It was not right when Cynthia McKinney disrespected a Capitol Police officer and although less “violent” it’s wrong now that Christopher Shays has done it.

Certainly Shays’ actions are not exactly those of McKinney, he didn’t swing at the cop, however he was highly disrespectful and if he were being treated like any other US citizen, given our constitution mandates equal protection, he would have been cuffed and spent the night in jail! I say McKinney should have been locked up and Shays should not get off easy either. But Shays is getting off easy and word is that no charges will be filed. Congress probably won’t do much in the way of disciplinary action of any kind either. He’ll get to walk after abusing a cop and it all might not even be mentioned much by Monday morning. Those cops have been getting too much abuse from the elitists of Congress and it’s time one of them was made the example and locked up for abusing a cop.

update 7/23/2007 10:13AM: It’s Monday morning and nobody has a word to say about this matter. Shays has verbally assaulted an officer and got away clean!