If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party candidate and now officially the craziest candidate for president, has laid claim that the government killed 5.000 prisoners during Katrina by shooting them in the head and then dumped their bodies in Louisiana. She claims that she heard about the events from a mother of a National Guard soldier who was supposedly called to help dump the bodies. Right, and no one else has heard about this?

“And these were mostly males and her son was afraid to talk because he had signed a silence agreement,” McKinney told the crowd. “So he only complained to his mother. But the data was entered into a Pentagon computer.”

McKinney said she verified the story from “insiders” who wanted to remain anonymous.

“I suspect that these are prisoners. … So this investigation of the whole prison industrial complex is extremely important and it should not end with just a question of the nature of prisons in our country,” she said to a captivated audience. “These 5,000 souls also need some justice too.”

So by “insiders” does she mean “voices in her head?”

As Fox points out she was a member of the House for 12 years until 2007, McKinney is no stranger to controversy. Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, she suggested that President Bush knew about the plot in advance but failed to warn Americans because of his father’s business interests. Some political analysts say that statement contributed to her defeat in 2002.

McKinney hit a career low point in 2006 when she was accused of striking a Capitol Police officer who grabbed her after she passed a security checkpoint without wearing a congressional lapel pin. She later apologized for the incident. She was defeated in a Democratic primary later that year and left the Democratic Party in 2007. She was nominated in July to run for president on the Green Party ticket. There are 245 other Green Party candidates running for office this fall.

McKinney is most likely looking to attract the loons with this claim considering her campaign has been nothing but a speck on the radar since she won the Green Party nomination. If anything it will get her a little bit of air time and a lot of laughs from people who aren’t crazy. Maybe she should do a little more fact checking before running with rumors. Then again that would make her rational rather than crazy like she is.

Related Posts

• Choices
• Why You Should Consider Voting Third Party