John Conyers Paid Fine For CodePink Agitator

Sweetness & Light ^ | March 25, 2007 | N/A

[Sam Hill]

From the domestic terrorists at AfterDowningStreet.org:

[Reuters caption:] Anti war protesters during U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing discussing the firing of U.S. Attorneys and the interviewing of White House staff members on that subject on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 22, 2007.

WHY A CONGRESSMAN PAID THE FINE FOR MY ARREST IN CONGRESS

Sat, 2007-03-24 01:02

By Ann Wright, Retired US Army Reserve Colonel

What irony! I was arrested last week in a Capitol police abuse of power upon leaving a Congressional hearing on FBI abuses of our civil liberties.

I was arrested on March 20, 2007 in hallway outside the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives. As I stood to walk out of the Judiciary hearing on the FBI’s abuse of National Security letters, I vocally agreed with a committee member that the public does not trust the FBI because of those abuses and thanked the committee for holding oversight hearings on the abuses. The Justice Department Inspector General had reported to the Congress that FBI officials have illegally obtained access to bank records, telephone bills and social security numbers without tying the need for access to specific investigations

When I stood and publicly agreed with the Committee’s actions, House Judiciary Committee chair John Conyers said that I could either stop speaking and sit down, or I could leave the hearing room. Since I was walking out of the committee hearing to drive to the airport to fly to a speaking engagement at Brown University later that day, I acknowledged the chairman’s admonition and continued out the door. I was escorted the last couple of steps by the police officer assigned to the hearing room.

Outside the hearing room, the police officer was joined by a Capitol Police Captain who ordered his fellow officer to arrest me. I protested saying that Congressman Conyers had not “gaveled” my arrest but had merely told me to either sit down or leave the room. The normal Congressional protocol is that if a committee chair gavels once the visitor is removed from the hearing room. If the committee chair gavels twice the visitor is arrested.

I know the protocol well as in the past 18 months I have stood and respectfully and quickly aired my views in many committee hearings and then have sat down following my comments. In other committee hearings I have been removed after my comments but not arrested. Prior to March 22, I had been arrested only once at a committee hearing. In July, 2006, wearing a “Gitmo orange” jumpsuit during the Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing on the nomination of William Haynes, Department of Defense General Counsel who was one of the architects of the Department of Defense torture policies, I loudly and strongly told the committee that Haynes should not be confirmed to the lifelong appointment as a US Circuit Court of Appeals judge as his actions in formulating the torture policy of the Bush administration had compromised the integrity and professionalism of the US military. As I spoke, Committee chair Arlen Specter gaveled about twenty times and I was arrested.

But this time, after I was detained in the hallway, Congressman Conyers’ chief of staff joined us and told the police Captain that the Congressman did not want me arrested. The Captain ignored the pleas of the chief of staff and told the officer to handcuff me and take me to the station. The Committee chair’s chief of staff protested my arrest, I protested and others in the hallway protested, but to no avail.

Handcuffed, I was driven to the Capitol Police station. As the two hours of processing at that station ended, a member of Congressman Conyers’ staff came to the station and paid the $35 fine for my “disorderly conduct.” The police officer who received the money from the Congressman’s staff member said that was the first time in her memory that a member of Congress had paid the fine of an activist...

[Sam Hill]

In case anybody was still wondering whose side John Conyers and John Murtha are on.

[veronica]

He's pinker than Code Pink.

[VaBthang4]

A Clinton era Military Officer Chic who was forced out once the grown ups took over?

[L.N. Smithee]

For the life of me, I don't understand why nobody wants to call out the members of Congress that back the Pinkos. BTW, anyone notice Diane Watson was decked out in pink during the Plame hearings?

[Calpernia]

Radical Cyborgs, Radical Faerie Sisters of Nomenus, Radical Faeries, Radical Travel are all TRIBES of Code Pink. The tribes listings can be found on Tribe.net.

About Radical Faeries:

>>>A second wind of activism came in 1979 when Hay [Harry Hay/Stonewall Rebellion/NAMBLA] founded, with Don Kilhefner, a spiritual movement known as the Radical Faeries. This pagan-inspired group continues internationally based on the principle that the consciousness of gays differs from that of heterosexuals. Hay believed that this different way of seeing constituted the greatest contribution gays made to society, and was indeed the reason for their continued presence throughout history.<<<

From their website:

radicalfaeries.net

At the footer of their splash page in dark font on dark background:

"Radical Faeries: We are a network of satyrs, sissies, butch leather queens, ceremonial drag queens, queers, pansies, activists, revolutionaries, workers, artists, farmers, witches, pagans, sacred fools, rural and urban dwellers who see gays, lesbians and transgenders as a distinct and unique people, with our own culture, our own spirituality and our own path of Being."

>>>A second wind of activism came in 1979 when Hay [Harry Hay/Stonewall Rebellion/NAMBLA] founded, with Don Kilhefner, a spiritual movement known as the Radical Faeries. This pagan-inspired group continues internationally based on the principle that the consciousness of gays differs from that of heterosexuals. Hay believed that this different way of seeing constituted the greatest contribution gays made to society, and was indeed the reason for their continued presence throughout history.<<<

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Why was she arrested?

According to the story as reported (admittedly, by her own self), she obeyed normal Congressional protocol and exited the hearing upon the Chairman's admonition to do so, without the Chairman "gavelling" for her arrest. Exculpatory evidence for her case is provided by the fact that the Chairman's chief of staff spoke in her defense.

"Code Pink" or not -- if she obeyed Congressional protocol, why was she arrested?

Honest inquiry. I don't want to see either "Rightists" or "Leftists" arrested by the Capitol Police without cause.

[andyandval]

Fixed it!

[Sam Hill]

Ping.

[tiredoflaundry]

Check this out Mark! Maybe you can use it tonight on Hannity's show!

[Calvin Locke]

Wait a minute. He has money to pay fines for other people, yet he abuses his staff with demands for unpaid duties outside their job descriptions?

[Calpernia]

ping

[Mo1]

The normal Congressional protocol is that if a committee chair gavels once the visitor is removed from the hearing room. If the committee chair gavels twice the visitor is arrested.

Interesting info that I didn't know

As for Conyers bailing Pinky out ???

No surprise there

[Deetes]

Witch and Wanker !!!!!!!

[sageb1]

Is there another planet we could rent to them?

[sageb1]

They'll be camping outside your door next! ;)

[freema]

1. Those aren't really women.

2. Capitol Police have been humiliated as of late.

3. Nancy Pelosi had them arrested.

4. john murtha is a traitor

5. john murtha is a traitor

6. john murtha is a traitor

7. john........

[Dahoser]

Well, Sheila Jackson Lee's flag on Mars needs a bit of tending.

[Calpernia]

Radical Faeries threated Alito too:

January 31, 2006

ALITO'S CONFIRMATION

Well, it looks like the Senate voted down Kerry's proposed filibuster, so Alito will likelily be confirmed and become a jewel in the tarnished crown of King George at his Mis-Stake of the Union address today. It looks that way, but I tell you there is still hope! It did feel awfully good to phone Chuck Schumer's office and hear that he was supporting the filibuster--Hillary's line was busy. I intend to email both to thank them--there is probably a lot of pressure on them to not be viewed as a few far-left kooks. Who knows, maybe they have struck some secret deal on "The Hill" which trades Alito's confirmation for Bush's impeachment.

But until the second Alito is confirmed, there are certain unorthodox methods of getting things done outside of the legal system. We have our own secret deals and it's time to pull together and go into overdrive!



WITCHES AND RADICAL FAERIES: I know it's short notice, but see what you can do.

DC PROSTITUTES: Have your cellphone cameras ready to snap Alito the moment he disrobes. We'll make his wife cry, alright.

TAXI AND LIMOUSINE DRIVERS OF DC: Be prepared to lose your job to ensure that Alito is late for each appointment. If you can take a detour and "break down" so that he misses or is late for his actual confirmation, it's a touchdown. And with the press you'd get you could probably start your own DEMOCRATS ONLY car service in the capitol.

DC HAIRDRESSERS: Could you "mess up" on his next appointment and send him to court with a bright new color, patchwork bleach job or mohawk? International press would pick up on the humiliation.

DC TAILORS/ROBE CLEANERS: Have lice and scabies specimens on hand.

FOOD SERVICE WORKERS: I would hate for anyone to get food poisoning and miss work, but....

[sageb1]

These people should be doing their drooling in an institution.

[Calpernia]

It certainly addresses the comments made about Congressional protocol. These groups threaten and blackmail. They should have no access to governmental properties. Matter of fact, they should officially be declared terrorists organizations.