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Tampa Town Hall On Health Care Reform Disrupted By Violence

Angry protesters screamed, yelled and banged on windows as officers hurried to guard the entrances to the facility, where U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor was trying to discuss the various health care reform proposals being debated in Congress. One photojournalist said that a fistfight broke out inside the building, reports WTSP.
Many of the hundreds of protesters said that they had been inspired by a conservative activist group promoted by Fox News host Glenn Beck and some received emails from the county Republican party, according to the St. Petersburg Times:
Instead, hundreds of vocal critics turned out, many of them saying they had been spurred on through the Tampa 912 activist group promoted by conservative radio and television personality Glenn Beck. Others had received e-mails from the Hillsborough Republican party that urged people to speak out against the plan and offered talking points to challenge supporters.

Can you believe these demented fools, the face of America.

EthnicHeart

Those of us who voted for Obama, who saw his election as a historic moment in the transformation of this society, and who can perceive how it is part of a larger worldwide movement where more and more people are learning about each other and wanting to live together well as equals, should have been expecting a backlash from those who want to maintain dominance by any means necessary. Well, now we’re seeing it, and it’s likely to get worse. The issue of lynching being raised reminds me of pictures first displayed at the MLK Center in Atlanta, and now available on the web:

http://www.americanlynching.com/photos-old.htm
http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html

If anyone has ever seen these pictures, and looked at the faces of those who had just done the lynching, you’d be looking at the parents, grandparents and great grandparents of those who are disrupting these town hall meetings now. Anyone who wants to argue that this “conservative” disruption isn’t a symbolic lynch mob, doesn’t know how to learn from history, nor how to see that the past is still the present. We have work to do, people.