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WTSP-TV/Tampa--Violence at Tampa health care forum
WTSP TV10 Tampa ^ | 1 Hour Ago | Phil Landeros

Posted on 08/06/2009 6:27:04 PM PDT by tcrlaf

Edited on 08/06/2009 8:09:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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.


(Excerpt) Read more at wtsp.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; angrymob; bhohealthcare; castor; democrats; hopechangey; liberalfascism; obama; obamacare; revolution; seiu; thegreatuniter; townhall; townhalls; unions; unionthugs; unionviolence; violence
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To: RummyChick
youtube video

Here is a comment below the video:

It's true, my sister was there and she pretended to be a Castor supporter and was let in @ 5. She talked to people inside and was told they had a bus that had picked them up from OUTSIDE the district!! This woman is a fraud and will vote for Obamas plan because Pelosi will tell her to!! Vote her OUT!! She cares only for her party, not the people she represents!!!

121 posted on 08/06/2009 7:40:00 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Obama's multi- trillion dollar agenda would be a "man caused disaster")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I agree - the Boston Massacre was part and parcel of the Revolutionary war (not the Civil war), but the analogy is a useful one. A street scene escalated way past it’s intended conclusion and the consequences were far reaching indeed.


122 posted on 08/06/2009 7:40:24 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: tcrlaf
Angry protesters and strong supporters are clashing inside and all around a health care reform town hall meeting in Downtown Tampa.

Could have been strong protesters and angry supporters clashing. This is biased reporting.

123 posted on 08/06/2009 7:40:32 PM PDT by gitmo (History books will read that Lincoln freed the slaves and Obama enslaved the free.)
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To: tcrlaf
Inside, the townhall seated are mostly union members/supporters/people - yet seats remain empty. Hundreds of citizens outside. And yet public is not allowed in.... . People were prevented access inside to the meeting. Because of this apparent denial of free speech and bias -- and the seemingly blatant sham of a 'townhall' -- many began to shout, some banged windows & doors.

Dems came up with a new way to lie - a townhall by invitation. Can't wait to see how it's played tomorrow...

124 posted on 08/06/2009 7:40:47 PM PDT by GOPJ (ACORN - Losers paid to protest ...The White House has an enemies list. Are you on it?)
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To: buccaneer81
LOL! Look at the titles of those books on his shelf!

I noticed that, too. This is what "We the People" are dealing with right now. This is a scary time in American history. Mussolini is being reborn.

125 posted on 08/06/2009 7:40:49 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: tcrlaf; seekthetruth
Were there any Central Florida Chapter members at this town hall meeting? I think there was another one going on in the greater Tampa area also.

We need some first-hand reports.

Leni

126 posted on 08/06/2009 7:40:52 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Work Harder! Millions On Welfare Depend on You!)
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To: tcrlaf
Bookmarked.

August 6, 2009

233 years, 4 months into our American Freedom.

And so it begins.

Bring it socialists. Bring it.

127 posted on 08/06/2009 7:41:24 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (God Bless Our US Troops, Active, Reserve & Retired (Especially Snipers and Military Intelligence).)
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To: randomhero97

Well, with or with out the adrenaline, keep up the good fight my FRiend!


128 posted on 08/06/2009 7:41:40 PM PDT by MountainDad
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To: roses of sharon

>>>> .do you think this is stimulus money? <<<<<<

Possibly. Probably.

I found others that I didn’t post.

They’re all over Craigslist for different cities.

U.S. PIRG is the “employer.”

Does anyone know if U.S. PIRG got an infusion of ObamaBucks?


129 posted on 08/06/2009 7:42:02 PM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

inside the meeting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbBgjc56Mxk


130 posted on 08/06/2009 7:42:17 PM PDT by RummyChick ("Free Speech....is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny" Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black)
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To: dragnet2
Looks like the public got locked out of the public meeting.

Well said...

131 posted on 08/06/2009 7:42:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (ACORN - Losers paid to protest ...The White House has an enemies list. Are you on it?)
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To: Biggirl

In the future “Tampa” may be mentioned in the same vein as “Ft. Sumpter.”


132 posted on 08/06/2009 7:43:05 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: tcrlaf
Inside, the townhall seated are mostly union members/supporters/people - yet seats remain empty. Hundreds of citizens outside. And yet public is not allowed in.

(I posted this on a couple of other threads, also.)

Here is a screen cap from the video at MyFoxTampaBay. This guy was right up front and his tee-shirt caught my eye. "Union Tough", it reads.

Now, I know it is just an old union slogan, but this guy chose to wear this particular shirt, on this particular night, for a particular reason.

He wanted (or maybe his Union boss wanted) to intimidate people into sitting down and shutting up. Unless, of course, they agreed with the party /union line.

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133 posted on 08/06/2009 7:43:18 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican
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To: sport
Talk has done nothing....Photobucket
134 posted on 08/06/2009 7:43:53 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: MountainDad

I’m with all of you guys. We FReepers may have some small differences but when it comes to our liberty and livelihoods we all have a common interests.


135 posted on 08/06/2009 7:44:13 PM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: model B

“the story these amateur politicians are using about insurance companies organizing protests shows just how desperate they are.”

It’s all part of the meme Democrats have been pushing for years now, and up until now, IT’S WORKED..

CLASS WARFARE, always blame the Rich CEO, the EVIL corporation, etc,etc.

But many Americans are realizing that those “EVIL CEO’s” give them thier JOBS, and thier health insurance!!


136 posted on 08/06/2009 7:44:58 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

It “He” going to instruct the union thugs to bring a gun to a knife fight?


137 posted on 08/06/2009 7:45:22 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

It's time to secede!

138 posted on 08/06/2009 7:45:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ladyvet

I’m watching that again (for the 300th time) when I get home tonight. This thread has got me pumped.


139 posted on 08/06/2009 7:45:59 PM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: onemiddleamerican

From here it looks like “UNION THUG”.


140 posted on 08/06/2009 7:46:20 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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