skip the darfur stuff

We all know terrible things are happening to lots of people in Sudan. That's old news. What could we do, anway?

What's really interesting about this article covering a recent protest at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington is who escorts the arrested representatives to the van (yes, even members of congress can get arrested for unlawful assembly). Not DC police. The article takes the time to specifically mention that they were "led to a white police van by U.S. Secret Service uniformed officers."

Not that it's a particularly new practice (at least, I don't think so), but enough to make you wonder why the representatives chose the Secret Service to do the arrest and take them to the DC station where they paid the $50 fine. Energy company executives can steal money from taxpayers in secret meetings that Dick Cheney doesn't even reveal but yet the founder of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus can't give a speech on the steps of the Sudanese Embassy condemning the present situation in Sudan?

Who runs the Secret Service?

(That's actually a very interesting question in itself, by the way)

It's also possible that I am so exhausted from blues stuff all weekend that this isn't really that interesting at all. Who knows.

Oh, but this is interesting: Doing a little background on the Secret Service, and their website is still active at Treasury. I guess that whole Department of Homeland Security thingy is coming along real well.