{"id":4664,"date":"2009-04-28T06:52:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T11:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:52:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:52:23","slug":"rep-ellison-arrested-during-darfur-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4664","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ellison arrested during Darfur protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not aware that any conservatives are howling at Rep. Keith Ellison for getting arrested yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I mean, sure – you’re one of the 500-odd most powerful elected people in the world; you’re in Washington in large part due to the efforts of a sychophantic mainstream media; you do\u00a0 <\/em>have some avenues to be heard on the issue.<\/p>\n

On the other, it’s his First Amendment right, and I don’t disagree with him on the proximate issue.\u00a0 The resolution is worth a little discussion (and that discussion needs to include Ellison’s coreligionists in Sudan, who are carrying out the genocide in the first place), but again, I don’t disagree with the motivation.<\/p>\n

It was an apparently unprecedented act by a member of Minnesota’s congressional delegation and somewhat out of character for Ellison, a Democrat who has generally avoided controversy since he arrived in Congress, attracting international attention as its first Muslim member.Minnesota Republican Party officials, while saying they respect Ellison’s advocacy against genocide in Darfur, criticized his decision to get arrested as a “publicity stunt unbecoming of the office he holds.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, any time that Ellison spends in jail is time that he’s not in the Capitol.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we need to start this as a fad in Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not aware that any conservatives are howling at Rep. Keith Ellison for getting arrested yesterday. I mean, sure – you’re one of the 500-odd most powerful elected people in the world; you’re in Washington in large part due to the efforts of a sychophantic mainstream media; you do\u00a0 have some avenues to be heard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22390,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions\/22390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}