Dems should counter the brown shirts at town halls with kids denied treatment by insurance companies...

theothersnippywshrub

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Thu Aug-06-09 08:50 PM
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Dems should counter the brown shirts at town halls with kids denied treatment by insurance companies...

It might be hard to find parents and children willing to be used, or exploited for the political position of reforming health care. However, the brown shirts either would be shamed into adult behavior or would look even more evil than they already do. Having individuals onstage who are suffering from the current system would put a human face on the problems with that system. And when the brown shirts shout down a sick child it will put a true face on the brown shirts. And it would get tons of media coverage.

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dgibby

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Thu Aug-06-09 08:57 PM
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1. I would never expose my child to that kind of danger.

Someone is going to get seriously injured or killed in one of those meetings before it's over.

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theothersnippywshrub

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Thu Aug-06-09 09:03 PM
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3. I wouldn't either. n/t

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bdamomma

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Thu Aug-06-09 09:17 PM
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7. that is what they want.

inciting violence.

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Faygo Kid

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Thu Aug-06-09 08:59 PM
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2. Your point is well taken. But they may hurt the kids, and their parents.

Same goes for anybody with a story to tell. These Brownshirts are bad news. The violence is growing. I'm not sure I would want to put a child in that situation.

Plus, hurting or humiliating that child would embolden the Freepers. Big thumbs up from Rush and Beck, too. I simply don't know what to do about this violence. Would that GOP members of decency condemn it. Oh wait . . .

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theothersnippywshrub

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Thu Aug-06-09 09:10 PM
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5. I agree completely with everything you say. But I think the media coverage would have a similar

effect as the television coverage of the civil rights marches in the 1960's. That was incredibly powerful. And ended up having a powerful effect.

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drm604

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Thu Aug-06-09 09:09 PM
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4. Instead of exposing actual children to these mindless mobs

it might be better to have pictures of children who were denied treatment either because their insurance companies denied them or because their parents had no insurance.

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theothersnippywshrub

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Thu Aug-06-09 09:18 PM
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8. It absolutely would be better for the actual children, but I doubt that pictures would

have any affect on the brown shirts or the power of the media coverage of the brown shirts' behavior.

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NoPasaran

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Thu Aug-06-09 09:15 PM
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6. I was thinking boards with nails in them would be more to the point

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theothersnippywshrub

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Thu Aug-06-09 09:23 PM
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9. That would certainly make an impression (or several) on the brown shirts at the meeting.

I think democrats need to find a way to persuade Americans sitting at home and watching television.

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Hansel

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Thu Aug-06-09 09:28 PM
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10. Unless this government starts showing any interest in protecting the participants

I wouldn't bring my children within 100 miles of these events. Until they start cracking down and taking the danger of these mobs seriously, everyone attending is in danger.

I'm really starting to get PO'd that the government officials are not doing something more pro-active to stop this crap. If these people want to participate then they can act like adults. Otherwise they can leave, with or without help. But these events are being called by government officials so people can exercise their democratic rights. So the government has to take responsibility for the participants' safety.

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theothersnippywshrub

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Thu Aug-06-09 09:44 PM
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11. I agree with everything you said. But I do not think the brown shirts are being seen

by most Americans for what they are. Too many people think that they can understand the brown shirts' point of view and might agree with it, and too few people are disgusted by the brown shirts behavior. I would like that to change. And in my lifetime I remember only a few incidents that changed the opinion of a majority of Americans. And all of those incidents were unpleasant, ugly or evil. The brown shirts need to be forced into the position of convincing people that they are unpleasant, ugly and evil.

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