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Forum Post: US Congress: Falsely Labeling Peace Activists as 'Terrorists'?

Posted 12 years ago on Jan. 15, 2012, 2:59 a.m. EST by gmxusa (274)
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Against a backdrop of madness, HR 3131 lists former US Marine Ken O'Keefe & other Human Rights Activists as 'terrorists'.

Ken speaking at Kansas State University with a map in the background that illustrates Israel's theft of land since becoming a government in 1948.

(SALEM) - Who would have thought that McCarthyism could rear its ugly head in 2012? Americans thought the smoke would clear after Bush- when in reality, it only became more noxious. Now a new/old reality sets in... a paranoid government's overreaction; buckling to the desires of a fundamentalist religious government of murderous fanatics that laugh at human rights.

One of America's closest 'allies' commits war crimes, possesses undeclared nuclear weapons and maintains an apartheid government. 'Apartheid' means 'separate but equal' and in South Africa, for decades, one set of laws existed for whites, and one for blacks. Needless to say, white people were permitted far more in the way of rights, and consequentially, black people faced harsher laws in comparison. South Africa banished apartheid in the last century, but Israel has not been forced to follow a similar path.

Ever since 1951, Israel has maintained one set of laws for Jews, and another set for all those who are not Jewish. Israel assigns the indigenous Palestinian Arabs significantly longer prison sentences than Jews, and Palestinian children can be arrested at half the age of Israeli children, who can't be placed in cuffs until they are 12. Indeed, Israelis literally arrest 6-year olds. There are "Jewish only" roads throughout Israel and needless to say, Palestinians can't drive on them and face severe punishments if they attempt to.

It is against this backdrop of madness, in defence of that type of lunacy and evil, that the U.S. government has listed one of our closest friends and allies as a terrorist, officially. The baseless designation against a U.S. Marine Combat Veteran named Ken O'Keefe is little more than parroting of the allegations made by Israel after their deadly attack on a humanitarian aid ship off the coast of Palestine in 2010.

From Ken:

“US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QAEDA LINKED TERRORIST - Myself and a US citizen, along with IHH and several Turkish nationals are named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara carrying 40 IHH members, including Fatima Mahmadi, Ken O’Keefe, Hassan Iynasi, Hussein Urosh, Ahmad Umimon, and others with known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations who were armed with 100 metal rods, 200 knives, 150 military self-defense vests, 50 wooden clubs, gas masks, and a telescopic sight for a gun.”

A telescopic sight for a gun? You're seeing this too, it is as crazy as it sounds. Israeli forces slaughtered people with automatic weapons and even their stretched desperate description of the items aboard the ship they call 'weapons' only results in a gun sight and a gas mask? Metal rods? It has been well proven that the knives were for cooking, from the ship's kitchen.

The Bill, House Resolution 3131 was introduced 6 October 2010. It is a sickening piece of legislation, drafted along political lines, it was written to reflect 120% in favor of Israel. Not only does it include lies about weapons onboard the Mavi Marmara (there were none), it effectively states nothing except the eternally repeated information about the rocket attacks that have killed a total of 29 Israeli people in all time. The loss of 29 people are important, but the rhetoric would make people think that number is in the thousands. Israel, which killed 400 children of over 1400 Gazans during its notorious 'Operation Cast Lead', has been accused of an endless series of war crimes connected to the events of the 2008-2009 winter siege. Still, few Americans know the truth.

The United States blocked Israel from having to answer to the crimes in the UN by using what is called 'super veto power'. Every time Israel faces war crimes, the United States uses this special power that other nations do not possess, to strike the matter from existence and eliminate the need for them to acknowledge responsibility.

The rest of the article is here: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january132012/okeefe-congress-ko.php

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[-] 1 points by fiftyfourforty (1077) from New York, NY 12 years ago

Here they go tagging a pro Palestinian activist and ex US Marine a terrorist!

911 was the day of catastrophe for decency it seems. You go to the subway and there they are- Homeland Security and NYPD waiting to snoop into your backpack. Don't like it? Walk. There's nothing, after all, in the constitution about a right to ride on a subway, is there.

Afghanistan, Iraq, attacks on Gaza, Libya, it all derives from 911. How some people can say it doesn't matter who is behind the events of that day is beyond belief.