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US Rep. Melissa Bean's Town Hall Thuggery
Gulag Bound ^ | August 16, 2010 | JeanWTPUSA

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.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: intimidation; melissabean; thuggery; townhall
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To: unspun

“What’s da mattah, don’t youse like da Congresswoman?”


21 posted on 08/16/2010 2:18:42 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: unspun

Good report. She truly is a fascist.


22 posted on 08/16/2010 2:21:06 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: ScottinVA
my son is 6’8”, 270.

Good God. What did you feed him as a kid? Other kids?

23 posted on 08/16/2010 2:21:39 PM PDT by GunRunner
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To: unspun

My queston is, what would that knuckle-dragger do to you if you continued to ask questions?
Have a feeling that there are two possible scenarios for that situation:
1. Thug just stands there and continues to look stupid b/c he knows there are cameras rolling;
congresswoman forced to continue sidestepping the
question.

2. Thug takes action against a citizen for asking a question. Event is caught on tape while congresswoman
is still sitting on her thumb.

Either way, it would show the extent of thuggery and tactics used by the enemy.


24 posted on 08/16/2010 2:24:24 PM PDT by TexasPatriot1 (Legalize the Constitution)
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To: Silentgypsy
The solution to such intimidation is to eat lots of garlic before such a meeting and exhale forcefully into the face of the person.

Everything I Need To Know About Life I Learned On Free Republic.

Thanks!

25 posted on 08/16/2010 2:33:38 PM PDT by happygrl (Continuing to predict that Obama will resign)
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To: unspun

And yet those people sitting there just took it??


26 posted on 08/16/2010 2:33:40 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: unspun

These so-called representatives just get more and more arrogant. Don’t do anything to help the slobs.


27 posted on 08/16/2010 2:36:43 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: VRWCmember
Nobody told the guy to get out of their face.

Has been discussed, thank you.

As long as the cameras are there, as Patrick Henry said, "...let us make the most of it!"

(non-violently)

28 posted on 08/16/2010 2:37:27 PM PDT by unspun (It's the Sovereignty, Stu... ...art. | WE ARE GULAG BOUND)
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To: TexasPatriot1

If you want to embarass them, send the video over to the Communist Chinese embassy with narrative. They will use it as anti US propoganda (America should not lecture other nations about human rights), and then let the US State Department go nuts explaining it. Create a PR crisis that will force the White House to deal with it.
Remember long time ago a small New England town tried to get an old bridge replaced. After being ignored by Wash DC they appealed to the Soviet Union for aid. The Soviets announced they were willing to build the bridge. That fixed the problem because the State Department did not want the richest nation in the world have one of its towns getting a new bridege courtesy of our arch enemy the poorer Soviet Union.


29 posted on 08/16/2010 2:38:34 PM PDT by Fee
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To: Jack Black

CWII ping


30 posted on 08/16/2010 2:39:37 PM PDT by stockpirate ("......When the government fears the people you have liberty." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Past Your Eyes
So, did they just sit there and put up with it? What in hell is the matter with them?

Looks like someone made a video of it and it's going to very embarrassing to Bean.

31 posted on 08/16/2010 2:49:08 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: unspun

The thugs have been leading the pack for a long time:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2


32 posted on 08/16/2010 2:59:25 PM PDT by Quix (C THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: unspun

Tazer the prick


33 posted on 08/16/2010 3:22:05 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: unspun

The only thing the thug lacked was the paramilitary uniform, combat boots, & a night stick.

Anybody else see a pattern beginning to form?


34 posted on 08/16/2010 4:10:08 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: longfellow
(Tazer the prick)

note that in this case, prick is a noun.
The thug is standing that close.

35 posted on 08/16/2010 4:55:39 PM PDT by W. W. SMITH
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To: Mister Da; All

Apologies, to all.

GulagBound.com should be up and running better again.

And we should have a permanent fix within 48-72 hours.

u


36 posted on 08/16/2010 5:01:02 PM PDT by unspun (It's the Sovereignty, Stu... ...art. | WE ARE GULAG BOUND)
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To: unspun

My first question:

Does the thug have a name?

Action:

Publish the name along with the video.


37 posted on 08/16/2010 5:10:43 PM PDT by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: alarm rider
My first question: Does the thug have a name? Action: Publish the name along with the video.

Let's make his image so famous that one of us can go up and ask him, after we bump into him.

Actually, I'll be inquiring further and I think his name is known.

38 posted on 08/16/2010 5:13:14 PM PDT by unspun (It's the Sovereignty, Stu... ...art. | WE ARE GULAG BOUND)
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To: unspun

Exactly. Show the video, tag the thug, let people know where and who he works for. This woman is a coward and will fold when the s%$# hits the fan on this.


39 posted on 08/16/2010 5:19:16 PM PDT by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: ScottinVA
I’m 6’4”, 220; my son is 6’8”, 270. Wish we were there.

I'm only 5'5", but if I was there knowing you and your son were in attendance it would have been a different type of town hall...........I'm really getting sick and tired of this crap!

40 posted on 08/16/2010 5:37:55 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Peanut bunker was just peanut bunker until I found Free Republic.........)
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