Police intervene in Congressman Pete Olson's meeting

Congressman "Deer in the headlights" Pete Olson (R-TX) gets run over by his constituents and the police had to take over the meeting. The first part is Olson exploiting a child with a serious heart defect for political points. The second part is the crowd giving him hell for it to the point a scuffle breaks out. The Police are called in and threatens to cancel Olson's meeting.

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• Pete Olson
• health care.

[1toMuse]

@raughammer: Town Halls are platforms for constituents to connect w/ there rep.s, not to told what to think or be sold propaganda nonsence,.Congress, and all of Gov. are public sevents , they work for us, thus it rightfully angers thoughs who realize ther being sold 1/2 truths and lies. ..... = Thinking people know when to call:"Bull-Shit !" , Wile the "Sheeple get fooled. .. .........................(the protesters are awake)

[raughammer]

You protestors sound like ignorant jerks.

Did you not receive instruct on how to behave in public when you were a child?

Animals....

[mfcobb1]

Rushtrdamus seems to be a lunatic on the rampage. Take some prozac you crazy person.

[Rushtrdamus]

I don't welcome someone else's stupidity, I avoid it.

What about it? Should the world stop simply because a disabled person crosses paths with an animal?

The fact is that I accept the fact that humans are simply smart animals, you however want tp place us on a throne. Humans are responcible for most of the worlds pain and suffering. Yet you still place us above other life forms. Very sad.

WE will be the earths undoing.

[freesk8]

I asgree that Darwin was right, but his theory is descriptive, not prescriptive or normative. Social or moral Darwinists are morally bankrupt. Just because natural selection and killing for food happens, does not mean it is moral or good when it happens to people.

I agree that it is foolhardy and even stupid when people get in to situations that kill them, but I still list it as a tragedy.

You seem to welcome it, and that is heartless.

And what about the developmentally disabled vs animals?

[Rushtrdamus]

I value smart people over animals. When a story about some dipshit getting killed by a mountainlion, in the MOUNTAINS comes on the news, I laugh my ass off. Cause I know that the dipshit that was killed's family will ask HOW this could have happened.

I know how it happened, a dipshit thought he was the superior animal in the mountains.

He was wrong.

So no, I do not value all people over animals.

Darwin was right.

[freesk8]

You are right, they are seldom easy.

There is always uncertainty about the ultimate result of one's actions.

But the thought experiment I gave you was designed to make you think about your values. If you do not know the identity of the person, and you do not know the identity, or even the species of the animal, almost everyone would save the person instead of the animal.

Hitlers are the rare exception. I would say it proves the rule.

Admit it: you value people over animals too.

Don't you?

[freesk8]

Were stronger than all animals via our technology. We're faster and have more stamina for the same reason. Humans are a technological animal. To consider us naked is to ignore an important part of what we are.

It's no assumption that we are superior.

Our superiority is manifest.

It is wisdom for us to be benevolent towards other species.

A species can not be arrogant. Arrogance is an attitude, and groups can not have attitudes, only individuals can.

[Rushtrdamus]

Life is NEVER that simple. What if the person was Hitler, would you then choose the squirrel to die.

We can't always set up our choices so perfectly. You act as though our choices are so easy. They rarely are.

[Rushtrdamus]

It's not obvious, it's arrogant. We are weaker than all other primates, we're slower than most and have nowhere near the stamina of most, yet because we have thumbs and a lager brains, you assume that we are superior.