On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:25:02 -0500, "Ouroboros Rex"
wrote:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_255656.html

Town hall disruptions around the country have led to some outbreaks of
violence. Unions participating in town halls have received death threats. At
an event held by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) last week, the threat of
violence led her aides to call the police after one attendee dropped a gun.

"Yelling and screaming is counterproductive," she told the Sierra Vista
Herald at a Congress on Your Corner event last week. There, one visitor
dropped a gun at the meet n' greet held in a Douglas Safeway, her staff
says.

That has aides, who called police to the event, concerned for her safety.
"We have never felt the need before to notify law enforcement when we hold
these events," said spokesman C.J. Karamargin.


One of the callers to the Service Employees International Union said, "I
suggest you tell your people to calm down, act like American citizens, and
stop trying to repress people's First Amendment rights... That, or you all
are gonna come up against the Second Amendment."

Seems to me that most of the hoopla around the health care town hall
(propaganda) meetings is being stirred up by right wing pundits, whose
only agenda is re-acquiring power, not trying to make things work to
benefit people.

I don't know if its a good plan or not - no one does, since it isn't
finalized, and the people commenting on it don't take the time to
actually read it.

There are enough - out of work blue collar people who feel justified
in venting their anger and frustration in counter productive ways, and
the right wing is encouraging them with an emotional misinformation
campaign.

Ann Coulter would be a good case in point. She appears intelligent,
but her speeches are designed to encourage an emotional reaction
against the Democrats. Her facts aren't always correct, sometimes she
makes little sense when you try to parse her meaning, but she's a
dynamite, and very clever, speaker - a good manipulator of people.

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