Even though I am staunchly against this, it seems useful to the people that senators from time to time are reminded of what happens to the common man when they do this. It is all too easy for them to become complacent to the plight of the common man, because when they protest nothing happens to them.
Hopefully now that they are subject to the overbearing criminal 'justice' machine that is a creature largely of their own making, they will do something about tuning it down.