WOW! Young Woman Has EPIC Rant in TX Abortion Hearings. Gets Hauled Off By State Troopers.

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"THIS IS MY GOVERMENT, I WILL JUDGE YOU"

via:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/09/1222279/-Young-Woman-Has-EPIC-Rant-in-TX-Abortion-Hearings-Gets-Hauled-Off-By-State-Troopers


Updated to include rough transcript:
HERE: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1222279/50687431#c14



UPDATE:

Interview with Victorian Prude the woman forcibly removed from testifying in Texas
byHorace Boothroyd IIIFollow
TUE JUL 09, 2013 AT 11:54 AM PDT

(snippet)


Did they explain why you were forcibly removed?

There was no explanation. Senator Jane Nelson tried to say I was being disrespectful but how would she know? I barely got to give the complete performance review of every member on the committee. Pointing out that Sen. Donna Campbell is an ophthalmologist is not disrespectful when she asserts in a state hearing that she should be THE expert on reproductive health. What was disrespectful was the parade of anti-choice zealots and misogynists who got up for 13 hours and called women murderers, killers, promiscuous, thoughtless, and selfish. Not a peep from committee chair Nelson on those.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/09/1222326/-Interview-with-Victorian-Prude-the-woman-forcibly-removed-from-testifying-in-Texas

[dembotoz]

1. omg she is wonderful

we need more like here

[lark]

32. Brave and honorable

TX is losing a real asset when she leaves that hateful and hate filled state.

[aquart]

76. Clearly born to be a New Yorker.

I wish her well in the state I am so homesick for.

[yesphan]

2. Outstanding !

The fact the troopers hauled her off is sickening. Fucking hypocrites !!

[DreamGypsy]

3. xchrom earlier posted a thread: Where the Hell Is the Outrage?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023206767

This young woman is a wonderful answer to that question.

And an unfortunate victim of the typical government response to outrage.

[tk2kewl]

4. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you...

...then you win!

So we are at the fighting part now.

[mountain grammy]

82. +1000

[blackspade]

5. Excellent rant

I didn't catch who ordered the troopers in.

The Texas political system in a joke. Unfortunately on the majority of it's citizens.
The chairwoman should be ashamed.

[yesphan]

16. By the look on her face

as she was introducing the next speaker, i would say, deep down she was ashamed.
I hope she tosses and turns in her bed over this for a long time.

[calimary]

69. Not sure that she's ashamed. She may be hard-wired to the Dark Side.

She SHOULD be! Fucking over her own gender. She SHOULD be ashamed!!!!

It astounds me that ANY woman would be in favor of forcible state rape (which is how I regard unwanted intrusion into a woman's vagina in ANY form - whether it's verbal, legal, manual, or with plastic ultrasound probes).

[KansDem]

6. Texas troopers have been busy lately...

Texas anti-abortion bill says it protects women, but then arrests them if they protest

Then this...

Too bad the nation's law enforcement officers can't arrest crooked brokers and money-laundering bankers...

[Enthusiast]

90. Great post!

"Too bad the nation's law enforcement officers can't arrest crooked brokers and money-laundering bankers..."

Add the treasonous war criminal Bush Administration.

[kpete]

7. I now follow her.

Her Twitter is @VictorianPrude
https://twitter.com/...

https://twitter.com/VictorianPrude

[daleanime]

9. I might have to get twitter.....

just to follow her.

[AsahinaKimi]

18. Thanks, following her also

[WovenGems]

26. An idea

If she hooks with the one on Twitter who goes by Jesus H. Christ then the resulting kid could be the next Simon Bolivar.

[47of74]

61. Looks like she's already spoken for.

D'oh.

I was all set with my own marriage proposal too.

[Coyotl]

102. Every activist NEEDS a Twitter account. She has 1,500 new followers in a day

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https://twitter.com/VictorianPrude

Victorian Prude ‏@VictorianPrude 7h
Back from Twitter suspension! 1500 new followers in a day will do that to a gal! #feministarmy
https://twitter.com/VictorianJailed

Victorian Prude ‏@VictorianPrude 10h
... I'm just so afraid to get pregnant here. We can't afford a baby & to get an abortion they'd have to rape me with a probe.

Results for @SenJaneNelson
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40SenJaneNelson&src=tyah

@SenJaneNelson Just saw the way you treated those who were speaking on #SB1 on Youtube. Your actions are an insult to democracy. Bye!

[The Wielding Truth]

8. She got personal with these zealots. It is just to fight when women are being denied.

It is what we must all do to stop the Conservative boots from stepping on our rights.

These "pious" tea party republicans have connections and want to keep their hands looking clean. We must show how dirty they really are. Bullies think that they can get away with subjugating others until we get between them and their false righteousness.

I applaud her!

[Ilsa]

25. Yes, the time to be polite in the hearings has long passed. nt

[chervilant]

68. Indeed!

I truly appreciate that she asserted that we would see what they were doing as they forcibly removed her and violated her rights.

They are arrogant in their bullying...

[jonthebru]

10. I loved it!

Not once did she say anything untrue. Never once did she say to the Security "get your hands off me!"
She stayed on point until the end and those despicable "elected officials " got a bit of what they deserved.

[yesphan]

14. She knew

they would come for her. She was ready. She reacted perfectly (IMHO).

[snacker]

11. Bravo to this young woman

for speaking the truth. She is inspiring.

[me b zola]

12. K&R

[Major Hogwash]

74. Excellent quote in that graphic.

The bullying must be put to an end.

[lastlib]

13. That's how the State of Texas treats dissenters--like Stalinist Russia.

Wonder what gulag they'll ship that uppity woman to??

[eggplant]

15. If only the next person to speak would have donated their time back to her.

Can you imagine? If everyone coming up to speak simply donated their time back to her?

Makes me want to sing a bar of Alice's Restaurant.

+1000000 to the courageous constituent.

[ctsnowman]

17. Wow.

Nailed it to the wall.

[valerief]

19. Very impressive young woman! nt

[damnedifIknow]

20. You go girl

[BlueManFan]

21. God damn this state

I fucking hate living in Texas. I hate the faux bible thumpers who pick and choose what parts of God's "inerrant word" they follow. Fuck you. I hate the teabaggers who drive every issue to the depths of its inane ideology. Fuck you. I hate self-loathing homosexual governors who over compensate with made up stories of shooting moving coyotes with a pistol. Fuck you Rick Perry. I hate Ted Cruz. Teabagging idiot who leads a flock of idiot teabaggers into the idiotic abyss. Fuck you Ted Cruz. I hate Senator Dan Patrick who cuts your phone call off when you call in to his show and beat him on the facts, and then keeps berating you so it sounds like he beats you down when all he really does is hang up on you. Fuck you Dan Patrick. Fuck the whole Texas Repugnant Party.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

43. I fucking hate living in Texas too!!

I was born here, raised here and educated here.

I attended several excellent universities and one excellent law school: University of Houston, Trinity University, Houston Community College and South Texas College of Law.

The cities are OK, the country is backwards.

I would have nowhere to go. I don't have any connections in any other state.

[BlueManFan]

78. I remember the bp days--before prick (governor perry)

Ann Richards, Bill Hobby. I've lived here since 1976 and never wanted to leave before. I did undergrad masters and PhD here so I guess I was always in little pockets of sanity being around universities most of my life. The place belongs to the Texas Taliban now!

[mountain grammy]

83. Is that the same Dan Patrick who did sports on a Houston channel

in the early 80's when I did my time in Texas?

[BlueManFan]

95. Same moron

[BlueManFan]

22. Finally I'm jealous as hell of this young woman

who gets to leave this shit hole. If I wasn't 4 years from retiring from my shit job here in shit ville I'd follow this brave young woman out of town!!!!!!

[Ilsa]

23. That needs to be on the placards outside:

"This is my government, and I will judge you!"


I'm happy for her that she gets to move. She's intelligent and will thrive wherever she goes.

[BlueManFan]

24. Finally (Again)

I apologize to fellow duers for using such profane language. Seeing that brave young woman hauled off by goons that take our tax money so should be protecting us just drove me off the f....reaking...deep end

[abq e streeter]

38. utterly understandable and justified

[mountain grammy]

84. I agreed with everything you said.

[theaocp]

27. The chairwoman reminded me

of those who obtain abortions and when they're done, they berate the other women in the waiting room because she's "different" than them for whatever reason she can concoct.

[BlueManFan]

31. Analogy on The Rebublican Teabagger Way of thinking:

Get all you can. Can all you get. Sit on your cans. Poison the rest.

[SalviaBlue]

28. "THIS IS MY GOVERNMENT, I WILL JUDGE YOU"

This is a great mantra!

Thanks for posting!!

Recommend!!!

[polichick]

77. Congress needs to hear that about 300 million times!

[Enthusiast]

91. That was beautiful!

"THIS IS MY GOVERNMENT, I WILL JUDGE YOU"

Say it again! "THIS IS MY GOVERNMENT, I WILL JUDGE YOU"

[tomp]

97. absolutely! nt

[SansACause]

29. Red states are becoming inhospitable to everyone sane

The onslaught of the Tea Party on women's rights, education, health care, and all the topics she is ranting about are driving anyone with a brain and a skill set out of the red states. They are trying to nationalize Mississippi, and they are succeeding throughout the slave state and even into PA and WI. I don't see why anyone who, like this young lady, can escape would choose to remain in those desolate wastelands.

[BlueManFan]

36. Remember Texas voter id and redistricting were declared overtly racist by the Justice Department

but thanks to the scumbug scotus teabagger attorney general abbott declared them "In Force Immediately." Yee Yaw y'all!!!

[SheilaT]

30. /I take it the first amendment doesn't apply in Texas.

Is Texas really still one of our states? Hard to believe. (Walks away, shaking her head.)

[tomp]

96. that is how it seems to me.

what, no free speech zones in texas?

[Aviation Pro]

33. In 2020 or perhaps 2018....

...Texas will turn blue and the Republicant party will not win another national election for at least two generations.

[Dawson Leery]

34. I respect freedom too much to be a copper.

[brett_jv]

35. So much awesome there ...

It's incredible.

YOU GO GIRL!

Love, love, LOVED that.

[Shankapotomus]

37. Awesome!

[indepat]

39. If only more courageous Americans would rise up to shoot rockets up the

assholes of flaming assholes in the guise of representatives of the people. PS, Hopefully the state troopers did not abuse their authority by removing the young woman before her alloted time was up.

[reflection]

40. I hope our future belongs to young women like her.

That took hella guts. So proud of her.

[StrayKat]

41. Has She Made A Youtube yet?

With the rest of her prepared speech?

[annabanana]

42. HOLY MACKERAL!!

THAT'S the righteous rant! She was eloquent and unintimidated and unstoppable. I am SO with her every word.

[Ray Beckerman]

44. Makes me proud to be an American

That young lady is awesome. I am very thankful for what she did in standing up to these ghouls.

[justabob]

45. she is awesome

And said so much in her short time at the mic. She is correct that the Lege has radicalized 100s of 1000s of Texas women. I know a couple of people in my tiny circle who previously were not at all activists who have risen to the challenge and been successfully getting completely nonpolitical/apathetic people fired up and going to Austin, as well as to local dem party meetings, and Planned Parenthood events. Those folks in the Lege have no idea what they have done.

[Scootaloo]

46. This deserves way more than the one rec I can give it!

[amb123]

47. 21st Century USA: Speak your Mind and THEY haul you away!

LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE MY ASS!!!

[xocet]

48. K & R n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

49. K & R

Why was she even hauled off? She didn't threaten them or be violent or even raise her voice other than when she had to to be heard.

[JoDog]

50. Disgusting.

And may this Illinoisian be among the first to welcome her to Yankee Land.

[rurallib]

51. what a surprise - the oppressors can't take the truth

[mtasselin]

52. Wisconsin

I thought I was watching what happened in Wisconsin until I realized in Wisconsin they haul them off before they can speak. Where the hell is this country going, since these assholes took over in 2011 we are headed to a 3rd world dictatorship.

[RayStar]

53. WOW

I love her. She is so brave.

[Solly Mack]

54. So much for government by "the people" in Texas.

Speak and get arrested.

[HockeyMom]

55. Thank you to the younger generation of women

Those of us who fought this in our youth are now old, but we did warn you it was coming. In many ways, it is even worse now than in our youth. The BC Pill had just come into the mainstream back then and wasn't fought against much as it is now.

Your older sisters will help you anyway we still can.

[Lifelong Protester]

105. My thoughts exactly.

I am glad to see that younger women are rising up; I, too, will stand with them.

[hamsterjill]

56. This video MUST go viral.

This is the first time I've seen it. This is disgusting.

I don't hear anything in this young woman's speech that rises to the level of being physically removed. What about free speech? Yeah, I know... But that doesn't make it all right.

The Republicans really haven't figured out yet that everything is video taped these days. I intend to use that ignorance by spreading videos like this every way that I can.

[fredamae]

57. When I Grow Up

Damn - This one has some Moxie! Good for Her!
Obviously TX Lawmakers Cannot Handle The Fkn Truth!
4 LEO's for one seated young lady? Seriously? Words threaten them That much? She didn't even swear--I'da been kicked out for that..

[miked62916]

58. Major props to that woman for speaking out

And those troopers can go screw themselves

[tomm2thumbs]

59. Jane Nelson -- the most useless two words I've uttered all day

makes one want to vomit at watching her in operation - in all irony, she actually made this young girl into a hero so undermined everything she was trying to silence by giving her a place on the world stage

Jane Nelson -- a walking, talking vurp

[Robb]

60. That was a thing of beauty.

I'm not aware of any requirement of "being respectful" in the First Amendment. I'll have to look again. Kudos to this woman.

[calimary]

63. Fucking RIGHTEOUS!!!!!!!

What She Said!!!!!!

[Half-Century Man]

64. Those who lack a viable argument often resort to physical intimidation.

That should be a mandatory continual broadcast in all Texas polling places next cycle. Then, it will never happen again.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

65. K&R

[BrainMann1]

66. Good job young lady

[midnight]

67. She pulled a Mary Dyer and confronted this sh*t head on...

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[WillyT]

70. K & R !!!

[Civilization2]

71. she was great! the state oppression was despicable,. democracy?

When exactly do the people get to have a say? Once, when they are called to vote, every four years?

[Poll_Blind]

72. This lady...an incredible example of a good citizen. nt

PB

[SaveOurDemocracy]

73. Damn! I REALLY wanted to hear the rest of her remarks. Cowards had to...

...shut her down.

BRAVO!!!

[Historic NY]

75. Wow so much for free speech.....

no value for the 1st Amendment .

[Lucky Luciano]

79. Good For her! Texas has some real nasty assholes. nt

[reusrename]

80. Badass!

[dickthegrouch]

81. She should sue for violation of her civil rights

She was not afforded her democratic right to address her grievances to her government. Nor was she allowed the same time period or deference to her points as the others.
Sue both the troopers who physically removed her and that asshat who interrupted her.

[VADem1980]

85. I just don't udnerstand...

the Right's vehement hatred of women and the Stockholm Syndrome of female Rethuglican lawmakers. I'm sorry, I don't care if the fetus is ready to be born tomorrow- if a woman wants the damn parasite out of her body, that is her f*^$in RIGHT. ANY restriction on abortion is a form of VIOLENCE against WOMEN.

[davidpdx]

86. Texas should be embarrassed with their legislature

Being anti-choice, pro-death penalty, and privatization of prisons to just name a few. Good for her, I wish she'd gotten another minute or so off before they hauled her off.

Maybe we should start sending post cards to that female legislator with a picture of gonorrhea of the eye.

[Orrex]

87. God damn! That was something to see!

[mbperrin]

88. Jane Nelson is just one of the female female impersonators in the Lege.

No actual woman would do the things to other women that they are doing.

Simple as that.

The only good thing coming out of this is the suicide by the Texas GOP. By making enemies of 50% of all voters, just a few men can swing the state back to where it was when I was growing up.

[Enthusiast]

89. Oh, baby!

My new hero!

[Kurovski]

92. K&R. (nt)

[Enthusiast]

93. Kicked and Recommended! nt

[ancianita]

94. WHERE ARE THE LAWYERS. She should SUE the committee chair for misuse of law enforcement

which denied her her 1st Amendment right to speak to HER representatives. She must SUE for her right to finish her initial statement and have it entered into the Texas committee record.

Committee Chairs MUST listen to all that their constituents say about representatives' public behavior over public issues. THAT is the proper role of committee chairs.

[tomp]

98. had the same thought myself? nt

[Coyotl]

101. There should be a cause of action there somewhere. Abuse of rights.

[ancianita]

106. She's not done being awesome until some lawyer steps up to support her, gets her back in there

to FINISH the officially testimony she was scheduled to give by that committee. For the public record. This committee has to be court ordered to let her finish exercising her 1st Amendment rights. It's not as if she said anything that wasn't true.

[panader0]

99. Another K and R

[Coyotl]

100. Great to hear someone tell it like it is. They are just playing Doctor.

[redstatebluegirl]

103. What an amazing young woman!

In my interaction with my former students I am finding that the young women are sounding like we did in the 60's and 70's, outraged! Republicans and pro-lifers be warned, you are unleashing a group of tigers who will march all the way to the ballot box. May the Texas legislature be outed for what they are, a group of old, worn out white guys who believe in pro-life as long as it isn't messing with putting lots of minorities to death.

She makes me so proud, her parents done good....

[Laelth]

104. k&r for right action. Well done. n/t

-Laelth

[zebonaut]

107. You're not allowed to be too smart in Texas

You're not allowed to call dumb bastards; dumb bastards either

[Stuart G]

108. great vid..thanks for posting....nt