"Rome - The city police have arrested the mayor Alemanno protesting without a permit against the government's economic choices. The mayor was detained in jail for 6 hours and then released for a deposit of 50 €. This could be the equivalent of throwing Italian agency, if the event had happened in Rome.
Instead it happened in Washington, District of Columbia, the mayor of U.S. capital is called Vincent Gray, and the security (for him and six other councilors) amounted to $ 50. For the rest, everything is the same as the launch of my imagination. The episode, certainly unusual, given the right has the worst Italian press to question whether the U.S.
is still a free country, or if you do not like China. Colleagues of the journalists have lost the usual opportunity to keep quiet, because if anything, the arrest of the mayor of Washington by his own police is an archetype of the concept (very dark in those who vote for Berlusconi) "the law is equal for all" .
Whether you're the last of the citizens or the first, if you organize with a few dozen friends and activists blocking a key road, without authorization, the police before asking you to evacuate, then you pick the weight and stops you and greetings to you, your mayor, the number of houses your own and your family relationship with any hypothetical grandchildren Mubarak.
Vincent Gray in fact, to protest against one of the many "do ut des" to which Obama was forced cohabitation with the new Republican Congress, had marched on Capitol Hill with six municipal councilors and a few dozen of his supporters, taking up Constitution Avenue, all'Hart right in front of the Senate Office Building.
The mayor had blocked artery so vital to the city center for more in the heart of the "red zone" the most watched in the world, being a stone's throw from the White House and the Congress of the United States. All as a result of the promise that Obama had to do to John Boehner, the Republican chairman of the House, cut funds for abortion in Washington in exchange for giving the reduction of federal funds for family planning.
In reality, the move of Mayor Gray should be read with glasses who knows how to create a media-political event. The first community has skillfully exploited his six hours in jail with the rest of the network communicating via Twitter, and then in a well-attended press conference, reiterating one of the key points of his political campaign: the problem of almost non-existent autonomy of the U.S.
capital. The city of Washington is still, in part, the only U.S. case of "taxation without representation" (taxation without political representation) as mayor and councilors are elected only since 1973, but various laws of the City - including that of budget - must be approved by Congress, or should avoid his veto, to be effective.
To this must be added that the residents of the District of Columbia does not yet have the possibility to elect their two senators to the U.S. Senate, as do citizens of any other American county, and have only an observer is not elected to Congress, which But it has no power to vote in Parliament.
The people of Puerto Rico and Guam have no representation in Congress, but at least they are not subject to federal taxation. Mayor Gray sums it up with the old slogan that marked the era of the War of Independence from England: "No taxation without representation", and these six hours in jail has certainly added a key player in his basket. 
Instead it happened in Washington, District of Columbia, the mayor of U.S. capital is called Vincent Gray, and the security (for him and six other councilors) amounted to $ 50. For the rest, everything is the same as the launch of my imagination. The episode, certainly unusual, given the right has the worst Italian press to question whether the U.S.
is still a free country, or if you do not like China. Colleagues of the journalists have lost the usual opportunity to keep quiet, because if anything, the arrest of the mayor of Washington by his own police is an archetype of the concept (very dark in those who vote for Berlusconi) "the law is equal for all" .
Whether you're the last of the citizens or the first, if you organize with a few dozen friends and activists blocking a key road, without authorization, the police before asking you to evacuate, then you pick the weight and stops you and greetings to you, your mayor, the number of houses your own and your family relationship with any hypothetical grandchildren Mubarak.
Vincent Gray in fact, to protest against one of the many "do ut des" to which Obama was forced cohabitation with the new Republican Congress, had marched on Capitol Hill with six municipal councilors and a few dozen of his supporters, taking up Constitution Avenue, all'Hart right in front of the Senate Office Building.
The mayor had blocked artery so vital to the city center for more in the heart of the "red zone" the most watched in the world, being a stone's throw from the White House and the Congress of the United States. All as a result of the promise that Obama had to do to John Boehner, the Republican chairman of the House, cut funds for abortion in Washington in exchange for giving the reduction of federal funds for family planning.
In reality, the move of Mayor Gray should be read with glasses who knows how to create a media-political event. The first community has skillfully exploited his six hours in jail with the rest of the network communicating via Twitter, and then in a well-attended press conference, reiterating one of the key points of his political campaign: the problem of almost non-existent autonomy of the U.S.
capital. The city of Washington is still, in part, the only U.S. case of "taxation without representation" (taxation without political representation) as mayor and councilors are elected only since 1973, but various laws of the City - including that of budget - must be approved by Congress, or should avoid his veto, to be effective.
To this must be added that the residents of the District of Columbia does not yet have the possibility to elect their two senators to the U.S. Senate, as do citizens of any other American county, and have only an observer is not elected to Congress, which But it has no power to vote in Parliament.
The people of Puerto Rico and Guam have no representation in Congress, but at least they are not subject to federal taxation. Mayor Gray sums it up with the old slogan that marked the era of the War of Independence from England: "No taxation without representation", and these six hours in jail has certainly added a key player in his basket.
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