Re: [Marxism] Soli's sins [was: ISO's conference]

[Sam B <sam.b.ann.arbor@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Joaquin Bustelo <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I also disagree with chegitz's attitude towards independent candidates. His
> dismissal of sister Cynthia McKinney as "a woman who claimed that 5,000
> prisoners were taken from New Orleans after Katrina and secretly executed in
> the Louisiana bayou," shows he is probably from the section of the
> population that would find a claim that the US government committed genocide
> against people like him to be absurd. Sister Cynthia is not from that
> demographic.

Admitting the possibility doesn't necessarily  show that she was a crackpot.

But stating it as if it were *true* and *proven*, rather than as an
*allegation* (that demands investigation) -- and saying, incredibly,
that the  officials at the Red Cross had corroborated her story --
shows her to be seriously lacking in judgment.


5,000 Executed in Katrina Aftermath Says McKinney

By Casey Gane-McCalla
October 2, 2008

<http://newsone.blackplanet.com/nation/5000-executed-in-katrina-aftermath-says-mckinney/>

Presidential candidate and former congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, has
claimed that 5,000 looters were killed in the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina. McKinney claimed to have spoken to a mother who said that her
son had confided in her that he was involved with the executions of
several looters who were subsequently dumped in the swamp. She also
claimed that officials at the Red Cross had corroborated her story.

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