Teabaggers SPIT ON my favorite congressman today. Yes they spit on him!!!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

I just can't put into words how deeply I despise the teabaggers.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's (D-MO) office issued the following statement this evening after Cleaver alleged that an anti-health care reform protester spat on him as he entered the Capitol today.

In response to an incident earlier today, Congressman Cleaver's office has issued the following statement:

For many of the members of the CBC, like John Lewis and Emanuel Cleaver who worked in the civil rights movement, and for Mr. Frank who has struggled in the cause of equality, this is not the first time they have been spit on during turbulent times.


This afternoon, the Congressman was walking into the Capitol to vote, when one protester spat on him. The Congressman would like to thank the US Capitol Police officer who quickly escorted the others Members and him into the Capitol, and defused the tense situation with professionalism and care. After all the Members were safe, a full report was taken and the matter was handled by the US Capitol Police. The man who spat on the Congressman was arrested, but the Congressman has chosen not to press charges. He has left the matter with the Capitol Police.

This is not the first time the Congressman has been called the "n" word and certainly not the worst assault he has endured in his years fighting for equal rights for all Americans. That being said, he is disappointed that in the 21st century our national discourse has devolved to the point of name calling and spitting. He looks forward to taking a historic vote on health care reform legislation tomorrow, for the residents of the Fifth District of Missouri and for all Americans. He believes deeply that tomorrow's vote is, in fact, a vote for equality and to secure health care as a right for all. Our nation has a history of struggling each time we expand rights. Today's protests are no different, but the Congressman believes this is worth fighting for.
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/black-representative-says-he-was-spat-on-by-anti-hcr-protestor.php

[Gman2]

1. This is literally a godsend. And yes, I would be the spit target.

They are showing their family values.

[bobbolink]

26. I think so, too. This country has been in denial about racism, and this clearly

demonstrates that it is alive and "well".

Its time to deal openly with prejudice, and that isn't only race.

ALL prejudice, including toward homeless people. It is all the same process.

Too bad he didn't press charges.

[Gman2]

34. They dont even know the difference between racism, and discrimination, and what makes one diff from

other

[MajorChode]

62. I don't think too many people with more than 2 synapses actively firing are in denial about racism

The only question is the extent to which it infests our society. We have just now recently (historically speaking) reached the point where the country is almost exclusively politically divided along the lines of racism. As the strongest racists have more control over the GOP, they feel more empowered about being more overt with their feelings. I have no doubt they WILL continue to get bolder. The only question is if they will be put in their place before they start putting up "White Only" signs again.

[bobbolink]

64. Then your experience is very different from mine. I hear middle-class "progressive" whites

all the time proclaim how far we have come, and that racism is no longer an issue.

[MajorChode]

66. Are you saying you don't think we have come far in the past 40-50 years?

If that's your position(perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't), I can't agree. And although I'm sure there are people who think racism is no longer an "issue", I don't think that's anywhere near the mainstream view.

[bobbolink]

76. We've come far in OUTWARD things, like laws. As far as racism itself, NO.

Disagree all you want.

Those who are on the receiving end of prejudice KNOW the reality.

But then, we usually aren't HEARD.

[MajorChode]

78. I'm not sure how one could progress without the other

Laws are a reflection of the community. It's pretty difficult to change laws without first changing mindsets. That's not to say prejudice doesn't still occur and I fully conceded as much and will thank you not to imply otherwise.

What I suspect that you "KNOW" is your own reality, which I'm not trying to minimalize, but unless you came of age 50 years ago(and actually even if you did), I don't think you can attest to any lack of progress simply based on your own anecdotal information.

[bobbolink]

117. No, laws precede changing of mindsets, which is obviously not as far progressed as

we would like to tell ourselves it is.

As for the rest of your terse comment, I don't care to get into a pissing match with you. This is too important.

[MajorChode]

121. I know of not one major piece of legislation that didn't follow many years of changed mindsets

If you can think of a relevant example, please enlighten me.

I don't get into pissing matches. I engage in discussion which involves the exchanging of ideas which need not involve consensus. If what you want is a soapbox to offer only one sided ideas, please let me know and I'll refrain from replying.

You probably don't realize it, but your own statements are racist. You suggest that a "white" progressive can't possibly know racism because they haven't experienced it. This is a racist statement. White people do experience racism and other bigotries and I can give you all sorts of examples. I'm not pointing this out to inflame, but I'm giving this as an example that sometimes people make racist statements without realizing it even if they never intended to do so. One has to be very careful about judging progression based on an extremely limited perspective.

[CLANG]

97. I agree with you bobbolink

Racism will never lessen in racists and only seems to lessen to some because it has generally gone more underground. If we are lucky, racists themselves, as they die out, will not be replaced on a 1 by 1 basis by their children.

[bobbolink]

118. I would like to believe that racists will not be replaced, but with home schooling so popular

among this subset, I don't hold out a lot of hope.

Unless a lot of the youngsters go into the military, where it won't be as tolerated as in their little clans.

[defendandprotect]

111. Progressive laws were made, but right wing backlash reversed many of the gains by AA and women .

Think of simply the EEOC where Clarence Thomas!!! was put in charge --

for decades they've done nothing --

And constant attacks on Affirmative Action by right wing --

And, I'm sure that AA's here could tell us much more --

I'm just reading a book about how far backwards women's rights have been taken

and no difference with other "minorities."

Old story . . . one step forward, two steps backwards --

:)

Sorry if I sound angry, it certainly isn't with you!!

Repug Party, itself, hasn't given up its personal racism which comes on display

quite frequently!!

[awoke_in_2003]

91. Racism has always been an issue...

it just became more covert after the 60's.

[MajorChode]

115. Unbelievably, it's still overt as of the last 2 days on the floor of the lower house of congress...

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/19/yankee-aggression/

And by Glenn Beck just last year...
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907220015

The Southern Strategy is still alive and well and fully overt.

[awoke_in_2003]

116. Yeah, they are

crawling out of the wooodwork.

[skyounkin]

104. I'm tired of it being ignored.

Especially by President, just because he is black and doesn't want to make it about race. But it is.

[malaise]

68. Yep the shit has finally hit the fan

They've been encouraged by M$Greedia and the Re9b0THUGS all summer.
How everyone knows they're racist scumbags.

[Lilyeye]

2. These people are beyond vile.

[Bluzmann57]

3. Mr. Cleaver is a bigger man than most

And one would hope that the moron who spit on him and then got let off appreciates how lucky he is, although somehow I doubt it. Spitting on a person is considered assault in most places and certainly is grounds for a serious ass kicking in all places.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. He needs to press charges

I hope the Capitol police charge this spitter.

[SusanaMontana41]

107. I'm with you

Assaulting a congressperson is a felony, is it not?

[defendandprotect]

112. dupe --

[defendandprotect]

113. I thought so, too --- perhaps he knows better--?????

I would just feel that it should be on the record --

and made clear that this is NOT allowed!


But, there may be other considerations that Rep. Cleaver thinks work better????

[awoke_in_2003]

92. I am an atheist...

but that being said, I wish more Christians would live up to their teachings like he did- turn the other cheek. He is a big man that lived up to his own good principles.

[Cleita]

4. So sorry. This is so awful.

I can't believe people are protesting helping people with health care. The Kool-Aid drinkers are dangerous to themselves and everyone else. What do we do?

[CBHagman]

8. And some of the protesters are clearly Medicare...

...and Social Security recipients. If you have seen some of the footage on YouTube, various of the participants are definitely in that particular age bracket, though I have seen some variety in that teabagger crowd -- i.e., young and angry and ignorant, middle-aged and angry and ignorant, senior and angry and ignorant...

[proud2BlibKansan]

70. The Medicare set has dominated the teabagger rallies

[ericinne]

5. That's assault

If you spit on a cop, they can taze you and charge you with assault. Wonder what will be come of this tea bagger, is saliva freedom of speech too? According to alot of arresting officers who arrested people for spitting on them, I wouldn't think so.

[Bluerthanblue]

14. it's assault if you aren't a cop too-

a friend who is staff at a shelter was spat upon in the presence of Police and they said that was assault- that he could press charges if he chose.

(he's a really mellow guy and said no thanks)

[RainDog]

6. they're racist motherfuckers who do not deserve to live in this nation n/t

...and the republican party is going to hell with the motherfuckers they empowered.

[madmax]

7. What you said, damn right!

[Grand Taurean]

9. There is nothing new about the teabaggers arguments.

They are the same arguments the right has made for years, that is they desire to go back to the old days, before 1900 at least.
Strange how the "liberal" media gives them so much attention.

[patrice]

10. That's pretty frakking SICK. Cleaver is such a Good Guy! Did you see the stuff about Brownback

and Moran in the article about Michelle Bachman and others being on the government dole in TruthDig?

http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/michelle_bachman_welfare_queen_20091221/

[patrice]

13. and here . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7966844

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. Cleaver has spoken highly of Brownback

Must be a religious admiration thing.

[patrice]

24. Oh, I'm sure they try to keep things as polite as they can.

Don't you just love that about Jerry Moran's district being the second highest recipients of agricultural subsidies in the country. What do you suppose their attitude toward Health Care for All is.

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. And don't forget farmers don't pay sales tax in Kansas

Talk about welfare queens.

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. The teabaggers just want to go back to the "good ol' days" before the 60's.

And by that, I mean the 1860's.

[Rhiannon12866]

17. At least before Obama, when taxes were lower... NOT!

The Misinformed Tea Party Movement

For an antitax group, they don't know much about taxes.

It's hard to explain this divergence between perception and reality. Perhaps these people haven't calculated their tax returns for 2009 yet and simply don't know what they owe. Or perhaps they just assume that because a Democrat is president that taxes must have gone up, because that's what Republicans say that Democrats always do. In fact, there hasn't been a federal tax increase of any significance in this country since 1993.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=525021&mesg_id=525021

[Manifestor_of_Light]

19. Pre-13th Amendment and all following, specifically.

Pre-Emancipation Proclamation.

[ljm2002]

75. Zing!

Good one!

[Oregone]

15. Probably just a bad apple

"how deeply I despise the teabaggers"

You are painting them all in that light. I imagine there is at least one good apple in that crate. Maybe some guy went along with his neighbor that day to humor him. They all aren't ignorant racists fucks. Just most of them

Maybe.

[patrice]

16. Good thought. Thank you.

:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. I spent much of my summer at rallies with them

99% are ignorant racist fuckheads.

[Oregone]

22. Huh? Were you shooting a funny documentary?

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. LOL no just working for HCR

They invaded every rally we held.

[Oregone]

28. I dont mean to be a dick

But if you worked half that hard filling out immigration papers, you probably would be much closer to real universal health care by now.

:(

[proud2BlibKansan]

29. Huh? I'm not following . . .

[Oregone]

31. I mean while you were out fighting "the good ole fight"

(which probably gave you some type of intrinsic award)

You're ass was getting sold down the river with some watered down, piece of shit reform. Fighting the good ole fight only gets you so much these days. The health care system you want isn't going to be available here (bill or not), so you could of advanced your condition more easily by looking abroad.

[comrade snarky]

37. Jesus man, reel it in a little

Yeah, we all know you hate the bill but why do you feel the need to denigrate someone who actually went out and worked for reform? You know neither didily or shit about what this person wants or did and yet you have to get in your spiteful dig at the bill somehow.

Does it bother you that much that some people still believe this country can be better?

Get off the computer and a walk, dude. Take a walk.


:edited for tpyo

[Oregone]

42. It was an honest observation

I feel like a lot of people were being used like tools, whether or not they knew better. Its a bitter pill to swallow. People in the streets demanding "healthcare now" aren't going to get it. They are simply a mouthpiece for an industry movement towards mandated & subsidized private for-profit insurance.

I feel sorry for this person. They probably worked their ass off and will have little to show for it. Thats incredibly unfortunate, but if "the fight" is worth it in itself, then all the power to them. Im not that kind of person. Id rather get real results, whether its half as hard or twice that. And the last thing Id want to be is some tool for a movement that reduces me to a statistical political football to pass a political agenda.

Im not denigrating this person one bit. My heart feels for them and everyone else that wanted something of substance.

[comrade snarky]

49. Uh huh... I can hear the tiny violin you play so sadly

But I can still see that little smile while you play it.

By the way, we're done here. I posted for the other person, the one whose work you denigrated.

[Oregone]

52. That work already is denigrated by the leadership that took advantage of it, then took a shit on it

[butterfly77]

96. Oh,and i guess you know what's better...

We thank you for empathizing with us:sarcasm:

[Oregone]

110. You are welcome

Really, you are.

Im like a fireman trying to get a wet kitten down from a tree, but is only being hissed at. So sad, but so cute at the same time.

[proud2BlibKansan]

60. Thank you

I'm done talking to that one.

For the record I am not at all happy with this HCR bill. But I am willing to see it as a start. And I do support it because the teabaggers/spitters are so vehemently opposed to it.

[comrade snarky]

63. Not a problem, that was totally uncalled for

It's poor form to insult a person for actually getting out and working toward the goal we all share.

Thanks for what you did. I'm with you hoping this can be the start of better things.

[proud2BlibKansan]

54. No I didn't get any intrinsic reward

Sheesh. This discussion is OVER.

[Oregone]

55. Sorry. Well at least maybe you will get a low actuarial value private plan

Hopefully you get somethign to show for it

[CBHagman]

72. Yes, "invaded" is the word.

Mayhem (and the status quo, God help us) is the name of the game, and of course, as someone upthread observed, the media has given this noisy but relatively small group the lion's share of the attention. That's reflective of a lot of things, including the current state of the media...

Anyway, thanks for getting out there, and I'm sorry you had to put u with this nonsense.

[proud2BlibKansan]

73. Thank you

[CLANG]

100. Nice try. Not buying today.

[Oregone]

108. Not buying a joke?

:)

Im turning the saying upside down a bit by suggesting the far off possibility there might be at least one normal person there (but the rest are assholes)

[CLANG]

109. OK, I'll give you that. Maybe there was an innocent baby in the crowd.

That would be the one not crying and whining. :toast:

[teacher gal]

21. Sad. n/t

[The Gunslinger]

27. The regressive movement in action.

[gauguin57]

30. John Lewis had his skull fractured while marching for civil rights in the '60s.

The man almost died for the cause. For tea party MORONS who don't know their heads from their hoods to be yelling the "N-word" at him makes me want to lose my dinner.

[Iris]

32. me, too. I was outraged.

My husband reminded me that these people are probably the kids, grandkids of the people who did it the first time.

But, why does this man and the rest of us have to go through this shit AGAIN?

[bobbolink]

35. What again? It never stopped.

[Iris]

41. yes. you're right.

sadly. You are right. It just makes me so sick.

[bobbolink]

47. I wish to hell I was wrong.

:cry:

:pals:

[proud2BlibKansan]

56. So do I bobbolink

I so wish you were wrong.

[Iris]

99. me, too.

In my mind's version of a better world you are, but we can't all live there.

:(

[proud2BlibKansan]

71. I understand the feeling

I about lost my dinner as well.

[eleny]

33. The bastards realize that they're losing

Eventually, history will bury them in the dust. They know it. So they lash out with spit. It's all they have left unless they want to take a trip to death row some day.

They better quit while they're behind and can still go home to grind their back teeth in the comfort of their cliques.

[bobbolink]

36. "lash out with spit"

Now *THERE'S* a mental image.

ewwww.... :hi: :thumbsup:

[eleny]

38. Hi, b!

After all these years, from the Edmund Pettus Bridge to this gauntlet. Lewis is a saint in my book.

:hi:

[bobbolink]

43. ABsolutely, he was on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, not the Bridge To Nowhere.

All these years, and we trumpet how much we have "changed", and it takes so little for the ugliness to rear its head. It never went away, and now surely the nation can see that.

I don't want to admit that I fear for lives in all of this..... I clearly remember 4 beautiful little girls dying in a church gone up in flames.

I also know that the ugliness that went underground became directed toward poor folk, and there weren't people who challenged that. That angers and saddens me, and now it looks like we are headed toward a real firestorm. Maybe we can manage, this time, to actually deal with it all head on.

Only, it doesn't all belong on Lewis' shoulders.

Stand up, folks. Some of us are very visible targets.

"lashing out with spit". "WE'RE NUMBER ONE"

[EFerrari]

39. Reptilian and apt, agreed.

[proud2BlibKansan]

69. Yes they are losing and they are losers

[Political Heretic]

40. I'd like to spit on a few wall street CEOs and cronies, and their partners in Washington....

I wish people were as furious about the financial takeover of our government or our bought and paid for representatives as those idiots protesting today are about black people.

[bobbolink]

46. THEY wouldn't hesitate for a minit to charge you with a crime.

[Political Heretic]

50. I'm sure. If you haven't been to jail for conscience, you haven't really done anything.

That's what someone once told me...

I think they're probably right.

[bobbolink]

53. geeeez, I gave you a bit of suport and understanding, and you cut me right down.

I haven't done anything?

Thanks, pal.

You're welcome to walk in my shoes any day.

I'm done.

Bye.

Go judge someone else.

[Political Heretic]

57. No, no, I am agreeing with you. And saying, yes jail... it would be worth it.

You go out of your way to take offense at everything you know that?

I didn't think your response was anything other than supportive, and then ADDING TO IT I mused about the fact that a little jail is probably good for the soul :)

Sheesh.

[bobbolink]

58. Sheeesh yourself. The statement clearly read that unless I and others go to jail, we have done

done NOTHING.

Not seeing the attack in that is insensitive.

so, go ahead and keep putting me down. I will work for my cause as I see fit, and since it doesn't meet with your standards, we have nothing left to work together on.

Go to jail. Don't go to jail. That is your choice. But you have NO business judging what others do.

[Political Heretic]

61. For fucks sake I was talking about MYSELF. Jesus.

:crazy:

SOMEONE ELSE once tole ME: if you haven't been to jail for conscience, you haven't really done anything.


I have not yet been to jail.

I was speaking of myself.. saying I think my friend is probably right.


If I said to you, "great post!" you would say, "Are you calling me FAT???"

[karynnj]

44. That is disgusting - and this will work against them

IMHO, today was a turning point in the coverage. The media has, until today, gone out of its way to show examples of tea partiers who were clean cut family people, often with kids. They gave enormous coverage to the huge (600 people) "convention" and have declared them to be a powerful grassroots movement.

But, led to hatred, by their radio show leaders, they have lost any concept of how extreme they are. The actions today are far from acceptable behavior. The fact is that they should have been called on their rudeness to the Congressmen who did town halls - asking tough questions is great, but their behavior last August was not. Today's are being covered and they are shameful.

[Maru Kitteh]

45. I keep waiting for the shots to ring out. Seems just a matter of time.

[proud2BlibKansan]

67. No doubt

[MindandSoul]

48. Any way we could send a message of support to Rep Cleaver???

[bobbolink]

51. I don't have the Capitol Hill numbers at hand right now, but they are easy to find.

And, remember their staffers. Those people suffer when something like this happens, and are likely getting death threats.

Give 'em a call of support!

I've done so, and believe me, they are grateful.

[proud2BlibKansan]

59. We are organizing a phone rally on Monday

Here are his numbers:

KANSAS CITY
816.842.4545

INDEPENDENCE
816.833.4545

WASHINGTON, D.C.
202.225.4535

[MindandSoul]

65. Thanks!

[grahamhgreen]

87. And please remember us, his constituents, and he want a public option, minimum!

[shireen]

74. declined to press charges?

he should have!

this is so sickening ...

[troubledamerican]

77. Hippies allegedly spit on Vietnam Vets. We heard about it for 40 years afterward. But

Doormat-o-crats will forget all about this. Give it two days.

[Cleita]

81. Supposedly that is an urban myth. It never happened.

The worst was that they were shunned. No one was there meeting them waving flags and praising them for their service like happened in WWII. The spit was metaphorical and the RW went with it like it really happened. It didn't. I asked many Vietnam vets when I was a bartender if they were mistreated and none of them said they were, just ignored. Of course my experience is anecdotal. Here are some more testimonies.

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=2360

It seems anti-war and pro-war protesters spit on each other, but there was a lot more violence in the protests back then.

[troubledamerican]

82. Of course. But you miss my point entirely.

Even if it was invented -- which I could've mentioned in my comment but DOESN'T MATTER --

Republicans repeated it for 40 years nevertheless.

Do you really think Doormat-o-crats will remember this by next Friday?

There are 1000+ bigger outrages from George W. Bush that Doormat-o-crats FORGOT>

Do you remember James Byrd? Black man dragged to his death behind a pickup truck in Jasper, Texas, while Bush was Texas Governor? Bush REFUSED TO MEET WITH THE BYRD FAMILY.

Is that bigger than spitting on Lewis?

When was the last time a Doormat-o-crat remembered that one about Bush?

[Cleita]

84. I got your point. Sorry if I offended you.

It's just I feel it's my obligation to mention that it's a myth every time it's brought up for the lurkers from the RW think tanks and websites to read who still think it's true because of the forty years of propaganda.

[old mark]

86. No, it is true - I was hitchiking home on a leave, wearing my uniform

in 1970, when a passing car slowed. Thinking I was aboug to get a ride, I looked over, just in time to dodge spit and a thrown beer bottle, partly full, and listen to the laughter of the people inside as they drove off, leaving me several milse from my destination.
It is true, and it happened to me.
I don't have any idea what political party they belonged to, though....I did not think to ask.

mark
Former Sp4, 82d Airborne Division,1968-1971

[FailureToCommunicate]

88. Having drunk a**holes spit at you while driving by don't make it "true" that Hippies

disrespected Vietnam Vets. I've had drive by showers like that and I wasn't wearing a uniform. I certainly saw protest disrupter's spit on us, but they sure weren't "hippies" (They were undoubtedly the parents of the current easy street tea party fools)

Thanks for your service, bty, Old Mark

[old mark]

98. Keep your thanks. nt

[pengillian101]

105. Yes. it happened to my guy too.

He rode in a bus with cages on the windows so the protesters couldn't break the windows. He was spat on, called a baby killer also. His own sister-in-law called him a baby killer. I am sorry you guys had those experiences.

I am happy that our current service members get the respect that all service members do.

And may I say a very belated WELCOME HOME! I hope you are doing well.

:hi:

[Spirochete]

79. What a disgusting asshole!

Who the hell spits on another person, anyhow? Besides, he spit on the wrong Emanuel.

[kestrel91316]

80. I suspect the teabaggers fervently wish for a return to the good old days of slavery.

[proud2BlibKansan]

101. Oh you know that's right

Racist monsters.

[Liberty Belle]

83. Isn't that considered assault? Arrest the spitter. This is nasty and could spread disease.

Apart from being rude and offensive to common decency.

[Cleita]

85. I would be considered assault in California.

It depends on the law on the books where it happened.

[northofdenali]

89. Found the Congressman's website/email -

and sent a note. The guy is one class act; the teabaggers certainly show they are true lowlives, don't they?

K&R

[proud2BlibKansan]

95. Thank you

We are going to do a blitz of calls tomorrow.

[Rwalsh]

90. I wish

somebody would get pictures of this kind of stuff and publish them for the whole world to see.

Let people see these things for themselves. It will make them angry.

[mistertrickster]

93. Rep. Cleaver spoke to our Democracy for America training session in KC for about an hour.

He's a great guy. Mild-mannered and funny.

[proud2BlibKansan]

94. Are you coming to DFA training in OP?

Howard Dean is speaking!

And yes Cleaver is a class act. I have been a big admirer of his for 30 years.

[mistertrickster]

122. You mean in April? I've gone twice already, but I'd go again to meet Howard. nt

[Tailormyst]

102. I'm really afraid there will be violence today

These people have crossed a line and its scary as hell.

[TK421]

103. That is assault-he should have filed charges and made an example of the asshole

perhaps making the rest think twice about doing this

[SemperEadem]

106. collect that dna, put it in a data base

I'm sure sooner or later, the spitter will show up in some criminial enterprise. He's not bright enough to figure that the Patriot Act can also apply to him. Dumb ass.

[defendandprotect]

114. Really classy people -- !!!

[Blix Krieg]

119. They were actually just frothing at the mouth

Like the uncivilized Riff Raff they really.
They can't help but spit at people. It comes
natural with the guttersnipes.

You can not fault them manners.

[chelsea0011]

120. I know the media has been "busy" covering the HCR Bill, but why

has their been no outrage over these incidents?