December 16, 2011 - 2:18 pm
Here’s why I put the “hunger strike” in quotes.
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., embarked on a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with four Occupy DC protesters who have gone without food since Dec. 8 to advocate for D.C. voting rights.
Ellison, the first Muslim to serve in the House, met with the hunger strikers Thursday and pledged to read their declaration – which calls for full voting rights for District residents as well as legislative and budget autonomy – on the floor of the House of Representatives to enter it into the congressional record.
One day is not a hunger strike. It’s a diet. Maybe a fast. Not a hunger strike, in which one commits slow suicide to make a political point.
He needs to go on a 3-month hunger strike — or try to.
OOOH, and he’s going to read their manifesto into the Congressional record.
It will be to an empty chamber, right after the declaration of national rhubarb week.
I pledge to go on a hunger strike for the next hour and 45 minutes in support of Ellison’s hunger strike.
I’m going to go Occupy my liquor cabinet, raise a Johnny Walker Black on the rocks to Christopher Hitchens and have a nice four course meal while watching Jeopardy.
I am going to do this in favor of the free market and all my liberties.
While they still exist.
I did a 40-day fast once, and didn’t come anywhere near dying, so this is laughable. Hell, hunger strikes, generally speaking, are a rather pathetic means of doing anything since, if you’re overweight to even a limited degree, it will take you months and months and months to starve to death.
(Now, if you don’t drink water, well, that’s a ‘nother thing.)
A fast. And that’s being generous. Take away the hours between dinner and bedtime and then the hours he would normally be sleeping and his “hunger strike” is no more than about ten hours.
Did he say if he would go without water?
Everyone else is going on about what Ellison’s going to do without. I’m more interested in doing without him, for awhile. Can we convince him to take a vow of silence, instead? That would be meaningful, and I would support it…just don’t share your brilliant thoughts with us, withhold your wisdom from our ignorant ears, Keith…we’ll let you know when we want to hear from you again.
This is not a big deal for him–he does it for a month each year, anyway.
It’s like Catholic protesting by not eating meat on Friday. No sweat.
Actually, his “hunger strike” only involves his normal meals and food items and he’s compensating for his reduced caloric intake with rationed carnitas casserole and tequila with a Tecate chaser, in the interest of cross cultural culinary diversity.
And imagine what it’ll be when there are 15 Muslims in congress; hello Islamic Congressional Caucus and good-bye greater good. I promise you a day will come when our great great grandchildren will spit on our graves for our debauched policy on immigration.
Ellison is the moron who recently assisted an alleged illegal alien in MN who decided 9 dollars an hour wasn’t enough to wax floors in supermarkets after 9 years doing so. Even after 9 years the guy needed an interpreter and no surprise an organization dedicated to the greater good of all in Minnesota and showed it by calling itself Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha hopped on board.
These smart, smart people knew that going after the cleaning service they worked for would pay no dividends so they organized a strike against the store, Cub Foods, (Supervalu) instead, even though CF has nothing to do with the employers other than to contract them for workers.
Ellison, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha and even more Latinos have crawled out of the woodwork and continue to attempt to extort money from Supervalu who they do not work for, even trying to interrupt a shareholders meeting.
So you have people who have broken the law by entering the U.S. and many working illegally making accusations against a company that has not broken the law in the perfect upside down scenario that will eventually destroy this country in a welter of complaint from people from the Third World who can’t compete in this culture, haven’t been able to compete against America in centuries and show no signs of being able to do so in the future.
To say I could bite the head off a nail is an understatement. These are the most unflinchingly arrogant people I have ever seen in my life. I’m trying to imagine what would happen if European Americans went to Brazil or Mexico and so totally disrespected the cultures that built the place as if they were completely irrelevant, mere baggage handlers and bystanders at their home now turned into an airport at the service of outsiders who demonstrably take more from the table than they bring.
I’ll be honest with you: the thought of busses running 24/7 running these morons straight out of this country and with Ellison the driver of the first one doesn’t conjure up images of sad people discriminated against but of law and order and of people being treated in a less rotten and despicable way than the way they have trashed our country traditions.
Illegal aliens want to vote, have health care, free college, the right to work and basically every thing they don’t merit either by law, ethics, morals or competence and certainly not by temperament.
Kindly make sure that neither food nor fluids come near him at all. Politicians tend to split hairs, and with taggiya an acceptable means in their religion – democratic ideology, you will never know. Even Obama mastered it to the nth degree. Somebody should weigh him before and after said fasting. Oh please do not call it hunger strike – one should already know he’s lying right there!
Dear Santa:
Here’s a late-breaking addition to my Christmas list: please deliver help and support the the Republican Party in Minnesota for 2012 in their attempt to remove Keith Ellison from the House of Representatives. He needs to return to his rightful place as the leader of Occupy St. Paul!
It is not a hunger strike, diet or fast. It is a publicity stunt.