U.S. Lawmakers Arrested at Protest

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Five members of Congress were among among those arrested Monday outside the Embassy of Sudan for crossing a police line during a demonstration against genocide in Darfur.

"You have to find a way to dramatize an issue," Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia) told CNN as he was led away in handcuffs.

The other U.S. lawmakers who were arrested during the protest are Reps. Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts), Donna Edwards (D-Maryland), Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota), and Lynn Woolsey (D-California).

Lewis faces a misdemeanor charge of trespassing, after he refused three warnings from police to stay behind a barricade established toprotect the diplomatic compound located along Washington's Embassy Row. - CNN News Story

You have access to the biggest media machine in the world and access to the President of the United States and instead you go out and act unlawfull to get attention?

Just a few weeks ago everyone was out bashing the Tea Parties as ridiculous, but this is ok?

This is the Democratic Double Standard that exists in Washington. If I believe in the cause then there are no barriers, If I don't then it is ridiculous.