Spoiled Kids Stage a “Die-in” at Connecticut Capitol re Gas Plant
Ever see a spoiled rotten child, say about two years old, who is told “NO” and proceeds to throw a temper tantrum and drop to the ground and lie there, not moving, pretending to be dead? That’s what the scene looked like yesterday in Hartford, Connecticut as a small group of spoiled rotten children (high school and college-age, never really grew up mentally) staged a “die-in” where they flopped themselves on the ground like petulant two-year-olds and stayed there in an effort to protest a clean-burning, safe, much-needed gas-fired electric power plant planned for Killingly.
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