Rep. John Lewis is one of 435 members of the House interminably frustrated by the arcane ways of the Senate. At an Occupy Atlanta protest, he encountered a process arguably worse.
A lengthy video posted online over the weekend showed what happened when the Democratic congressman tried to address an "assembly" of protesters in his home state. Instead of giving the floor to a man who is not just a longtime U.S. representative but a revered civil rights icon, the protesters employed a tangle of parliamentary procedures to ultimately prevent him from speaking.
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Ya GOTTA love it. He may have BEEN a civils rights hero, but he's just another politician now. Lying, cheating, stealing and scamming the people. He got his own medicine and there's a problem? Really? Where is it?
Those people reminded me of what Jonestown must have been like before they drank the kool aid.
8:33 PM
Yeah, quite similar except jonestown had ONE leader, they had to forfeit everything they owned to join, they were told who to marry, they were beaten and threatened, they were forced against their will to stay there, almost an exact duplicate.
Thank goodness for informed people like yourself.
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