Disgusting. We will not be able to protest for health care. They won't let us. [View All]

I was just catching up with today's Thom Hartmann's radio show pod casts and he interviewed Dr. Flowers, a pediatrician who was one of the protesters arrested for speaking up for single payer representatives at Senator Baucus's committee hearings for health care. The Senator was conducting a meeting with all the corporate insurance and health care industry representatives, but would not allow even one single payer universal health care advocate to speak. She and others were arrested for disrupting the meeting. However, usually these arrests only amount to getting a citation. Today, Dr. Flowers says they are going to be charged with multiple charges that could get them six months in jail if Senator Baucus doesn't drop the charges. There is nothing in the media about this. All I could find was a link to the original story.

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/may/baucus_healthcare_pl.php

I don't think anyone who wants meaningful health care reform should let this go. Contact Senator Baucus's office and demand that he drop charges on the doctors and nurses who were arrested that day for exercising their freedom of dissent, which at one time was protected by the Constitution.

Senator Max Baucus
511 Hart Senate Office Building,
District of Columbia 20510-2602
Phone: (202) 224-2651
Fax: (202) 224-9412