Is this the face of the new Republican party? Not only are the town hall disruptors shouting down the Senators and Congressmen attempting to inform their constituents about the upcoming healthcare reform, but they are shouting down anyone in the audience not espousing their skewed point of view.
First off, I have to say I really don't think this is going to work. The healthcare reform is going to pass in both House and Senate, in spite of the Republican obstructionists, in spite of the Democrat "Blue" Dogs.
The sickening thing about this is the fact that, with healthcare lobbies and other corporate interests behind e-mails and other literature that spurs these sheep on, people who will do whatever their corporate overlords tell them without question or doubt, the only televised media outlet who are calling the bullshit is NBC. And they won't even put that on their network news, it's shoved aside onto MSNBC.
Unfortunately, there are not town halls scheduled in my area. If there were, I would be organizing a group to go and stand up to any of this corporate-sponsored rioting. If you have town halls near you, organize a group to go and out-shout the shouters.
They are trying not just to shut down a bill, but the very thing our country is founded upon: Civil discourse and dissemination of factual information. Fight back! Don't let them hijack democracy. Go in groups, shout back, shut them down. We need healthcare reform. We need it now. And they're not going to make it easy. Everyone who stood up and campaigned for Obama or at least talked him up needs to get out there and out-shout the town hall disruptors, before it's too late.
Peace, and good luck.
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Violence is coming. Watch it become ugly if someone tries to do something about making the thugs leave, settle down, or be quiet. At best, "Town Hall" meetings will be canceled, or by invitation only.
After the shouting matches will come the shoving matches. After that will be the "unidentified" nighttime vandals and others who get into more disturbing activities.
We will still sit there and do nothing, because there is nothing that we want to do.
We have to do more than talk. I don't know why the assholes weren't thrown out or arrested.
The Democratic Party had better grow a spine and a brain.
The point of out-shouting them should be to shut them down, shut them up, and allow the congressman to get on with the meeting.
So where are the police in these town hall videos? When there were non-violent protests of anything Bush-related the police were always there to shut them down, yet there is no one doing anything to stop these fools. That's what I'd like to know.
On a side note, there is a Town Hall meeting right here in Normal, at the Normal Library, so if anyone wants to go disrupt the disruptors, meet me there brothers and sisters!
Suppose we dressed them in pink with fake blood on their hands? Would that be better or does the outrage only go one way?
Your words.
So you are complaining about the shouters at the Town Hall meetings and you want to gather a group of people to do the same thing? Interesting.
[url]http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/townhallactionmemo.pdf[/url]
Whether there are scripts or plans doesn't matter(both sides do it).
What matters is that people are angry and are expressing that anger.
Doesn't mean they have to be rude.
On the one hand, most congressmen of both parties have admitted to not reading the bill so it would be hard for most of them to say they are imparting information. Further, a town hall meeting is historically a discussion in which a group determines what they believe is the best way to proceed. With or without the shouting, these historically important events have turned into places to vent at elected officials whose position on the issues at hand are already well-known.
On the other hand, it is hard for liberals to complain about this kind of behavior since it has been their forte since the Berkeley "free speech" movement in the mid 1960's. Conservatives have been complaining about this kind of disruptive behavior all this time but now feel "compelled" to resort to it. Please note that every despicable tactic conservatives use has been learned from old counter-culture, hippie and anti-war tactics.
Ain't free speech great?
you act like sheep because you are sheep. get democracy, and start acting like citizens.