By Julianne Malveaux

(Trice Edney Wire) – Activist and Code Pink (a pro-peace feminist organization) founder Medea Benjamin was simply walking the halls of Congress when she spotted Congressman Darrel Issa (R-CA). She asked him about Israel’s attack on Quatar, and his rude reply was ”go away”. She followed him a few feet into his office to repeat her question, and he instructed his staff to “take her phone”. They called the Capitol police and Medea Benjamin was arrested for “impeding a congressman”. She now has a court date for October.

This arrest is absurd. Don’t our taxpayer dollars fund the Capitol building? Should we all have the right and opportunity to walk through the building, to stop and talk to our elected representatives, whose salaries we pay? Issa, whose brusque behavior wa

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