Ryan Mocks Senior Citizen Handcuffed At Town Hall: ‘I Hope He’s Taking His Blood Pressure Medication

[Emit]

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), the author of the House GOP plan to phase out Medicare, does not like it when constituents publicly challenge him. In fact, people who disagree with Ryan have a habit of getting arrested for it. (...)

(...) this week, three people who paid to see Ryan speak were arrested and charged with trespassing for protesting the event. One constituent, a 71-year-old retired plumber from Kenosha, Wisconsin, was handcuffed and pushed to the ground by security:

Video footage taken by an attendee at the event shows that one of them, Tom Nielsen, received particularly harsh treatment — he was pushed to the ground and handcuffed. Nielsen received an additional charge of resisting arrest.

Ryan was speaking Tuesday afternoon at the Whitnall Park Rotary Club. Protesters gathered both outside his event and inside, standing up and disrupting the congressman’s remarks.

According to Oak Creek Patch, as many as a dozen protesters were escorted out of the event. Another dozen or so left willingly.

Ryan seemed supremely undisturbed that a senior citizen worried about receiving the Medicare he’s paid into his whole life was treated so brutally. Indeed, Ryan made light of the arrest and quipped to the audience, “I hope he’s taking his blood pressure medication.” (...)

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/09/09/314419/paul-ryan-mocks-senior-citizen-handcuffed-at-his-town-hall-i-hope-hes-taking-his-blood-pressure-medication/

edited to add grrrrr... cold blooded bastard

[DrunkenBoat]

1. Fascists don't get disturbed when they mess with the "little people". If the guy were

killed by the cops, Ryan's only disturbance would be how to spin it.

These people don't care about ordinary people. We're like uncivilized tribespeople to them, seriously. They think of us in the exact way the old robber barons thought of Indians or Africans.

[roguevalley]

7. what a complete fucker. I could slap his mama in the face. if he

even knows who she is.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Ryan is a disgusting POS.

[Emit]

9. couldn't have said it better myself, CaliforniaPeggy

he really is a pos! drrrrr

[Bluzmann57]

3. What's really annoying about this whole thing...

Besides the obvious is that if Mr. Neilsen's sons, daughters, whatever, punched ryan in his smug face, they'd get arrested and hauled off to jail when in reality they'd be doing society a favor.
Uh-oh. Violent rhetoric from a Progressive. Well fuck you righties, I ain't apologizing.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. SUE THE BASTARD!!

Using illegal force under color of law.

[Patiod]

5. That needs to be used in his opponent's campaign ads

This is exactly what I expect from a Republican

[Emit]

8. yes, over and over again

[Aerows]

6. Are we really to the point where

roughing up a 71 year old man for daring to question a Congressman at a town hall meeting is standard procedure?

All the guy asked was "What is an entitlement program, I paid into Social Security and Medicare for 50 years" Is this what has become of our "Democracy"? It's bad enough that Ryan made the joke afterwards and dismissed the man's questions, but then he also gets physically pushed down by security?

[999998th word]

11. Also in the same week capital punishment was cheered

during the nationally televised 'debate' of candidates for President.

Fascism is here.

[Raine]

10. Cold hearted bastard, without a shred of compassion.

Sometimes I wonder how someone comes to be that way, what kind of parents he had and experiences that makes someone like that. :-(

[polly7]

12. What a stupid asshole! nt.

[Mimosa]

13. Ryan's proved himself the fascist posterboy

There's something about Ryan which always reminds me of 1930s Germany.