"nor has anyone caught people spitting on each other..."

Look here ...

Now some are claiming that it was just spray from the shouting the guy using his hands as a megaphone was doing, but to me, any shouting that gets that much spray is as violent and virulent as a deliberate spitting action. Maybe even worse than just spitting, since it indicates a pretty-nearly-complete loss of control of onseself, a rabid-dogism that speaks of uncontrollable emotions, and I'm sorry, but uncontrollable emotions are not something a civilized society should promote in the nature of public discourse.

That is, if you're crazy enough to be shouting and spraying your elected representatives, you probably shouldn't be out in public. It speaks ill of your upbringing, and ill of any side that promotes it. It was wrong for the hippies, and is wrong for the Tea-gaggers, too. It harks back to the genuine Klan, and should be shunned by all thinking people, not apologized for and subtly (or not-so) encouraged by those seeking political power.

In other words, if you have to rouse the rabble to get power, you are probably not worthy of that power, and you also will find it harder to keep it, since a roused anti-government mob will likely still be anti-government when that government is in your hands.

Can you say, "playing with matches in a dynamite factory?" I thought you could.

Bob