Activists Arrested Confronting Dick Durbin About ‘Fiscal Cliff’

[eridani]

We did NOT elect Democrats to cut SocSec, Medicare and Medicaid!

http://inthesetimes.com/article/14163/robin_hood_arrested_at_dick_durbins_office/

On Friday, November 9, eight people entered Durbin’s office in the federal building in Chicago, asked for a meeting with the Senator, and within 15 minutes were arrested. Another six activists from different faith-based and community groups entered the office, but left when faced with a choice between leaving quietly and being arrested. About an hour later, 11 more activists who were holding a banner inside the building’s ground floor lobby were arrested, dragged or carried by officers to a detention center within the building after going limp in protest.

“This says something about who the senator will meet with and when,” said Beth Lanford, chair of the group Northside POWER, who was in Durbin’s office but was not among those arrested. “[His staff was] not even willing to call him on the phone, they didn’t even want to know what we were there for. Meanwhile they’re probably meeting behind closed doors right now, or have been”–about a deal that would include massive cuts.

[Arcanetrance]

1. Disgusting

The people should never be afraid of meeting their elected officials without arrest that's supposed to be a basic tenant of our government.

[eridani]

2. All through the Vietnam War era and through many protests, I've actively sought out

--the non-arrest, non-civil disopbedience sections. I may be making an exception for the first time in my life within the next couple of months.