McGovern, other lawmakers arrested at Darfur protest

Great--McGovern's Congressional district is floating in an economic cesspool and he has the time to worry about Darfur. Hey Jim--come home and do some heavy lifting or resign and move there!

"Every life is of equal value" - but not unborn life, those apparently are of lesser value. Childish casuistry James.

Jim McGovern is the best! If only we had 435 members of the US House with moral clarity and courage. Thank you, Jim!

Good, only 434 left to go!!

It's interesting that these congress members were arrested for abiding with the constitutions right to assemble and protest. Good job fro standing up for what is right. You don'r hear much about that from Congress.

Umm, why isn't he demonstrating IN CONGRESS!? He is a part of the government, and a member of the majority party. What pressure is he putting at the congressional level to help in Darfur?

No please let me clarify. Only 434 left to put "In" jail. Thanks.

"Every life is of equal value" - but not unborn life, those apparently are of lesser value.

You want to turn this on its head? Do you mourn miscarriages....the thousands of embryos that naturally self-destruct simply due to being unviable? If at fertilization these cells are genetically incapable of life then they will simply die; if we were to consider them all to be human beings then chromosomal disjunction and whatever other genetic problems would be an epidemic. It's simply not practical nor reasonable to consider an embryo to be on the same level as a fully developed child. Regardless, if you want to discuss abortion then this is not the proper place, nor is it professional to dig it out in order to judge a person's political views in other areas.

I was there protesting 3 years ago. The only thing that has changed is the violence has escalated. It's nice to see Politicians actually standing up for humanitarian issues. Go Jim!

This gets more coverage than the Tea Parties?

the only problem here is that he remains my Congressman, given the completely screwed up Gerrymandering state that I live in...

Genocide in Darfur = protest. But genocide in Iraq by Saddam to hundreds of thousands of innocent people? Who cares, right Jim? The war was a "mistake". What's the difference, Jim?

Since George W. Bush and Dick Cheney pretended to win an election by stopping a vote count in Florida, we have been living in an insane world. Airplanes crashing into New York skyscrapers. Ordinary citizens afraid to open their mail for fear of Andromeda strains. Torture authorized by the U.S. Attorney General. Collapse of the banking system. Thankfully, we have a new President with his head screwed on, and brave people in Congress who understand the message of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. As John Donne said 450 years ago, "No man is an island."

In an age where protest is so often marred by violence, it is great to see individuals protesting via civil disobedience. Representative McGovern and the other members of congress have not only demonstrated their commitment to this issue but exemplified true democratic protest. Thank you.

While I subscribe to the idea that a Reps' main responsibility lies here at home, global issues are put on their plate, and they do have a responsibility to be educated, form an opinion and act on such issues. I applaud Jim for taking a stand like this on his own time...Moved Out...What a strange and inappropriate context to perpetuate a Pro-Life agenda

Excellent! Way to go. Also glad to see Ms. Woolsey was in there as well. She is a humanitarian as well.

Wow, what courage, the courage to complain. What next a letter writing campaign.
Typical do-nothing Liberal

"It's interesting that these congress members were arrested for abiding with the constitutions right to assemble and protest." That's NONSENSE, E. Williams. They deliberately moved their protest into a restricted area with the intention of being arrested. These worthless politicians should be coming up with a plan and introducing it to the Congress of the most powerful country in the world instead of participating in meaninless grandstanding. Unfortunately, just like other democrats, they are all about show with nothing of substance.

why do these liberal Dems beg for action against 'crimes of humanity' in the Sudan, and yet similar crimes in more developed nations that have gotten our attention and actions are considered by the same to be American 'acts of agresssion', 'interference' and/or 'bullyism'?

It seems to me the Democrats want to be the ones picking the fights, but beyond that, there is no difference and it is just more of the same old liberal hypocrisy that has become so tiring. The only good thing about this story would be hearing this buffoon got 10 years in prison.

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I dare you to go to Darfur and try that protest crap.

For all of you applauding McGovern getting arrested, you must be so proud. He was asked by the police to move to the other side of the police line and refused; what a role model. On one hand I am glad he is standing up for people in another country, but helps his party take more from us in his own country. McGovern is a joke and it shows how much he cares when he gets arrested for a Dafur protest, but not for the Tea Party movement that actually helps the people he works for. McGovern and the rest of these representatives need to be voted out, but that won't happen due to all the Kool-aide the people that read this are drinking and not actually seeing what is going on behind the scences to this country...anymore left and we will fall dwon.

Chanting and protesting will do nothing to stop this atrocities! You liberals dont understand that in order to stop these savages from commiting savage acts you must be willing to get more savage and kill a lot more of them than they are willing to bear. These people rape women and hack them to pieces with machetes. These people only understand a force greater than themselves. These silly protests have been going on for years and people are still dying. YOU ARE ACCOMPLISHING NOTHING MR McGOVERN!!! If want to do something useful over there; pick up a gun and defend the helpless, or fund an army of mercenaries to get the job done, but stop making people believe that you are for human rights when you do nothing but posture.

Tieless, beltless morons stand on the 'wrong' side of the police tape every three years and STILL there is genocide in Darfur???

Maybe we need to add a bumper-sticker campaign to our arsenal... That'll show 'em!

Anton-Scott Goustin - Since George W. Bush and Dick Cheney pretended to win an election by stopping a vote count in Florida, we have been living in an insane world.
Apparently you want a United States that only enforces the laws you like and meet you personal agenda. The US Supreme Court was only following the special election rules for a presidential elections, setup when this country was founded, when they ruled that Florida was attempting to change voting ballot rules AFTER the election, which the US Constitution does not allow.

Perhaps he should be doing his job working for this state and all its' problems and let someone else get arrested.

it makes no sense - THE SAME IDIOTS THAT WANT US OUT OF IRAQ WANT US TO GO INTO DARFUR ------ TO FIGHT MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISTS ----- WAKE UP MCGOVERN - THEY ARE ONE IN THE SAME - oh wait - this is a liberal cause ....so its ok - what are these people smoking ?

1. His active of civil disobedence got press for Dafur, that is why he did it
2. The Tea Party movement is a joke, no one cares, plus you polute the waters with Tea BAGS morons.
3. McGovern can multi task tools, he can protest and help his constituance at the same time. I bet you can't even walk and chew gum.

I think it's less of the fact that genocide happened in Iraq, just as its happening Darfur and more of the fact that we attempted to save the Iraqis instead of the people in Darfur. "Liberals" are upset that it seems like if only oil could be found in Africa, maybe the government would care more. And that should never be a standard for trying to stop something so horrible from happening.

Congratuations on your ability to stand up for those that the owrld discards and who suffer so much much. Please sit back look at your courageous actions today and rethink your position on the sanctity of all human life,born and unborn.

Of all the commentors here, tictoc02026 said it best. Standing around on the wrong side of a police barrier, being tie-wrapped and taken to a local jail, processed and released for a measly $100 accomplishes nothing more than playing to the cameras. In order to stop a war against innocent people, a larger war against its perpetrators is necessary. McGovern and his lackeys along with their voters would be the first of the anti-war clowns to protest against any such action.

Representative McGovern, I'm not your constituent, but on reading this I feel very proud that you represent my state in Washington. Kudos to you for demonstrating.

To all of you complaining about him getting arrested for protesting, you do realize he tried to get arrested, right. He said he took off his tie and belt, this was planned.
Repeat after me..............Do you want fies with that...................Speak directly into the clowns Mouth.............................Paper or plastic.
Think people

"2. The Tea Party movement is a joke, no one cares, plus you polute the waters with Tea BAGS morons."

Polling data proves you wrong. A majority of Americans approve of the Tea parties. More to come.

Back to the point -
So, is Obama going to do something about this, or what?

Obamabots?

I bet McGovern WASN'T the only person in a $1,000 pin-striped suit arrested that day (dilettante liberals)!
Facts on Sudan:
Population: 31 million - Life expectancy: 56 years - Average annual income: $330 - 9 million people live on less than $1 a day - 1 in 9 children die before their 5th birthday - 43% of adults are illiterate -$ 2 is enough to feed a family of six for one day - $38 provides a family with a water container, plastic sheeting, cooking utensils and 2 blankets - $380 provides 15 families with sanitation facilities - $6,450 provides safe drinking water for 2,400 people

How many $1,000 suits do you own Jim? How about skipping a photo-op "protest"; buy one less suit and contribute the money to help the people with food or water or cooking utensils or bedding or sanitation facilities or even learning how to read or write?

Nah, that won't help you get re-elected now will it?

I'm glad Rep. McGovern did this. Will it solve the problem? No, but given the scale of the problem in Darfur the world has been way too quiet on the matter and this is a small, but meaningful gesture that gets folks - from every vantage point - to remember that Darfur is still a mess and that something needs to be done.
I don't think any of the five Representatives involved see their act as heroic, but merely that it was the least they could do. Nor do I expect it to be their only act on this issue.

tictoc02026 is correct. The only way to stop the genocide is to pick up a gun and use more force than they do. But.......the moonbats don't want to hear that so the people of Darfur will continue to die while the moonbats drive their hybreds and live off their trust funds. HEY LOOK AT ME.....I'M PROTESTEING........ARREST ME.....CAN I HAVE A DRINK NOW?.......THESE CUFFS ARE TOO TIGHT.........CAN I GO HOME NOW?

What was the public safety justification for creating a police line in the first place? These "Free Speech" zones are more disturbing to freedom loving Americans than the atrocities being committed on the other side of the planet in other people's names.

Thanos, I dont think I will ever get back the 45 seconds it took for me to read you scribbling ...

Tea pollutes water? Thats a good one, what's next, snow makes the ground cold?

1. His active of civil disobedence got press for Dafur, that is why he did it
== Yeah.. you fools have been doing that for years and it has gotten you nothing. People are still being killed and you continue to protest. Yeah WICKED EFFECTIVE..
2. The Tea Party movement is a joke, no one cares, plus you polute the waters with Tea BAGS morons.
== The effect is yet to be seen. But a million people did come out, and it is still early.
3. McGovern can multi task tools, he can protest and help his constituance at the same time. I bet you can't even walk and chew gum.
== He is grandstanding for election time. He has not done anything of any probative value to effect the outcome of the atrocities. And dont cite some weak tea sucking UN comdemnation because the Sudanese wipe their hineys with that stuff.

McGovern should also be protesting our ally, Israel, in its apartheid of the Palestinian people. Then he would really earn my respect instaed of just working on "safe" liberal causes.

Can anyone here explain Darfur and why we should care?
I haven't seen it in the news forever.

St. Francis has come again and his name is Jim McGovern, God Bless you Jim keep fighting for the underdog and the under privileged!

From the movie Animal House:

Otter: Dead! .... No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.

Bluto (McGovern): We're just the guys to do it.

What a Dolt. Who elected this nimrod? Guess he has plenty of time to worry about the third world.

"Do you mourn miscarriages....the thousands of embryos that naturally self-destruct simply due to being unviable?"

Jacob,

This may come as a surprise to you, but it is common for women who miscarry to mourn the loss of their baby. As someone who has gone through it, I can tell you that it is not as trivial as losing a clump of cells. I have lost a number of people who were close to me over the years, but I never grieved as hard as I did for my baby.

Women who have miscarried often suffer in silence, specifically because of attitudes like yours. Because many people do not see a developing human as having value, they do not understand how profound our grief can be. I never knew if I would be met with sympathy or indifference when I shared the news of my miscarriage with others. It is isolating , and cruel. You might want to rethink your callousness, in case this happens to someone close to you.

He should have been transferred to a jail in Havana; then he could have begged his buddy Fidel for a pardon

Darfur??? I guess he did not get the PC memo: YOU ARE ONLY SUPPOSED TO WHINE ABOUT THE GAZA STRIP!

another crook off to jail - Life year term is appropriate for the fiscal mismanagement of the country.

I'm glad he stands for something, not sure what but something. What about the kids who die everyday on the streets of our major cities because our elected leaders are concerned about the Sudan? These third world countries don't care what we think, only what they can steal from the UN.

Congressman McGovern- Please your role on the powerful rules committee to make your points. Please act like your those before you- Early, Donahue, T. O'Neil.

Wait a minute...it took you 45 seconds to read that?

NY Times article:
Published: May 16, 2006 Bush Administration proposed sanctions and a UN force to go to Darfur to stop the massacre. In the end blocked by the Chineese, (by who we are owned)Russia and Qtar. So the whole Bush is bad/didn't do anything is flat out false. He was cowed into doing something that the Left derided him for not doing for Iraq, going through the UN. This is the reason you don't go through the Pigmies at the UN, NOTHING that needs to get done will get done! The priority of the left is to help others, that's fine in this case especially I agree but when it comes to the posibility that AMERICANS lives are in danger, they would rather see many of us dead than offend people who don't give a rats tail about America, no matter how much we kiss up to them. Bush would have gone in leading the UN as the rest of the world contributes 5, 10 maybe 20 troops, and arrest the 17 named people responsible for this madness. Left needs to realize that what they think is the Proper Channels doesn't work because POLITICS get in the way. Same as when Bush called attention to Fannie and Freddie only to hit the Barney Frank wall, Politics, works both ways so we just need to get rid of Politicians.

Great job, Congressman McGovern-I am proud of you and and the other Congressional Reps. We need more like you.

I belive the forum for Representative McGovern to handle this problem is in the U.S. Congress, not as a protester outside of the Sudanese embassy. His party is in the White House, has a majority in the Senante and the House of Representatives. Show some real courage Congressman McGovern and have the U.S. military go into Sudan with guns-a-blazing! The only problem is that the Democrats are typically reluctant to use military force to resolve world problems, unless of course its in their best interest politically. Let the U.S. Military take out some more islamofacist and make this world a better place!

This is so weird, just read an article about McGovern on saturday regarding him being arrested for the same thing, and two days later hes arrested again wow

Dear Jim,

I applaud your actions of solidarity along with the other congressmen and folks of good will.
You are standing in solidarity with the poorest of the poor. Thanks for your witness, leadership and compassion for others who do not have neither voice
or political clout, namely the poor, oppressed people of Darfur.
In appreciation,

As one reads the comments from the right, you realize why they are in a dwindling minority. Thank you, congressional and other protesters, for doing the correct thing.

let's send all of these limpwristed activists to darfur where they can get beheaded as the true God intended

Krissy326,
I sympathize with your loss. I thought the same thing reading Jacob's diatribe - yes, I would mourn a miscarriage! Sorry that respect for human life is not something you can appreciate. Also, how does Jacob equate natural "self destruction" of embryos with the medical procedure of abortion. Because some embryos will naturally not survive, we should be ambivalent about proactively destroying otherwise viable ones? Not a very thought-provoking analysis. I didn't know making decisions about human life was based on practicality. I wonder if the Sudanese government makes decisions about the value of the lives of its citizens based on practicality. I also didn’t know there were rules about when and where I could raise certain arguments. I wasn’t the one who made the comment about the value of human life, Jacob, your abject failure of a congressman did that. I hate that kind of discriminatory attitude, that is why I moved out that miserable state. It’s not 1855 any more Jacob, women have the right to vote now, haven’t you heard.

Rep. McGovern and those who where elected to represent the American people and it's Constitution. America the Constitutionand Christianity is under fierce attack from enemies with in, and with out ,Scripture states, declares they that neglect their own household, are worse than infidels.

Rep. McGovern, you are needed in America,the place where your oath was given desperatley, Mr. Lindsey can explain the with much more clarity than I.
America and it's people, need your help to stop the dismantling of America.