Congressman assaults student on sidewalk * VIDEO *

Watch the video, these kids were abrupt and rude. You do not see the face of them, it is blotted out. You see a caption, not a continuous picture. That may or may not matter, but everyone has rights here, including this Congressman.

How do you know what he is going though on that day? Maybe some lobby is heavily pressuring him to vote against his conscience, for that matter for something Obama is doing.

Grabbing the kid was at least equal or greater than the rudeness of his question. But to make so many judgments about him, walk a mile in his shoes someday.

I do not trust the comments here that only too typically demonize a Congressman who is at some point getting little or no respect. "Do you fully support the Obama agenda?" Half the ordinary people here might get pissed off at that kind of question when they are just walking down the street.

Last Edited by SpaceCommand on 06/14/2010 10:58 AM

"He is active in Freemasonry and is currently the Grand Orator for North Carolina Freemasonry."

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An alchoholic public servant that just wants to retire with a cushy pension.

It would be fair to assume there might a back story behind this.

Good.

Nice to see the 'leaders' are flipping out....

Fuckers have done everything possible to destroy our nation and enrich their pockets.

We all know they are psychos. But now they are showing themselves for all to see.

'Who Are You'? Maybe the congressman woke up drunk in a Soho doorway earlier that day.

You are stupid.

Now, that statement does not equal me grabbing you or punching you.

One is a free expression of speach, the other is assault.

If you can't see this, refer to line one

Right, How about you go into the city somewhere or near a college campus and man handle a kid because he asked you a question, And come back and tell us the outcome of that...

Or ask the countless famous ppl about being charged with assault for attacking the paparazzi for picture taking..

the kid's youtube account with both videos, from two different angles. They appear unedited. Both under 45 sec

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Doesn't matter how shitty a day you've had,if you grab someone forcefully without their permission it's called assault.

And asshat of the year award goes to...

Of course he's be a Freemason. Bunch of demonic cunts.

The kid off camera sounds like Frank Vaultakkie the infamous prank caller. If that's the case, little wonder they didn't want to say who they were. Vaultakkie does stuff like call the FBI on Skype and tell the agent to fuck off. Real hardcore and highly illegal stuff.

AKA- Possessed by other entities... they are getting so fuckin scared out of there skins now because people are waking up in Masses and ready to suck the life out of this bullshit system.. its GO time folks.. these people cant do SHIT when the rest of us activate our other DNA strands... they will run like cowards..

40% of congressmen are millionaires
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Bull!

So, he has a "bad day" and it makes it alright to commit assault and battery?

I'll remember that "excuse" if I assault someone that asks me the wrong question...

Maybe the police will let me off with a warning.

I agree that both sides handled this improperly. The students really should have identified themselves. And the congressman? Holy shit!

But what I strongly suspect is that someone has been harrassing the congressman already. Someone is giving the old guy some serious grief for him to react as he did. I wonder what the hell is going on and who's putting the screws to him?

All the more reason the congressman should have avoided confrontation...at any cost to his ego etc

wow cudos to those students for not having beaten the shit out of that old fuck.

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Here is the email for this freak.

There is no excuse for his behaviour people. Watching the way he grabbed the boy, I wonder what would happen if they werent on the road with people passing by...

I might be stupid, but asking people "do you fully support the Obama agenda?"

Those are fighting words, maybe insulting. You people do not get it, those are provoking questions in a government that still does not get rid of torture, and that still hands out trillions to bankers. People are balancing what they say everyday in Washington. This incident is a bunch of emotional hogwash on all sides. Just blame the Congressman, ask him if he has stopped beating his wife while you are at it.

I would have broken his arm/face in about 3 0r 4 places, then I would have said
"someone YOU WON'T put YOUR hands on, motherfucker."

These sort of videos are questionable to say the least. Remember the "hero" who took down Acorn with his undercover sting video. It was all over fox and it resulted in the complete collapse of Acorn and cost many people their jobs.

Well a couple of months after all is said and done a DA who was putting together a case to try each of the Acorn employees released the unedited videos. What did we find out, well first the video was cut to eliminate critical clips that showed that the employees were not compliant with the prostitution. For example one man was shown in the video offering his help in smuggling child prostitutes across the Mexican boarder. He asked questions like how many and where were they going to be smuggled from. What the movie maker failed to mention was right after that conversation the employee called his brother who was a police officer in the city and reported the incident and the officer turned it over to the division that handles those cases.

The point is don't hang this congressmen out to dry without first waiting to hear all the facts. It is very possible that what is not being shown are actions by the "students" that might have not been as nice as they imply. Trust me based on the opening question these "students" had all intention of using this video to attack the congressman. Hell if I walked into a tea party rally and started asking hostile questions I guarantee I would not be walking out with all my teeth.

You mess with the Bull you get the horns.

You are either wacked out on crack, a shill, or a statist who believes the public should never ask even simple questions.

In the video we saw a young person dressed in a suit greet a congressman politely with "good morning congressman", call him sir repeatedly and ask one single question. "Do you fully support the Obama agenda?". Nothing about that is rude. It was way more respect than Rep Etheridge apparantly deserves.

I want to see that soon to be ex-CONgressman perp-walked by the capitol police for assault on tonight's news.

Last Edited by Resister on 06/14/2010 11:09 AM

I think he wanted to student to reply, "Your boy toy sir!"

That jerk Dem. needs to be behind bars for what he did to that student.
Just another example of the great Democratic party at work...i will never vote for a Democratic again as long as there is voting.

Bob Etheridge: Who are YOU?

And WHO do you think YOU are?

And you still don't understand that even if what the kids said was "rude" it still doesn't even come close to excusing Congressman Ready-Fire-Aim from the assault he committed against the kid.

Honestly SpaceCommand that is why the Congressman should have said, "no comment" or just not responded in any way.

But for you to think that the simple statement of "do you fully support the Obama agenda" are fighting words or an insult is really quite laughable.

If you are for something stand your ground, if you are against something have the fortitude to stand behind your actions/decisions.

I agree with the other poster that something did spook him for a politician to react that way on camera and to such an innocuous question.