Wow. TX Legislators are pulling some nefarious, undemocratic shit RIGHT NOW!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3152810
From the link on the OP:
http://juanitajean.com/
NEW UPDATE: There are between 500 to 1,000 anti-choice people here in the Capitol wearing blue. They are carrying signs and singing church songs.
For reasons that will soon become clear, the chairman of the committee reserved a room for the hearing that only holds 100 people. That information was apparently given to the blue people before the public got it. They have filled the room.
On top of that, the Governor has reserved every damn meeting room in the Capitol for the entire month. So, we have no where to go.
We are told we will get a room eventually...
I've seen this happen when ALEC bills were being rammed through where I live now. In a
blue state. Those who have a stake in the legislation are not given a place to be, and I've even seen the packing the room tactic used in court cases as well as in the legislature.
In one of the many cases resisting an ALEC scheme, monied group picked up homeless people off the streets with promises of a lunch if they would sit in a courtroom. Maybe they were told it was for some cause to help the downtrodden who were about to be made homeless by the very people who picked them up but they could not have known that.
They didn't know what it was about, only that it was part of getting a meal. But it was done to deny the opposing side a place to be and a chance to testify. Just as being done here, one side speaks but by crowd control, the other is not.
The ones who are making the corporatist actions control the playing field and those who oppose, who will be gravely harmed, are kept waiting at the door or sent away. And the most outrageous and demented things have been said and done, even with thousands resisting. Literal grassroots with calling, going door to door, meeting with groups in the subject area, experts with long history of all venues, and they are not listened to.
The only thing that kept the GOP who were pushing the actions, were those old 'weak and spineless' Democrats. And they all were subjected to stuff that made Wendy's time in the capitol look like a
Quinceañera.
You cannot underestimate the perfidity and corrupt practices of a Repugnant. It's like entering the
Twilight Zone with them. An unusual take on why from another DUer:
Republicans serve The Beast:
From the dawn of mankind they are the regressive element that's been holding back and destroying our civilization. They nourish other-dimensional entities that feed on misery, pain, and chaos.
Republicans are their minions, and hope to share in these entities' power, or be spared the pain.
But The Beast never shares; The Beast never spares.
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