This comes from Foreign Policy:
While the news from Darfur keeps getting worse, the United States seems to be the only country in the world where the atrocities resonate and trigger some sort of response. During a rally protesting the role of Sudan’s government in front of its Embassy in DC, five members of Congress had themselves voluntarily arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, a misdemeanor subject to a fine. The corageous representatives are all Democrats: Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, James McGovern and John Olver of Massachusetts, and Jim Moran of Virginia (in the photo) and Tom Lantos of California.
How can you arrest, or even criticize, Congressman who represent the people, for protesting their own country’s inaction against genocide? Isn’t that hypocritical and asinine? What a state we have come to!
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