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 ...
lol. There's something ironic about injuries being incurred at a health care forum.
Haha! Sounds like my Mother she is 3/4ths Irish and full of fight! They always told her dynamite comes in small packages (she’s 5’ 1” 100lbs).
All I know is it really is the size of the fight in the person not the size of the person that matters. We have convictions and beliefs that they can not and will not understand. It scares them that we will fight and die for it because their souls are empty and dark.
Obama is nothing but a lowlife thug agitator himself. He loves this kind of stuff. Watch it all ignite later this month, when the Great Pretender is away from the mainland partying on Martha’s Vineyard.
Nero—Rome—Disaster!
Good post.
This should be a stand alone post - there are still people out there who think the left has “the people”. So few citizens back leftist positions that they have to pay people to show up. Then the press takes their pictures and “forgets” to ask who they are and why they’re there. Please do a vanity with this -— we have to get the word out.
Amen, Brother!!!
Why does this work?
1. It shifts attention from you to your opponents. 2. It brings the questionable/objectionable act out into the open for discussion, which desensitizes people to it. 3. By the time it comes back to the original perpetrator (the leftist), people are used to it and the perpetrator can now claim, “Everyone does it. Remember when so-and-so did it?” 4. Later, when the other side (patriots) accurately and rightfully condemn the leftist of the questionable/ objectionable act, they sound like they are playing the “so are you” game and their accusations lose the power of the original projection.
Insightful and important reply. Thanks.
“The time for that has long passed, now is the time to take action.”
Perhaps....but what would that look like... and at what cost?
I never thought I’d see the Iron Curtain fall in my lifetime...but it did. Life has a funny way of taking unexpected turns. I will fight for this country in such a way I hope, that will not put others on the defensive, but bring them over to our side. I will try to be vigilant, prepared and most importantly, effective.
To me, this is a rescue mission...not a battle. We need to figure out the best way to accomplish this and that takes bravery and strategy.
They always have the coordinated shirts and the professionally printed signs.
We are the ragtag patriots, not in uniform, and with hand-made signs.
They have other signs and signals. When the two FReepers got beat up in Philly, the union boss’s signal was to put his hat on another guy’s head. Then the thugs lowered the boom.
When you go to these meetings, you have to be very aware of your surroundings—who’s in front of you, who’s in back of you, where is the SEIU spokesman? and what kind of hand signals is he using. It might be good to carry some MACE (or whatever it is called now), and of course cellphones and cameras.
Obama promised jobs - I guess this is it...
Petri dishes for a revolution culture.
IF TRUE, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOLKS!!!
From the WTSP-TV Comments section:
stella3 wrote:
I was there...
We showed up at 6 and were told by friends that Representative Castor hosted a private event before the scheduled town hall with 175 SEIU union members who were assigned seats in the front of the hall for the meeting which left space for only @ 75 more people....
and individuals wearing Obama gear were ushered to the front of the line and then the doors were shut.
Free speech and Democracy were reprehensibly railroaded tonight..
Where are the Brooks Bros. suits?
Why are those exempt allowed to participate in something that has nothing to do with them??
The more Emanuel's writing get publicity the better. He is a nasty character.
If there’s one issue that can put one million pissed off Americans into Downtown DC on a weekend, it’s this one.
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