco entre todos eles, dir-se-ia antes da  era do
Politicamente Correcto. Ela sabia que os biliões da ajuda a Israel eram
necessários aos pobres dos Estados Unidos, à sua própria comunidade
afro-americana. Ela queria manter a soberania do povo e do congresso dos
Estados Unidos perante  o servilismo  invasor do Lobby Judaico.

Ela não está  só. Outra maravilhosa congressista afro-americana, Bárbara
Lee, lançou o único voto contra a matança no Afeganistão; John Conyers,
Jessie Jackson Jr., and Maxime Waters apoiaram a causa palestina  em
diferentes ocasiões. Ron Paul do Texas votou contra a resolução de toda a
câmara de enviar saudações obsequiosas ao General Sharon. Nick Rahall, John
Sununu, David Bonior não se vergaram.

Cynthia, porém, foi mais expressiva ao ver o mal. Ela disse: “Há muitos
membros do Congresso que querem ser livres. Eu sou um deles. Quero ser livre
de votar de acordo com a minha consciência, mas disseram-me que se eu não
votasse o convénio a apoiar a superioridade militar de Israel, eu não teria
apoio nenhum. E, na verdade, não votei e não tive qualquer apoio. Sofri
silenciosamente ano após ano, porque me recusara a votar esse convénio. E
então, como uma escrava, que não achava o caminho para comprar a sua
liberdade....fui trabalhar... queria ser livre... Livre para lançar os votos
no Congresso dos Estados Unidos como me parecia justo e não como me
encomendavam”.

Agora ela candidata-se a reeleição, mas as suas hipóteses são ténues, pois a
terrível AIPAC, a ponta de lança da comunidade judaica organizada, têm-na na
sua mira. Eles não querem ver congressistas livres e independentes no
Capitol Hill. O seu enorme poder financeiro, as rede de ligações nos meios
de informação e nas universidades são usados para abafar qualquer voz livre.
Eles conseguiram destituir Earl Hilliard, outro Congressista Negro, que não
se curvava a Sharon, e agora planeiam fazer o mesmo  a Cynthia. Se o
conseguirem, a causa da liberdade sofrerá um enorme recuo. Se ela tiver
êxito, o mito da omnipotência judaica evaporar-se-á, e a América poderá
esperar melhores dias, pois o apoio ou a rejeição do segregado Israel fala
volumes da verdadeira agenda dum candidato.

A Cynthia não  é  ‘contra os judeus’, pois há pessoas muito boas de origem
judaica. Enquanto a comunidade judaica organizada dá seguimento a uma
política bastante repugnante, tanto doméstica como no exterior,  há fora
dela pessoas maravilhosas, que constituem “os restos de Israel”. Rejeitadas
pela comunidade e rejeitando-a, elas estão pela integração na Palestina e
nos EUA. Algumas delas têm apoiado a campanha de Cynthia; outra de fora
dirige-lhe a campanha. Por meio delas, ‘tu serás abençoado pelo povo’, a
promessa cumprida do Senhor a Abraão.

Não tenho a certeza se o Rabi Michael Lerner, o editor de *Tikkun*, um
“mensário progressista judeu” da Califórnia, será igualmente abençoado. O
rabi Lerner falou em apoio de Cynthia McKinney, mas exigiu em paga “que se
pedisse para Israel ou a admissão na NATO ou um pacto de defesa mútua com
os  EUA”. Tal apoio derrota a sua finalidade. Como se o apoio militar e
político americano  ao racista estado judaico não fosse suficiente, Lerner
quer fixá-lo na lei. Cynthia falou abertamente contra a hegemonia do
*lobby*sionista, contra Israel, contra a ligação com Israel.  Lerner
oferece
conseguir o objectivo do * lobby* sionista com fingindo lutar contra ele.
Esta sofisticada manha não é rara nos cripto-sionistas, que agem como
agentes de profunda penetração fora do seu meio, e Lerner já executou um
trabalho semelhante para os sionistas durante a Conferência de Durban. Da
próxima vez ele lutará contra o vício da heroína, exigindo que a droga seja
vendida livremente. Cynthia e outros congressistas deviam aceitar a sua
oferta de ajuda pelo que ela vale, mas rejeitar a sua exigência de uma
compensação política aos sionistas.

A voz de Cynthia não  é separadora de Pretos contra os Brancos, nem de
Democratas contra Republicanos, nem da Esquerda contra a Direita. Ela fala
em prol do povo dos EUA contra os interesses estranhos. Ela é a congressista
que teve a coragem de evocar os marinheiros do USS Liberty, massacrados
pelos mísseis e metralhadoras pesadas de Israel. Ele lembrou à sua audiência
a última estrofe da Ode de Faris, a valente  criança que enfrentou o tanque
israelita com uma pedra e foi assassinada. Ela está contra a ganância de
grupo. Ela está pela natureza considerada dispensável pelos Gananciosos.

Esta mulher que tem o nome duma poesia lírica de Propércio, o delicado poeta
grego, que se chamou a si mesmo ‘um pálido cavaleiro escravo da minha
zangada Cynthia’, é uma figura toda americana, gerada pelo espírito da
América. O grande país não quer morrer. Em momentos como estes, o país chama
os seus filhos e filhas para avançarem para a frente de combate. Cynthia
ouviu a chamada. O apoio de Cynthia é o derradeiro teste de amor pela
América, de fé no futuro da América na família  das nações, como uma nação
amiga em pé de igualdade com as outras nações, não forçadora do credo da
Ganância.

É de suma importância reunir em volta dela, como os Franceses se reuniram em
volta da Joana d’Arc. Quer sejas descendente dos escravos africanos ou de
imigrantes muçulmanos, quer sejas um filho da Confederação ou uma filha da
Revolução Americana, ou um judeu amante da liberdade ou um Cristão renascido
– é agora a hora de te unires a Cynthia em prol da América.¶

*Nota do tradutor português*: *Eu uno-me em espírito a Cynthia, porque sou
Cristão e ela também o é, porque ela quer unir e não separar, porque ela não
vê pretos e brancos, nem monárquicos e republicanos, nem esquerda nem
direita, mas simplesmente seres humanos que aspiram à justiça, à paz e à
relativa felicidade a que tem direito todo o ser humano normal. Eu uno-me a
Cynthia, em que não vejo uma americana, mas uma irmã. Eu uno-me a Cynthia,
porque sou Português. Deus nos proteja. Joaquim Reis*




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