1) "I was just a soldier following orders" during the Nuremberg Trials is much like "I was just doing my Congressional oversight" - both are simply excuses for bad behavior, a phrase that is the last refuge of scoundrels. "Congressional oversight" does not involve press conference disruptions. It involves, you know, congressional oversight.
2) I find speaking in Spanish, during a public press conference, by an officer of a nation whose language is English to be rude, reprehensible, and dismissive of the people of a nation the man claims to represent.
3) He was "forcibly removed" and "forced to the ground" and "handcuffed" because he was being combative against law enforcement officers. If he were anyone other than a congress critter, he would still be cooling his heels in a cell for resisting arrest and interfering with law enforcement operations.
4) It's clear from the video that he was not there to "exercise congressional oversight", but rather instead to be a disruptive influence. You don't shout random questions at a press conference or fight law enforcement as a normal course of exercising congressional oversight. Likewise, lunging at other government officials is not a part of "exercising congressional oversight". Questions can be handled during the question and answer phase of a press conference, not shouted in the middle of it... unless your only goal s to be disruptive.
5) All in all, every action Padilla performed during this fiasco was conduct unbecoming the office of Congressman, and he should face censure by any and all who hold that office dear, and who respect law and order.
6) The same goes for Maxine Waters' dog and pony show at the Ice detention facility. She was not merely there to "exercise congressional oversight" as claimed, either. Both are simply dog and pony shows, publicity stunts, conduct unbecoming an officer of the United States.
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2) I find speaking in Spanish, during a public press conference, by an officer of a nation whose language is English to be rude, reprehensible, and dismissive of the people of a nation the man claims to represent.
3) He was "forcibly removed" and "forced to the ground" and "handcuffed" because he was being combative against law enforcement officers. If he were anyone other than a congress critter, he would still be cooling his heels in a cell for resisting arrest and interfering with law enforcement operations.
4) It's clear from the video that he was not there to "exercise congressional oversight", but rather instead to be a disruptive influence. You don't shout random questions at a press conference or fight law enforcement as a normal course of exercising congressional oversight. Likewise, lunging at other government officials is not a part of "exercising congressional oversight". Questions can be handled during the question and answer phase of a press conference, not shouted in the middle of it... unless your only goal s to be disruptive.
5) All in all, every action Padilla performed during this fiasco was conduct unbecoming the office of Congressman, and he should face censure by any and all who hold that office dear, and who respect law and order.
6) The same goes for Maxine Waters' dog and pony show at the Ice detention facility. She was not merely there to "exercise congressional oversight" as claimed, either. Both are simply dog and pony shows, publicity stunts, conduct unbecoming an officer of the United States.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake