Posted on 04/03/2006 6:11:29 AM PDT by mhking
U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-4th Ga.) is expected to have something new to say about her run-in with a Capitol police officer at a news conference on Monday morning.
The incident happened last week. McKinney says she was the victim of racial profiling by Capitol police in the incident.
McKinney’s spokespersons say that she will have “something new” to say at a 10:30 a.m. news conference, at the Community Church of Christ on Cascade Road in southwest Atlanta.
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That's true.
Good point.
OK, Lord, that's it, the Bermuda Triangle, PLEASE! Say about midnight would be a good time. A moonless night. Of course Chavez would likely try and pick her up. But once he got her in the boat, he'd probably throw her back.
Based on current information who do you think is to blame for the confrontation between Rep. Cynthia McKinney and a police officer?
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Rep. McKinney 32 100%
Police Officer 0 0%
Don't Know 0 0%
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Which should always be accompanied with a donor list or two:
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/290
http://www.newsmeat.com/campaign_contributions_to_politicians/donor_list.php?candidate_id=H2GA11016
I still think we ought to send the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS umpteen thousand even photocopied "button" wordings for
"The Cynthia McKinney Historical Congressional ID Button Collection"
After the first dozen or 2, they'd have to set up such a collection. It would be a historical hysterical phenomena and they'd have to collect it, chronicle it and catalogue it. LOL. Then it would be an embarrassing story we could make a lot of noise about.
Is it definite that there is a video? I didn't have a chance to follow this over the weekend, and last I saw it wasn't clear to me that definitely there was video. I hope it's been confirmed that there is a tape.
Her district is problaby the only major urban, welfare getto in all of the state of Georgia.
Don't blame the rest of Georgia for this woman's insanity. We Georgians have thrown this woman out of office in the primaries before, but she keeps coming back.
A video seems like common sense because it would be a security measure.
Yep. McKinney says not one word about the incident herself. Surrounds herself with people who will whip up the racial profiling frenzy for her. Clearly she's under attorney's orders.
As of last week, those even more far left than Kos got a little upset... I need verification on this:
March 31, 2006 -- For all those on the right-wing and the neo-con press like the fatally-flawed neo-con Atlanta Journal-Constitution who are reporting that Georgia Democratic Representative Cynthia McKinney will be arrested next week for an altercation with a Capitol Hill cop, unless the US Constitution has been suspended, McKinney cannot be arrested. The immunity clause -- Article 1, Section 6, of the U.S. Constitution -- protects members of Congress from harassment by law enforcement as they travel to and from Congress in the conduct of the business of either legislative chamber. Although the language is arcane, it appears the Capitol Hill cop was the first to breach the peace as a result of his incompetence in failing to properly identify a member of Congress. Most of these cops just stand around all day, the least they can do is study the provided photographs and learn the names of the members. Every lobbyist and journalist worth a salt in Washington is capable of no less. Hey, main stream media, for once, could you please get it right?
Section 6. Clause 1. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
In 1998, 84 Representatives and Senators were released after being stopped by police for driving while intoxicated, clear breaches of peace and felonies. All the members claimed congressional immunity. Congressional immunity is so well protected that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is not even permitted to inspect congressional buildings or offices for workplace hazards.
Note: with the Ford sentencing and the physical abuse of McKinney, is there any doubt that the GOP has been in charge of Washington for so long now, the days of Jim Crow have now re-emerged in the nation's capital? There's a disturbing smell in this town these days -- one of freshly laundered white sheets and pillow cases.
A reader who periodically visits this site as well as Democratic Underground inquired as to why we don't link to them. Based on the anti-McKinney comments on that site today, I will not link to any site that promotes the comments of Chauncey Gardner-like, TV-watching, lily-white sub-development residents, and unemployed and uninformed nitwits who constantly carp about those who are firmly committed to the left -- Cynthia McKinney, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, George Galloway, Thabo Mbeki, and Mayor Ken Livingstone. On the other hand, anyone who criticizes Israeli expansionists and their AIPAC/ADL allies is roundly locked out of the discussions.
As far as Democratic Underground is concerned, it's merely a question of "mind over matter." I don't mind them and they don't matter.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
Someone has to direct me to a photoshop teaching site... these opportunities are too good to miss.
Funny she didn't mention the baby in the dumpster... not important I guess.
Duh... shows where my mind goes.
Rush will have a field day on this later.
Chavez and McKinney together. That's a funny thought. Visual of them fighting over a microphone.
ROFLMAO
Unfortunately I live in this crazy woman's district, but certainly not in the ghetto. There are parts of DeKalb county that are quite nice with very good schools and wonderful neighborhoods and middle-class black areas.
The state Democratic party used every dirty trick up their sleeve to get this moonbat back into office by luring Denise Majette into thinking she could make a run for the U.S. Senate and she was stupid enough to take them up on it. Then they got a former Atlanta city council woman who was popular with the gay/lesbian crowd (because she is one) to run against McKinney in the primary with a few other candidates to split the vote enough to where McKinney could take advantage of Georgia law and barely squeeze by, and the strategy worked..but barely.
This year there is a black businessman who is going to make it a close run in the primary, and since it looks like our Republican-led state houses are going to be safe this election there will be plenty of cross-over voters (or racists as Ms. McKinney has called us) in the primary to send her back into her hole for at least another 2 years.
I am so embarrassed that this crazy buffoon is my representative.
So what happened? Did she have a press conference? Did I miss something good again?
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