Audacity Stopped at Sea 01:07:2011.m4v (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSoJuwhshSI#ws)
[blockquote]The Audacity of Hope was stopped at sea by the Greek Coast Guard 20 minutes after leaving the port. Our captain refused to turn back irregardless of the pleas of the Coast guard captain. After about 2 hours, Greek commandos joined the Coast guard vessel and the decision was made to turn back. We are currently at a military dock in Athens, unable to proceed. Johnny Barber, a passenger, on the Audacity of Hope, i was able to record this as it happened.
[/blockquote]
Code Pink communists and Obama supporters Ann Wright and Medea Benjamin confront Greek authorities after the ship was apprehended off the coast of Greece.
YNet News (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4090042,00.html)
[blockquote] Greek authorities have arrested the captain of a boat that was to be part of a Gaza-bound flotilla trying to deliver humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory, officials said Saturday.
The 60-year-old captain, whose name was not released by authorities, was being held at Piraeus police headquarters and will remain there until a court hearing Tuesday.
Greece’s coast guard said the captain of the “Audacity of Hope” faces charges of trying to leave port without permission and of endangering the lives of the boat’s passengers. The latter charge is a felony.
The “Audacity of Hope” was carrying 36 passengers, four crew and about 10 members of the media. Its attempt to sail Friday night from the port of Perama, near Athens, was thwarted by coast guard speedboats.
[/blockquote]
HT: trevorloudon (http://trevorloudon.com/2011/07/captain-of-%e2%80%9caudacity-of-hope%e2%80%9d-gaza-flotilla-ship-arrested-after-leaving-port-without-permission/)
More/url]
(http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/07/captain-of-audacity-of-hope-gaza-flotilla-ship-arrested-after-leaving-port-without-permission-video/)
Joining Freedom Flotilla II is the first-ever U.S. Boat to Gaza, “The Audacity of Hope.”
The individuals on this boat will be simply delivering
LETTERS OF LOVE to the people of Gaza.
Thirteen of America’s greatest thinkers talk about why “The Audacity of Hope” is one of the most crucial campaigns of our time.
US BOAT TO GAZA: The Audacity To Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9s7JuEceNI#ws)
The cast in not a collection of near-do-wells these folks work their destructive forces from the top of the food chain using big brain stems.
Angela Davis:
[blockquote](per Wiki) Davis was most politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of "Critical Resistance", an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is presently a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.
...
Her membership in the Communist Party led to Ronald Reagan's request in 1969 to have her barred from teaching at any university in the State of California. She was tried and acquitted of suspected involvement in the Soledad brothers' August 1970 abduction and murder of Judge Harold Haley in Marin County, California.
[/blockquote]This version is very sanitary
Noam Chomsky: (need I say more) http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1232 (http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1232) [blockquote]
* Professor of linguistics, prolific pamphleteer,
highly influential leftist
* Known for his extreme views (e.g., that
America is worse than Nazi Germany)
* “The so-called War on Terror is pure
hypocrisy, virtually without exception”
Chomsky is without question the most politically influential living academic among other academics and their students. He is promoted by rock groups such as Rage Against the Machine and Pearl Jam at their concerts the way the Beatles once promoted the Guru Maharaji,
Paul Postal and Robert Levine, linguists who have known and worked with Chomsky, take the view that the two aspects of his life’s work in fact manifest the same key properties: "a deep disregard of, and contempt for, the truth; a monumental disdain for standards of inquiry; a relentless strain of self-promotion; notable descents into incoherence; and a penchant for verbally abusing those who disagree with him."
[/blockquote]
Ali Abunimah: http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1426 (http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1426)
[blockquote]Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian American who serves as a Board of Directors member for the Arab American Action Network and the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center. He is also a co-founder of the Electronic Intifada website, which was created by activists affiliated with the International Solidarity Movement. His personal website, abunimah.org, acts as a clearinghouse for his writings, which are fiercely hostile toward Israel and the United States.
...
[He] … has also recalled Mr. and Mrs. Obama at a fundraiser held for the then-Congressional candidate Obama in 2000 at Rashid and Mona Khalidi’s home, where Mr. Obama made convincing statements in support of the Palestinian cause.” “[Obama] came with his wife,” Abunimah said. “That’s where I had a chance to really talk to him. It was an intimate setting. He convinced me he was very aware of the issues [and] critical of U.S. bias toward Israel and lack of sensitivity to Arabs.... He was very supportive of U.S. pressure on Israel.”
[/blockquote]
Michael Ratner: http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1538 (http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1538) [blockquote]
* President of the Center for Constitutional
Rights
* Former president of the National
Lawyers Guild
* Open Borders advocate
* Critic of U.S. and supporter of
Communist adversaries of U.S.
* Agitates for the expansion of rights for
suspected terrorists
An attorney and an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University,
President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR).
Board of Advisors member of Grassroots International;
co-host of a Pacifica Radio program reports legal developments related to civil liberties, civil rights and human rights issues;
and a former President of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). Ratner has written that Che Guevara "has remained my hero" since boyhood.
Ratner is the individual most responsible for the legal campaign aimed at shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, where the U.S. is currently detaining several hundred suspected Islamic terrorists.
[/blockquote]
Rashid Khalidi: http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1347 (http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1347)
[blockquote]Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University,
Director of the Middle East Institute (MEI) at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. ...[&] presides over a $300,000 annual grant from the federal government.
He ranks among the most prominent members of the Middle Eastern studies community in the United States.
Arab and American media outlets alike seek him out regularly as a leading authority on the Middle East.
[/blockquote]
Laila El-Haddad: (wiki)
[blockquote]2003-2006, El-Haddad was the Gaza stringer for the Aljazeera English website
[/blockquote]
Kathy Kelly:
[blockquote] Anti-war activist
Director of Voices in the Wilderness
"The UN's relationship to the US is that of a
battered woman to an abusive partner"
Kathy Kelly is the director of Voices in the Wilderness, ...to protest the America-led, United Nations sanctions against Iraq. ...Kelly has blamed the long-term suffering of the Iraqi people on UN sanctions, rather than on the abuses of Saddam Hussein. ...I don't think your average person in the United States wants to adopt the role of a bully who will practice child sacrifice in order to get what he or she wants....[bet she's pro-choice though]
[/blockquote] Shame for such a pretty Irish girl too
Chris Hedges: (wiki)
[blockquote]A quotation from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker. The quotation reads: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug
...
In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received in 2002 the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.
[/blockquote]
Alice Walker: http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2001 (http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2001)
[blockquote] * Pulitzer Prize-winning author
* Longtime admirer of Fidel Castro
* Supporter of cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal
* Thinks the key to defeating Osama bin Laden is “love”
A longtime admirer of Fidel Castro,... ."What's not to like about the man?
[/blockquote]