Cynthia McKinney Jailed In Israel

When Cynthia McKinney first splattered onto the national scene she accused President Bush of having advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.  Then she was remembered for having said Al Gore didn't have enough of a "negro tolerance level".

She was defeated as a Congresswoman from Georgia after her anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian/Arab sentiments became widely known.  Her father blamed it all on "J_E_W_S"

After being elected again in 2004 she once again splattered onto the national scene when she was stopped by security after walking around a metal detector at the Longworth House Office Building.  The security officers said she was not wearing the lapel pin of Members of Congress which permit them to avoid the detector.  She hit the security officer.

In May of this year she was a featured speaker at the University of California at Irvine during the Muslim Student Union's program on "Israel: The Politics of Genocide".

Now, according to FoxNews, she sits in an Israeli jail:

Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and several other human rights activists remained in an Israeli prison Thursday after refusing to sign a deportation form that they claim is self-incriminating.

In a press release from the Green Party, McKinney said the form states that the Spirit of Humanity, a Greek-flagged relief boat carrying 21 activists, medical supplies, cement, olive trees and children's toys en route to Gaza, was violating the Israeli blockade and trespassing the country's territorial waters.

"We were in international waters on a boat delivering humanitarian aid to people in Gaza when the Israeli Navy ships surrounded us and illegally threatened us, dismantled our navigation equipment, boarded and confiscated the ship," she said in a statement, adding that they were immediately taken into custody.

"Immigration officials in Israel said they did not want to keep us, but we remain imprisoned," she said.

"State Department and White House officials have not effected our release or taken a strong public stance to condemn the illegal actions of the Israeli Navy of enforcing a blockade of humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians of Gaza, a blockade that has been condemned by President Obama." [h/t Gateway Pundit]

Comments

[Dum Bass]

Cynthia, for the last time, the plug goes in the socket, not your finger.