default wrote:
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.

Yep. An AFL-CIO organizer was apparently able to get on one of the
astroturf organizations' conference calls, and their real agenda is to
prevent any bill whatsoever. I haven't posted it as news because I'm
waiting for confirmation.


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.

Ann's facts are almost never correct. In fact, going through and checking
the footnotes in her books is said to be a singular experience. =)