Town Hall Rent-a-Mobs -- Corporate fascism disguised as freedom of speech . . .

Rachel Maddow peels the fetid camouflage off of the fraudsters posing as "angry, average, middle-class American's opposed to socialized medicine." These people are basically louts for hire that are being organized by big money, right wing, health insurance industry friendly political organizations to show up at (almost exclusively) Democratic Congressmen's town hall meetings to disrupt those meetings and shout down all other voices in the ongoing health care debate. And tellingly -- they offer absolutely no constructive competing ideas of their own while drowning out the conversation of others.

They can crow all day long about how what they are doing is "democracy" in action, but what they really are doing is behaving like the fascist thugs that they are and denying other American's the right to have a thoughtful, rigorous debate about a decision that affects ALL Americans, not just their small elite and politically powerful puppet handlers. The bottom line to this story is that the clout behind these angry town hall mobs is corporate, big business, right-wing conservative money and the very elite, very wealthy owners of that money have a vested interest (because alot of their money is invested in the health care industry) in seeing that any attempts to reform health care are strangled with the garrote of their corrupt political power. In other words -- they don't give a flying rat's ass about the crisis-stage health care situation of the affected millions of people in this country and I'd go so far as to say they really don't give a fuck about America's future in general.

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