5 Congressmen (Representatives) ARRESTED in PROTEST of Sudan GENOCIDE and mass-murder!
A SALUTE! to those courageous Representatives ("congressmen/women") and protesters ARRESTED, PROTESTING America's grotesque, narcissistic, self-satifisfied apathy and indiference to mass murder, rape, ethnic cleansing, slavery, torture, and genocide in the southern Sudan.
5 congressmen led away in handcuffs after Darfu protest at Sudanese Embassy
ANDREW MIGA
12:31:18 EDT Apr 28, 2006
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/060428/w042830.html
WASHINGTON (AP) - Five member of Congress were willingly arrested and led away from the Sudanese Embassy in plastic handcuffs Friday after protesting the Sudanese government's alleged role in atrocities in the Darfur region.
"The slaughter of the people of Darfur must end," Representative Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), a Holocaust survivor who founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, said from the embassy steps before his arrest.
Four other Democratic Congress members - James McGovern and John Olver of Massachusetts, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and Jim Moran of Virginia - were among 11 protesters arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, a misdemeanour subject to a fine.
"We must hold the Sudanese government accountable for the attacks they have supported on their own citizens in Darfur," Olver said.
Dozens of demonstrators carried signs, some reading Stop the slaughter, and Women of Darfur suffer multiple gang rapes.
The protesters cheered as the Congress members and others were cuffed, hands behind their backs, with plastic ties and quietly led to a white police van by uniformed officers of the U.S. Secret Service.
The arrests were expected. Lantos' office issued a news release about them in advance.
The protesters called on the Sudanese government to accept a UN peacekeeping force in Darfur and allow humanitarian relief organizations full access to victims.
The three-year-old conflict between rebels and government-backed militias has left at least 180,000 people dead, mostly from war-related hunger and disease. Some two million people have been driven from their homes.
Rallies against the violence in Darfur were planned for more than a dozen U.S. cities this weekend, including on Washington's National Mall on Sunday.
Dean, Feingold, Conyers, Rep. Slaughter "not foes of Impeachment"
Excerpted from Dave Lindorff... SOME Democrats understand that there should be little complicity with an entirely CORRUPT, CRIMINAL enterprise that is the Bush-Cheney-Libby-Rove White House (and DeLay-Cunningham-Nye-Frist Congress)
Howard Dean Tells CounterPunch:
the DNC No Foe of Impeachment Drive
By DAVE LINDORFF
March 20, 2006
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff03202006.html
I got an personal email from Democratic
<< Fifteen years ago, the late Rep. Henry Gonzalez of Texas filed an impeachment motion against the first President Bush for his invasion of Iraq, which Gonzalez said was unconstitutional. He did it on his own, and nobody stopped him, though the president went after him for it later.
Where is today's Henry Gonzalez, when the current president's impeachable crimes, including his illegal invasion of Iraq, are so much more serious?
The answer is that the Democratic Party leadership, or at least key elements of it, has beaten them into silence, fearful that they won't get campaign money, or that the party will punish them in some other way, through lost committee assignments or perhaps even a primary challenge.
Sen. Feingold is a welcome exception to the PREVAILING COWARDICE that grips the Democratic Party incumbents in House and Senate. >>
CourageousDemocrats SALUTES our fightin' Dems! First Up: Minority Sen. Leader Hary Reid
PROPS for Senator Reid! Pres. Bush BLASTS Reid for "Obstructing" immigration "reform". YOU GO, HARRY!
Give 'em Hell, and furthermore, GO ON THE OFFENSIVE, and DEMAND EQUAL TIME from the LIARS at "Fox news" who CLAIM to be "fair and balanced"!
Tonight Fox "news" showed their inherent BIAS, by repeatedly broadcasting President Bush's contention that the Democrats, and specifically Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid, (was) were "OBSTRUCTING" an "immigration reform bill."
Of course, as with everything else coming from the Bush administration, (and the mouth of the "leaker" president), the "REFORM" desired by President Bush in immigration would be a MASSIVE GIFT TO CORPORATE AMERICA: the "inviting" of foreign labor as "guest workers," WITHOUT HAVING TO PAY THEM AMERICAN WAGES, up to an possibly including provisions to 'INDENTURE' those workers to America's large corporations, thereby making them HOSTAGES to their jobs, in effect company slaves.
BRAVO! To Senator Reid for leading the "OBSTRUCTION" to YET ANOTHER COLD, CRUEL, and CALLOUS policy/agenda of the "leaker" president.
The only real problem is highlighted over there at Fox "news": Fox REPEATEDLY BROADCASTS President's Bush's sneer that Democrats are "OBSTRUCTING" his "reform," yet "FAIR AND BALANCED" Fox DOES NOT ALLOW SO MUCH as ONE Democratic sound-bite to make the airwaves.
Why? Because, like the Bush White House the Fox editors, writers, and publishers are INVETERATE and CHRONIC LIARS.
And what is with the murderous pooh-bahs of Mr. Rupert Murdoch's FOX bandying around the charge that Democrats and those who oppose the Bush admin. cruel, cold, callous, and incompetent agenda are "TRAITORS"???
Mr. Murdoch is making BILLIONS helping the Chinese government propagate COMMUNIST PARTY PROPAGANDA in China, otherwise known as... Fox "NEWS" in that country!
Americans who listen to Rush Limbaugh and FOX news are truly ill-informed news consumers (if not outright IDIOTS), allowing a company which makes BILLIONS propagating Chinese Communist Party Propaganda to throw around the labels of "obstructionist", "Unpatriotic", and even "TREASON" here in America.
(PS: Liar Limbaugh gets off on calling Senator Reid "Dirty Harry". Nice example of that "more BIPARTISAN, Uniter NOT Divider" Republican ethos that Mr. Bush claims credit for.)
