There are many acceptable ways to show dissatisfaction with elected public servants. These include:
- Writing letters critical of that person's positions or actions.
- Peacefully protesting their behavior or actions in an appropriate setting.
- Voting them out of office.
Other acts like harassing and following or chasing an individual into a bathroom where the person is forced to close the stall door are certainly not an acceptable way to show displeasure towards a public servant.
On October 3, 2021, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema was followed to the lady's room at Arizona State University by activists dissatisfied with her current position on the Democratic Budget Reconciliation Plan or Build Back Better.
The Senator was at the university teaching a weekend class she has instructed for close to 20 years.
What these activists did was wrong.
There is no circumstance when it is right to follow someone into a bathroom and make them scared enough where they have to lock the stall door.
When asked about the incident, President Biden commented after a presentation on the Debt limit that:
“I don’t think they’re appropriate tactics, but it happens to everybody...“The only people it doesn’t happen to are people who have Secret Service standing around them. So it’s part of the process."
Later at a White House Briefing, Press Secretary Jen Psaki called the episode with Senator Sinema "inappropriate and unacceptable" for both the Senator and her students whose learning environment was "breeched."
Biden and Psaki are right.
What happened to Senator Sinema was inappropriate and unacceptable.
It should not happen again to her or any public servant.
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