{"id":189429,"date":"2010-03-31T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/31\/we-now-have-a-video-of-a-teabagger-spitting-on-rep-emanuel-cleaver-d-mo\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T12:26:00","slug":"we-now-have-a-video-of-a-teabagger-spitting-on-rep-emanuel-cleaver-d-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/31\/we-now-have-a-video-of-a-teabagger-spitting-on-rep-emanuel-cleaver-d-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"We Now Have a Video of a Teabagger Spitting on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; float: right; text-align: center;\" width=\"400\"><object height=\"303\" width=\"384\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OmP4Gb2pEsY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OmP4Gb2pEsY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"303\" width=\"384\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">People Who Don&#8217;t Read the Constitution<\/span><\/div>\n<p>So much for all the Teabaggers, as well as Sean Hannity, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/03\/28\/congressman-spit-on-by-te_n_516300.html\">denying that it ever happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Someone does not understand <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Congressional_immunity\">congressional immunity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8230;shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their attendance at the Session of their Respective Houses, and in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">going to and from the same<\/span>, and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>A congressman in that position could have pulled out a gun and shot the protesters dead,<sup>*<\/sup> and shot them dead, because they are immune from almost all prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Doubtless any member of the House or Senate who did this would be expelled in short order, but prosecution would be complex, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Take my legal advice with a grain of salt,  I&#8217;m an engineer, not a lawyer, dammit!<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">LOVE IT<\/span>  when I get to go all Doctor McCoy!!!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People Who Don&#8217;t Read the Constitution So much for all the Teabaggers, as well as Sean Hannity, denying that it ever happened. Someone does not understand congressional immunity: &#8230;shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their attendance at the Session of their Respective Houses, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,978,1027,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-politics","category-video","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}