So, should protesters be allowed to openly protest in Senate Chambers and McCain is overreacting, or this is a step too far and the protesters were interfering in the operation of government?McCain Calls Protesters 'Low-Life Scum' At Senate Hearing
JANUARY 29, 2015 1:49 PM ET
KRISHNADEV CALAMUR
Protesters interrupt the start of a Senate Armed Services hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prepares to testify.
Protesters interrupt the start of a Senate Armed Services hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prepares to testify.
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., lashed out at anti-war demonstrators protesting the presence of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at a Senate hearing, calling them "low-life scum."
Kissinger, 91, and other former secretaries of state in both Republican and Democratic administrations, were at the Senate Armed Services Committee, which McCain chairs, for a hearing on global security challenges.
A small group of protesters held banners calling Kissinger a "war criminal" and urged his arrest for U.S. actions when he served in the Nixon administration as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.
"Arrest Henry Kissinger for war crimes," they chanted.
Critics have accused Kissinger of war crimes for covert actions the U.S. government conducted in Chile, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia and Laos.
McCain ordered Capitol police to remove the protesters.
"Get out of here, you low-life scum," he said.
You can watch what happened here.
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Kissinger is a war criminal and genocider, so he deserves it.
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You ask that as if the US government were functional enough to be considered operating without these protests...So, should protesters be allowed to openly protest in Senate Chambers and McCain is overreacting, or this is a step too far and the protesters were interfering in the operation of government?
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I mean, I can get why there needs to be order in the chambers, but "low-life scum"? You'd think he'd have a better mask than that.
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Kissinger is still alive? He was an old geezer when I was a kid!
Yes, he's guilty as hell but I'm not holding my breath that he'll ever be held to account for it.
People heckling in the Capitol is a time-honored tradition, as is heckling back. McCain is as entitled to his opinion as the protesters are to theirs. The protesters got heard, nothing broke, no one hurt, no one arrested, life goes on.
Yes, he's guilty as hell but I'm not holding my breath that he'll ever be held to account for it.
People heckling in the Capitol is a time-honored tradition, as is heckling back. McCain is as entitled to his opinion as the protesters are to theirs. The protesters got heard, nothing broke, no one hurt, no one arrested, life goes on.
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I don't think the guy who once told a "joke" explaining the Chelsea Clinton was "so ugly" because Janet Reno was her biological father. On the Senate Floor, I believe. John McCain should have been left in Vietnam.
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I can't imagine that protesters would normally be allowed in the actual senate hearing room, so I don't see McCain asking for their removal as that unusual, TBH. The public is likely allowed in as a matter of necessity - as it is an open hearing, and they can be audience to it. The people in the picture, even if they weren't being vocal, were still a distraction. Don't get me wrong - i have no issue with their message per se, or their right to express themselves - but don't you normally need a permit to protest/hold a rally of any kind?
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Considering the amount of blood Kissinger has sticking to his hands he got off very lightly. Chickenshits should be grateful that Karma's only a fictional concept.
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So the quality of humor is the standard by which we judge who we rescue? I... ok.Flagg wrote:I don't think the guy who once told a "joke" explaining the Chelsea Clinton was "so ugly" because Janet Reno was her biological father. On the Senate Floor, I believe. John McCain should have been left in Vietnam.