Watch out Obama, they may be after you next

By now everyone’s heard about the outrage committed against Georgia Representative Cynthia McKinney. I can do no better than to quote her lawyer, James W. Myart Jr.

“Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, like thousands of average Americans across this country, is, too, a victim of the excessive use of force by law enforcement officials because of how she looks and the color of her skin.”

“Ms. McKinney is just a victim of being in Congress while black.”

She’s being railroaded. As it turns out, it is not technically illegal to be in Congress while black, an least not in the House. So the Bush-Haliburton-Zionist conspiracy had to dust off some arcane legalisms about assaulting police officers to silence Ms. McKinney.

What really pisses me off is that this is going to screw things up for the rest of us (ok, for me). Sometimes when I’m running late at the airport I just blow past those annoying TSA fetishists who want to x-ray my shoes. If they give me any lip, I just deck them. Now I imagine they’re going to make that illegal, and I’ll have to wait in line with the peons.

Posted on April 1st, 2006 by pwyll
Filed under: humor, politics

4 Responses to “Watch out Obama, they may be after you next”

  1. Paco Malo, on April 2nd, 2006 at 5:47 pm Said:

    There an old rule, “Don’t get a black woman started about her hair.”

    So I won’t start.

  2. pwyll, on April 2nd, 2006 at 8:27 pm Said:

    I’m not sure what you mean. I’m on her side. I know this whole thing is just Karl Rove speaking power to truth. Free Mumia, or Manson, or whoever.

    Wait, let me rephrase that. Give me a break. If you or I had pulled that little stunt we would as likely as not been shot. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

  3. Paco Malo, on April 3rd, 2006 at 11:55 am Said:

    This is not Karl Rove speaking power to truth. Long before the World Trade Center tradgedy, those security check points were in place in the Capitol. I used them often. They were, and are, taken very seriously. And taken so for very good reason.

    If you’re not on the news every Sunday morning (i.e. very recognizable), nobody “breezes” by or around those checkpoints. And politically incorrect as it may sound, Congresswoman McKinney’s hairstyle and not unrelated arrogance is the problem here.

    Where has grace and style gone? If Senator Obama were in the same situation, he would handle it with far more class than Congresswoman McKinney has.

  4. pwyll, on April 3rd, 2006 at 6:54 pm Said:

    No doubt about that.

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