Cynthia McKinney Prevented From Leaving U.S.
November 27th, 2008Via: Infowars:
Former Congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has been prevented from leaving the country after she planned to give a speech in Damascus Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“Today, November 23rd, I was slated to give remarks in Damascus, Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, sadly, the 60th year that the Palestinian people have been denied their Right of Return enshrined in that Universal Declaration. But a funny thing happened to me while at the Atlanta airport on my way to the Conference: I was not allowed to exit the country,” writes McKinney.
“I do believe that it was just a misunderstanding,” she adds, though why a well known former Georgia congresswoman who represented Atlanta, the city in which she was born, would not be allowed to board a plane raises disturbing questions.
I guess it’d be a good idea for us expats to get our passports renewed before they start chipping them, and then stay the fuck out.
Heavy emphasis on, “stay the fuck out.”
My dad really wants to meet his grandson, my son, Owen. He doesn’t have much money to spare, but he has offered to pay for us to fly back to the U.S. for a visit. I say, “Dad, there’s absolutely no chance of that happening.”
He’s free to come over here for a visit anytime. The problem with old farts, though, is that they can get so crusty that logic can go out the window. So, you tell him about average people being on the terrorist watch list, and people having problems boarding flights, laptop confiscation etc. and he just doesn’t get it. It’s not real to him.
Anyway, I’m not going to put myself or my family at risk because of my dad’s cognitive dissonance.
Yes, I have the same policy.