Today I'm happy to report some actual inspring and uplifting news from D.C. however. 5 lawmakers were arrested this afternoon outside the Sudan embassy in Washington, D.C., for crossing the police line during a demontration against the genocide in Darfur.
"You have to find a way to dramatize an issue," Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia) said while being led away by police, after his arrest along with Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts), Donna Edwards (D-Maryland), Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota), and Lynn Woolsey (D-California). The congressmen (and women) were cuffed and led away after repeated warnings from police to back away.
While this may be construed as a political move by Republicans, the bottom line is it was a bold stand against a gross disregard for human rights that, no matter what the motive behind it, will certainly draw attention to a righteous and imortant cause. It is not every day that a high profile politician would put himself in this position and go through the bullshit of being arrested (been there) for a truly worthy cause.
John Lewis, 'this Bud's for you.'
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