Posted on 08/30/2009 6:51:41 AM PDT by Wpin
Since early February, weve seen increasing numbers of militant right-wing activists attending public meetings across the country targeting Members of Congress and President Obama. Now in the August recess, the tea-bagger protesters and right-wing activists are showing up in larger numbers with a mission to be as disruptive as possible in the hopes of rattling Members of Congress and halting health care reform through pure spectacle and obstruction. Our response is shaped by 3 things:
* Our targets are Members of Congress who must vote yes for this bill. Our targets are not the right-wing extremists. The targets of these attacks are Members of Congress. Those Members are also our targets. We need to use these attacks as opportunities to work with the Members in ways that build our relationship in the field and bring us together as allies in health care reform. Members may be more receptive to partnering with us if they know we will help them combat the opposition. * Our core message is effective, and we should always come back to it. Our campaign plan has always anticipated opposition. No matter what the right-wingers bring up to distract the debate, we should always circle back to our key message. We are on the side of quality, affordable health care for everyone, and we are against turning over health care reform to the insurance companies and lobbyists who got us into this mess to begin with. We need to educate the press and the public that the protesters are aligned with the corporate lobbyists and insurance companies who are trying to stop reform.
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video anything and everything.
even people just walking around that can be identified later by any means.
once you have your video, make sure you are not alone so that they can’t get the tape from you
be careful and check local laws regarding that stuff. In NY it is illegal to have or use. I don’t know about DC. You dont want to be considered an antagonist
>Check out the SEIU link in the FR thread on the Jackson protest. They openly admit to being bussed in.
http://www.seiuhealthcaremi.org/<
Where do they admit it? it says that right wingers were bussed in,
i would like to post right from their site that they admit they were using busses
it would be nice if drudge and fox got a hold of these. maybe beck .. anyone sent these in yet?
I also noticed how they dont want to argue the merits of things. facts are bad for these people. facts mean that they have no argument and their propaganda goes down the tubes.
And just think, ACORN is getting billions (isn’t it billions?) in stimulus money. So our government is funding these people’s activities.
Is that a woman in the picture? How can you tell?
Yes, this has bothered me, too. Our side needs more camcorders than posters.
You forgot the part the KGB defectors told us about .... when KGB (or its successors -- presumably Rahm Emanuel's new Gestapo) turns on the fellow-travelers and starts imprisoning and executing them because they're "unreliable".
And I'll have it recorded for prosperity. There will be many, many videos of any such activities for the world to see.
I'm glad that you mentioned Katrina for that is one area where the republicans really messed up. They had the perfect opportunity to use Katrina as an illustration as to how the left actually works and they blew it - they capitulated to the crowd of freeloaders instead.
If there is one thing I think that kills the left is realizing that they are infact a small small minority. Bullying works really well when you think you are the majority not so much when you are faced with the reality that you are outnumbered 10:1!
If a lib accuses me of “organized” tactics, I would smile and say, “Thank you, I learned them from you.”
What is HCAN?
More about the writer of the note From Newsvine >
WHEN THE PROGRESSIVES BOO, ITS A GRASS ROOTS MOVEMENT. BUT WHEN YOU OPPOSE THEM ..
You are a far right-wing ideologue recruited by paid organizers. So says Margarida Jorge. And she should know.
She is an activist. Plain and simple. Shes a National Field Director for Health Care for America NOW! (HCAN). Prior to that, she was Organizing Director for Pro-Vote, the Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition. Pro-Vote lists as coalition partners: ACORN, ADAAmericans for Democratic Action (Missouri Chapter), NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri, MNEA PacMissouri National Educational Association Pac, and just about every Labor Union in the state of Missouri
Health Care for America NOW
>Looks like they’ve removed the whole story from where I discovered it last week. Last week it said that several hundred from Muskegon and Detroit were met by about 50 anti health care radicals. Muskegon and detroit are both outside the 7th district.<
If you find that stuff, save it somewhere, somehow. preserve it so that when it gets scrubbed we can bite them in the but with it. Even in a text file. It is great ammo to use. Not to mention in some cases it may well become “best evidence”
If you use firefox, there is a program addon called “screenshot pimp” free download, and you can snap away screen shots from your browser fast and easy.
> They seem to have little concern for actual health care aside from wanting control of the health care industry.
Its all about power.<
no doubt in my mind. The union will get it’s health care paid for, plus Obama will pay them off in other ways. It is to their advantage to get this through in any way that they can.
Zero is using them like he uses everyone else.
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