Posted on 08/16/2010 1:41:06 PM PDT by unspun
On Thursday, August 12, Representative Melissa Bean (IL-8-D) held a public meeting at the Round Lake Library. The meeting was billed as a financial education seminar, to teach citizens how to manage their credit card debt. What happened at this meeting was anything but educational.
During the meeting, which I attended, citizens started to ask questions about jobs, government spending and the federal deficit. Every time a citizen would attempt to ask a question, Melissa Bean's thug, who we were told worked for the Round Lake Library, would walk over to that person and hover over him or her, to intimidate them. This went on during the course of the entire meeting without Bean saying a word about the blatant intimidation she knew her constituents must be feeling.
It is obvious from Bean's obfuscation that she chose this type of forum so she would not have to answer any direct questions about her voting record. Instead of having an open town hall forum where citizens are free to have a dialogue with their representative, Bean chose to have a representative from the Illinois State Treasury come in and lecture her constituents on how they should pay down their credit card debt and start saving.
How ironic, when the Federal Government has spent over 13 Trillion dollars and the majority of the states are on the verge of bankruptcy.
In the video you will see that all attempts to ask Bean questions were either "shut down" by Bean personally or through the intimidation tactics of her thug. Is this the type of "transparency" we were promised? Why does Bean feel that thuggery is acceptable?
Watch the video and see if you can answer any of these questions.
Video, 8/14/2010, "Rep. Melissa Bean IL8 Sends in the Thug"
Jean, administrator of We the People USA, is a contributor to Gulag Bound. See her report, "The Marxo-Fascist ‘Social and Economic Justice’ Ties That Bind," for more reporting on thuggery of the financial kind.
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Bean, like so many Illinois Dems, needs to go.
So, did they just sit there and put up with it? What in hell is the matter with them?
Nobody told the guy to get out of their face.
maybe the biggest joke of this story is that Barrington is one of the richest suburbs of Chicago - why do they need a congresswoman’s advice of debt?
Looks like the parasite congresswoman has an SEIU escort.
The solution to such intimidation is to eat lots of garlic before such a meeting and exhale forcefully into the face of the person. Trust me, they back off immediately. (I learned that when garlic was touted as having antibiotic properties.)
Just say the magic words, "I was afraid he was going to hurt me; I was at a disadvantage, being seated; he was glaring at me menacingly," and then punch him in the nuts.
I'm pretty sure approaching someone like that and hovering over them could arguably be termed "assault."
Anyone know how Bean’s polling numbers are looking?
1. She's a democrat. 2. She's in Illinois.
I’m 6’4”, 220; my son is 6’8”, 270. Wish we were there.
Must be in a safe district like mine. Castor the fanatic congresscritter from Tampa. When she comes to town she has to have SEIU and ACORN bodyguards to protect her.
I’m sorry... I would have had the irresistable urge to stand up, turn around and look the goon in the eye and say..”WHAT??? What is wrong with you? The bathroom is at the back of the room and you don’t need permission from ME to go!” lol
They learned a great deal about the attitude and practices of our Democrat ruling class toward citizens.
Why the hell did not someone (I saw the video)not ask “what is this thug trying to do”?
Why is my luck to never get this experience? Well, maybe because in Texas our politicians know we voters would stand up to this sort of intimidation. Illinois must be a herd of sheep.
Very few people watch what happens from the knees down. A couple light kicks the this guy’s shins would have provoked this guy to do something stupid. But that requires courage. Something that seemed to be lacking among this group.
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