Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Bang Bang Parliamentarian Tactics

I love reading stories about parliaments behaving badly, probably because our own congressional sessions are dry as powder. So this Ananova bit on Ecuadorian arguments caught my eye: "MPs threw water bottles and coins during a fight which disrupted parliament in Ecuador. . . MPs also made gun signs with their hands and pretended to shoot at speakers, reports Terra Noticias Populares." (Emphasis mine).