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Title: More LA politics Post by: Michael B on March 23, 2005, 05:00:00 AM Not that I in anyway condone his methods, you understand, but Congressman Omar Quintana, president of the legislature of Equador, certainly knows how to handle a fillibuster.
"I SAID 'The legislature is ADJOURNED' Gol-Dang it! Gentlemen of the police, you may now open fire."........oh well, just tear gas, and I guess it DOES beat getting kidnapped by the FARC, like happened to one of the departmental legislatures in Colombia a couple of years ago. |