Washington D.C. has become the land of nicely dressed cowards and crooks.

[shance]

I am so ashamed of the blatant classism in this country.

Cindy Sheehan gets arrested for telling the truth?

[The Magistrate]

1. Become, Ma'am?

Truely there is noithing new under the sun....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[mcscajun]

2. Absolutely nothing new about it...

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."

"The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two."

"Right here in this heart and home and fountain-head of law--in this great factory where are forged those rules that create good order and compel virtue and honesty in the other communities of the land, rascality achieves its highest perfection. Here rewards are conferred for conniving at dishonesty, but never for exposing it...I meet a man in the Avenue, sometimes, ...a clerk of a high grade in one of the Departments; but he was a stranger and had no rules of action for his guidance except some effete maxims of integrity picked up in Sunday school that snare to the feet of the unsophisticated!--and some unpractical moral wisdom instilled into him by his mother, who meant well, poor soul, but whose teachings were morally bound to train up her boy for the poor-house."

-- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

[Garbo 2004]

3. Sheehan got arrested for an act of civil disobedience. That's rather the

point of acts of civil disobedience.

[mattclearing]

4. FYI, DC voted 90% to 9% for Kerry.

So think twice before you knock Washington, D.C.