Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Congressman Allen West, Republican from Florida, reacted strongly against a bipartisan amendment to end the trillion dollar war in Afghanistan by declaring anti-war colleagues should “get shot” to understand the true threat of the Taliban, it showed how representation can sometimes turn into repression. Sadly, it also revealed a tyrannical past of how other anti-war members of Congress, starting with Jeanette Rankin, have been repeatedly bullied and even threatened. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1916, Rankin was the first woman to serve in Congress. She believed in true representation, in that, she wanted to characterize to…
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