Look, I don’t know why this has to be such a hard sell if it is such a good idea. Why is there such an outcry against people taking advantage of their constitutional right? You have Senator Dingle saying that he hasn’t seen this kind of demonstrations since the KKK, Speaker Pelosi saying that disagreeing is unpatriotic and many other asinine comments by others in the Obama administration and the Democratic congress.

One of the best arguments I have heard against the obamacare monstrosity though was on a popular talk radio show. A caller made the point of saying that if the health care or insurance system is so broken, why allow people to keep it if they like it?

A close second was by President Obama himself.

His argument is that private companies are doing just fine, which is true. The next part has to be something he regrets saying though. He said that the post office is the one with problems. Yeah, so we should trust the government to operate health care like the post office, which has lost approximately $7BILLION this past fiscal year? That should seal the fate of the bill as a dumb thing to do.

Even dumber was the decision to get the SEIU members involved. A few of these so called “patriots” allegedly exercised their constitutional right to protest by beating up Kenneth Gladney, 38, a conservative activist from St. Louis, who said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don’t tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from the emergency room at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was awaiting treatment for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack. “It just seems there’s no freedom of speech without being attacked,” he said.

I want to know where the ACLU, NAACP, Rainbow Coalition and Al Sharpton are since this fits the category of a hate crime. Somehow I don’t think we will get an answer, but even with loud voices, the protests were not violent until the Chicago-style politics were thrust into the picture with union thugs beating up those who dare disagree with the government. Then again, we should expect no less from SEIU members because the SEIU resident’s philosiphy can be summed up into one phrase: We prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn’t work, we use the persuasion of power.

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For those of you who don’t think that the people who are protesting is being staged and they should just shut up, what happened to the mantra of the left during the Bush 43 administration that dissent is the highest form of patriotism?