[Dean's World] Aziz P: warmongers arrested in Houston
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Sat Apr 29 17:24:18 EDT 2006
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
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