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How many nanoseconds do you think it would take for a police officer to crack you up-side the head if you punched him in the stomach after he apprehended you for ignoring his command to stop? Add to the mix that you live in a post-9/11 world and the location was a government building in Washington DC? My guess is that it wouldn't take but a fraction of a second before bad things started to happen to you, but then I grew up during the 1960s in the first Mayor Daley's Chicago, when disobeying a cop was an invitation to meet his baton...sometimes repeatedly.

That US Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) was arrogant enough to expect the Capitol Hill Police to exempt her from displaying proper identification when walking through a security check-point designed to protect her is disturbing. But that she is trying to justify violence against a police officer by charging racism when she blatantly ignored procedure is despicable and worthy of an official reprimand if not censure by her colleagues and, if the Georgia constitution permits, impeachment by her constituents.

Let me make this perfectly clear, those who falsely claim racism, who use the charge opportunistically, are twice as offensive as those who employ racism. Race baiters set the civil rights movement back years each time they bastardize the true meaning of the cause to mollify their selfish, self-centered, me-first egos. They are purely repugnant and are a scourge on our society. Cynthia McKinney is just such a stain.

In the first statement issued by McKinney, she intimated that the scuffle was nothing more than a case of miscommunication and mistaken identity. She even praised the Capitol Hill Police for the important role they serve in securing the nation's capitol and protecting our elected officials.

"I know that Capitol Hill Police are securing our safety, and I appreciate the work that they do. I have demonstrated my support for them in the past and I continue to support them now," McKinney said initially in a statement on her Web site.

But, as is often the case with entitlement mentality narcissists, her story changed when her moral relativism kicked in...that and after she talked to her race-card playing attorney, James Myat.

"The whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me -- a female, black congresswoman," McKinney said as she played not only the race-card but the abused-female card as well.

Then it was her lawyer's turn as the mainstream media microphone.

"Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, like thousands of average Americans across this country, is, too, a victim of the excessive use of force by law enforcement officials because of how she looks and the color of her skin," Myat said.

Myat proved his credentials as a hypocrite on Hannity & Colmes when he referred to out-going US Rep. Tom DeLay as a, "rich white boy."

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