I was amused to see the headline, “Five Members of the House Arrested.”

And indeed, five of the 256 Democratic members of the House of Representatives have been arrested . . . for violating a police order at a protest against genocide in Darfur outside the Sudanese embassy.

Those in handcuffs are Reps. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, Donna Edwards of Maryland, John Lewis of Georgia, Lynn Woolsey of California, and Jim McGovern of Massachusetts.

It’s a nice symbolic gesture, but back in 2006, seven members of Congress were arrested — same place, same issue. Not much has changed in Sudan, it would seem.