Brawl breaks out in Mexico congress

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Odin


Ah, yes, people shouldn't protest a stolen election, they should just bend over for the US-backed Neo-Liberal thugs in PAN...

Actually, I was talking out of my arse here. I have no idea as to the actual situation or whether or not they were justified. But lefties in India are known to be uncivilised.

[SlowwHand]

[dannubis]

man, why does something like that never happen in our parliament...

[Arrian]

You're too civilized, apparently.

-Arrian

[Dinner]

I've heard the accussations that the election was rigged but has any actual proof ever been presented? Right now it is looking an aweful lot like an African election where the losing party just declares they were the rightful victors, truth be damned.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by aneeshm
Typical lefties.

[Arrian]

It's hard to know what actually happened. Master Zen, who lives in Mexico, firmly believes that the election was fraudulent (and, frankly, that every Mexican election is).

Apparently this belief is fairly widespread. But I don't think it's widespread enough to bring down the government. It will be ugly for a while, but it will settle down eventually.

-Arrian

[Elok]

The U.S. Congress used to be similar. IIRC somebody got caned by his distinguished colleague right on the Senate floor, shortly before the Civil War.

[Heresson]

We've didn't have a fight in polish parliament, but one psychically unstable parliamentarist was blocking the tribune for night and day, so the marshall of parliament called guards in the morning and ordered him to be taken out while he sleeps... ye he woke up and the guards were chasing him while he was jumping on the parliamentarists' and marshall's tribune and stuff...

[DaShi]

We don't see enough caning in Congress. I can think of a few senators who deserve it.

[Impaler[WrG]]

The U.S. Congress used to be similar. IIRC somebody got caned by his distinguished colleague right on the Senate floor, shortly before the Civil War.

If I recall the other half of the stroy, is that the attacking Senator actualy broke the cane with all the beating and his constituents send him a new one with the words "Hit him again" carved in it.

I've seen the British Parliment on C-SPAN and they do a lot of booing, cherring and ocasionaly hissing durring the "ripe the Prime-Minister a new one" things they do. Wish we could do something like that to Bush.

[Winston]

But you can! By applauding less than 30 seconds each time, for no more than a total of 50 rounds, during the state of the Union address.

[Elok]

(Is tempted to make a joke about "fifty rounds," wonders if the NSA is watching this page for some daft reason, decides he'd better not)

[:) Smiley]

Originally posted by Wezil
Are they trying to upstage the Taiwan parliament?

Legislatorial brawling as an Olympic sport.

[mrmitchell]

Originally posted by Elok
The U.S. Congress used to be similar. IIRC somebody got caned by his distinguished colleague right on the Senate floor, shortly before the Civil War.

In the leadup to the Civil War, radical Northern abolitionist Charles Sumner (R-MA) made a speech that personally insulted the authors of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (among other things calling them the pimps to the whore of slavery, and mocking their old age-caused ailments). One of the denigrated was Andrew Butler, whose cousin happened to be Representative Preston Brooks (D-SC).

Brooks considered challanging Sumner to a duel at first, but was persuaded that Sumner did not deserve a duel because he had damaged his social standing with the morally abhorrent speech. Therefore, Brooks decided to cane him in the Senate chamber.

Yankees cried that this was the proof that Southern "gentlemen" would intimidate anyone anywhere in the country from "free speech" on the issue of slavery. Southerners applauded Brooks for responding to a grave insult on his family's and state's honor. Southern newspaper editorials praised his action and many South Carolinans sent him canes engraved "Hit Him Again".

Sumner was unable to attend the Senate for years, and Brooks was fined $300 and narrowly escaped expulsion from the House, but both were reelected after the beating.

Good times...