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Dem kicked off House floor for 'hoodie' in Trayvon Martin protest
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Posted on 03/28/2012 8:26:53 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Dem kicked off House floor for 'hoodie' in Trayvon Martin protest By Pete Kasperowicz - 03/28/12 10:45 AM ET

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) on Wednesday morning was asked to leave the House floor after removing his suit jacket to reveal a "hoodie," then putting the hood of his sweatshirt on his head to protest the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida.

"Racial profiling has to stop," Rush said. "Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum." Rush also put on sunglasses.

Rush quoted the Bible while presiding officer Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) repeatedly interrupted him, then asked the Sergeant at Arms to enforce the House prohibition on hats in the chamber.

"The chair must remind members that clause 5 of rule 17 prohibits the wearing of hats in the chamber when the House is in session," Harper said after Rush left. "The chair finds that the donning of a hood is not consistent with this rule. Members need to remove their hoods or leave the floor."

Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus have taken to the House floor for the last week to call for the arrest of George Zimmerman, who allegedly shot Martin in Florida in April. While these calls have escalated, Florida police have said some witnesses saw Martin beat Zimmerman before the shooting, and Zimmerman's lawyers have said he acted in self-defense.


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To: Sub-Driver
more guys with hoodies:

I am glad the legislator is showing solidarity with the hoodlum who was bashing in the head of the naighborhood wach captain, rather then the law abiding citizen

21 posted on 03/28/2012 8:49:18 AM PDT by Mr. K (If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in PALIN)
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To: sauropod

There are Black children being killed in New Orleans every day by Blacks,where is the outrage? A two year old girl was just shot to death, where is the outrage? I thought this was America where you were innocent until proven guilty.


22 posted on 03/28/2012 8:49:47 AM PDT by onthegulf
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To: Sub-Driver

“Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum.”

It does when it is breaking the rules.


23 posted on 03/28/2012 8:52:15 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: NRA1995
Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus have taken to the House floor for the last week to call for the arrest of George Zimmerman

That right there is frightening. What if next time they ask for your arrest, or mine, for something they think we should be arrested for? A Congressman is demanding a private citizen's arrest.

This is out of control.
24 posted on 03/28/2012 8:53:39 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: Sub-Driver

Hate to burst the liberals’ and racist’s bubble, but they are being played by a disingenuous media that has created a non-controversy.

At the risk of being flamed or banned, based on the facts I have been able to discover about this story, Zimmerman acted in self-defense and Trayvon was the aggressor who ended up getting what he deserved. Sorry to speak ill of the dead and I’m sorry that Trayvon got killed but, the evidence all supports Zimmerman’s side of the story.

IMO, it is inappropriate for elected representatives in the Congress to get sucked into these media-generated messes.


25 posted on 03/28/2012 8:54:09 AM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: midnightcat

Yes, it’s posted elsewhere on here.


26 posted on 03/28/2012 8:55:02 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'll cling to my religion and guns till they're pried from my cold dead fingers!)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
And the SCOTUS is about to flush the Constitution.

Neither you nor anyone else knows that to be certain. The fat lady will sing in June and we can cross these bridges then, if need be.

For now, however, we are in what we called in the Navy, "standby to standby" mode.

27 posted on 03/28/2012 8:58:54 AM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

What’s his point? Does he want to make it a “thought crime” to be suspecious of kids who dress like thugs? Is he a lobbyist for hoodie makers? Or maybe he is just an idiot?


28 posted on 03/28/2012 8:59:03 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
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To: Sub-Driver

Wouldn’t do for me to be a congressman. I’d be censured daily and probably jailed for knocking the crap out of little snots like Weiner and Kennedy. I’m sure there are some who took their place.

I’d also get in trouble for wearing a “Zimmerman - NOT GUILTY!” t-shirt.

We definitely need some white “leaders” standing up to these racists attacks.


29 posted on 03/28/2012 8:59:16 AM PDT by Terry Mross ( "It happened. And we let it happen. - Peter Griffin, Family Guy)
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To: DustyMoment
"At the risk of being flamed or banned..."

Why should you fear being banned when we have FReepers who are making inflammatory and scandalous $hit up out of whole cloth?

A FReeper posted as "fact" that the Sanford PD officers and Zimmerman were "laughing and smoking" after the shoot and refuses to either provide a source link or to retract the statement.

An out and out, deliberate lie, yet he's still posting.

I don't think you have anything to worry about.

30 posted on 03/28/2012 9:00:19 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political party's in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: BO Stinkss

The answer to all your questions is yes he does and is. And that is just for starters


31 posted on 03/28/2012 9:01:32 AM PDT by sport
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To: Sub-Driver
Could be Obama's son ...


32 posted on 03/28/2012 9:02:12 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Sub-Driver
"Racial profiling has to stop," Rush said. "Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum."

A hoodie is a part of a cultural profile, you racist idiot.

33 posted on 03/28/2012 9:05:03 AM PDT by Talisker (He who commands, must obey.)
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To: Sub-Driver; All

The black race baiters on the Hill have got to get their ineffectual licks in before Mr. Zimmerman is arrested. Taken before a grand jury and maybe, charged with discharging a firearm in a residential area.


34 posted on 03/28/2012 9:05:44 AM PDT by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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To: maggief

What we need is a “Congressman Zimmerman”.


35 posted on 03/28/2012 9:07:44 AM PDT by Terry Mross ( "It happened. And we let it happen. - Peter Griffin, Family Guy)
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To: Sub-Driver

so the black caucus is wanting Zimmermann arrested, er why, we have our laws here in FL and Zimmermann stood his ground when getting beaten, maybe they need to understand our laws first.

Now wearing a hoodie on the house floor, for crying out loud this is congress, an elected official not some play ground where street rules go, .

What an immature thing to do, next we’;ll have another black rep trying to outdo this child.

Lets do this, we;ll jump on one of them, beat them to a pulp, if we get shot and die then we’;ll get white hate groups coming in and demanding that the black guy be arressted , also kidnapped and given street justice.
Well have a white racist in the DOJ and lets see how they like it.

Now black caucus how many blacks died in the last week by blacks or how many whites died from blacks?


36 posted on 03/28/2012 9:10:02 AM PDT by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)
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To: Sub-Driver
more guys with hoodies:

I am glad the legislator is showing solidarity with the hoodlum who was bashing in the head of the neighborhood wach captain, rather then the law abiding citizen

37 posted on 03/28/2012 9:10:26 AM PDT by Mr. K (If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in PALIN)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It is not gang violence that kills so many Black young folks. It is the breakdown of the Black family unit, ensuing drug use, out of wedlock births, multiple abortions, poor education caused by greedy/thug teacher unions and poor community leadership, greedy & power hungry failed Black Leadership, from Obama on down, and worst of all.....the total failure to the Black community to properly identify the problem, which by the way, is not racism, but a failure of Black society to effectively assimilate into the diverse American society. A look in the mirror and some blunt truthful acceptance of reality, would be a true first step into addressing the problem.

Failure to do that, and continuing support of current Black leaders like Obama, etc. will continue to support life on The Obama Plantation of economic slavery and endless poverty and despair fro masses of American Blacks. Yes, the truth hurts, but....the truth is the truth!!! Actually, when one objectively studies this situation, it is only the Blacks that have not successfully woven themselves into the general American society. Hispanics, Orientals, Indians, Arabs, Jews, Whites have all done just fine when compared against Blacks.


38 posted on 03/28/2012 9:11:22 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (My only objective is defeat and destroy POTUS Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bobby Rush is a race-baiting embarassment to the state of Illinois, far more so than idiot Blago ever was.


39 posted on 03/28/2012 9:13:25 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: sauropod

“He shames his office.”

Shame is largely responsible for ensuring social decency, at least as it was formerly known. To suffer shame requires common values and a sense of communal belonging.

And therein lies the essence of our Dem overlords: they are shameless; they cannot be shamed. Their allies in the press condone and reinforce the shamelessness. Think of the daily affronts to decency recounted here at FR....

Equally important: liberals use shame against conservatives (or anyone with traditional values) because it works. Look at what it has done to the field of possible conservative candidates. Who’d want to run when the media playing field is so overwhelmingly directed at shaming conservatives?!


40 posted on 03/28/2012 9:19:01 AM PDT by mj81
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