Posted on 04/01/2006 6:15:28 PM PST by Brytani
Please wear the pin, Ms. McKinney
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Controversial Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney might be charged with a crime after a physical altercation with a Capitol Police officer.
But somebody needs to file multiple counts against McKinney of assault on common sense.
The Georgia Democrat long has been one of the House's more inflammatory members.
She has insinuated that the Bush administration knew about the 9/11 attacks before they were to happen, but no warning was issued nor action taken so that the Bush-backers in big business could profit from the war that ensued.
McKinney has been quoted as saying that fellow Democrat and former presidential hopeful Al Gore's “Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.” Š The Gore camp pointed out that his campaign manager was black.
And McKinney lost the 2002 Democratic primary in a controversial race that included her father's lament that his daughter might lose because “Jews have bought everybody.”
There's no doubt McKinney is a firebrand. Voters on the extreme left admire her moxie, her willingness to challenge Republicans and her utter lack of fear to say whatever she thinks, whatever the subject. Opponents on the right have labeled her the “Rep. for the loony left.”
We just ask that Ms. McKinney would make one compromise in Washington - wear her identification pin.
You see, McKinney wasn't recognized by the unnamed Capitol Police officer in part because she routinely neglects (refuses?) to wear a lapel pin that identifies her as a member of Congress. Those wearing that tag are allowed to skirt the metal detector manned by Capitol Police - there for the protection of folks like McKinney, we might add. When McKinney decided to exercise her right to bypass security without fulfilling what we believe is her obligation to wear appropriate identification, she was confronted by a cop who didn't recognize her, and the confrontation ended badly.
Amazingly, this is the fourth time during McKinney's tenure in Congress that she's gone unrecognized by authorities with negative results; the first was in 1993. One might think that the first couple of confrontations would convince McKinney that it's easier to wear the pin than to fool with the confusion and confrontation that obviously can and does happen when you don't.
There are 435 members of the House of Representatives. It's unrealistic to expect every Capitol cop to recognize every one of them on sight; hence the lapel pins.
We ask that Ms. McKinney humor the nation by wearing hers.
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She is one angry woman and an idiot. Can't understand why she cannot show a little bit of class once in a while.
"WATTCHOO TALKIN' 'BOUT WILLIS?"
Cynthia McKinney claims lots of Congressmen don't wear their pins, and I believe her
Why stop there?
Please resign from Congress, Ms. McKinney
Please leave the country, Ms. McKinney
Please take a long walk off a short pier, Ms. McKinney
Why stop there?
Please resign from Congress, Ms. McKinney
Please leave the country, Ms. McKinney
Please take a long walk off a short pier, Ms. McKinney
Didn't she say it was a question of "face recognition"?
Pinheads need no pin, according to that theory.
This is incident is just proof the Democrat Party does not believe in national security.
They don't think is really matters. They don't see a threat so they don't believe that secrurity matters if it is obeyed or not.
This is the Jimmy Carter/Kenedy/andeven Clintonian mentality.
They were wrong in saying she's got moxie, she's just plain NUTS!
The fact that she is an elected member of the United States Congress makes me shudder.
It is not fear that restrains the wise, but that same wisdom itself.
Anyway, the statement is factually wrong as she clearly does not think a damn thing, no matter her "fearless" statements.
>>Didn't she say it was a question of "face recognition"?<<
The quote I saw from her made it all about her "braids". Apparantly she's been harrased multiple times by white security officers who don't recognize her now that she's sporting three feet of vertical hair.
(Wouldn't expect anyone to recognize me with hair like that either, really)
She's dumber than she looks...
Begs the question - how many white people does she have on her staff?
"Those wearing that tag are allowed to skirt the metal detector manned by Capitol Police"
Is it just me or does this strike anyone else as a huge hole in security...
Most of the members of Congress are easily recognizable by the security staff. However, when someone enters the U.S. House looking like a halloween prank, and the state of heightened security alert, she is lucky she didn't get shot!
Probably not. The newspaper which ran the editorial is from a small town in NC. She hasn't much hope of seeing it. Maybe it would have some impact if it ran in the ACJ, but probably not.
Her agenda of race bating and hatred is so deeply ingrained that she can't be reasoned with.
She used to be my congresscritter and I constantly embarassment by her. Now I live in NC. I miss ATL but not "Cheerleader Cindy".
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