How Do I Categorize Thee, Let Me Count The Ways......
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) is taking a lot of gruff about an altercation with a Capitol Hill Police Officer. My take is she was passing through the lane that allows legislators to skirt the security checks. Our beloved representatives are supposed to wear a pin or flash an ID as they go through, so the police have some idea of who they are letting through unchecked. It appears Ms McKinney had no pin, flashed no badge, and ignored or didn't hear (same difference) the officer telling her to stop not once, not twice, but three times. So rather than soil the floor of the capital this cop opted to stop her physically. Well she didn't like that, when he grabbed her she turned and apparently thwacked him with her cell phone.
It is true that I have changed my hairstyle. It is true that at the time I was not wearing my pin. But many Members of Congress aren't wearing their pins today. Just in the last hour at least 8 Members of Congress have been spotted speaking from the well of the House without their pins and even more have been seen on the Hill today not wearing their Congressional pin. How many of them were stopped by Capitol Hill Police? Do I have to contact the police every time I change my hairstyle? How do we account for the fact that when I wore my braids every day for 11 years, I still faced this problem, primarily from certain white police officers.
This morning at approximately 8:57 am, I was going to a Budget Committee meeting due to start at 9:00 am. I was rushing to my meeting when a white police officer yelled to me. He approached me, body blocked me, physically touching me. I used my arm to get him off of me. I told him not to touch me several times. He asked for my ID and I showed it to him. He then let me go and I proceeded to my meeting and I assume that the Police Officer resumed his duties.
Alrightythen, so before you can guard the 'fast lane' at the capital you have to pass a flash card test of the 535 representatives and just to make it fun we'll have our kids take crayons and give them new hairdos.
That's what I thought immediately when I heard about the attack on her person. Well not really, what I thought was, she's lucky she didn't get shot, or cuffed and frogged marched out of there. Hello, earth to McKinney, anybody home. It's the Capital Building, you know the one that two officers died in in a shootout with a mental patient in 1998?. It's pretty stupid to allow anyone through without an ID, but if the cop says stop, you stop, if your meeting is at 9 you don't show up at the entrance to the building at 8:57. You are paid to do the people's work, stop trying to throw your weight around and do your work. He had every right to stop you, and after you hit him, he should have put your dumb butt on the ground and cuffed you. Don't mess with the people whose job it is to keep you and everyone else in the Peoples House safe, especially in this day and age.
Given this outburst and following tantrum, bile and venom spewing from this woman's mouth and her obvious lack of understanding of security of the Capital Building, how can she be trusted with more sensitive issues dealt with in the Armed Services Committee or the Budget Committee?
Today, just prior to offering an apology on floor of the house, (Didn't seem all that sincere in my opinion, just needed since a grand jury is investigating the case), a news reporter outside the Capital tried to question Ms McKinney, this is what happened:
When the reporter from Cox Broadcasting tried to ask McKinney about the grand jury, the bodyguard told him, “I’m going to put your ass in jail. I’m a police officer,” a videotape of the incident shows.
Asked if he worked for Capitol police, the man said, “I work for Miss McKinney.”
My advice to the Capital Hill Police Chief is institute the new McKinney Security Procedure, Everyone, and I Mean Everyone has to show their ID to come in, no ID go stand in line with the common folk, who knows maybe while you are in line you might actually get a chance to touch a little reality.
Question to Georgia, how can one state turn out someone as good as Zell Miller and put such a dimwitted rube in office like this dingbat? Just wondering.
Congrats to Cindy, she made three categories, "The List" because she needs to find new employment, "Darwinism" because if she does it again I bet they shoot her, and "The Circus Politic" for obvious reasons. And we didn't even get into any of her other dirty underAware, I'll let you take a peek at this little bit here.
