Cynthia McKinney: Gov't report called for martial law if black uprising

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Cynthia McKinney on the Floor of the House Sept 7, 2005:

“As I saw the African Americans, mostly African Americans- families ripped apart, I could only think about slavery- families ripped apart. Herded into what looked like concentration camps. And so I was reminded of a Miami Herald article written on July 5th, the day after Freedom Day, 1987. The title of the article was Reagan Aides and the Secret Government. And here is a quote from that article. The martial law… well I’ll just do this part.

“A copy of the memo was obtained by The Herald. The scenario outlined in the Brinkerhart(sp?) memo resembles somewhat a paper Jufrida(sp?) had written in 1978 at the Army War College in Carlyle(!), Pennsylvania in which he advocated martial law in case of a national uprising by black militants.”

in which he advocated martial law in case of a national uprising by black militants

The paper also advocated the roundup and transfer to quote “assembly centers” or “relocation camps” of at least 21 million American negroes. Now I didn’t write that- the US gov’t wrote that. They would round up 21 million negroes because they were afraid of freeing black people. A story of neglect, I’m not surprised about any story of neglect of the people that come from this body, with this set of priorities that passes these kinds of budgets on the back of the American people, those kinds of tax cuts on the back of the American people.

I want to commend my sister Congresswoman Barbara Lee who has said it is time for us to get serious about poverty in this country. It is time for us to get serious, and I am a proud co-sponsor of legislation with Barbara Lee. I will just conclude by saying that on the United States State Department website is a How to identify misinformation. Does the story fit the pattern of a conspiracy theory? [cut off]

Speaker: The Chair has an obligation remind the members, particularly the young lady from Georgia that it’s out of order to ascribe unworthy motives to the President and the gentlelady’s time has expired.