Report: The Right Wing Physically Assaults a "freshman Democrat"
Posted on August 5th, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum in Take Action!
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As lobbyist-run groups encourage conservative activists to “rattle” members of Congress at local town hall events, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the president of the freshman Democratic class has revealed that “at least one freshman Democrat” has already been “physically assaulted at a local event.”
No word yet on who it is. Will update when I know more. And just a few hours after we released our memo on how to fight back against these tactics.
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Rep. Gerry Connolly (Va.), president of the freshman Democratic class, warned that right-wing groups are taking things to “a dangerous level” by manufacturing anger based on false information.
“When you look at the fervor of some of these people who are all being whipped up by the right-wing talking heads on Fox, to me, you’re crossing a line,” Connolly said. “They’re inciting people to riot with just total distortions of facts. They think we’re going to euthanize Grandma and the government is going to take over.”
One Democratic leadership aide summed it up more succinctly: “These people are crazy.”
Connolly said he spoke to at least one freshman Democrat who was physically assaulted at a local event. In another instance, he said, a constituent upset about government interference in Medicare had to be reminded that Medicare is a government program.
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Looks like the rightwingers will stop at nothing. They are terrorists! Terrorism is instilling fear in people and preventing them from engaging in the public debate. They have people even afraid to go to events.
At Senate hearings, doctors and nurses were arrested for speaking out. These terrorists need to be arrested!
This is hateful propaganda not to mention stereotyping, name calling, slander and discrimination. People who have a different oppinion, or disagree with your thinking are NOT terrorists. Fear mongering is demonstrated by Alinsky's Rules for Raticles, the ACORN handbook and condoned by DSA Socialist in Congress and Adminstration. It was left wing SEIU members that were arrested at recent townhall meeting for physically assaulting an African American man with "Don't Tread on Me" flags. Who are the terrorist - in this case the left wing SEIU members and what they did was a "HATE CRIME".
When and where did this happen? Was there no intervention by a
bystander to stop a physical assault on somebody? Doesn't matter who. Were there more than one assaulting? Was it a gang? Why could the delegate not notify the Law? Was he injured?
Where is the investigation?
I'm a right winger. I hate Fox. All data that I read and consider is peer reviewed. I am against a public option. Am I crazy? If you answer yes then, you are victim to your own allegations that "they" don't even want to hear the other side of the debate.
To dismiss someone's argument based on their character is called Ad Hominem. Please rise above and bring about debate based on facts. Many of my friends on both sides are guilty of this and I feel it's the biggest obstacle to genuine debate. You've probably heard it as being "non partisan".
If the right wing is really interested in genuine debate of the issues, then why do they feel the need to 'seed' the town hall meetings and incite people with distorted facts that promote fear and distrust? Why should it be surprising that many Democrats and health care reform supporters would react by thinking these people are crazy when they use these tactics? I believe everyone is entitled to their opinion and beliefs, but these people are not interested in healthy debate and getting the true answers to their questions. Bring things back to a truly give and take process and then maybe we can all talk.
Why be so scared of a public option if it's an option. If you don't like it, then don't go for it, but make it available for plenty of other people who would.
Two questions:
1) What about the actions of ACORN during the left-wing electoral process pushing candidates through? Any word on that? Aren't they "TERRORISTS" too? Oh, don't forget Martin Luther King, Jr. I doubt they had "permits" and they weren't all that queit about voicing their words and opinions. TERRORISTS!
2) If I show up at a Town Hall with a home made sign, in my own car, using my own gas money to get there and I protest against Obamacare, I'm somehow a "highly funded right-wing lobby shill." Yet, if you show up with your high-dollar website, your pre-printed, custom-designed signs and shout to promote Obamacare, you're a "grassroots activist."
See any kind of disconnect there? Huh?
Who's the fascist now?
Read the Goddamned healthcare bill, you morons. READ IT. Forget what Obama tells you, what your Democrat Senator or Congressperson tells you. Read the damned thing for yourself.
It does NOTHING to "reform" healthcare and EVERYTHING to screw it over. Who's behind health care reform? Really? Look at it, you'll see who's behind it.
Wake up! Wake up! WAKE THE F UP!
Isn't "Health Care for America NOW!" located on K Street with all the other lobbyists?
Health Care for America Now
1825 K Street NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20006
PS: feel free to link to some actual proof of a physical assault rather than just an unsubstantiated report.
Thanks. Keep up the lobbying!
This claim of an assault on a "freshman Democrat" is completely fraudulent; it's a modern-day Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
There was no violence from "the Right"; just a big lie from "the Left."
Now that the Democrats are mobilizing the union enforcers, they need a pretext for thuggery against ordinary citizens who dare to express dissent, and this is it.
I expect there will be a lot of Leftist violence over the next few weeks, all justified by the "outrage" of this phantom "assault" on this non-existant "freshman Democrat."
Yeah, sure, whatever you say. What about the death threats.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/dem-congressmans-office-his-life-has-been-threatened-over-health-care-bill.php
Fake too?
Maybe we should admit that there is a radical and violent right-wing element in our society, no?
All of this "violence" and threats of violence came AFTER Obama called on ACORN and the Unions to get involved. There were no threats or real violence a few days ago. Not until Union thugs and groups like ACORN got involved and fabricated everything. We are being transformed into a Thugocracy by Obama's Chicago way.
This is staged by ACORN and the Unions. Remember, we know who our members are and we video tape EVERYTHING. The truth is that the Democrat Party is using you like pawns and slaves to push through their agenda and have been for many years. They don't care about you, they are just interested in controlling you. And you will hand that control of your lives to them on a silver platter that will be labeled "Cap and Trade" and "Healthcare". They don't care about your health and don't care about you. You are just too blind to see it because they intentionally try to divide us. They want and need us fighting to draw attention away from creeping government control. Wake up and question everything. Do the research yourselvs. Don't trust the rich Union bosses and the rich leaders of ACORN they need money flowing into them to gain more money and power. Verify everything they tell you on your own. You are a pawn. They are using you.