Below McKinney's speech and then I put a report from a website about pressure from AIPAC to not attend the weekend antiwar protest. Many are posting that Madsen is not reliable. Another scenario is that it is because of the unpopularity of ANSWER, though the turnout did look good. If its true wonder what AIPAC is planning to do to McKinney now?
Cynthia McKinney
Washington, DC
September 24, 2005
If we didn't know it before, we certainly know it now.
A cruel wind blows across America. Starting in Texas and Montana, and
sweeping across America's heartland, it's settled here in Washington,
DC. And despite our presence today, it continues to buffet and batter
the American people.
This cruel wind blew disenfranchisement into Florida and Ohio.
It blew hardheartedness into the Capitol.
Division across our land. And wretchedness in high places.
The American people have been forced to endure fraud in the elections
of 2000 and 2004, criminal neglect on September 11th, a war started on
deliberately-faked evidence, the outing of a CIA agent to cover up the
truth, and now criminal incompetence in providing our security.
When hurricane survivors had lost everything, and it was there for
all America to see, sybaritic men, wrapped in self-righteousness,
worked to save their jobs instead of the people.
As dead bodies lay strewn about the New Orleans Superdome, military
recruiters blew into Houston's Astrodome to reap the harvest.
This ill wind that engulfs our country is also global in its impact.
It dipped into the Caribbean hitting Haiti and Cuba; it reached into
Latin America to slap Venezuela; it swept death, greed, and
destruction across Africa into Eastern Congo; and it breathes
occupation onto the peoples of Iraq and Palestine.
But just as sure as an ill wind now blows, it doesn't always have to be so.
The people, united, can stop wars.
We can stop injustice; and we can stop indifference. The people,
united, can tear down the mightiest walls of oppression.
These ill winds have brought us high crimes and more than
misdemeanors. But they've also brought us together: one answer,
united for peace and for justice.
Let's stay together. Because we have to get rid of these ill winds
and breathe fresh breath into a new jet stream of life.
We can do it, ya'll, because they can't fool us anymore.
Thank you!
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/September 24, 2005 -- Anti-war protest in Washington, DC today. Very few Democratic members of Congress to appear. Reason: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), according to Democratic insiders on Capitol Hill, put out the word that any member of Congress who appeared at the protest, where some speakers were to represent pro-Palestinian views, would face the political wrath of AIPAC. According to Democratic sources on the Hill, Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts was the chief conveyor of the AIPAC warning to his colleagues. At the time of this report, three members of Congress were to address the anti-war protestors: Reps. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), John Conyers (D-MI), and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). The word is that AIPAC will direct its massive campaign support to Woolsey's neo-con and pro-Iraq war primary challenger, California State Assemblyman Joe Nation, who has strong connections to the Rand Corporation, one of the Pentagon's chief war-making think tanks. Woolsey represents California's Marin and Sonoma counties.
September 26, 2005 Update -- In the end, the antiwar rally apparently drew only one member of Congress as speaker: Georgia Democratic Representative Cynthia McKinney.
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