Here is the much-vaunted 'tolerance' of the Left on full display (using health-care as our case study). This is just over the past month:
Video of HCAN (Health Care for America Now) instructing on how to disrupt health-care townhalls:
More from HCAN about "taking away the right-wingers opportunity to talk to reporters..."
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
calling Townhall attendees "astroturfers". Also her now famous (or would that be
infamous) accusations of townhallers carrying swastikas, implying those attending the townhalls are somehow nazis or fascists since they oppose Obamacare.
President Obama doesn't want you "to do a lot of taking", just "get out of the way":
SEIU 'volunteers' attack a Obamacare opponent:
After watching the above video, watch this one of SEIU spinning the debate. Especially egregious is their spin of the SEIU attack shown above - by portraying it as an attack on the SEIU!
I thought it was the "right-wing extremists" who were getting bg, big outside funding cash for protesting Obamacare?
Not so much it seems.
Health-care protester who spoke out at a Dingell townhall
is threatened.
John Dingell (D-MI) calls Obamacare townhall protesters the equivalent of Ku Klux Klan members and racists:
Shelia Jackson-Lee (D-TX) takes a call while one of her constituents tries to ask her a question (at the 4:30 mark):
Baron Hill (D-WGAF) calls Obamacare opponents "political terrorists":
More 'nuance' from Senate Leader Harry Reid, who in his fondness for Obamacare opponents calls them "
Evil-mongers".
Richard Durbin (D-IL), feels that health-care townhalls with his constituents just "
wouldn't be productive". Meetings with lobbyists however on health-care -
priceless.
More nonsense from Massa. Opposition to Obamacare, indeed Obama himself (as suggested by another in this video) is Treason:
Union thugs interrupt and cause probems
at this townhall. I thought it was the
right-wing who were the intolerant, violent ones? (skip ahead to 3:45)
Democrat Dianne Watson calls opponents to Obamacare racists. Obviously missing a point: how can people who opposed this very same thing from a white president (Clinton in 1993) be racists? She's also a big fan of commies:
Democrat Carol Shea-Porter
has a man arrested at her townhall. Why? No one really knows, except that he may have not have received a so-called "Golden Ticket" to speak. Who would have thought that a
constituent needed
permission to address
his public servant:
And finally, we have a Obamacare supporter interrupting a Tuscon, AZ Tea Party meeting. It
wasn't even a congressional townhall. It was a meeting of Tea Party folks talking about health care (amongst other things I'm sure). He decides he would be a good example for his cause by throwing an elbow and attacking one of the attendees. The 'teabaggers' are so violent they immediately kick the crap out of the guy. Well, no, not really. One of them
wants to, bt is kept back by the guy who was hit. Such a example of right-wing extremism... (the video is a bit dark, but
follow this link for a link to clearer video):
All of these videos and links come from one blog,
Hot Air, over the course of just the last month (1 August -1 September). What's funny is this large sample isn't even all the videos and links I could have used! Thanks definitely need to go out to HA and other blogs. Many of these events were ignored by the MSM and would not have been reported at all had it not been for blogs an other alternative media.
The Left will stop at nothing to get what they want (in this case Obamacare). No hyperbole, rhetoric or accusation is too extreme. When nuance fails, they go right for the throat. They will denigrate, castigate, intimidate and in some cases will indeed resort to violence to achieve their ends.
Do not give these people any credit and do not underestimate them. Forewarned is forearmed as it were. "Honest debate" is not their goal, simply to take and wrest control.
Any public officials who would treat their own constituencies like this would have been hung from a yardarm 200 years ago. Now, we simply laugh it or shrug it off. But when you take it in its totality, their objective becomes clear - control. These pols complete and utter disrespect and lack of accountability should also not be underestimated. They feel themselves a privileged, political upper class. They know better than you. They wish to make you completely subservient to them and will use any tactic, any trick, any words, any force necessary.
This really isn't about health care anymore, their own rhetoric and examples show this. They admit it's about government control. They admit their fondness, indeed their open exultation of foreign dictators and systems of government (communism, socialism). They admit they want us to be more like 'them'. It's about silencing you, in any way they can get to stick. If their words won't work, they'll use a boot.
The evidence is right there.