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Cynthia McKinney shares a 69% similarity with your beliefs on Civil Liberties and Domestic Security
I oppose the 2006 extension of the Patriot Act
"Freedom includes the rights to education, health care, housing, living wages, and freedom from racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, gentrification, and police terror. Therefore, we need comprehensive federal investment in low-income families and communities, with an emphasis on people of color. We need repeal of the Patriot Acts, the Secret Evidence Act, the Military Commissions Act, and other legislation that rolls back bedrock civil liberties. "
Voted NO on making the PATRIOT Act permanent.
"I opposed the Patriot Act and its re-authorization."
Green Party 2008 Presidential Candidate Questionnaire Feb 3, 2008
I strongly oppose giving the federal government more domestic surveillance power
McKinney co-sponsored the Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act (H.R. 4561). SPONSOR'S INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT: "It is clear that this bill's many cosponsors do not agree on every issue. The same can be said of the bill's noncongressional supporters, which include groups ranging from the National Rifle Association to the American Civil Liberties Union. The sphere of privacy, which Justice Brandeis eloquently described as the ''right to be let alone,'' is not only rapidly diminishing, it is increasingly penetrable. The Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act takes the first--necessary--step toward protecting the privacy of information collected by the federal government, by requiring that rules noticed for public comment by federal agencies be accompanied by an assessment of the rule's impact on personal privacy interests, including the extent to which the proposed rule provides notice of the collection of personally identifiable information, what information will be obtained, and how this informational will be collected, protected, maintained, used and disclosed."
Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act (H.R.4561) (legislation)
Voted NO on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant
Voted NO on continuing intelligence gathering without civil oversight
“Now, we don’t know who did it, but one of them put a lock on the door and slipped a key to the corporate lobbyists who can come and go at will and whisper what they want to the Democrats, and then whisper what they want to the Republicans, and the result is that we the people, who pay for those seats and determine who sits in them, want one thing, but because the corporate lobbyists can come and go at will, our values get overridden and our representatives give us something else. That’s how we end up with everyone saying they’re against the war and occupation, but war and occupation still gets funding. That’s how we end up with everyone saying they’re against illegal spying on innocent people, yet end up with a telecom immunity bill being signed into law.”
I am neutral on extending the right of habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainees
"[The Democrats] have continued to vote to fund war and occupation. And so, on my birthday, in front of the Pentagon March 17 of last year, I declared my independence. And I would just like to say that it’s interesting that I declared my independence from the national leadership that gave us these kinds of policies and a failure to roll back the PATRIOT Acts, the Secret Evidence Act, the Military Commissions Act [which suspends habeas corpus for "unlawful combatants"], a failure even to provide election integrity for us in face of the fact that we understand that we’ve got voter caging that’s going on literally right now that would deny people the opportunity to cast a vote."
Cited in McKinney's 2006 Articles of Impeachment: "In direct dereliction of his duty to defend the Constitution, George Walker Bush has...[replaced established law with] a new form of law involving: secret and indefinite detention without trial or hearing; renditions to other countries outside the reach of law and justice; the use of military tribunals to replace civilian courts; detentions outside normal writ of habeus rules and without access to effective counsel..."
I am neutral on the use of interrogation methods that cause physical or emotional suffering
Cited in McKinney's 2006 Articles of Impeachment: "Article VI of the Constitution, George Walker Bush, as President of the United States of America, has condoned and presided over a vast expansion of the use of torture against unarmed combatants and civilian non-combatants, both foreign and domestic, detained or kidnapped by forces or agents of the United States, leading to extreme pain, psychological trauma, disfigurement and in some cases, death."
"[T]hese headlines from this morning—torture, war, violence, murder, hate crimes—I think it’s clear that not only does our country need a new set of values at the helm, our country needs an opposition party like the Green Party, that has the values of the Green Party, so that we can finally see the values that I believe are the majority values of the American people implemented in our public policy."