Doc Zero has a good post up in the Green Room on the protests at townhalls. A good primer for pols and pundits who have claim that the protesters are Brooks Bros. lime green and pink wearing plants of the insurance industry, Nazis waving swastikas around and uncivil types who need a good investigating. Or the ones who simply think we are too dumb to know what’s good for us.

We don’t blame people for showing up to grab their share of a government handout. We blame the people who stole the money from the rest of us, and put it on the table for them. We don’t think respect for private property ends at a certain income level, or that only some people should be applauded for doing their best to get ahead in life. We believe in the power and righteousness of capitalism, the exchange of goods and services between free people acting in their own best interests. There is no moral substitute for it. Every other scheme for governing human affairs amounts to a few dominating some, to the applause of others. Our freedom is not for sale, and we reserve the right to defend it from theft.

We don’t invest our hopes in the government. It is beneath the dignity of free men and women to spend their days hoping a politician decides to provide for our needs. We face the future, not with passive and helpless “hope”, but with active and dynamic faith in ourselves, and our fellow Americans.

Too bad no one who is running their yap in the media will ever see that. Even if they did, they wouldn’t be likely to lend it any credence as it doesn’t fit their preconceived notion of reality.

(Typical town hall protester)

I’m with the folks at Doubleplusundead. I am so mad after the last couple of days I could just spit. Or worse.

UDPATE: And thugs. Those who oppose this crap are now thugs. Keep it up, Congress. You ain’t seen nothing yet if you keep demonizing normal every day folks, I’m pretty sure.

Tags: elitism, health care, Politics, town hall protest

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