South Africa: Stay away, Cynthia

By: Jennifer Foster | Opelika Auburn News
Published: October 02, 2009 | 0 Comments | Post a Comment

Everyone's favorite former-congresswoman-but-still-the-same-old-nutjob Cynthia McKinney ran into some trouble trying to go to South Africa this week. It was either something with her passport or, as Atlanta Journal Constitution Political Insider Jim Galloway so delicately writes, she "has found another country that doesn’t want her around."

McKinney -- whose contributions to American politics include:

Running for president on the Green Party ticket;

Going berzerk and slugging a Capitol Police officer when failed to recognize her and dared to stop her when she bypassed security without her member pin;

Thinking that President George W. Bush knew 9/11 was coming but let it happen anyway;

Accusing the Department of Defense of summarily executing 5,000 prisoners and dumping them in a Louisiana swamp following Hurricane Katrina; and

Actually filing in the United States Congress legislation known as the "Tupac Shakur Records Act" to force the release of records about the rapper's death

-- was to travel to South Africa to be an "international guest speaker on the Channel 4 network's first Palestinian Struggle and Human Spirit film festival."

Oh, the Palestinians -- that's right; I almost forgot: She also got into trouble with the Israelis and spent a few days in their jails in December 2008 for trying to break through an Israeli blockade of the area to visit with Palestinians.

Anyway, as a South African TV station reports, McKinney "was refused access to the flight because there were irregularities with her passport."

Hmmm ... irregularities?

American authorities might want to take a closer look at that passport on her next attempt to re-enter the US from one of her excursions to hang with Hamas.

Perhaps we'll get lucky and the irregularities are so irregular that she will get to continue her work on behalf of the Palestinians from the West Bank.