I think the amazing story of the week is the panicked reaction of the looters to the way their representatives have been treated at town hall meetings around the country. I mean, how DARE these people question the ruling class? Don't they realize they lost the election? The Democrats will remind them of that at any opportunity. The theory is that if you lose the election you are supposed to shut the hell up, sit back and let the victors do pretty much anything they want to you.
Let's draw a parallel. A man attacks a woman. She fights back like hell. Finally the man subdues her and starts pulling off her clothes. As he tries to rape her she starts fighting again. "Hold on there," the rapist yells. "I won ... you lost. Now you're supposed to let me do anything I want to you and you can't do a damned thing about it."
The Democrats - Pelosi, Boxer, et all - have been calling the people who show up at the town hall meetings to protest ObamaCare "thugs." Well, I guess they've decided it's time to thrown in some thugs of their own. Now if you're a Democrat - a looter - and you need some thugs, where are you going to go? You got it! There, that wasn't all that hard, was it? You go to the unions? What better place to find some thugs than a union hall?
And so ... what do we have now? We have violence breaking out at these town hall meetings. And trust me on this one .. the Democrats and most of the media is going to make sure that the people protesting ObamaCare take the blame for the disruptions. Certainly not the unions.
Believe this .. unions are more than a little pissed right now. When their hero was inaugurated on January 20th they thought it would just be a matter of weeks ... a few months at most ... and they would have their forced unionization bill. Yeah - the so-called "card check" bill. The thugs couldn't wait to whisper sweet nothings into the ears of workers faced with the decision of whether or not to sign that union card.
"Pssst. Buddy. No, don't look at me, just listen. That card you have? You really do need to sign it and turn it in. That's a mighty nice new car you have parked outside. New tires are expensive, you know. And it would really be a shame if your wife had any problems the next time she went to the Safeway for some groceries. You know what to do."
Well, the union's big summer didn't happen, and they're itching for some action. They know that they won't get any action on card check as long as the Democrats are tied up trying to take over our health care system. So maybe, just maybe, if the unions would help out the looters, the looters will return the favor. So if you are planning on attending a town hall meeting on healthcare any time soon, be on the lookout for union thugs. It's always nice to have something to look forward to you .. and coming soon to a town hall meeting near you, your favorite local union sweethearts! John Sweeney, the president of the AFL-CIO has issued his call to arms. He wants union members to attend healthcare town hall meetings in order to counteract the "right-wing 'Tea Party Patriots.'" These are all of you evil, well-dressed protestors who believe in smaller government or the freedom to choose your own doctors. Oh .. and just what do you think that Sweeney means by "counteract?"
Sweeney wrote a memo to his minions saying, "The principal battleground in the campaign will be town hall meetings and other gatherings with members of Congress in their home districts ... We want your help to organize major union participation to counter the right-wing 'Tea-Party Patriots' who will try to disrupt those meetings, as they've been trying to do to meetings for the last month."
Yeah .. it's the ugly "Tea Party Patriots" that are going to try to disrupt the meetings, certainly not the unions, right? Perhaps you might like to look at this item from Michelle Malkin's blog. It would appear that a St. Louis town hall meeting yesterday the union members showed up ... the union members were allowed in ... but those who weren't exactly friendly to the Democrats takeover of almost 20% of our economy were left out. My guess is that if you were to check local coverage you might see that it was all the protestor's fault. I understand that we can't know for certain just what happened in these meetings ... but based on past experience, what would you guess? Would you believe that the ObamaCare protestors caused the violence, or union members?
Here's something else for you to think about: We have one Jim Messina, the deputy chief of staff to President Obama. Talking to Democrats yesterday said "if you get hit, we will hit back twice as heard." Well, the Democrats have been taking a hit at their own hall meetings. Are they now hitting back twice as hard?
It doesn't help that the Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO issued the following statement about the town hall meetings. You'll love this.
Every American has the inalienable right to participate in our democratic process. Our politics is passionate, heartfelt and often loud -- as was the founding of our nation. But that is not what the corporate-funded mobs are engaging in when they show up to disrupt town halls held by members of Congress.
Major health care reform is closer than ever to passage and it is no secret that special interests want to weaken or block it. These mobs are not there to participate. As their own strategy memo states, they have been sent by their corporate and lobbyist bankrollers to disrupt, heckle and block meaningful debate. This is a desperation move, meant to slow the momentum for change.
Mob rule is not democracy. People have a democratic right to express themselves and our elected leaders have a right to hear from their constituents -- not organized thugs whose sole purpose is to shut down the conversation and attempt to scare our leaders into inaction.
We call on the insurance companies, the lobbyists and the Republican leaders who are cheering them on to halt these 'Brooks Brothers Riot' tactics. Health care is a crucial issue and everyone - on all sides of the issue - deserves to be heard.
These are the tactics of despots. They'll pay grand lip service to the idea of free speech .. but there's always a "but" thrown in. The looters have no real answers for the people who are protesting ObamaCare, so they start making references to mob rule. We're nothing but "organized thugs" who want to shut down conversation? Are they kidding? Shut down conversation? In a few paragraphs you're going to have the opportunity to click on a link to watch a video of a recent AARP meeting. As soon as the people in the audience try to have a conversation with the meeting organizer, she packs up and leaves! Just WHO is trying to shut down conversation?
Oh ... and before we move on: Isn't it just precious to hear a union leader talking about "organized thugs?" The history of unionism in this country is a history of organized thuggery. Then he says that "mob rule is not democracy." Sorry, but that is EXACTLY what democracy is. Why do you think they call themselves Democrats? A lynch mob is mob rule. Right? Well, a lynch mob is also a prime example of democratic action. One man wants to live to see his day in court. Thirty men want him hung ... NOW. OK, let's have a vote! Wow! Imagine that! The vote was 30 to1. Get the rope! There's your democracy in action. In a democracy the rule of law means zip. That's also what it meant to Obama when he was manhandling the GM bankruptcy. Hope your memories are that long.
But it's not just the AFL-CIO. The Service Employees International Union is also summoning the troops. A spokeswoman for the unions says that it is "unleashing the purple people" in order to "challenge the radical fringe" that is disrupting these town hall meetings. The spokeswoman also says union members are not there to "talk to the crazies." We need to "reclaim our democracy!" and blah, blah, blah, blah.
I could rant on this for hours. The looters are in panic mode. The people are learning more and more about their takeover of health care. The people saw right through that attempt to change the topic from health CARE reform to health INSURANCE reform. The people in this country see the huge deficits coming. They know instinctively that Barack Obama cannot promise more and more health care to more and more people with fewer doctors and nurses and NOT resort to rationing and higher taxes. We don't like it ... and we're speaking out.
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