ToDaZeD *California facepalm*
you, too, MN… GA… Mass...MD...
So. You’re a United States Representative—all elected and everything. And you see an issue you believe *someone* really ought to do *something* about. Being, as you are, a fully-fledged member the second most powerful body in the world, what do ya do?
Yep. Ya go out and stand around with signs until someone is forced to remove your fat ignorant crazy ass to the pokey. uh huh.
Five members of Congress and three activists were arrested on civil disobedience charges in front of the Sudanese Embassy on Monday for protesting “crimes against humanity” in Darfur.
The congress members crossed a yellow police tape line and refused to leave the largely peaceful demonstration [wait… weren’t the *nation-wide* TEA Parties *completely* peaceful? Must be a redneck thang...] after calling on Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir to reinstate 16 nongovernmental aid organizations that he expelled or shut down last month in response to the International Criminal Court issuing a warrant for his arrest.
...Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma), John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Donna Edwards (D-Md.)—were handcuffed by Secret Service officers after crossing the tape and taken to jail by local police officers. Each paid a $100 fine and was released within several hours.
...Woolsey said in an interview that it “was the right time to show her commitment and dedication” by joining the protest.
“I hope that is very clear to our administration and to international communities that violence in Darfur must end,"
Way to be effective, Ninnyhammers.
*wanders off mumbling something about “teats on a boar"*
I suspect that Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir is quaking in his tutu now that he sees the raw power of the US Government unleashed against him.
Fight on, brave Democrats!!!
Posted by ZZMike on 04/28/09 at 02:44 PM
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