Don't you know who I am? I don't need no stingin' pin.
Posted on 04/05/2006 10:58:52 AM PDT by finnman69
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U. S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said Wednesday that Rep. Cynthia McKinney turned an officer's failure to recognize her into a criminal matter when she failed to stop at his request, and then struck him.
"He reached out and grabbed her and she turned around and hit him," Gainer said on CNN. "Even the high and the haughty should be able to stop and say, 'I'm a congressman' and then everybody moves on."
"This is not about personality," added House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois. "It's not about racial profiling. It's about making this place safer."
For her part, McKinney wasn't backing down from the argument. She charged anew that racism is behind what she said is a pattern of difficulty in clearing Hill security checkpoints.
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Way to go Mckinney!
If she'd wear the d*mn pin!
She'll come out of this just fine. The cop will be destroyed. That's life in PC America.
I LOVE Cynthia McKinney. She is worth 10 points in the polls for the Republicans, single-handedly!
"I don't need no stinkin' pin! I look like Don King! Everybody needs to know what I look like! Look, look! I'm important!!!"
It IS about racism, McKinney's racism.
DU poster think she's the best member of congress there is. They're doomed.
I think you're right.
There are 435 members of the house and 100 members of the senate, and these security officers are suppose to have all 535 faces committed to memory according to Cindy?
Even if it is short-lived this is a great moment of respite for the Republicans. McKinney, trying to save her skin, will make Democrats appear to be playing cheap racial politics. Even Pelosi won't touch her with a 10 foot pole.
The great thing about this is that Chief Gainer has already resigned over another incident. With his departure pending he doesn't need to sugarcoat this McKinney Ass Clown nonsense to save his job. (:^D)
No, just hers. She's special.
No, of course not.
She only gives a crap about them kow-towing to her! To hell with all them whities!
"Even the high and the haughty should be able to stop and say, 'I'm a congressman' and then everybody moves on."
Way to go, Chief Gainer!
The media seems to think this is about agreeing on a suitable level of annoyance,
for a person of power to cuff a uniformed policeman.
Don't you know who I am? I don't need no stingin' pin.
Keep shoveling, Cynthia...keep at it!
Tom DeLay is off the front page and Cinthia is on it. You go girl!
McKinney lives by these words.
"There aint no sense in being one, if you cant act like one."
Hey now, it was just DeKalb county that voted her in! Don't lump the rest of us in there with her LOL....
It's interesting that all the 'rats are jumping ship on her.
Kudo's to Soledad O'Brian for not letting McKinney control the interview or push her around.
Frankly anyone who looks as deranged as McKinney should be stopped period.
That's her argument. I just don't understand it. There's over 500 Members of Congress and there's elections every 2 years. To expect the police to know them all is WAY beyond a fair expectation. And I would think it would slow up getting people through if they had to study every face that went through to determine if each one was one of the 535. She compared the duties of the police to the high school pages who must memorize each MC. They are there for an education--that's a completely different issue altogether. One thing, though, I agree with Ms. McKinney. They do not have the best security system there, as she has effectively exposed. Everyone should go through metal detectors.
I haven't checked, but I can imagine that the DU crowd has already decided that Karl Rove told the officer to confront her knowing that she would make an issue out of it and result in pushing the DeLay issue off of the front page.
I'd look twice at this coming into the building:
But I might remember that this woman is in Congress:
I was looking at DU the other day and they were torn.
They love nutty Cynthia's politics, because she is the only one giving a voice to strange 9/11 conspiracy theories. But she is taking attention away from Tom Delay! And also, the more rational among them are a little uncomfortaable with her "Don't you know who I am" Attitude.
I won't point out to them John Kerry used to cut in line at the corner store with the same words all the time.
In another security incident involving the Capital Police today, this former Presidential candidate and Vietnam War Hero, has claimed that he was assaulted by a Capital Police Officer and inappropriately touched because he is a black female Senator. When asked to elaborate Senator John F. Kerry said, "Why should that bitch get all the ink? I can change my hairstyle too. Do you know I served in Vietnam?"
The problem for the Dems is, as others have mentioned, this doesn't play well in a post 9/11 world. Beat up on a cop who is just doing his job. The people in her district don't care, but the Republicans will use antics like hers to scare the he!! out of voters.
Elect them, you get her. (My smarmy sound bite for the day.)
Pattern? So that explains her four (at least) other run-ins with Capitol Hill security.
Stop "faulting" and start "prosecuting". Rhetoric bores me.
Jihad Cindy: All hair, no brains.
Does anyone know if they are going to arrest her?
This is great fun to gossip about. It's a shame nothing will happen to her. Imagine if tom DeLay assaulted a cop.
LOL!
I'm channelling Congresswoman McKinney:
That pin is a symbol of white repression. Hitler made the Jews wear yellow stars, but nobody is going to make me wear the white man's pin! How about we make all those white Congressmen wear Kente cloths, how would they like that? etc, etc...
Haha, I had Kerry behind my friend and I at a 7-11 on the Cape years ago. He didn't cut in front of me but he was huffing and puffing and then pulled a "Do you know who I am?" Because apparently we were taking to long at the counter.
Actually, some of us Gwinnettians are/were part of her district...and voted her out! This is Denise Majette's fault for being such a bonehead and trying to win a Senate seat. But to repeat earlier posts, McKinney is a GREAT democrat. In fact, she is the prototype (ask any DUmmie or Kos-head) I hope the '06 and '08 elections are that clear. McKinney's America...or ANYONE else's. You decide.
She'll come out of this just fine. The cop will be destroyed. That's life in PC America.
Obviously a resolution needs to be passed that Cynthia Mckinney not only must be allowed access at all times without challenge but that the police must all bow to her each time she enters and leaves.
Make no mistake Mckinney would then complain that the bows are either not low enough or that the bows are being done without sincerity.
I say give her her own entrance directly to a damaged elevator whose doors won't open, once closed.
So with McKinney's seniority, what plum Committee assignments would she land if the Donks took control in the House? What responsible positions of authority would she hold?
Mmmmmmm! That's gooooood smarmy sound-bite!
I don't think they can arrest her, it might be unconstitutional. Really, I think it says that no congressman can be arrested unless it is a felony.
No no no! Time to update the picture! Can't you keep up with her hair styles? hehehehehehe just kidding my FRiend.
Why capital police should be commended!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/shooting/archives2.htm
I know, I know, but Jihad Cindy's new "look" is so bizarre ( to my tastes, anyway ) that I thought an older, more attractive picture made the point better.
I just find it astonishing that the MSM ( who never tire of admonishing us about the Evils of Racism ) uncritically report the ravings of this bigot.
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