Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work

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Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. Posted August 10, 2009.

How the health-care industry, the GOP and one media mogul made common cause with the anti-government fringe.


The recent spate of town hall dustups may look like an overnight sensation, but they've been years, even decades, in the making.

Since the days in the late 1970s, when the New Right began its takeover of the Republican Party, it has cultivated a militia of white people armed with a grudge against those who brought forth the social changes of the '60s.

These malcontents have been promised their day of retribution, a day for which they are more than ready. Few seem to understand that they are merely dupes for a corporate agenda that will only worsen the conditions in which they live.

Why, you may ask, would men of power and fame shake the rough, unmanicured hands of gun enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists, gay-haters, misogynists and racists?

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http://www.alternet.org/politics/141860/inside_story_on_town_hall_riots%3A_right-wing_shock_troops_do_corporate_america%27s_dirty_work/

[Echo In Light]

1. Rec

[Wapsie B]

2. It's no different than a company paying thugs to cause violence during a union strike.

Same song different verse.

[unpossibles]

3. excellent article.

Sadly, the right will never own up to this, and the people I know who believe this is really a grassroots movement won't either, but it never hurts to try to stay ahead of them.

[Laelth]

4. Excellent read. Solid journalism. Highly recommended. n/t

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-Laelth

[dgibby]

5. Forwarded to Rachel.

hope she uses it.

[Wednesdays]

6. K&R

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