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- SL Rez
- 2007
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- Dec 2010
I don't understand. They were elected to do a job. That job is to take votes whether their side wins or not. As far as I am concerned they are derelict of duty. Else, I guess, from now on, whenever legislators do not like what the other side is doing, say, giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy they too can just walk off the job? Perhaps gather their own militias?The threats of violence are totally unacceptable. However, as an extreme parliamentary tactic -- denying the majority a quorum -- in recent times, Democrats have done this in Texas and (I think) in Minnesota or Wisconsin. It's an extreme tactic, but entirely legal and, I think, fair for either side. I don't like it when it's done to sabotage legislation to help avert disastrous climate change; I hate it. But calling it irresponsible as a tactic is wrong. To call it irresponsible in their duties to the human species and the all the non-human species that -- willy nilly -- we have stewardship over, I agree with entirely.
Furthermore, threatening violence upon officers? One stated that they better send bachelors. They rely upon militias to use brute strength? This is what elected representatives of the people are to be and do?