Bon voyage, Jihad Cindy McKinney; Update: Israeli Navy turns back S.S. Moonbat
Scroll down for updates…Cindy’s ship intercepted and turned back after crashing into Israeli Navy gunboat…
Move over, Hanoi Jane Fonda. Jihad Cindy McKinney is sailing to Gaza to deliver medical supplies to Hamas.
Is it a one-way ticket? We can only hope. Via the AJC:
Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is a high-profile member of a boatload of activists that set sail Monday from Cyprus to deliver medicine to war-torn Gaza.
McKinney, who ran as the Green Party candidate for president, sees the voyage as a humanitarian mission, said her father, former Georgia state Rep. Billy McKinney.
“Her mother did not want her to go,” he said, referring to concerns at home for her safety. “But I think that certain people have missions in life and you can’t deter them.”
The activists, organized by the Free Gaza Group, said their 66-foot yacht called “SS Dignity” would defy an Israeli blockade of Gaza and ferry 16 activists and three tons of Cypriot-donated supplies. The supplies are intended to help treat the wounded from Israeli bombings against targets in Gaza, in retaliation for rocket fire aimed at civilians in southern Israeli towns.
Flashback: Cynthia McKinney’s Arab and Islamist Donors
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Update 5:22am Eastern. Carl in Jerusalem reports that the S.S. Moonbat has been turned back by the Israeli Navy…
The yacht carrying former US Congresscritter and Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney tried to outmaneuver an Israeli navy gunboat off Gaza Tuesday morning. The yacht rammed into the Israeli gunboat, which then turned it around and sent it back to Cyprus.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said the boat ignored an Israeli radio order to turn back early Tuesday. He said the boat tried to outmaneuver the navy ship and crashed into it, lightly damaging both vessels. The navy then escorted the boat to the territorial waters of Cyprus.Protest boat organizer Derek Graham said the Israeli ship “rammed” the protest boat.
According to the ‘Free Gaza’ website of the boat’s organizers (which I will not grace with a link), the boat is now headed to ‘safety’ in Lebanon.
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What was the name of that woman who stood in front of the Israeli bulldozer (or tank)? “Pancake” something…
I guess she thinks the Green Party should help the terorists in green.
Should that ship be the “SS Darwin”?
Ship of Fools or Ship of Tools?
Silly Cynthia wishes to be arrested to make a statement. In that the Israelis are sinking all craft within 3 miles of land this may be a wish unfulfilled. Sigh
At the first site of Israeli warships, it will be “Abandon Failboat!”
Someone plant a torpedo amidships and do the world a small favor
For some reason 66 feet, 16 activists, and three tons of supplies sounds like a feat akin to throwing bricks in the Grand Canyon. It sounds even more silly than the ridiculous philosophy or lack thereof.
On December 30th, 2008 at 12:47 am, AlohaGuy said:
I believe you’re thinking of Rachel Corrie, affectionately known as St. Pancake.
According to the jihadi sympathizers at FreeGaza, the Israelis are ordering them to return to Cyprus. They appear to have surrounded the Dignity and refuse to allow them through. If you want to read their little heart attack, here’s the link. Don’t ever ask me to link to that place again.
(H/T: an LGF commenter.)
From that link above, this is rich:
Video or it didn’t happen.
Her poor mother. That’s a whole lotta crazy.
Heh. They were probably approached by a fishing boat or something.
On a related topic, if she does go the St. Pancake route, what will her new name be? I propose St. Dinghy.
OT:
I’m going to have to root for the Pirates on this one…
I often wonder how things would now look if Moses and the Israelites had completed the task set before them by God: “and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.” (Deuteronomy 7:2)
Awww, Cindy didn’t get her to take her photo with the terrorists scum.
Link.
Has anyone warned her about the Somali pirates? And anti-
whalingterrorist ships like the SS Steve Irwin of Whale Wars on the Discovery Channel? (No filming during winter months). She might be pelted with stink bombs or paralyzed with rope lines to foul her props. Dangerous but brave. Someone buy her a Sea Shepherd XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL turtle neck shirt.Well, there’s a gene pool you wouldn’t want to swim in.
So she got in trouble again trying to dash through security? Seriously, won’t she ever learn?
St. Fishfood
HMM!
All in one boat. What a missed opportunity.
Seasons Greetings All:
I’m afraid you all would be shocked of just how sympathetic the core constituency and Obama and McKinney have toward the Palestinian cause — and feelings toward Isreal. Hope every American Jew knew that last Nov. Personally, I’ve lost my respect for Palestinians long ago. Instead of sitting in squalor and hate and wasting billions on arms, they could’ve turned lemons into lemonade, much as the Israelis bloomed their part of the desert and as the much admirable and productive Taiwanese had after their exodus on a tiny island. Don’t the Palestinians know that their supportive brother Arab states are just using them as a hate blinders and a excuse to keep their own peoples minds off their tyrant governments?
James Greenidge
Queens, New York
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Is it wrong that I’m disappointed that she wasn’t given a chance to go down with her ship?
It’s a shame a submarine didn’t just happen to surface from underneath the yacht.
I’m just thankful that she is not in my home state anymore. There are a bunch of roads named after her family in Atlanta. When she lost the last local election some people petitioned to rename the roads. Didn’t happen.
She might soon qualify for a Darwin Award.
Don’t the Israelis know who she is? Dang, those racist Jews! RACISM! RACISM!!
Cynthia…….ah heck I am not going to waste my time writing anymore about this degenerate.
Someone please enlighten me. Why does it seem that everyone supports Palestine & thinks it is perfectly fine for Hams to lob missles into Israel but Israel is not supposed to defend itself? Apparently they are just expected to sit back & take it.
I think its time to see if she can swim….
Iran sent out word for recruits for Military, Finance and Propaganda personnel to help fight Israel. Which one of the three groups does Cindy McKinney fall into?
I thought the procedure was that if a boat ignores a radio warning and then ignores subsequent warning fire – that you then proceed to SINK THEM?
Any yacht could be loaded with high explosives just hoping for such an engagement in order to blow up an Israeli ship. Was the Israeli Navy foolish enough to trust this boat because McKinney was on it?
If these fools try this again I hope the Israelis put a 5 incher amidships and all hands go down with the ship.
So what. Don’t frack with the military during time of war.
“Standby to fire torpedos-Forward-Amidships and Aft!”
“FIRE!”
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
Gotta love the ISRAELIS!!! No one matters in their eyes, if you sympathize with HAMAS… Word of advice to our new PRES… Get the HELL out of the way, or be caught up in the WAKE of ISRAEL…
Sorry if this “protest boat” had been rammed, then all hands onboard would be sharing breakfast (with argula of course) with Davey Jones!
AAARRRRGGGHHH!
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
I am not sure why a .50cal round was not sent into the waterline of that tub. After, yet another, aggressive move by an enemy you would think Israel would just send that boat to the bottom. If that turdbucket rammed my ship, I would be throwing out lifelines and ordering a hole midship. Then again, I like shoosting my guns!
A three hour tour… A three hour tour… No! No! No! Now I’ve got the theme of Gilligan’s Island running through my brain! Quick! Somebody put on Slim Whitman’s Indian Love Call!
See and here is the problem with Israel the moment that boat smashed into their boat they should have blown it up!
That is how you win a war and send a message to all other comers!
I feel sorry for the Lebanese. Has anybody warned them? The problems they had before will seem minor if Cindy and her fellow moonbats are allowed to disembark.
Really?!?!? When the Israelis attack something, they don’t mess around! If there were indeed an attack, there would have been time for maybe one radio transmission from the beleagured ship: “Mayday!” Blub, blub, blub…
#20 is on point.
I think we’ve clued in to the real meaning of the “Green” party as they are not environmental nitwits – well, they may be that – but they are hopelessly naive about how the world works.
Ship of Idiots. Ship of Fools.
Consider yourself lucky the officer making the call didn’t have my temperament. You would have recieved an overwhelming amount of machine gun fire.
How are they supposed to know you’re only a bunch of idiots and not something even more malignant?
Hmmm, I wonder whatever happened to the traditional warning shot across the bow. Why scratch up your patrol boat?
Oh for the days of iron men and wooden ships……
So McKinney wants to help out people who, if they had thier way, would shut her up, and put her in a burka. If they didn’t make her a woman “thier right hand owns”. (i.e a slave) She is nuts.
These nutcases always have cameras rolling when they confront the “law” so where is the video?
In other words, some people have no common sense or understanding of the world they inhabit and will not listen to reason.
We used to call that insane.
Israel must be making its sailors sit through some sort of stupid sensitivity training or something, because the second that rinky dink yacht ignored radio warnings and attempted to evade, it should have been punched full of holes.
McKinney is obviously seriously mentally ill. Why don’t the people who supposedly love her try to get her some help instead of allowing her to constantly make a horse’s ass of herself in public? Seriously.
St. Anchor
I think Jackson, Sharpton & ever-nutty calypso Luey led African Americans to hate Jewish people and embrace an Islamic heritage for Africa. It is easy to see why McKinney would seek any opportunity to attack Israel and play her moonbat card at the same time.
Speaking of moonbats, where is that other moonbat with her same first name? What ever happened to Cindy Sheehan and how did she miss one more chance to scam donation money and get in the news? My guess is there wasn’t enough money or attention to share the light so Sheehan was left out. Additionally, Sheehan ticked off everyone with her antics to include her dismal 16% showing in her attempt to unseat fellow socialist Pelosi. You can do a lot of things when you’re a socialist but conspiring to take out fellow socialists is not one of them.
Cynthia McKinney is enough moonbat by herself for this failed PR stunt but you know Sheehan wished she could be there too…(and get a little side money ha ha ha).
One more thing, I like both of these ladies for their notorious bad hair moments that serve to remind the rest of the sane world that crazy people often look crazy for a reason.
Probably. They realize that the world’s press is firmly on the side of the cutthroat butchers, despite repeated kidnappings and murders of reporters.
Latest from the jihadi support ship. Hint, don’t try to sail openly into an active warzone under blockade.
dumbasses.
The minute the Israeli navy fired a shot into that “yacht” Obummer & Company would have declared it an act of aggression against the US.
What do they mean by Free Gaza? Right now it is in the hands of the “Palestinians”. Do they want to return it to Israel? Or to Egypt to whom it belonged before they lost a war to Israel? Do they have any idea what they’re talking about?
This is the apex of stupid statements.
Warships in the modern age DO NOT RAM.
This is not freaking Ancient Greece and the freaking Trireme!
If the Israelis really thought SS Moonbat was a threat, they’d have blown it out of the water, not rammed it.
They mean that hamas is allowed to murder at will and the israelis have to take it, plus pay protection money to hamas. While they murder more isrealis.
St. Bait?
St. Chum?
St. Dumb-as-a-stump?
I need to quit. She really is mental.
It’s every person’s right to make a fool of themselves. Some just take advantage of it more than others.
I suspect if something happens to this boat the next one will have a glass bottom. You know the reason for that.
On December 30th, 2008 at 8:34 am, Dandapani said:
Protest boat organizer Derek Graham said the Israeli ship “rammed” the protest boat.
So what. Don’t frack with the military during time of war.
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Exactly. It’s time Israel really showed the world what happens when you “frack” with them.
And by the by, I understand they ARE allowing humanitarian aid to get through; just not whacked-out protesters who side with people who want to wipe them (Israel) off the map.
OK Rogue Cheddar just for you and the other old of us.
Slim Whitman’s Indian Love Call
Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun (M2)-Dreams are made from such as these
They do if one of the captians is dumb enough to sail right in front of the other ship.
b-cat: No.
Saunter into her intellectual pool, and you may not even get your socks damp.
On December 30th, 2008 at 9:25 am, sonofdy said:
dumbasses.
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That pretty much sums it up.
I’m surprised nobody brought up this little clip from “Ben Hur”.
“RAMMING SPEED!”
LOL. Cynthia McKinney – the terrorists’ chum!
Drudge is reporting…
Cynthia McKinney ‘relief boat’ rammed by Israeli navy...
Which story is the truth?
Which story will the msm run with?
Personally, I would not to wish ill on Mizzzzz Kinney. I don’t care for her at all, mind you, for she is truly a moonbat. One who hides behind the race card and has no qualms about using it whenever she doesn’t get her way. I can see her now, standing on the bow of The Dingy screaming, “Can’t you see that I’m black?!” The Israelis were probably too busy laughing their a$$es off to fire the deserved shot into the hull. This incident should give these idiots pause for thought.
Untill I see the video, who knows???
Thanks, I needed that. (dabs at bleeding eardrums) That’s what I like about the internets, the proper remedies are only a google away.
On December 30th, 2008 at 9:45 am, WaterBoyz said:
Which story is the truth?
Which story will the msm run with?
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And let’s keep in mind, those two things are not necessarily the same (in fact, usually not).
All this “ramming” has me thinking of a 60′s song that had the line “Ram-a-lam-a-Ding-Dong!”
Cynthia is essentially a “Ding-Dong” with about as much intelligence as that exhibited by the junk food of the same name.
Have a Coke and a Smile-this will take awhile! Boss.
Mean ole IDF is actually hitting Back
Should have sunk the damned thing and got it over with.
Um, is that because, like the boat backed up & rammed you repeatedly? You know, ’cause the driver put it in reverse…
I have a better name for people like this, but this forum keeps me from posting it.
This just in! It’s been reported that Cynthia McKinney retaliated by throwing her cell phone at them. More as this story develops.
I am coming to believe that the children of politicians are moonbats.
Right on, James. I think we’ll see an unveiling of unprecedented evil and hostility from the Oval Office towards Israel in the coming months and years, disguised by a melodic voice and “kind eyes”.
?
Well OK, but it would be interesting to see if she and the rest of these blockade runners could swim back to Cyprus. The US Navy has sent a lot of blockade runners to the bottom of the sea during different wars.
I could care less if the Israeli warship rammed the SS Moonbat. Did those idiots think they were going to be allowed to pass? They were warned by a heavily armed warship to stay away. They’re lucky they’re not having their eyes gnawed on by fish right now.
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
a tale of a faitful trip…
If you’re struck in the front of your vessel, then it is you doing the ramming.
Arlen Specter (R)is doing his part – http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230456521631&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
US Senator Arlen Specter carried a message Monday from Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Syrian President Bashar Assad, despite Syria’s announcement it had broken off its indirect talks with Israel.
Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania who travels frequently to both Israel and Syria, left Israel Monday after a short visit for a meeting with Assad.
When Pelosi did something similar, we conservatives and/or Republicans were rightfully angered.
HA! Just like the Capital policeman who struck her fist with his face.
They’re used to getting a pass in the US of A…they’ll never learn till they suffer some real consequences…I agree they’re lucky, and I don’t understand why the Israeli warship didn’t provide a more appropriate response.
You all need to see the picture of Cindy on HA. Poor thing is really not attractive at all. Good for Israel for stopping the boat, they have every right to do so. Isn’t Cindy aiding the enemy of the US? I thought it was against to law.
L
Gee, that’s too bad. I was kinda hoping that Hamas would get to demonstrate their respect for life to Ms. McKinney. Maybe she would learn something.
Not anymore, it is the platform of the Democrat party.
For the record, I coined the moniker “Jihad Cindy” for her and compared her to Hanoi Jane back in 2001. Please give proper credit where it is due.
Oh look, it’s Debbie complaining about not getting credit again.
*yawn
BTW… I vote for “St. Chum”. It has a nice ring to it, especially if you accidentally add a “p” to the end.
Oh debbie, you attention hog you…
Oh, look, it’s some unnotable who never says anything worthy of being stolen, excusing someone else not giving proper credit where it is due from someone who clearly did say something notable enough to be used (without credit).
* double yawn.
My thoughts exactly, letget. Israel is one of our allies, so wouldn’t this be considered an act of treason against the U.S.?
It’s about time Israel stopped caring what the rest of the world thinks about how they protect their own country from aggression. Too bad the U.S. can’t follow suit.
A news report. They may try again. Truly a ship of fools.
I like:
McFishingnuggets
@RTater:
Specter is just as wrong as Pelosi was.
… after all it’s impossible for two people to have the same idea.
Her old man is as big of a nutbag. He challenged a member of the republican caucus to a duel.
A ship carrying supplies for a combatant is a legitimate target in war time reguardless of the flag it is flying. Just like mosques are if they are being used for military purposes. Hell you can carpet bomb an occupied childrens hospital if there is a sniper in it about be okay under the law of warfare. Though that might be stretching the intent of the law a little. Point is any protected target losses that protection the second it seaks to support one side or the other. Israeli boats can legaly sink this ship anywhere. If they really want to get these supplies through, they should work WITH the Israelis or they will be treated the same as any other potential arms summugling ship.
“The same idea”? I wrote a whole column about this back in 2001, and Michelle read it, and back in the past she linked to it, so she’s aware of it. Yes, the “same idea”–mine.
Oh Debbie…
Please, point out where Michelle took credit.
OR
Please, point out where you own a copy write for the phrase.
It seems that I spoke a lot into their lives which bears repeating so pardon me if you never find a thing I have to say earth shattering for you.
You are above all of this. I enjoy your blog and your writing very much. Your article on the Israel attacks was outstanding so, pardon me if I think more highly of you than you deserve.