WTSP-TV/Tampa--Violence at Tampa health care forum

WTSP TV10 Tampa ^ | 1 Hour Ago | Phil Landeros

[tcrlaf]

Tampa, Florida - Angry protesters and strong supporters are clashing inside and all around a health care reform town hall meeting in Downtown Tampa. The meeting which was scheduled to begin at 6:00 at the Children's Board of Hillsborough County drew hundreds of people who quickly began to overwhelm staff and event organizers at the front entrance.

[Gilbo_3]

I thought billy jeff was still in NK...

[surfer]

pitch forks and torches!!!

[Gilbo_3]

remember not long ago when the navy rescued the captain from the somali pirates...???

sometimes killing the kidnappers is the only course of action left...

are we there yet ??? evidently not, cause there are millions of bare lamposts standing from coast to coast...

unfortunately the commie dick tater playbook will soon turn the page where they stage violence and create sympathy/excuses for ramping up the brownshirts...history of man aint that difficult to read...

[thecabal]

Check out the Obamabot woman slapping someone who disagrees with her.

[seekthetruth]

Now I know how to get into a Kathy Castor Town Hall Meeting. Just show up with an Obama or union shirt on and you are in pronto!

[Canedawg]

That’s what they call projection.
And Lenin said, “That which you do, accuse others of doing.”
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That is absolutely what they have been doing for months and months, spewing lies upon lies, deceptions upon deceptions, cloaking their true, evil intentions.

The Leftists do not appreciate what the land of he free and the home of the brave actually encompasses, and that is where they miss the boat- a boat they should take to a third world country if they want to live in a banana republic dictatorship.

They are nefarious and dangerous, and this is a high stakes conflict.

[seekthetruth]

Hi Freepers! Hubby and I were there in the “outside” crowd. We arrived at 5:30. There were easily 300 people outside in line when we arrived. We quickly learned that the room was to hold 200 with another 50 in the foyer and that there were many people already inside (hand picked audience). Within a few minutes we were told by an officer that the room was almost full. I guess that was his way of telling us we didn't have a chance of getting inside the building. The following is a report from a friend from the Tampa 9/12 group who got into the meeting. Jean :)

“I was there last night as well, I was also inside the main meeting room. I knew that is wasn't going to go well when the Pastor who gave the invocation asked God to “keep still those that oppose this question.” I was the recipient of profanity by 2 DNC members and from a Time Magazine photo journalist, (he later apologized.) I also had to tell one gentlemen to remove his hand from my arm. The “overflow crowd”, located just outside the meeting hall with direct access to both hearing and seeing Ms Castor, began chanting “Read the Bill” after Ms. Castor said “no one would lose their private health care.” It was only when a union member (that had a front row seat and seated before any of the rest of us) ran into the overflow room pointing her finger screaming “shut-up” that the trouble began. The police intervened, brought her back into the meeting room and then shut the doors on the “overflow crowd” basically cutting off their ability to hear and see what was going on inside. At this point the “over flow” crowd began banging on the door.

What the politicians don't understand is: we are not there to ask questions nor listen to condescending answers. We have read the bill and know what it says. We are there to tell them we are tired of the fiscal burden of government programs and the Health Care Bill is our “line-in-the-sand.” We are there to tell our elected officials that if they vote “yes” on HR3200, their time in DC is over. Period.

After being told to disperse (at approx. 7:15p) from the Children's Board property by the Tampa Police, some of us stayed until 8P, protesting on the public sidewalk. I must say the overwhelming majority of the cars that passed us gave us the “thumbs-up.”

[rwfromkansas]

I have to agree.

Pounding on doors and shouting does not really do anything to accomplish our goals.

All it does is create news stories that talk about mob scenes. As a journalist myself, it would be hard to overcome the temptation to focus on the conflict.......WHICH GETS IN THE WAY OF THE MESSAGE WE ARE TRYING TO GET ACROSS BY ATTENDING THE TOWN HALLS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

If there are quiet demonstrations outside by those not allowed in and decent, thoughtful questions against the bill by those inside rather than shouts of “Commie” or “Socialism” without any kind of explanation of what that means, we will make a lot more headway to defeat Obamacare.

[Covenantor]

If there are quiet demonstrations outside by those not allowed in and decent, thoughtful questions against the bill by those inside rather than shouts of “Commie” or “Socialism” without any kind of explanation of what that means, we will make a lot more headway to defeat Obamacare.

That's so, so...so 20th century as proved by the vast amounts of text and air time given over to air honest complaints by the protesters [sarc off]

The willful lap dogs of the Dem party have long ago abandoned any principles giving the union thugs very effective cover in the MSM.

[Gilbo_3]

I hate to say it, but this whole exercise is gonna boil down to 'perception' rather than fact...and that being the case, theres only a couple routes to take i can see...

orchestrate our own 'sympathy' movement...ie create a martyr and run with it, but the msm will undoubtedly spin to the opposite, ...

or wait a bit longer, grit our teeth and prepare to counter punch, which requires taking *real* injury and becoming real martyrs and surviving long enough to fight back...

the other is to go full tilt offensive, but we cant do that in good conscience yet, so I guess the union goons have a virtual free fire zone for the foreseeable future...

[GOPJ]

ping

[GOPJ]

ping

[Gilbo_3]

in response to that pic...I strive to be a 'gentleman' more or less...

he prolly shoulda just slapped sh!t outta her 'man' being as though he was there...

but hear this any libtard lurker females...do NOT start layin hands on people, lest youre willing to fight...

[editor-surveyor]

Let’s stop Obamacare and his Snitch program. - Everyone needs to “sign” this petition:

http://www.wnd.com/petition_health

Story:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106162

[onemiddleamerican]

I don't know that anyone has already done this, and I think it's fairly important that it be done; so I tried. And I think documentation of the attack and identification of the attackers needs to be spread far and wide. I am posting this information on several related Tampa, FL threads.

Obama and his violent Chicago Mobster tactics need to be brought out into the light of day; and these acts of violence - at Obama's direction - need to be roundly condemned by every freedom loving American in the country, regardless of party affiliation.

What follows are screen capture images from You Tube videos which I have added captions to, marking goons, victims, and cop:

Three goons -

Three goons in action -

Cop arrives (sorry for the very busy captioning in this one) -

Cop Arrives (no captions in this one) -

Older union goon who grabbed the 2nd man in a choke hold, going back into room (from different You Tube video) -

Print-shirt union goon, going back into room after attack -

Third union goon (sunglasses on top of head), going back into room after attack -

Two victims after union goon attack -

[Billthedrill]

It begins. The Left proceeds merrily,secure in the highly erroneous assumption that its members have a monopoly on violence. The fellow with the “Union Thug” t-shirt, for example, probably doesn’t think of it as a bull’s-eye. He may want to reconsider that.

[steve86]

Terrific work! BTTT!

[BelleAl]

No, of course I wouldn’t leave. I’d play the victim outside. I love the photo (I think on Drudge) with the guy with duct tape on his mouth with the email address flag@whitehouse.org.

Powerful image. That’s what I’m talking about. We need an end-run around their “shut the citizens out of the town hall meetings.” Our side needs effective leadership and strategic thinking.

[Blood of Tyrants]

He is the one rationalizing that it is okay to deny health care to older people because they are of less use to society and infants because “society hasn’t invested as much” in them.

[sistabrista]

Uh....has fox news seen this yet!?