Speak Up: Lawmakers, protesters react to State of the State interruptions

As Gov. John Carney delivered the final State of the State address of his tenure March 5, calls for a permanent and immediate cease-fire in Gaza rang through the chamber of the House of Representatives. The governor was interrupted five times as he delivered the annual speech, which took place in front of all 62 members of the General Assembly, his Cabinet members and every statewide elected official.

• Worry about what we put you in office for! The people of Delaware! — Danree Fjelsted Heath
• Disrespectful. Chain-gang them to swamp cleanup detail! — Howard Gaines III
• Is there any protest method of which you do approve? — Pete Schonert
• You don’t disrespect unless you are some spoiled punk. There’s always a proper place to do it! — Howard Gaines III
• Is a breach in decorum more or less objectionable than the slaughter of innocents by the tens of thousands (likely more)? — Pete Schonert
• So, I infer that you don’t believe in being respectful and nice! No further adult conversations here. — Howard Gaines III
• Nothing respectful about genocide and bombing a starving populace. Is order more important than justice? You refuse to do or, at the very least, endorse the correct and humane thing. — Pete Schonert
• Not our problem. — Lucy Carpenter Rapposelli
• The same people have not called for Hamas to release the hostages that they have held for months. Progressives are always on the wrong side of an issue. — Ryan Fenimore
• Israel should release the thousands of political prisoners held in its colonial jail cells, many of whom were themselves kidnapped and undergo wanton torture, sexual assault and disposal. Besides, if Israel cared about saving hostages, it wouldn’t have leveled whole kibbutzim Oct. 7, trying to kill the Palestinians that broke out of its open-air prison (look up “Hannibal directive”). — Pete Schonert
• Colonial jails? Political prisoners? You mean, “terrorists who were arrested”? — Ryan Fenimore
• Israel/Zionism is a European colonial project, which imposes an apartheid system on the people already living in Palestine. People accused of resisting the Israel Occupation Forces are sent to prisons, where they are tortured/maimed/killed/forced to testify falsely. It is the same playbook as Nazi Germany, the United States (see: Phoenix program in Vietnam) and apartheid South Africa (which gave Israel nukes, by the way). — Pete Schonert