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blipvert ([personal profile] blipvert) wrote2008-12-06 05:04 pm
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Question Time Smackdown!!

The Best Taiwanese Parliament Fights of All Time

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[identity profile] hammercock.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Man, our Congress is so boring in comparison. We can't even get something like Question Time, let alone fisticuffs!
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[identity profile] blipvert.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't always thus.



In 1856, Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner (for whom Boston's Sumner tunnel is named) was savagely beaten on the Senate floor by South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks, in retaliation for an (admittedly quite insulting and inflammatory) anti-slavery speech.
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