Gladney, 38, was handing out the same flags after a town hall forum in Mehlville Thursday night, when, he says, he was attacked by members of the Service Employees International Union.posted by octothorpe at 1:17 PM on August 10, 2009 [36 favorites]
...
Gladney did not address Saturday's crowd of about 200 people. His attorney, David Brown, however, read a prepared statement Gladney wrote. "A few nights ago there was an assault on my liberty, and on yours, too." Brown read. "This should never happen in this country."
Supporters cheered. Brown finished by telling the crowd that Gladney is accepting donations toward his medical expenses. Gladney told reporters he was recently laid off and has no health insurance.
we can clearly see in the video that they are not eating old people and dead babies.Not yet they're not.
KENNETH GLADNEY, SAYS HE WAS ASSAULTED AT PROTEST: Well, first, I was there to sell, you know, flags and buttons and stuff that said, "Don't tread on me." And I was setting out there, and I guess something got — just went through my head. I said I'm just going to give them away and stuff like that. So a pastor's wife walked up to me, and she just took a liking to some of the buttons. So I start showing her some of the buttons and everything. This guy walked up and he said, "Who in the — who in the blank is selling or giving away this stuff here?" I said, "Sir, this is my merchandise. And would you like a flag or a button or something like that?" And he said, "What kind of 'n' are you to be giving this stuff out."posted by boo_radley at 1:50 PM on August 10, 2009 [2 favorites]
INGRAHAM: Now was this man — I'm sorry to interrupt. But Kenneth, was this man — did he happen to be African-American? I read somewhere that...
deaf-and-hoping-for-transcript@gallaudet.edu. Unethical, I know, but I suspect it would be deeply satisfying.This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 3:54 PM on August 10, 2009 [142 favorites]
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.
On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department, and which has not been bombed to smithereens thanks to the various branches of the United States Armed Forces.
And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.
And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.Under the current system, "good" jobs are the ones that come with lavish health insurance plans, among other benefits. If your job doesn't offer "good" health insurance, or that insurance is vulnerable, like happens so often when you work part-time or for a small business, you can pay out of pocket for an individual plan. Of course, because this is really only feasible once you make a certain amount of money, there is already denial of coverage (and therefore, health care) based on a subjective judgment of one's level of productivity in society (i.e., what you can pay).
The [insurance] industry has already accomplished its main goal of at least curbing, and maybe blocking altogether, any new publicly administered insurance program that could grab market share from the corporations that dominate the business. UnitedHealth has distinguished itself by more deftly and aggressively feeding sophisticated pricing and actuarial data to information-starved congressional staff members. With its rivals, the carrier has also achieved a secondary aim of constraining the new benefits that will become available to tens of millions of people who are currently uninsured. That will make the new customers more lucrative to the industry."The White House's Deal With Big Pharma Undermines Democracy" - Robert Reich says the administration's promise not to use the government's purchasing power to lower the price of drugs in return for a large, pharmaceutical industry sponsored ad campaign in support of health care reform undercuts and threatens the democratic process
So what is Sarah Palin doing for healthcare now that she's unemployedWho needs health care when the pastor of your church is a skilled exorcist?
...Honestly, I don't think that's the website's target audience.Well, as Astro Zombie pointed out, the target audience isn't real likely to have WhiteHouse.gov in their favorites list.
posted by hifiparasol at 4:04 PM on August 10
Now if some enterprising hacker could get a redirect on RushLimbaugh.com or Drudge, or even (laws, laws) Fox News, that would be something.l sure hope Obama's people have created information sites other than Whutehouse.gov to get their message across -- not necessarily something that might appeal to the the typical Wal-Mart shoper, but rather the typical Penney's or Target shopper.
posted by Pragmatica at 4:09 PM on August 10
If they really believe that healthcare for all is Evil, where the fuck can we go in terms of discussion? If they lead off with "They want to kill my baby", how the hell is this going to be a usable debate?See, this is how neoconservatives felt a few years ago. Everyone kept flipping out on them, and all they were trying to do was invade and occupy a sovereign nation. How can you get anything accomplished when people just won't dialogue about it?
You know, I'm not even sure discourse with people who don't read the actual material in question and who respond to an attempt at reasoned discussion with 'ASDFGHAEKRGHA SOCIALISM NAZI DEATH UNAMERICAN' is going to do anything.You know, I used to say that.
It really would not surprise me that if push comes to shove, the teabagger contingent will resort to open civil war.That would surprise me very much.
Obama is getting 400x the death threats that Bush suffered.The article you linked to said he's getting 400% more death threats than Bush did. That's 5x, not 400x.
« Older Multi - polarity in Eurasia. Pepe Escobar on Iran... | Barbara Ehrenreich, the author... Newer »
This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments
posted by hifiparasol at 12:54 PM on August 10, 2009 [6 favorites]