Angry teabaggers and other opponents of health care reform are heckling members of Congress at their town hall meetings back home in an effort to sway the debate and drown out reform supporters.
This weekend, a group of teabaggers showed up at a town hall in Philadelphia with Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. They shouted and booed to drown out remarks from both officials and questions from the audience. The Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots reportedly brought 40 people.ogliberal offers succor for the racist memo readers...To which I would add, call your working-class friends first.
These disruptive tactics are tantamount to the use of force. Asking them to stop is not going to work. They have decided that in advance. This is pure thuggery, based on the calculation that progressives are soft, and they can come and make a racket with zero chance of a bloody nose or arrest.
If it became known that physical courage (not just a pot of cash to bail you out and pay your lawyer) was required in order to shut down a meeting and make a MEMBER OF CONGRESS scuttle away, this phenomenon might abate.
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You get that? Drop those latte's and call your "working-class friends" to back you up....HA!
Meanwhile, Thinkprogress has our number..
Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo: ‘Yell,’ ‘Stand Up And Shout Out,’ ‘Rattle Him’ The lobbyist-run groups Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, which orchestrated the anti-Obama tea parties earlier this year, are now pursuing an aggressive strategy to create an image of mass public opposition to health care and clean energy reform. A leaked memo from Bob MacGuffie, a volunteer with the FreedomWorks website Tea Party Patriots, details how members should be infiltrating town halls and harassing Democratic members of Congress.These are truly un-American people, afraid of change, afraid of improvements, and completely against helping ordinary people. It's all about how much these Repubs can line their greedy pockets. This intimidation of duly elected persons, attempting to do their jobs & actually communicate with voters is truly disturbing & frightening.
Disturbing & frightening? Oh noes!
Looks like the moonbats have had a change of heart, doesn't it? No more censoring of dissent on college campuses or in the Sorosphere, right?
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I think I heard of this when conservatives speak at colleges. Looks like the TEA party people are catching on to what the dems have been doing for a long time.