Cynical conservative operatives have whipped up a mob, using lies and distortions, and now have a vile group using the language of violence and hate, if not worse.

I don’t thing they have to whip up this mob cause they have been willing to turn to violence since a black man was elected president.

And yet, it’s as if the teabaggers were all ordered up from central casting. If they didn’t exist, someone we know would have invented them.

The insurance cartel harnessed this hate this to block single payer. Now the same forces are trying to block their grab for the mandates.

It’s almost as if this hate was ordered up to isolate the progressive opposition to health care reform as it ended up: “you’re not one of THOSE people, are you?” No I am not.

But I still have principled objections to the bill they plan to pass tomorrow. Apparently the powers-that-be who corporately funded this rightwing hate would like me to appear to be allied with them.

Hmmm.

If true..vile and disgusting…at least people on our side would nevvvvvvvvvver act this bad…no sir…not us

The insurance cartel loves this bill, what are you talking about? They get 31 million or more new customers, and everyone in America is forced to buy their product. Self employed people like me on a $3,000/year health care plan will instead be forced into a minimum $12,000/year plan. Insurance companies are like bookies – they don’t care who wins or loses, they just take between 1% and 5% off the top. While the insurance companies can be called evil for the way they do business, they are not the main problem. Ignorant people and politicians are the real problem.

Please….if you think this kind behavior is isolated to the Tea Party movement or conservatives then you are blinded by your own ideology. You only need to go back to the vandalism that was perpetrated on GOP candidates or GOP offices during the 2004 Presidential elections, or the way that Liberals and/or Move On supporters treated Bush, Rice and others over the Iraq War to see that ugliness has found a home on both sides of the aisle.

i don’t think you have to “order up” hate with that crowd

Racism and ad hominim attacks such as described in the post above are always inappropriate and worthy of condemnation.

Violence is disturbing, and has no place in a country which respects individual rights.

The problem which is occurring, however, is that the instrument of government, whose sole legitimate purpose is the protection of individual rights, is being used to initiate force against innocent, peaceful private citizens. Multiple provisions within the health care bills (individual mandates, state interference in private contracts, price controls, confiscatory taxes, laws which turns some citizens involuntarily into the indentured servants of others) are acts of aggression on the rights of each individual to his own life, liberty and labor and ONLY TO HIS OWN.

Government is coercion: force backed by the threat of violence. The process of voting does not change the moral character of an act which violates individual rights. Those of us who protest against the implementation of ObamaCare see that it is an act of aggression, backed by the threat of violence, against our inalienable rights. Our ability and our right to live free and independent lives is under attack by the very government created for our protection. It is a frightening place to stand.

This country is facing many significant challenges, but the solutions we implement must be consistent with a respect for the life, liberty and property of others—equally before the law. No special interests. No special treatment of one group as opposed to another. All other solutions involve the initiation of force and are neither moral nor practical—and must be actively condemned and resisted.

I am not sure how egregious violations of individual rights by the government must be before responding with physical force is justified. We are not there yet, but it is a question which must eventually answered.

Cynical conservative operatives have whipped up a mob, using lies and distortions, and now have a vile group using the language of violence and hate, if not worse.

The Tea Party movement is not astroturf. You can like or not like their point of view, but there is no reasonable basis to call them anything other than a real grass-roots movement which is frustrated with growing government power.

Your examples lend nothing to your conclusion about the movement. By and large, the Tea Party rallies are far more polite and intellectual (vs. rude and violent) than any of the mobs the left has produced which we read about all the time. They don’t block traffic, they don’t throw bottles at cops. They make an argument. Maybe you should try to answer it, instead of slandering their motives and attitudes.

Heh,

Yeah the Sarah Palin is a c**t tshirts and the joke where Sarah Bernhard suggested Sarah Palin would be gang raped or Letterman suggested her 17 year old would be knocked up by Rodriguez were pure class.

Frankly, both sides behaviors repulse me.

Oh, boo-hoo. More hypocrisy from the left. When haters like Bill Maher & Kathy Johnson spew their filth, libs are all a-titter. “Tee-hee, ha-ha, pass the bean sprouts. Love your Che T-shirt, dahling. When does Letterman come on?”

Apparently, trolls have wandered into the lake. Rather than trading catcalls, however, if they haven’t left for church already, I would like to hear from them about the planned actions of the politicians they support against the individual mandate, an issue upon which we can all agree. No hidden sheathed knives ready to come out – I really would like to know the contents of email alerts, etc. you’ve received about legal challenges to counteract this monstrosity.