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Posted on 08/06/2009 10:28:04 AM PDT by mdittmar
Like the cavalry, organized labor reportedly plans on swooping in to the rescue of beleaguered lawmakers who are getting shouted down by conservative activists at town-hall meetings during discussions of health-care overhaul legislation.
The Huffington Post's Sam Stein reports that the AFL-CIO is calling on its troops to counter the anti-health care reform hecklers.
An excerpt:
The nation's largest federation of labor organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town halls during the August recess.
In a memo sent out on Thursday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlined the blueprint for how the union conglomerate would step up recess activities on health care reform and other topics pertinent to the labor community. The document makes clear that Obama allies view the town hall forums as ground zero of the health care debate. It also uses the specter of the infamous 2000 recount "Brooks Brothers" protest to rally its members to the administration's side.
The principal battleground in the campaign will be town hall meetings and other gatherings with members of Congress in their home districts," reads the memo. "We want your help to organize major union participation to counter the right-wing "Tea-Party Patriots" who will try to disrupt those meetings, as they've been trying to do to meetings for the last month. ...
(Remember the hooligans - many of them Republican Congressional staff - who harassed Florida vote counters in 2000? We can't let that happen again!)."
These already ugly town halls look like they could be about to get significantly uglier.
Ah, I knew this would happen, and the union thugs will do their best to start some violence and blame it on the protesters.
Bring it!
It’s time for the Minute Men to prepare. 0bama has resorted to the brown shirts.
Here come the union thugs.
It might work in certain areas where unions are strong, but there is a whole lot of the US where unions aren’t squat. Also, if the crowds get large enough, unions won’t stop them. The more the democrats try to discredit the crowds the larger they are going to get.
LOL
And they accuse the protesters of being an organzied effort and not spontaneous. Here was have an acutual poltical organization asking members to show up.
LMAO
how do i get a list of these meetings in my area? (nyc)
Amazing. Though once the union members understand how their leadership is selling them out (the unions will use the national plan to write down the health care obligation on their books and then loot the funding that the companies pay into the union-run plans) they may reap the whirlwind.
Don’t Union members have really good heathcare benefits? It seems they would really be against government conrolled healthcare. I think fighting in the streets is what Obama wants. Then he can delcare Marshall Law. The truth is that if you don’t stand for what is yours it will be lost. There is always someone wanting to take it. What Obama is attempting is nothing new.
What I fear, though, is that this is all the excuse the government will need to further erode our civil liberties.
Martial law? Or am I being paranoid?
Listen, and understand.
Hussein of Mombasa is out there. He can’t be bargained with. He can’t be reasoned with. He doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And he absolutely will not stop, ever, until we are dead.
In Tampa Kathy Castor is holing up with Acorn and the SEIU> in hopes of intimidating concerned civilians. I am on my way to the meeting to engage. All excited. It feels good to enter the fray in person. She cancelled her regular meeting and they are circling the wagons in Ybor City. TallyHo!
Yes, liberals have mastered the art of being hypocrites and doing it with a straight face.
Large groups of people wearing ACORN shirts, carrying professionally made signs, bussed in to demonstrate, are just concerned citizens, but loose-knit groups of middle class folks wearing everything from t-shirts and jeans to polyester pant suits are somehow a mob.
OTOH, I can't see the union thugs in favor of the healthcare bill and going to these protests, since this proposed plan will eventually do away with their cherry medical plans, directly affecting them and their families.
Aren’t the unions’ healthcare programs exempt from obamacare? I thought we were able to keep their programs. I know they are just being used here as headbangers.
BTTT
What could these people (union members) possibly have to gain from this?
They already have “Cadillac” health plans. Don’t they stand to lose the most if this goes through? Are they going to be exempted?
We own them, and its time we acted like it.
Union members will probably be exempt from government healthcare once the final bill passes. They will keep their health benefits and probably have the ability to write new private contracts with whatever health insurance companies remain once this is finally finalized.
BTW, I would love to get into a physical fight with any union thug. It would be great fun.
They were prepared to fight and were just waiting for the opportunity.
This WILL backfire in Obama’s face. He’s promoting this.
Your not paranoid, someone is out to get you
record video of every single moment....
Union thugs will just spout the same talking points as the reps and 0bama so big deal. America knows it is complete bullshit.
Ping
There will be violence. There will be chaos. There will be blood if this continues.
I wonder how many posters on this thread will go to a townhall meeting?
How will union thugs affect if you go or not?
When the fight starts what will we do?
And now they have been given the go-ahead by the President of the US, to spread out across the country and use Chicago mobster political tactics on any of us who don't cheer for Dear Leader and his agenda.
“Don’t Union members have really good heathcare benefits? It seems they would really be against government conrolled healthcare. “
I believe unions are exempt. I think I heard that somewhere. Could be wrong.
Bring your video cameras.
I’ve never been to one of these things in my life. I’m going now. If these marxist union thug bastards want to take over my country, I’m not going quietly. No way in hell.
If union members would just think for a minute, they’d realize that companys plan to roll their employee health care plans into the the government option. GM, GE, etc., will then have to pay just 8% of their payroll. Instead of their cadillac plans, the workers will afterwards have the government Yugo plan + the kill gramps and granny clauses for their future.
Union members are nuts to support Obama’s Takeover of Health Care.
Don’t go alone. Take a buddy with you.
Wait?
Are these tea-baggers?
Birthers?
Neo-nazis?
People funded by the insurance industry?
A joint partnership between the GOP and the Libertarian Party?
The Democrats are using every name in the book to ID “THE” sole sponsor of these protests.
The unions get ti keep their health care. Then that fact will allow unions to attract more members by offering a better healthcare plan.
I may be time to saddle-up.
Did you encounter any of these union thugs, Race and Man50D?
I wanna SEE a Union Thug. I wanna TEST a Union Thug.
Whatchya got, punk?
Already happened in Elkhart, IN yesterday while the Zero was there.
Yes, the peaceful union activists are going to “enlighten those reich-wing extremist astroturfers hired by the insurance companies to use fascist tea-bagging terrorism against the glorious forces of hope and change”. Happy birthday+2 dear leader!
They bussed them into NH from Massachusetts last year. The lots were filled with vans and cars that had Mass tags.
They are seeking a confrontation.
It is time.
Krystalnacht is here, and we are the Jews.
I’ll bet we’re going to see Democrats organizing a flurry of town halls in the coming days- all of which will be curiously packed with union thugs.
The analogy to the brown shirts is no longer merely rhetorical.
These people play mean, folks.
Be prepared.
Do NOT be intimidated.
I knew it would happen as well... it was only a matter of time. AFSME union thugs were verbally attacking peaceful dissenting Patriots yesterday in Simsbury, Connecticut at a Congressman Chris Murphy (D-CT) town hall meeting. They called our Patriots "G__ Damn Nazis".
Be aware of these union thugs, FReepers but do NOT be intimidated! PACK those town hall meetings!
They crossed the line from “unionists” to “communionists” a long time ago.
They will never turn against The State.
The State is their advocate.
The Democrats are using every name in the book to ID “THE” sole sponsor of these protests.
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