Heck, I can remember when Town Hall meetings with the Congresscritter used to be interesting. Lately, though, some are becoming dangerous places to be.
In the mostly blue collar town of Romulus, Michigan, Rep,. John Dingle (D-MI) was greeted by jeers (from Democrats, no less!) at an over-packed town hall meeting when he stated support for socialized government medicine. Dingle actually had police remove some of the folks speaking against the scheme.
It’s disheartening to see that the Socialist-Democrats are back to hiring the “rent-a-mob” thugs from the unions and ACORN again. Yup, just like the Nazi Brown Shirts, these jerks are sent in to do whatever they can to disrupt the gatherings so nothing of substance can be discussed.
Think about the dichotomy here: 90% of the union workers around the country already have great health insurance provided by their employer. So, why the hell would they disrupt town hall meetings and say they support a government medical plan operated by federal regulators? Fact is, they do not really support the government operated health insurance scheme; the thugs are paid to be there and disrupt those who are against the government socialized medical insurance plan.
In every election cycle, those far left leaders of the unions, and other socialist-leaning groups, pony up hundreds of millions of dollars in what is called “walking around money” for far left activists. Much of that money is used for paraphernalia, food and booze, as well as busses and phone banks -- and to pay disrupting thugs. In other words, it is used to pay those leftist-liberal activists we see out there and bus then around to wherever they are most needed. You didn’t think they were doing that gratis, did you?
Worse, many of the leftovers from the Clinton cabal formed “non-profit” political activist groups that have collected hundreds of millions of dollars in donations. Not only do they support socialist candidates for office, they also pay rent-a-mobs and activist groups to do whatever possible to support socialist programs.
Most of that flow of cash is actually illegal as hell, but prosecutors fear doing anything about it because that system is well entrenched within the leftist factions and the Democrat Party. So, illegal, in this case, is conveniently overlooked. The Democrats in Congress even fixed it so ACORN receives a lot of taxpayer funding to support unconstitutional and socialist programs.
Someday, conservative folks might catch on and fight back with like action. But, currently, there are no conservative groups doing anything like that.
Every person seen at any meeting speaking against government regulated socialized medicine is there on their own time and speaking their own mind. The interesting point is that conservatives are smartening up and that is why they greatly outnumber the rent-a-mob thugs at all meetings. The problem is that they still allow the thugs to make more noise and disrupt things.
However, conservatives are slowly catching on. So, some of this may start changing soon. I just hope things don’t get too rough.
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Interesting that you write about "Rent a Mob Socialists;" for some time I have been stating that the political debate is no longer between Republicans (who claim to be conservatives) and Democrats (who claim to be liberals), but is now between liberty/capitalism and tyranny/socialism.
In order to gain power the Democrats have become a coalition party of various movements (global warming / union / abortion / social justice / environment / economic justice elder issues / race issues...ect.) The have appealed to one or two issue voters and said: support these other issues and we will support your issue(s). Little to no attention has been paid to the limits of the constitution, only on how we can advance our agenda. Today we are witnessing these single issues coming together and finding that they are not always compatible. For example, Democrats who claim to champion elder rights are now purposing a health plan that rations end of life care; or Democrats who claim to champion workers/union rights now are pushing carbon credit trading which will badly hurt employment.
What’s the answer? Liberty. Allow free people to arrange their affairs to best suit their own needs (without causing harm to others). The affect will be a better environment for all.
Political Party affiliation has become irrelevant because both the Democratic and Republican parties have become more dedicated to winning power and preserving themselves that a key element (for both parties): sustaining individual liberty as established through the Constitution has become an after thought. Republicans are quicker to return to this "selfless ideal" but the ramming together of disparate issues may finally weaken the Democrat coalition to the point that the Patriot can pull people to a constitutional solution that will be best for all.
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