Exactly what the Dems don't need right now

[Trancendental]

Exactly what the Dems don't need right now

This lady:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia, faces possible criminal charges for a Wednesday altercation with a Capitol Police officer, one of her lawyers said Friday that the real issues were "sex, race and Ms. McKinney's progressiveness."
In a news conference featuring actor Danny Glover and singer Harry Belafonte, McKinney said she would be exonerated and that "this whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female, black congresswoman."

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Members of Congress are allowed to bypass the metal detectors and security checkpoint. They are supposed to wear a lapel pin that identifies them as lawmakers. McKinney acknowledges she wasn't wearing one when she was stopped, but concurred with Myart that police should know who she is.
"The pin is not the issue," the six-time congresswoman said. "The issue is face recognition."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/31/mckinney.police/

Sounds like someone wants special treatment. This plays right into Republican hands, it's a tacit refutation the belief that policies such as hate speech laws and affirmitive action are really about "leveling the playing field", and it comes gift wrapped with an apparently unwarranted assault against a police officer (well she could have been partially wronged, but I doubt it). God damn we need a third party, preferably some Libertarians.

 

[SpazX]

Sounds pretty dumb, but since that article sucks and has absolutely nothing about what really happened it's hard to know what this "assault" was.

It seems like if the rule is that they have to have the pin then it only makes sense that the officer would enforce that rule. If she didn't have the pin why not just go through the checkpoint?

 

[bmulligan]

Yeah, the real issue was her "progressiveness", whatever the hell that means. Now, the real issue is her stupidity and how she can disguise it as racism.

 

[Kayden]

... Well... theres another candidate for a 659th trimester abortion.

You've really got to have some balls or be mentally impaired to pull crap like that. "He didn't stop me because I was breaking the rules, he stopped me because I'm black "
What a ing waste of resources.

 

[Msut77]

Is it common practice to not wear the badge(albeit you are supposed to)?

If so then yes she has a leg to stand on her being singled out.