Beware of the Extreme Mobs

Contributed by: SWPAnnA

I just got this from my Party – the Democratic Party!

There’s been a lot of media coverage about organized mobs intimidating lawmakers, disrupting town halls, and silencing real discussion about the need for real health insurance reform.

The truth is, it’s a sham. These “grassroots protests” are being organized and largely paid for by Washington special interests and insurance companies who are desperate to block reform. They’re trying to use lies and fear to break the President and his agenda for change.

Health insurance reform is about our lives, our jobs, and our families — we can’t let distortions and intimidation get in the way. We need to expose these outrageous tactics, and we’re counting on you to help. Can you read these “5 facts about the anti-reform mobs,” then pass them along to your friends and family?

5 facts about the anti-reform mobs

1. These disruptions are being funded and organized by out-of-district special-interest groups and insurance companies who fear that health insurance reform could help Americans, but hurt their bottom line. A group run by the same folks who made the “Swiftboat” ads against John Kerry is compiling a list of congressional events in August to disrupt. An insurance company coalition has stationed employees in 30 states to track where local lawmakers hold town-hall meetings.

2. People are scared because they are being fed frightening lies. These crowds are being riled up by anti-reform lies being spread by industry front groups that invent smears to tarnish the President’s plan and scare voters. But as the President has repeatedly said, health insurance reform will create more health care choices for the American people, not reduce them. If you like your insurance or your doctor, you can keep them, and there is no “government takeover” in any part of any plan supported by the President or Congress.

3. Their actions are getting more extreme. Texas protesters brought signs displaying a tombstone for Rep. Lloyd Doggett and using the “SS” symbol to compare President Obama’s policies to Nazism. Maryland Rep. Frank Kratovil was hanged in effigy outside his district office. Rep. Tim Bishop of New York had to be escorted to his car by police after an angry few disrupted his town hall meeting — and more examples like this come in every day. And they have gone beyond just trying to derail the President’s health insurance reform plans, they are trying to “break” the President himself and ruin his Presidency.

4. Their goal is to disrupt and shut down legitimate conversation. Protesters have routinely shouted down representatives trying to engage in constructive dialogue with voters, and done everything they can to intimidate and silence regular people who just want more information. One attack group has even published a manual instructing protesters to “stand up and shout” and try to “rattle” lawmakers to prevent them from talking peacefully with their constituents.

5. Republican leadership is irresponsibly cheering on the thuggish crowds. Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner issued a statement applauding and promoting a video of the disruptions and looking forward to “a long, hot August for Democrats in Congress.”

It’s time to expose this charade, before it gets more dangerous. Please send these facts to everyone you know. You can also post them on your website, blog, or Facebook page.

Now, more than ever, we need to stand strong together and defend the truth.

Thanks,

Jen

Jen O’Malley Dillon
Executive Director
Democratic National Committee

What’s the FIRST thing that comes to mind when you open this email?

If you’re as attuned as I am, you saw the effigy of Sarah Palin a year ago.

Where was the DNC when we were screaming about the double standard?

We need to have a few posts about how they looked the other way while the Obama thugs were stampeding and commandeering the caucuses, rolling over HRC with bottomless wells of cash and unleashing Obotomized TV News people and blog trolls to bash anybody who had a rational thought about the election.

New Black Panther thugs wearing black, holding Billy clubs and intimidating voters at the polls in Philadelphia (where Mayor Nutter had endorsed Clinton over his bro) saw the charges against them “dropped” by Eric Holder, AFTER they were found guilty!!!

The Pitchfork Brigade is rising in the corn fields. I loved the town hall outburst by the gentleman who said: “Obama took six months to decide on which dog to pick for his kids, and he wants to push this massive health care plan in a few weeks!”

This “Tune ‘em out, ridicule and demean the people who pay the tab” game is getting old.

I got to thinking about it on my drive this morning. The DNC gets its money to pay Howard Dean, Donna Brazile and their R & BL Committee expenses FROM US!!! Our volunteer work, our fundraising efforts, when we buy the $100.00 tickets to their hot dog dinners and any time we make our own contributions to bullshit pleas like this one.

Note from BJ

THIS is EXACTLY the SAME KIND of VOTER INTIMIDATION that OBAMA and HIS THUGS used DURING the CAUCUS, PRIMARY, and GENERAL  ELECTIONS to SCARE PEOPLE into BACKING DOWN and/or DOING HIS BIDDING.  WE do NOT do THINGS THIS WAY in AMERICA – it MAY HAVE WORKED ONCE while DONE COVERTLY BUT it  AIN’T GONA WORK this time – WE ARE AMERICANS FIRST!

If you don’t believe me – just search the web- We are millions of  RIDsNow- and growing everyday all against OBAMBI and he can’t stand it. the more they throw names at us the louder we get . We do not seem to be afraid anymore- Call us racists – call us a mob – but just dont call us quiet little fools anymore . We will turn ourselves in- hear us roar!!!!!

 http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/05/revealed-lefts-dishonesty-about-republican-mobs-somehow-even-worse-than-thought/