Rep. Kennedy: Health Care Debate Turning Violent, Raising Memories of Kennedy Assassinations
PROVIDENCE — U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy fears that supercharged passions fueling the national health-care debate may lead to violence.
Drawing on his family’s violent past, the Democratic congressman told roughly 75 people gathered at a private health-care forum [he refuses any town hall meetings where people in opposition to ObamaCare might show up and actually want to express their feelings] Saturday morning that opponents of Democrat-backed health-care legislation had gone too far. He cited, as an example, 10,000 signs distributed at a recent Washington protest that read, “Bury ObamaCare with Kennedy.”
“My family’s seen it up close too much with assassinations and violence in political life. It’s a terrible thing when people think that in order to get their point across they have to go to the edge of violent rhetoric and attack people personally,” Kennedy told the nurses, union officials and AARP members finishing their breakfasts at the invitation-only event in the Providence Marriott hotel. “It’s fine for people to debate the issue and attack the issue, but when they go and stoop to the level of the vitriolic rhetoric that we’ve seen this debate turn up, it’s very, I think, dangerous to the fabric of our country.”
In a subsequent interview, Kennedy went further in warning that angry opposition could create physical danger for elected leaders.
“It’s very, very dangerous,” Kennedy said in the interview. “We put a lot of people in jail around the world for threatening our country’s security. But this atmosphere of attack that doesn’t attack the issue, but attacks the people, is very disruptive to the institution of democracy, which relies on a respect for the opposition.”
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Well charges of racism and of Tea Party Protesters and those at Town Hall meetings being called Nazi’s hasn’t calmed down the people, so now Kennedy tries using the assassinations of his brothers as a reason why objections to ObamaCare are undemocratic and violent.
This is part of the Democrat Party’s attempts to silence all debate on Health Care Reform, to make loyal, passionate opposition in the public square into a crime, because they absolutely hate the democratic process, that damnable idea that the peasants would dare question the wisdom of the ruling Democrat Party elite. The one thing the Democrat Party cannot stand is the antiquated concept of free political speech, they know the people now oppose ObamaCare and they do not want to hear from the people, because doggone it, the Democrats know what is best for the people and even if they have to force them to submit and take away their liberties in the process, well after all, it is for the children.
