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&feature=youtu.be"THIS IS MY GOVERMENT, I WILL JUDGE YOU"
via:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/09/1222279/-Young-Woman-Has-EPIC-Rant-in-TX-Abortion-Hearings-Gets-Hauled-Off-By-State-Troopers
Updated to include rough transcript:
HERE: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1222279/50687431#c14
UPDATE:
Interview with Victorian Prude the woman forcibly removed from testifying in Texas
byHorace Boothroyd IIIFollow
TUE JUL 09, 2013 AT 11:54 AM PDT
Did they explain why you were forcibly removed?
There was no explanation. Senator Jane Nelson tried to say I was being disrespectful but how would she know? I barely got to give the complete performance review of every member on the committee. Pointing out that Sen. Donna Campbell is an ophthalmologist is not disrespectful when she asserts in a state hearing that she should be THE expert on reproductive health. What was disrespectful was the parade of anti-choice zealots and misogynists who got up for 13 hours and called women murderers, killers, promiscuous, thoughtless, and selfish. Not a peep from committee chair Nelson on those.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/09/1222326/-Interview-with-Victorian-Prude-the-woman-forcibly-removed-from-testifying-in-Texas
dembotoz
(16,844 posts)we need more like here
lark
(23,158 posts)TX is losing a real asset when she leaves that hateful and hate filled state.
aquart
(69,014 posts)I wish her well in the state I am so homesick for.
yesphan
(1,588 posts)The fact the troopers hauled her off is sickening. Fucking hypocrites !!
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)This young woman is a wonderful answer to that question.
And an unfortunate victim of the typical government response to outrage.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)...then you win!
So we are at the fighting part now.
mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)I didn't catch who ordered the troopers in.
The Texas political system in a joke. Unfortunately on the majority of it's citizens.
The chairwoman should be ashamed.
yesphan
(1,588 posts)as she was introducing the next speaker, i would say, deep down she was ashamed.
I hope she tosses and turns in her bed over this for a long time.
calimary
(81,507 posts)She SHOULD be! Fucking over her own gender. She SHOULD be ashamed!!!!
It astounds me that ANY woman would be in favor of forcible state rape (which is how I regard unwanted intrusion into a woman's vagina in ANY form - whether it's verbal, legal, manual, or with plastic ultrasound probes).
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Then this...
Too bad the nation's law enforcement officers can't arrest crooked brokers and money-laundering bankers...
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)"Too bad the nation's law enforcement officers can't arrest crooked brokers and money-laundering bankers..."
Add the treasonous war criminal Bush Administration.
kpete
(72,022 posts)Her Twitter is @VictorianPrude
https://twitter.com/...
https://twitter.com/VictorianPrude
daleanime
(17,796 posts)just to follow her.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)If she hooks with the one on Twitter who goes by Jesus H. Christ then the resulting kid could be the next Simon Bolivar.
47of74
(18,470 posts)D'oh.
I was all set with my own marriage proposal too.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 10, 2013, 10:28 AM - Edit history (1)
https://twitter.com/VictorianPrudeVictorian Prude ?@VictorianPrude 7h
Back from Twitter suspension! 1500 new followers in a day will do that to a gal! #feministarmy
https://twitter.com/VictorianJailed
Victorian Prude ?@VictorianPrude 10h
... I'm just so afraid to get pregnant here. We can't afford a baby & to get an abortion they'd have to rape me with a probe.
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@SenJaneNelson Just saw the way you treated those who were speaking on #SB1 on Youtube. Your actions are an insult to democracy. Bye!
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)It is what we must all do to stop the Conservative boots from stepping on our rights.
These "pious" tea party republicans have connections and want to keep their hands looking clean. We must show how dirty they really are. Bullies think that they can get away with subjugating others until we get between them and their false righteousness.
I applaud her!
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)chervilant
(8,267 posts)I truly appreciate that she asserted that we would see what they were doing as they forcibly removed her and violated her rights.
They are arrogant in their bullying...
jonthebru
(1,034 posts)Not once did she say anything untrue. Never once did she say to the Security "get your hands off me!"
She stayed on point until the end and those despicable "elected officials " got a bit of what they deserved.
yesphan
(1,588 posts)they would come for her. She was ready. She reacted perfectly (IMHO).
snacker
(3,619 posts)for speaking the truth. She is inspiring.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)The bullying must be put to an end.
lastlib
(23,303 posts)Wonder what gulag they'll ship that uppity woman to??
eggplant
(3,913 posts)Can you imagine? If everyone coming up to speak simply donated their time back to her?
Makes me want to sing a bar of Alice's Restaurant.
+1000000 to the courageous constituent.
Nailed it to the wall.
valerief
(53,235 posts)damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)BlueManFan
(256 posts)I fucking hate living in Texas. I hate the faux bible thumpers who pick and choose what parts of God's "inerrant word" they follow. Fuck you. I hate the teabaggers who drive every issue to the depths of its inane ideology. Fuck you. I hate self-loathing homosexual governors who over compensate with made up stories of shooting moving coyotes with a pistol. Fuck you Rick Perry. I hate Ted Cruz. Teabagging idiot who leads a flock of idiot teabaggers into the idiotic abyss. Fuck you Ted Cruz. I hate Senator Dan Patrick who cuts your phone call off when you call in to his show and beat him on the facts, and then keeps berating you so it sounds like he beats you down when all he really does is hang up on you. Fuck you Dan Patrick. Fuck the whole Texas Repugnant Party.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)I was born here, raised here and educated here.
I attended several excellent universities and one excellent law school: University of Houston, Trinity University, Houston Community College and South Texas College of Law.
The cities are OK, the country is backwards.
I would have nowhere to go. I don't have any connections in any other state.
BlueManFan
(256 posts)Ann Richards, Bill Hobby. I've lived here since 1976 and never wanted to leave before. I did undergrad masters and PhD here so I guess I was always in little pockets of sanity being around universities most of my life. The place belongs to the Texas Taliban now!
mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)in the early 80's when I did my time in Texas?
BlueManFan
(256 posts)BlueManFan
(256 posts)who gets to leave this shit hole. If I wasn't 4 years from retiring from my shit job here in shit ville I'd follow this brave young woman out of town!!!!!!
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)I'm happy for her that she gets to move. She's intelligent and will thrive wherever she goes.
BlueManFan
(256 posts)I apologize to fellow duers for using such profane language. Seeing that brave young woman hauled off by goons that take our tax money so should be protecting us just drove me off the f....reaking...deep end
abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)theaocp
(4,245 posts)of those who obtain abortions and when they're done, they berate the other women in the waiting room because she's "different" than them for whatever reason she can concoct.
BlueManFan
(256 posts)Get all you can. Can all you get. Sit on your cans. Poison the rest.
SalviaBlue
(2,918 posts)This is a great mantra!
Thanks for posting!!
Recommend!!!
polichick
(37,152 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)"THIS IS MY GOVERNMENT, I WILL JUDGE YOU"
Say it again! "THIS IS MY GOVERNMENT, I WILL JUDGE YOU"
tomp
(9,512 posts)SansACause
(520 posts)The onslaught of the Tea Party on women's rights, education, health care, and all the topics she is ranting about are driving anyone with a brain and a skill set out of the red states. They are trying to nationalize Mississippi, and they are succeeding throughout the slave state and even into PA and WI. I don't see why anyone who, like this young lady, can escape would choose to remain in those desolate wastelands.
BlueManFan
(256 posts)but thanks to the scumbug scotus teabagger attorney general abbott declared them "In Force Immediately." Yee Yaw y'all!!!
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Is Texas really still one of our states? Hard to believe. (Walks away, shaking her head.)
tomp
(9,512 posts)what, no free speech zones in texas?
Aviation Pro
(12,188 posts)...Texas will turn blue and the Republicant party will not win another national election for at least two generations.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)brett_jv
(1,245 posts)It's incredible.
YOU GO GIRL!
Love, love, LOVED that.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)assholes of flaming assholes in the guise of representatives of the people. PS, Hopefully the state troopers did not abuse their authority by removing the young woman before her alloted time was up.
reflection
(6,286 posts)That took hella guts. So proud of her.
StrayKat
(570 posts)With the rest of her prepared speech?
annabanana
(52,791 posts)THAT'S the righteous rant! She was eloquent and unintimidated and unstoppable. I am SO with her every word.
Ray Beckerman
(4 posts)That young lady is awesome. I am very thankful for what she did in standing up to these ghouls.
justabob
(3,069 posts)And said so much in her short time at the mic. She is correct that the Lege has radicalized 100s of 1000s of Texas women. I know a couple of people in my tiny circle who previously were not at all activists who have risen to the challenge and been successfully getting completely nonpolitical/apathetic people fired up and going to Austin, as well as to local dem party meetings, and Planned Parenthood events. Those folks in the Lege have no idea what they have done.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)amb123
(1,581 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)Why was she even hauled off? She didn't threaten them or be violent or even raise her voice other than when she had to to be heard.
JoDog
(1,353 posts)And may this Illinoisian be among the first to welcome her to Yankee Land.
rurallib
(62,451 posts)mtasselin
(666 posts)I thought I was watching what happened in Wisconsin until I realized in Wisconsin they haul them off before they can speak. Where the hell is this country going, since these assholes took over in 2011 we are headed to a 3rd world dictatorship.
I love her. She is so brave.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)Speak and get arrested.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Those of us who fought this in our youth are now old, but we did warn you it was coming. In many ways, it is even worse now than in our youth. The BC Pill had just come into the mainstream back then and wasn't fought against much as it is now.
Your older sisters will help you anyway we still can.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)I am glad to see that younger women are rising up; I, too, will stand with them.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)This is the first time I've seen it. This is disgusting.
I don't hear anything in this young woman's speech that rises to the level of being physically removed. What about free speech? Yeah, I know... But that doesn't make it all right.
The Republicans really haven't figured out yet that everything is video taped these days. I intend to use that ignorance by spreading videos like this every way that I can.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)Damn - This one has some Moxie! Good for Her!
Obviously TX Lawmakers Cannot Handle The Fkn Truth!
4 LEO's for one seated young lady? Seriously? Words threaten them That much? She didn't even swear--I'da been kicked out for that..
miked62916
(51 posts)And those troopers can go screw themselves
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tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)makes one want to vomit at watching her in operation - in all irony, she actually made this young girl into a hero so undermined everything she was trying to silence by giving her a place on the world stage
Jane Nelson -- a walking, talking vurp
Robb
(39,665 posts)I'm not aware of any requirement of "being respectful" in the First Amendment. I'll have to look again. Kudos to this woman.
calimary
(81,507 posts)What She Said!!!!!!
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)That should be a mandatory continual broadcast in all Texas polling places next cycle. Then, it will never happen again.
ElsewheresDaughter
(24,000 posts)BrainMann1
(460 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Civilization2
(649 posts)When exactly do the people get to have a say? Once, when they are called to vote, every four years?
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)PB
SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)...shut her down.
BRAVO!!!
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)no value for the 1st Amendment .
Lucky Luciano
(11,260 posts)reusrename
(1,716 posts)dickthegrouch
(3,184 posts)She was not afforded her democratic right to address her grievances to her government. Nor was she allowed the same time period or deference to her points as the others.
Sue both the troopers who physically removed her and that asshat who interrupted her.
VADem1980
(53 posts)the Right's vehement hatred of women and the Stockholm Syndrome of female Rethuglican lawmakers. I'm sorry, I don't care if the fetus is ready to be born tomorrow- if a woman wants the damn parasite out of her body, that is her f*^$in RIGHT. ANY restriction on abortion is a form of VIOLENCE against WOMEN.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Being anti-choice, pro-death penalty, and privatization of prisons to just name a few. Good for her, I wish she'd gotten another minute or so off before they hauled her off.
Maybe we should start sending post cards to that female legislator with a picture of gonorrhea of the eye.
Orrex
(63,225 posts)mbperrin
(7,672 posts)No actual woman would do the things to other women that they are doing.
Simple as that.
The only good thing coming out of this is the suicide by the Texas GOP. By making enemies of 50% of all voters, just a few men can swing the state back to where it was when I was growing up.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)My new hero!
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)ancianita
(36,137 posts)which denied her her 1st Amendment right to speak to HER representatives. She must SUE for her right to finish her initial statement and have it entered into the Texas committee record.
Committee Chairs MUST listen to all that their constituents say about representatives' public behavior over public issues. THAT is the proper role of committee chairs.
tomp
(9,512 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)ancianita
(36,137 posts)to FINISH the officially testimony she was scheduled to give by that committee. For the public record. This committee has to be court ordered to let her finish exercising her 1st Amendment rights. It's not as if she said anything that wasn't true.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)In my interaction with my former students I am finding that the young women are sounding like we did in the 60's and 70's, outraged! Republicans and pro-lifers be warned, you are unleashing a group of tigers who will march all the way to the ballot box. May the Texas legislature be outed for what they are, a group of old, worn out white guys who believe in pro-life as long as it isn't messing with putting lots of minorities to death.
She makes me so proud, her parents done good....
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)You're not allowed to call dumb bastards; dumb bastards either