Rangel was first to be symbolically arrested. Now Rush will be.
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) will be arrested today in front of the Sudanese Embassy as part of an ongoing protest against what members of the Congressional Black Caucus say is genocide in the country’s Darfur region, Rush’s spokesperson confirmed yesterday....The protests are being organized by the Sudan Campaign to End Slavery and Genocide... Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said he will take some of that free publicity submit himself for arrest sometime after July 25.
Finally. I was thinking this would never happen. Now if someday American feminists started being symbolically arrested at the Soddi embassay - that would be something
| My wowser remaineth limp, though I'm sure that after they're done getting symbolically arrested and such they'll think of something substantive that'll actually help the poor souls in Darfur. |
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