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Cynthia McKinney: the politician of last resort; Michael C. Ruppert, a former police officer, described by one newspaper as "a white kid from Orange County in a blue uniform sent to a black ghetto", speaks out about Georgia's Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney.

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Cynthia McKinney is a friend of mine. Until the day I die she will be a friend of mine. More than that, she will be a role model and an inspiration that I don't ever expect to be equalled, let alone surpassed.

Out of several dozen opinion-editorials, news reports and commentaries on the now-infamous so-called "cop-slapping" event of 29 March, I haven't seen a single one that, from my perspective, got it right. So right up front, let me say that if I am forced to look at this one snapshot incident, divorced from context and history, then yes, my very good friend messed up. It shouldn't have become as big a deal as it has and she bears some responsibility for that.

But if I look at the event as part of a continuum of the life of Congress, or the life of this nation, and (no less importantly) of the life of this woman, things look and feel a whole lot different.

The virulent, spit-dripping, white, racist commentators from Boortz to DeLay and the oh-so-PC and dainty black Democratic pundits and columnists who pick Cynthia McKinney apart--pretending to defend her while putting her black butt on the eBay auction block for November--are actually allies. They both want her to go away. They both want the issues that have come too close to public recognition in this case to go away. Leaders from left and right, black or white, cannot bear the thought of actually looking deeper at what happened with Cynthia McKinney and what it means.

Let me give you an historical hint. As a rule, wars are generally started over big events, (e.g. the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Pearl Harbour, North Korea's Army crossing the 38th parallel). Revolutions are generally started over less memorable things (e.g. "Let them eat cake", a tea tax, some government troops opening fire on unarmed demonstrators).

People of all colours and political persuasions understand that underlying both wars and revolutions are monstrous icebergs of unresolved inequity. So it is with Cynthia McKinney. And it is her hairdo (new or old, take your pick) that now sits atop an iceberg that both rightwing whites and bought-off blacks would like to go away.

I have walked the halls of Congress with Cynthia McKinney maybe eight to 10 times. I have walked into and out of the Cannon and Longworth house office buildings with her. I have walked to hearings in the Rayburn house office building with her. I have walked the...

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