Obama Calls Out The Unions To Battle Protesters
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The nation’s largest alliance of labor organizations has promised to directly engage protesters at Democratic town halls during the August recess. In a memo sent out yesterday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlined the blueprint for how the mega-union would step up recess activities on health care reform and other topics pertinent to the labor community. Sweeney makes clear that Obama’s minions see the town hall forums as ground zero of the health care debate. Which they are.
“The principal battleground in the campaign will be town hall meetings and other gatherings with members of Congress in their home districts,” reads the memo. “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. …
(Remember the hooligans – many of them Republican Congressional staff – who harassed Florida vote counters in 2000? We can’t let that happen again!).”
The AFL-CIO is planning to target 50 “high priority districts,” in addition to organizing telephone town hall gatherings.
After Sweeny’s memo went out, AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka sent out a scathing disinfo about the town halls, including calling the events “corporate funded.”
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.
And there you have the frame. Brooks Brothers Mobs. Class warfare. Not citizens with a right to free speech, and a right to insist their Representatives listen to their opposition to massive governmental control.
Washington would like nothing more than for America as a nation to be divided…we are easier to control that way, and for many politicians–it is job security. I firmly believe most Democrats are counting on Obama to shut down the dissent and give them cover.
Meanwhile, Union thugs put an African-American man, Kenneth Gladney, in the hospital after beating him at a St. Louis Town Hall meeting. Here’s an eyewitness report of the violence against Mr. Gladney. Thugs have their marching orders, and if you happen to be black and question the Administration…there will be extra punishment for you.
Videotape everything you can at your Town Hall meetings. Videotape the intimidation. It is illegal for the Administration to intimidate citizens into surrendering their First Amendment rights. That’s why Barry has called in his chips with the Unions, and is sending out his troops to do his work.
The St. Louis Tea Party will be having a peaceful protest in front of SEIU headquarters in St. Louis tomorrow, to demand justice for those injured by the thugs. They have called for denouncement of the beatings and violence. They are taking the battle right back to the thugs. Join them if you can.
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August 13th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Obama and his sucking up Democrats have gone to far.They must be stopped before people start killing one another.Pelosi is another suck up.
How in the world does this kind of trash get elected.The unions are only looking out for themselves and could care less about other people.They to are a host of suck up’s.