Teabaggers Shout Down Tampa Bay Town Hall

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS News

In Ybor City, Florida, a town hall meeting turned into a scrum with protesters screaming "Tyranny! Tyranny! Tyranny!" at Congresswoman Kathy Castor, D-Tampa.

The St. Petersburg Times dscribed the scene as something akin to a wrestling cage match with some in the audience screaming, "Tell the truth! Tell the truth!" "Read the bill!" "Forty-million illegals! Forty million illegals!" According to the paper's reporter, those who weren't allowed into the overflow room because of fire code restrictions were left pounding on the doors.

"They can't even run a meeting, and they want to run health care?" a Tampa printing business owner by the name of Kevin Grant was quoted as saying. He was standing next to a guy with a "Shame on you America. You sold your soul to the Devil" sign. Sounds like it was a fun time for all. Watching the clip, it seemed the hysteria was reaching the point where I was sure someone would jump out of the crowd screaming, "Soylent Green is people!" Maybe next time.



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/07/blogs/coopscorner/entry5222602.shtml

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Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX4F_cb9AXk&feature=player_embedded - Florida Thuggery 2000 & McCain/Palin Rallies 2008 Redux.

Police officers were called to calm down an unruly crowd outside a health care reform town hall meeting in downtown Tampa, Florida on Thursday evening, according to local news reports.

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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/06/tampa-town-hall-on-health_n_253478.html

[bluestateguy]

1. This is backfiring on them everywhere

bt

[aquart]

2. Did it? Did the meeting go on?

Did people get to discuss and inform each other on the topics?

[RamboLiberal]

3. Looks like the bastards accomplished shutting it down

The problems began when a crowd of about 500, many of them recruited to attend by interest groups both for and against the proposal, sought to enter the meeting room. The room, in the offices of the Hillsborough County Children's Board on East Palm Avenue, has a capacity of about 250.

Several hundred people, mostly opponents, wound up outside or packing a hallway leading into the meeting room. Some scuffled with members of the sponsoring groups at the doorway.

One man who said he was injured and intended to file a police complaint, Randy Arthur of Oldsmar, was outside the meeting room with his wife, Kathy Arthur, when organizers tried to close the doors.

She said he was slammed against a wall. He later talked to police officers, his knit shirt ripped and a few scratches visible on his chest

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/aug/07/na-health-care-plan-meeting-gets-ugly/news-politics/

[Xenotime]

18. This doesn't help their cause.

These insurance funded asshole sabotage anything the GOP tells them to do. They are just drones.

[Dr.Phool]

4. It's a shame.

Kathy Castor is one of the best reps in congress.

The St. Pete Crimes reporter, Adam Smith, is a right-wing jackass.

[wtmusic]

5. More police. Let the bastards spend some time in the can for their actions. nt

[Xenotime]

19. Agreed. Lock up those who disrupt the democratic process.

[nilram]

6. The CBS News blog linked in the OP doesn't have comments--DU to the Rescue!

Seems like CBS should hear from some DUer's...

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/07/blogs/coopscorner/entry5222602.shtml

[Tx4obama]

7. Need a name for them

The 'birthers' are the birth certificate nuts.
The 'teabaggers' are the tax nuts.
We need a name for the anti-healthcare nuts !!!

[nolabear]

8. How about "Stooges"?

Shills? Protestitutes?

[Tx4obama]

9. The Grim Reapers

since they don't want people to have health insurance so that they can live.

[Fearless]

10. The Deathers sounds about right to me.

[Xenotime]

20. Deatheaters.

[Fearless]

22. Or that. LOL. n/t

[Norrin Radd]

11. I've seen some call them "turfers," as in "astroturfers."

[Fearless]

23. Turfer? Really, I always thought that meant something else... hehe.

[Tx4obama]

25. You win!

Astroturfers/Turfers is perfect.

[demwing]

12. Since they're against health care, call them "Sickos" nt

[murielm99]

13. How about brownshirts?

Brownshirts disrupted public meetings in Wiemar Germany. Their message, like the present day health care hooligans was pro-corporate. Fascism is NOTHING if not pro-corporate.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. The Kudzu

chokes grass roots.

[Xipe Totec]

14. In the video, it sounds like they are chanting "We Want Bush"

How retarded was that?

[slackmaster]

15. A suggestion for anyone who chairs or moderates public meetings and expects protests

Make advance arrangements with local police to be there to facilitate the ejection of people who refuse to come to order.

[tabasco]

16. Thuggery worked for the pukes to get AWOL Bush illegally installed.

NOT THIS TIME!

[mainer]

17. So many are the Medicare set. They're ON socialized healthcare.

Why isn't this being emphasized by the speakers? Are these seniors happy with Medicare? Then they're already happy with socialized medicine!

[raccoon]

21. They are....as long as it covers THEM. They couldn't care less about you and me. nt