Too Many Peaceniks

Just before yesterdays Patreaus hearing the capital Police pulled Rev. Lennox Yearwod of the Hip Hop Caucus out of the line entering the hearing room and told him he couldn't enter because there were "Too many peace people" already in the room. The police then surrounded him as he argue his case, swarmed and football tackled him to the ground in the result injurying his leg (possibly breaking it).



The Reverend was taken from the scene in a wheelchair and is being held at George Washington Hospitol for "assulting an officer", but it clear from this Youtube video the Reverend did no such thing. He was clearly singled-out and denied lawful entry into the hearing room, then assulted by as he exerted his first amendment rights in the halls of the capitol police.

This is what we have become in the wake of 9-11, literally a police state where a middle aged minister can be man-handled like a vicious criminal for simply trying to watch democracy take place.

But I suppose that isn't possible when democracy has long ago died on the vine.

Vyan