Common Cause Considers Suit Over Capitol Lockdown

Lawsuit? I don’t mind lawsuits, but what are the damages? What would be the remedy? Develop of time machine to take them back to yesterday so they could sit in the gallery?

People beat on doors and windows AFTER being refused entry, and the constitution, while mentioning “secrecy”, doesn’t say anything about cowardly politicians unable to face the people they are betraying.
I don’t think anyone blames the Assembly in particular, and trust me, there was plenty of Cuomo-hate among the protesters and it’s only going to build. The problem can’t be reduced to one man, though. The Republicans have declared open war on the working people in NY and across the US (this surprises no one), but the norm among most Dems now seems to entail shedding crocodile tears while helping to implement the GOP agenda (while the rest, like Cuomo, don’t even bother with the tears). NY is waking up to this betrayal, and we aren’t going to be easily pacified, so get used to seeing this sort of thing. You’re going to be seeing more.

So what you’re saying is that the American colonists also “had no right” to “disrupt” the function of the British Administration? You are one hell of a patriot.

IronMike and EM, the issue is not whether the Gov or Leg were right or wrong on the budget, but rather how your friends conducted themselves. When we abandon civility in favor of physical threats or disruption, we begin the descent into anarchy. Although that is doubtless the goal of some of the protesters, it is the role of those charged with maintaining security and civility to stop the harassment. As for IronMike’s question apparently likening the Albany protesters to the colonialists, that’s a bit of a stretch. The colonialists were protesting for LESS government, taxes and MORE liberties, in contrast to your friends who want MORE taxes, bigger government, and fewer liberties for citizens. Its hard to enjoy your liberties when you are forced to move to another state to find a job.

You totally mischaracterized me, my friend. Seems like you are too caught up in your polarizing ideology to avoid typecasting me, and you set up a straw man analogy at odds with historical fact. I am absolutely, totally 180 degrees dead set against “fewer liberties for citizens”. I abhor the suppression of freedom of speech, freedom of (and FROM) religion, freedom of the press, freedom to love and marry whoever you want to regardless of gender, freedom for adults to eat, drink and smoke whatever they want to in the privacy of their own homes, freedom from intrusive government AND corporate invasions of personal privacy, and on and on. Knee-jerk diatribes about “more” vs. “less” government totally miss the point. The goal is for government that works–just enough. Government that stays out of peoples’ private lives, but protects their health, personal safety and brings criminals (including the economic criminals who constantly plunder us) to justice. Government which assures that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is afforded to ALL citizens. And I’m certainly not in favor of more taxes on me, but I am far from the top 2% of the economic spectrum who preach the Gordon Gekko gospel of untrammeled greed and let people starve to death…to hell with “fair share”, screw my neighbor like some bad scene in a Dickens novel from 150 years ago.

As far as the American Revolution is concerned, the rebellion was not against taxation per se, but “taxation without representation”. If you bother to read the Constitution, it clearly provided for a strong and unifying Federal government while also preserving State sovereignty…YOUR friends’ idea of “less government” would have forced the ill-fated and unworkable Articles of Confederation on our forefathers and resulted in a weak balkanized terrirtory which would have been easy prey for the European powers. It had nothing to do with “less government”; it was all about SELF-government. Our own representatives elected by us. Not hand-picked by some foreign monarchy and his flunkies. No surprise that your ilk want to destroy the public education system and replace it with private elitist schools for the fat cats’ kids and garbage for the masses, because your rant proves that you never paid sufficient attention in class. Ok, school’s out. You failed.