1,000 people turned up to a town hall meeting in Kathy Castor Town Hall Meeting in Tampa. The venue seats 250. How do you fit 1,000 people into the hall? Answer: You first place 125 people (via a side door) who agree with Obamacare into the hall and let 125 average American citizens in- keeping the rest outside.
After the loud speakers stopped working the crowd started chanting and got so loud that they decided to close the doors. That's when elbows started flying. Now my wife's cousin's wife was there along with her parents. Not causing trouble, not shouting... just wanting to get answers to how to pay for cancer treatements under Obamacare. They ended up getting pushed around a bit. No harm done to them but they were just a bit rattled.
After the doors were closed and the meeting continued, anyone with a question against Obamacare found themselves with a general intimidating tone and cameras in their faces.
Watch the videos,
And here is a partial transcript from the call to the greatest talk show host ever:
BETH: No. Well, we had waited an hour in line and we were right at the doors where you are going in and they had the doors open into the union hall, into the meeting room. And they had a speaker outside but it wasn't working. And people in the hallway were yelling, "Let us hear," and they thought we were saying, "We want Obama," but it was "Let us hear." And they couldn't get the speaker to work. So we're all standing there. Well, people outside were going, "Open meeting! Open meeting! Take it outside," so everybody could hear because there were so many people there. Well, they decided too much noise was going on in the hallway and decided to close the doors. Well, somehow I got pushed into the room, into the meeting room when the thugs came out. They came out four abreast with their arms up. I got pushed in, and my husband, who was right behind me in the green shirt, then was pushed against the wall. My daughter managed to get over to him to try and get them off of my husband.
RUSH: Why'd they push him against the wall?
BETH: Because they wanted to shut the door to the room. They were shutting the doors. And the doors open into the hallway.
RUSH: Right. I've seen the video.
BETH: Yeah. And at that point they had my husband pinned against the wall, but I was trying to get out to him and they wouldn't let me out of the room.
RUSH: Are you there, standing next to a cop who is not doing anything about this, anything about it? Is that you that I saw or is there a different frame to the video?
BETH: No. Well, we had waited an hour in line and we were right at the doors where you are going in and they had the doors open into the union hall, into the meeting room. And they had a speaker outside but it wasn't working. And people in the hallway were yelling, "Let us hear," and they thought we were saying, "We want Obama," but it was "Let us hear." And they couldn't get the speaker to work. So we're all standing there. Well, people outside were going, "Open meeting! Open meeting! Take it outside," so everybody could hear because there were so many people there. Well, they decided too much noise was going on in the hallway and decided to close the doors. Well, somehow I got pushed into the room, into the meeting room when the thugs came out. They came out four abreast with their arms up. I got pushed in, and my husband, who was right behind me in the green shirt, then was pushed against the wall. My daughter managed to get over to him to try and get them off of my husband.
RUSH: Why'd they push him against the wall?
BETH: Because they wanted to shut the door to the room. They were shutting the doors. And the doors open into the hallway.
RUSH: Right. I've seen the video.
BETH: Yeah. And at that point they had my husband pinned against the wall, but I was trying to get out to him and they wouldn't let me out of the room.
RUSH: Are you there, standing next to a cop who is not doing anything about this, anything about it? Is that you that I saw or is there a different frame to the video?
(snip)
BETH: Right. At any rate, when they had my husband pinned against the wall, I was going hysterical. We went to ask specific questions on health care. I have read the bill. There was no addressing of any questions. I was in the meeting hall after they shut the doors. I did not leave because I wanted to hear what was said. RUSH: Yeah. From the video I saw, Kathy Castor just tried to make speech. She wasn't entertaining any questions and people were standing up and disagreeing when she said various things, correct?
BETH: That's correct. And when people were standing up agreeing, members that were supporting her were in the audience taking our pictures. It was almost like intimidation. Well, it was intimidation
BETH: That's correct. And when people were standing up agreeing, members that were supporting her were in the audience taking our pictures. It was almost like intimidation. Well, it was intimidation
(snip)
BETH: He's about 5' 9", weighs about 170. He has Stage 4 cancer. He has a severed rotator cuff, a port in his chest and an ileostomy. When they shoved him against the wall, I was telling them this: "Let me out! Let go of him! You're hurting him. He's sick." They kept right on doing it and wouldn't let me out and wouldn't let him go. The man with the ripped shirt then came in to help my husband and his shirt got ripped then by the thugs.
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