Union Health Care Activists Counter Screams with Civility

In the past several days, loud, shouting and rowdy mobs have been disrupting congressional town hall meetings across the country. They’re organized by far-right and corporate backed anti-health care reform and anti-government groups. AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka says there’s one main reason for the mob action.

“Major health care reform is closer than ever to passage and it is no secret that special interests want to weaken or block it.”

Trumka notes that the America’s politics are “passionate, heartfelt and often loud.”

But that is not what the corporate-funded mobs are engaging in when they show up to disrupt town halls held by members of Congress….Mob rule is not democracy. People have a democratic right to express themselves and our elected leaders have a right to hear from their constituents—not organized thugs whose sole purpose is to shut down the conversation and attempt to scare our leaders into inaction.

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http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/08/06/union-health-care-activists-counter-screams-with-civility/

union membership is exempt from being covered by the proposed bill? If so, they have no interest in the issue, and probably have less of a 'right' to be at the town halls than the people on the right who are attending.

You are not correct.

from paying taxes is from the Washington examiner and the web site of the chamber of commerce. Sounds kind of fishy.

And regardless of whether they have an interest in a particular piece of legislation, they still have a right to speak to their representative. I said speak to, not shout down and physically threaten him, that's the other side's tactics.

Enjoy your stay!