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Friday, March 31, 2006
McKinney Is An Idiot
Cynthia McKinney just had a news conference (with Danny Glover and Harry Belefonte) concerning the incident the other night when she hit a Capital police officer while she was rushing to "get to a meeting on time." She claims that this is purely a case of "inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female, black congresswoman." (uh... is there such a thing as a "male congresswoman"? -B)
So, you decide not to wear the nice pin that identifies you as a Congresscritter (after "counseling with Capital Police more than once because of this little issue), don't bother to stop when a security officer (put there to protect your rear, by the way) calls out for you to stop, and then you hit him when he stops you to find out who you are... and somehow this is a racist, sexist attack on you. Did I get this right?
CongressCritter McKinney, you do realize that there are 535 people who have those special pins, right? And, 468 (give or take) of those people get shuffled around every two years. And, each of those 535 people have who-knows-how-many people working for them. So... there are over 10,000 people who work in that building (or the office building), not to mention all of the people who are there for various hearings or just to see the building or whatever.
So... you, CongressCritter McKinney are so important that you should be recognized over 10,000 other people as you rush past without your pin or ID showing. And if The Man doesn't see you coming and bow down and worship you, then he deserves to be punched. Right?
There's only one problem with that... all of this is on video. If you make this an excessive force issue, the Capital Police will probably have to release the video to the public. There is a witness who says it happened the way the news originally reported it. Do you really want everyone (especially your constituents in Georgia) to see you acting like the megalomaniacal harpy you are?
So, you decide not to wear the nice pin that identifies you as a Congresscritter (after "counseling with Capital Police more than once because of this little issue), don't bother to stop when a security officer (put there to protect your rear, by the way) calls out for you to stop, and then you hit him when he stops you to find out who you are... and somehow this is a racist, sexist attack on you. Did I get this right?
CongressCritter McKinney, you do realize that there are 535 people who have those special pins, right? And, 468 (give or take) of those people get shuffled around every two years. And, each of those 535 people have who-knows-how-many people working for them. So... there are over 10,000 people who work in that building (or the office building), not to mention all of the people who are there for various hearings or just to see the building or whatever.
So... you, CongressCritter McKinney are so important that you should be recognized over 10,000 other people as you rush past without your pin or ID showing. And if The Man doesn't see you coming and bow down and worship you, then he deserves to be punched. Right?
There's only one problem with that... all of this is on video. If you make this an excessive force issue, the Capital Police will probably have to release the video to the public. There is a witness who says it happened the way the news originally reported it. Do you really want everyone (especially your constituents in Georgia) to see you acting like the megalomaniacal harpy you are?
