[Dean's World] Aziz P: warmongers arrested in Houston

[notify at powerblogs.com]

Posted by Aziz P:
warmongers arrested in Houston
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1146345852.shtml


   Representative Sheila Jackson Lee [1]was arrested yesterday outside
   the Sudanese embassy in Houston.

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

     âThe slaughter of the people of Darfur must end,â 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 â James McGovern and John
     Olver of Massachusetts, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and Jim Moran
     of Virginia â were among 11 protesters arrested on charges of
     disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, a misdemeanor subject to
     a fine.

     âWe must hold the Sudanese government accountable for the attacks
     they have supported on their own citizens in Darfur,â Olver said.

     Dozens of demonstrators carried signs, some reading âStop the
     slaughterâ and âWomen of Darfur suffer multiple gang rapes,â in
     front of the embassy Friday morning.

     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 U.S. Secret Service uniformed officers.

     The arrests were expected. Lantosâ office issued a news release
     about them in advance.

   It's not just Democrats who are pro-action in Darfur. Here is
   [2]praise for Jackson-Lee from BlogHouston.net.

   And we have yet to even begin discussing the Sudanese ties to
   terrorism. I will be posting more on this soon.

References

   1. http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou060428_ac_congressarrests.7d72153d.html
   2. http://www.bloghouston.net/item/3254