It's so quaint of Donald Trump to think that getting arrested for protesting his rallies would lead to rack and ruin.
"It'll destroy their record," Trump said recently, bragging that he's thinking of pressing charges against those who disrupt his campaign events. "They'll have to explain to Mom and Dad why they have a police record and why they can't get a job."
"Can't get a job"? Please. Does The Donald know how many distinguished Americans have been arrested in their lifetimes? John Lewis, Bernie Sanders, Raul Grijalva, Luis Gutierrez, Jan Schakowsky, Keith Ellison, Charlie Rangel, Maxine Waters and a ton of other office-holders have all been hauled off to the hoosegow for various reasons — and still they vote on the floors of Congress today. Not to mention the arrests of people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, whose courage helped change the destiny of a nation.
And while we're at it, let's not stop at our borders. Emmeline Pankhurst, Mahatma Gandhi and Archbishop Desmond Tutu were all taken to jail because they dared to speak up for the rights of the oppressed.
That's the difference, you see. Demonstrators who've been fingerprinted and booked almost always have ended up in hot water because they were standing up for the least among us. Kind of reminds you of someone, don'tcha think? Yes, you right-wing Christian evangelicals — we're looking at you. We cats HISS.
(PHOTO: Rosa Parks, American hero)
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