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John Mccain Tells Protesters At Hearing: 'get Out Of Here, You Lowlife Scum by geeky00: 8:15am On Jan 30, 2015
US Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain kicked protesters out of a committee hearing Thursday, calling them “lowlife scum” as they hollered for the arrest of one of the witnesses, former secretary of state Henry Kissinger.

Shortly after Kissinger, 91, took a seat at the witness table, several protesters from the anti-war group Code Pink approached from behind, waving signs and a pair of handcuffs and chanting, “Arrest Henry Kissinger for war crimes.”

“You know, you’re going to have to shut up or I’m going to have you arrested,” McCain said from the podium, calling for US capitol police to remove them. As officers escorted the protesters out of the hearing room, the unsuccessful 2008 Republican presidential candidate, a decorated Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war, growled, “Get out of here, you lowlife scum.”

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A protester from Code Pink holds up bloody hands during Henry Kissinger’s testimony. Photograph: Jay Mallin/Zuma Press/Corbis
US capitol police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said three people were removed from the room, but no arrests were made.

In a statement later, McCain noted a gap between the beginning of the protest and the arrival of officers.

“With no US capitol police intervening, the episode went on for several minutes,” McCain said. He added that he had spoken with police officials and expects that “those responsible will be held fully accountable for their actions”.

The upheaval came Thursday during a committee hearing that also featured testimony from former secretaries of state Madeleine Albright and George P. Shultz, who were sitting at the witness table with Kissinger.

Code Pink protesters routinely interrupt congressional hearings and are ushered out by police. But Thursday’s incident was different, McCain said, because the protesters came within inches of Kissinger and waved what appeared to be metal handcuffs near his head.

At one point, a protester alleged that from 1969 to 1973, Kissinger, who was a national security adviser to President Richard Nixon before being named secretary of state, “oversaw” the deaths of millions of people in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The protester said many thousands more people died from the effects of the defoliant Agent Orange, or from unexploded US ordnance littering the countryside.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/29/john-mccain-henry-kissinger-protest-lowlife-scum
Re: John Mccain Tells Protesters At Hearing: 'get Out Of Here, You Lowlife Scum by Nobody: 12:41pm On Jan 31, 2015
Am not suprised sad dude has always been st*pid.
Re: John Mccain Tells Protesters At Hearing: 'get Out Of Here, You Lowlife Scum by Appleyard(m): 9:20pm On Feb 01, 2015
You can imagine the kind of senator the people elected to serve them..

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Re: John Mccain Tells Protesters At Hearing: 'get Out Of Here, You Lowlife Scum by leofab(f): 3:10am On Feb 02, 2015
same mes*s Nigerians want to put theirselves

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