Rugh Ro Arrests of Congress people

[lonestarnot]

Congress members arrested at Darfur protest
Updated 4/28/2006 1:10 PM ET E-mail | Save | Print | Subscribe to stories like this


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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, is led away in handcuffs after being arrested outside the embassy of Sudan. She joined other congressmen and protesters in a demonstration calling on the Sudanese government to accept a U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur and allow humanitarian relief organizations full access to the area.




WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.

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.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-04-28-democratsarrested_x.htm?csp=34

[lonestarnot]

1. kick

[northofdenali]

2. They'll be OK - the Raging Grannies were just acquitted

for blocking the entrance to a recruiting station in New York - great article in the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/nyregion/27cnd-grand.html?ex=1146888000&en=d3bcd4e302681df2&ei=5070&emc=eta1

I like congresscitters who get involved and aren't afraid to show it. God knows, Darfur needs the help.

K&R