Thursday, July 2, 2009
Oh no..they're sending her back: McKinney held in Israel, to be returned to U.S.
ormer U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney -- who was aboard a ship the Israeli navy intercepted this week -- is in a detention center and will be returned to the United States, the U.S. Embassy said.
McKinney was among those on a ship that the Israeli Defense Forces said violated an Israeli blockade and crossed into Gazan waters on Tuesday.
The Israeli navy gained control of the ship and took McKinney and about 20 people into custody, said the Free Gaza Movement, a human rights group [LOL] that sent the ship...
...McKinney served six terms in the House of Representatives as a Democrat from Georgia and was the Green Party's 2008 presidential nominee.
The ex-lawmaker is in the Givon immigration detention center in the central Israeli city of Ramle, the U.S. Embassy said.
She has been given deportation papers but has refused to sign them, the embassy said.
She will be held for three more days, assuming she does not sign the papers, and then will be sent back to the United States, the embassy added...
The bold part sort of puts the absurdity to CAIR's call to get the President involved doesn't it?
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I was kind of hoping that she would get to Gaza ... and maybe stay there for a while.
The Israelis are not stupid. Why would they want this trouble maker for themselves?
Putting her crazy butt in Sderot for half a year or more would be even better for everyone. She can explain to the world why she is supporting the near daily rocket attacks against the children there.
NOOOOOOOO!! Please do NOT send her back to America! We don't want her!! Trump up some criminal charges, plant evidence, make up new laws, do whatever it is you have to do to keep her away from us! I ask as a hugely Israel-supporting friend in the U.S.... in that name of all that is good and decent and holy, PLEASE do not send her back here!!