“fiercely” as in holding their breath AND stamping their little feet.
Well.... do you think it’s coincidence that the New Black Panthers put out a bounty on George Zimmerman and threatened into hiding his family as well as somebody living at the address wrongly tweeted as Zimmerman’s address, all at the time that SCOTUS was hearing the arguments for Obamacare?
Or was it a little reminder that when King Herod has a tantrum innocent people die? Or a little reminder the week before Holy Week that when the mob shouts “Crucify him” and “If you let him go, you are no friend of Ceasar”*, Pilate will give in to the crowd even though he knows the man on trial is innocent and has been handed over because of envy.
(* “Friends of Caesar” was the actual name for an elite club whose only exit mechanism was mandatory suicide. And Pilate had just recently been told that if he had any more run-ins with the Jews he would be ousted.)
Tantrums would be funny if innocent people weren’t killed by them...