I know it's sensitive, especially for those who haven't come to terms with it being sanctioned by the government.
But all this 9/11-stuff aside, it's not like I can't see it how you see it. Age-old practices need to be abided, right? And to some extent I agree. If you say something you should own it.
But for me it looks like it was verbally established that tax-paid representatives didn't have to work, and then some did anyway, and people are now outraged not because tax-paid representatives didn't work, but because they did.