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Arrests Made Near Senate Building as Protesters Demand Voting Rights
Newsweek via msn ^ | 03 Aug 2021 | Alexandra Hutzler

Posted on 08/02/2021 11:01:53 PM PDT by blueplum

Protesters demanding an end to the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation were arrested outside the U.S. Senate building on Monday.

...Some photographs posted to Twitter showed long lines of people waiting to be arrested by law enforcement officers from the United States Capitol Police (USCP)..

....The group is demanding the Senate and the White House eliminate the filibuster, pass all provisions of the For the People Act, fully restore the 1965 Voting Rights Act and raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.

The protest coincided with the arrival of more than 100 state legislators who are joining Texas Democrats in Washington D.C. to lobby for the passage of voting rights legislation. The lawmakers from nearly 30 states are calling on the Senate to skip its summer recess and immediately pass the For the People Act....

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; dcprotests; seasonofnonviolence; texasdems; votingact
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Were the Capitol Police traumatized? Did the protestors care they might trigger PTSD in the police? Did the lawmakers hide under their desks? Did AOC fear for her virginal honor? Were any horses harmed in the making of this fakery?
1 posted on 08/02/2021 11:01:53 PM PDT by blueplum
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Treated with kid gloves no doubt.


2 posted on 08/02/2021 11:05:47 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket ( "Pressure Makes Diamonds" ~General Patton)
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hypocrites


3 posted on 08/02/2021 11:05:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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>> Were the Capitol Police traumatized?

They’re very busy being suicided...


4 posted on 08/02/2021 11:06:00 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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A good journalist would have identified who sponsored the protest and how much each protester was paid.


5 posted on 08/02/2021 11:08:04 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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“Voting rights”? What a disgrace.They do this because we have half the country who are so f-ing ignorant from social media and government schools who believe this.


6 posted on 08/02/2021 11:10:15 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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If only those damn fools knew the concequeces of what they wanted . They would be the first to say ‘We did not mean for it to come to this!’ . They should all be rounded up and dropped off in Cuba.


7 posted on 08/02/2021 11:17:06 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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These IDIOTS should be told that an end to the Filibuster works both ways; the Communists (oops, I meant democrats) have used the filibuster to their advantage when they are out of power.

Hopefully that will be soon.


8 posted on 08/02/2021 11:37:04 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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If they’re not US citizens, and not paying real estate taxes, they should not be eligible to vote.


9 posted on 08/02/2021 11:43:18 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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Reporter: "What rights have you been denied in voting?"

Protestor: "Uhmmm.....Jim Crowe, KKK, Nazi, Foo-Foo justice"

Reporter: "Back to you in the studio"

10 posted on 08/02/2021 11:43:27 PM PDT by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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Did the capital police attack any of the protesters? Or shoot any of them dead, and then blame the protesters for it? Did they blame the protesters for any deaths by stroke the next day?


11 posted on 08/02/2021 11:52:33 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

The author graduated from college in 2018. She’s about 25. Lots of Obama and Commie professors in her head still.


12 posted on 08/03/2021 12:01:37 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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This was undoubtedly the greatest threat to Democracy since... since... I dunno. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah?

Regards,

13 posted on 08/03/2021 12:05:41 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Ymani Cricket; Mr. N. Wolfe; Gene Eric

14 posted on 08/03/2021 12:21:34 AM PDT by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can't use legal means because Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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To: blueplum

All astroturf.


15 posted on 08/03/2021 12:26:52 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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Sheila Jackass Lee’s and Maxine Waters (her Depends) and Stacey Abrams (Tank) Rent-A-Mob people, no doubt.

SJL was proudly arrested (and immediately released, of course) for the same protest a couple days ago.


16 posted on 08/03/2021 12:27:40 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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What has been removed from the 65 voting rights act??


17 posted on 08/03/2021 12:32:26 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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18 posted on 08/03/2021 12:54:03 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: blueplum

Insurrection!


19 posted on 08/03/2021 12:59:54 AM PDT by thegagline
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Nothing. We don’t have poll taxes, or literacy tests, we don’t limit voting to those who had voting ancestors, we don’t limit primaries to only the white vote, and we don’t require people to guess the number of marbles or feathers in a jar. Like Dems used to do.

Now there is the word ‘servitude’ “previous condition of servitude”, and there may be some felon prison widows who are advocating for felons to regain the vote under a twisted interpretation of ‘servitude’. (of course this goes up against the legal system that denies voting as part of the deterrant/extendedpunishment of those who’ve committed crimes against society) Other than that, no clue.


20 posted on 08/03/2021 1:00:22 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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