FUCK YEAH!! FIVE Congressmen arrested for protesting at Sudan Embassy

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0428-09.htm

Published on Friday, April 28, 2006 by the Associated Press
Congressmen Olver, McGovern Arrested at Darfur Protest
by Andrew Miga

WASHINGTON - Five Congress members were willingly arrested and led away from the Sudanese Embassy in plastic handcuffs Friday in protest of the Sudanese government's role in atrocities in the Darfur region.

"The slaughter of the people of Darfur must end," Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., a Holocaust survivor who founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, said from the embassy steps before his arrest.


Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., center, is escorted to a police vehicle by members of the Uniform Division of the Secret Services after his arrest during a demonstration outside the Sudanese Embassy (AP)

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 misdemeanor subject to a fine.

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1. I Read That Earlier During Lunch. I Am Damn Proud Of All Of Them.

There are hundreds of other house members that need to learn from that example and show the same balls. And not just for Darfur, but over a large array of issues.

As far as the five go, I think what they did is awesome.

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2. I already think of them all as excellent human beings

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3. Huh?

I mean, glad to hear it. So did I. Just not sure I understand why it was necessary to state in reply to my post is all.

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4. kind of a ditto