Anti-Reform Protesters Bully Peaceful Demonstrator with Parkinson’s
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on March 20th, 2010 in Extras, Health Care Policy, In The News, Linked Articles.
On what basis can you justify mocking the ill or disabled? Someone please tell me because I really want to know.
Earlier this week, The Columbus Dispatch captured anti-reform protesters — bullies, really — on film mocking a health care reform advocate with Parkinson’s disease.
The man sat on the ground alone, peacefully holding a sign, and was surrounded by men leaning in toward him and throwing money at him. “Communist!” they called him. “You have to work for everything you get!”
If he was intimidated, he didn’t let it show.
Read this post in its entirety and watch the shocking video:
March 21st, 2010 at 9:09 am
It’s nothing less than a primal reaction to the fear being stoked by people like Limbaugh and Beck. People who are in need are suddenly seen as a “threat” to YOUR STASH! Add a racial element, like the one shown yesterday with congressmen being shouted down with racial slurs, and you have the GOP-generated fear whipping the uneducated, unsophisticated, unfeeling masses into a dangerous fervor.