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Protester Punched At Townhall Meeting

Violence erupted at a townhall meeting hosted by North Carolina congressman David Price, after a protester was punched in the face for voicing his opposition to proposed changes to health care coverage in America.

The assault took place at the end of an opening speech Congressman Price at North Carolina Central University in Durham. Eyewitnesses of the assault say claim the assailant was an African-American woman who openly supported Obama.

Conservatives who went to the meeting sponsored by SEANC, the South’s leading employee union with 55,000 members, say it was highly scripted and was more of a presentation than an actual townhall meeting. Union-run Security banned any anti-health-care reform posters while allowing Democrats to distribute leaflets promoting Barack Obama.

As security officials took away the assailant, Democrat Party supporters mocked the victim, asking him, “do you have health care?”.

The victim, who wishes not to be identified, is pressing charges against his attacker.

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  1. machinepolitick says

    Yet another example of why Unions, Obama and socialism are bad for America. When a person can’t oppose legislation for fear of physical assault by the opposition and public insult by their own representatives, there are serious issues with the state of a nation. Free speech applies to everyone. While disagreement and dissent are acceptable and appropriate, violence is not. It is also telling that Conservatives are not being allowed to carry signs, but Liberals are distributing pamphlets. The hypocrisy is astounding, as usual.
    If it’s true that the victim was mocked with questions about his health care, it raises even more disturbing issues. When did it become acceptable for adults to behave like petulant children in public? It doesn’t help that our President behaves like a petulant child, making wild accusations(doctors removing tonsils, etc) and belittling average Americans who disagree with his agenda. It’s shameful and absurd.

  2. rjwusa says

    A black woman striking a white man? Where’s the hate crime charges?

  3. Charles J says

    This article is not true. I attended this meeting and anyone was allowed inside. The pros and. Cons had equal turns at the microphones. Those against insurance reform were noisy and interupted frequently and rudely. Free speech doesn’t mean you get to be a jerk.

  4. ron says

    The thug who threw the punch was probably one of those “tolerant”, “inclusive” , “compassionate” Liberals I’m always hearing about.

    They’re nothing but the typical America-hating, Left-Wing anarchists who want to destroy anyone who stands in the way of their agenda to destroy this country

  5. KansasGirl says

    We people are cornered they will become violent. The libs are being cornered.

  6. Dave In Alabama says

    That violence can only go so far. Conservatives can fight back. When they do, eatch out! There are far more conservatives in this country than liberals. I really don’t think the Left will be able to stomach the outcome if they keep pushing it. Rather than mocking us, they best remember that.

  7. Charles J says

    Ha. The anti-reform crowd were the folks who were rude, direspectful and looking for fights. They repeatedly screamed out things in an effort to interrupt the proceedings. No one was kept out of the meeting. So much so that the “con” line was longer at the microphone.

    Ironically, many of those in line to speak were obviously recipients of Medicare a Government run, publicly funded alternative to private insurance. Imagine that.

  8. Charles J says

    So now Ive posted twice and my comments are still awaiting moderation? Is that because they question the truthfulness of the reporting?

    No not at all. -Admin.

  9. The Great Frank says

    Now, since the leeches and parasites in Congress can vote themselves an increase any time they want to, did you ever consider that YOU have to ask YOUR boss for a raise? You don’t vote one for yourselves, like they do, do you? Do THEY come to you to ask for a raise based on THEIR performance? You won’t get a raise because the boss may tell you the company is having a bad year. But no matter what the economy is, THEY give themselves a RAISE!!! As for UPS and FED EX competing with the Post Office, BY LAW they CAN’T DELIVER REGULAR postage!!! So it is a monopoly for the government, as they will use against the insurance Co.s!! He’s a lying bag of ignorant garbage in an expensive suit! And the remarks against Brooks Brothers should bring about a lawsuit!!! They WORK FOR US!!!

  10. Wanda says

    This is just….just…wait. I don’t talk like that anymore. Suffice it to say that this is beyond disturbing!

    It’s a joke to think longingly about impeaching this administration. They don’t care that this “person” cannot-no WILL NOT come forward with a true birth certificate. I think we all know by now just who this person really is. With his Islamic Dad…it and that “god” of this world that I know all of them serve–it grows ever clearer that this is INTENTIONAL.

    Not one “happenstance” here. Even to the numbers of slaughtered children that can now be laid at O’s feet. The more American babies that are slaughtered the more growth for Islam. Here’s some interesting numbers for you. See if they don’t give you cause for thought. They surely did me.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU

    If Americans weren’t so hell-bent on slaughtering their innocent children, this wouldn”t be so now. These are the statistics shared in this video. And from what I can see in it? These statistics were gathered in 2006. IMAGINE what the numbers are in 2009. Isn’t it illuminating the role that “Planned Parenthood aka infanticide has played in this end-time scenario? Obama, interesting enough, is right in there batting with the downfall of the USA. Indeed he is NOT American to do this. I know he’s a complete and utter imbecile? But he’s not THAT stupid NOT to know these facts.

    The world is changing. The Global culture our children will inherit will be vastly different than it is today. You are about to witness a report on the worlds changing demographics.
    ACCORDING TO RESEARCH, IN ORDER FOR A CULTURE TO MAINTAIN ITSELF FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS there MUST be a fertility rate of 2.11 per family.With anything less the culture will decline. Historically no culture has ever reversed with a 1.9 fertility rate.
    A rate of 1.3 is IMPOSSIBLE to reverse. Because it would take 80 to 100 years to correct itself. And there is no economic model that can sustain a culture during that time.
    In other words, if 2 sets of parents each have a child, there are half as many children as parents. If those children have one child, then are 1/4 as many grandchildren as grandparents. If only a million babies were born in 2006, it’s hard to have 2 million adults enter the workforce in 2026.
    As the population shrinks, so does the culture.
    As of 2007 the fertility rate in France was 1.8
    England 1.6
    Greece 1.3
    Germany 1.3
    Italy 1.2
    Spain 1.1

    Across the entire European Union, in 31 countries, the fertility rate is mere 1.38
    Historical research has told us these numbers are impossible to reverse.
    In a matter of years Europe as we know it will cease to exist. Yet the population of Europe is not declining. Why? Immigration. ISLAMIC immigration.Of all population growth in Europe since 1990, has been Islamic immigration.

    France 1.8 children per family
    Muslims 8.1
    In Southern France, traditionally one of the most populated Church regions in the world, there are now more Mosques than Churches. 30% of children ages 20 and younger, are now Islamic.
    In larger cities such as Nice and Paris the number has grown to 45%.
    By the year 2027, 1 in 5 Frenchmen will be Muslim. In just 39 years France will be an Islamic Republic. In the last 30 years the Muslim population of Great Britain rose from 82,000 to 2.5 MILLION. A 30 fold Increase. There are over 1,000 Mosques, many of them former Churches.
    In the Netherlands 50% of all newborns are Muslim. And in only 15 years, half of the population of the Netherlands, will be Muslim.
    In Russia, there are 23 MILLION Muslims. That’s 1 out of 5 Russians.. 45% of the entire Russian Army will be Islamic in just a few short years.
    Currently in Belgium, 25% of the population, and 50% of the newborns, are Muslim. has stated ”
    The government of Belgium has stated 1/3 of all European children will be born to Muslim families by the year 2025. Just 17 years away.
    The German government, the first to talk about this openly, recently released a statement saying: “The fall in the population ( German ), can no longer be stopped. It’s downward spiral is irreversible…It will be a Muslim state by the year 2050! -( German Federal Statistics Office )

    Muammar al-Ghadaffi of Libya has said: “There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe without swords, without guns, and without conquest.
    We don’t need terrorists , we don’t need suicide bombers. The 50+ Muslims in Europe will turn it into a Muslim Continent in a few decades”
    There are currently 52 MILLION plus Muslims in Europe. The German government has said that number is expected to double in the next 20 years to 104 MILLION Muslims.
    Closer to home the numbers tell a similar story. Right now, Canada’s fertility rate is 1.6, nearly a full point below the 2.11 required to sustain a culture. And now Islam is now the fastest growing religion. Between 2001 and 2006, Canada’s population increased by 1.6 million.1.2 of those? Immigration.

    In the US, the current fertility rate USA citizens is 1.6. \With the influx of the Latino nations, the fertility rate increases is 2.11. The bare minimum required to sustain a culture.
    In 1970 there were 100,000 Muslims in America. In 2008 there were over 9 MILLION-( 9,000,000) The world is changing, it’s time to WAKE UP!

    Muslim Demographics
    3 years ago, a meeting of 24 Islamic Organizations was held in Chicago. The transcripts of that meeting showed in detail, their plans to “evangelize” America. Through journalism, politics, education, and more. They said “We must prepare ourselves for the reality that in 30 years there will be 50 million Muslims living in America. ( Islamic Strategy Conference in Chicago )
    The world that we live in is not the world in which our children and grandchildren will live.
    The Catholic church recently reported that Islam has just surpassed their membership numbers.
    Some studies show that at Islams current rate of growth, in 5-7 years it will be the dominant religion of the world.

    Again, it is time to AWAKEN out of our malaise in this country. Unless YOU want to be the next offering of Islam on the altar of it’s “god” aka the father of lies.<– ( I said this )

    As believers we call upon you to share the Gospel message with a changing world. This is a call to ACTION!

  11. AC says

    Barry Soetoro the Kenyan illegal agent is now resorting to the pattern of the shallow demagogue that he is with his Brown shirts attacking real Americans. I am posting an article that shows where he thinks is heading with his attacks. It is reminiscent, seventy-one years ago in Germany in November of 1938-called crystal night. Just substitute the name Jewish with Americans, who do not buy this Marxist doctrine disguised as “health care”.

    “Crystal Night” is the name that’s been given to the night of 9-10 November 1938. In almost all large German cities and some smaller ones that night, store windows of Jewish shops were broken, Jewish houses and apartments were destroyed, and synagogues were demolished and set on fire. Many Jews were arrested, some were beaten, and some were even killed. The “Reich Crystal Night” (Reichskristallnacht) was one of the most shameful events of National Socialist Germany. Although the Jews suffered initially, the greatest harm was ultimately done to Germany and the German people.

    If this coward who illegally occupies the office of President attempts this similar action he will find his brown shirts (Acorn and the union goons) facing many veterans and patriots who will not be intimidated and make short work for these jackals.

  12. Sara says

    Yes! Arrest all the Obamabots who were called out by Dear Leader to commit violence against those who oppose socialism. America is not Cuba and Obama is not Fidel. He wants to create a domestic politcial force through forced “volunteerism” and this will make the attacks against refusniks State organized and legal. Make sure you oppose this as vehmently as you have opposed his effort to Nationalize the health care industry and your bodies!

  13. 90 says

    I keep thinking of the movie Hoffa and how the Mafia has had so much influence on them. It’s like we have the mafia for a government now and they are hauling their union thugs in to assault regular Americans.

  14. The Great Frank says

    Those who were recipients of Medicare had no choice! The real culprit behind this is the vicious Chicago thug Rham Emanuel. He rules in D.C. They are playing a dangerous game, because history shows us, that when the middle class rises up, it is something that can’t stopped, and those who oppose them are in a bad condition. Attacking Americans for voicing a right to oppose will result in a backlash the kind that we haven’t seen since the Civil War. The country is split now beyond repair. If he rams through his dicatorial bill, there will be a political price that will ruin those who didn’t stand up against it. Specter is finished and is just one example. The vermin and human garbage on the left have had a clear field to protest whatever they want, and the M.O.I. has taken their side. Yet when righteous Americans protest, well, look at the hate and bias against them. This will not stand! People have had enough of the bullshit that they’re ramming down our throats. A sea change is coming to this country, and not the sea change that the F.O. and his followers thought that they could impose upon us. This is a Republic, not a dictatorship!

  15. Wanda says

    Are you referring to “The night of breaking Glass” in Germany against the Jews AC?

  16. shaniquia mcdowell says

    This thread is a terrific example of what Obama, in his great wisdom and wide experience, has been able to achieve in the way of bringing the people of the country together, which was one of his stated goals during the campaign.

  17. AC says

    Wanda;
    The answer is yes, the pogrom called Kristallnacht.
    When the messiah Barry Soetoro the Kenyan illegal agent told his storm troopers in Acorn to go and push harder at the American people who do not want his “Health pogrom” combined with the reporting of several attacks on people, it reminded me of that event of Kristallnacht (crystal night) I saw in an historical series called “The world at war”.
    [I believe that there are all the episodes are available on you tube.]
    Frank of Queens correctly shows that vicious Chicago thug Rham Emanuel is the man behind Barry Obama, his brother Dr.Ezekiel Emanual is the doctor is behind the idea of letting the elderly die. This swine is the advisor for this health pogrom laughingly called health reform.
    He lives in Chicago, what a surprise!

  18. DC says

    This is exactly the reason we need to prevent the overhauling of our health care system!

    /goes to collect check

  19. Rush von Penisbreath says

    Paranoid whargarbl from the right. The idea that belligerent disruptions constitute “dissent” instead of petulant childishness is ridiculous. That being said, the assault’s criminal, and I hope the woman goes to court.

  20. Rusty says

    I think it’s funny that the “conservatives” are so worried about the “takeover” of America by people of other religions. What’s the matter – afraid your “god” is too wimpy for their “god”? Get your heads out of the bible and out of Rush Limbaugh’s butt and really SEE the world. You’re being lead around by the nose by rich people greedy for your hard earned cash and you’re LETTING them tell you how to think. Go watch something other than Pat Robertson or whoever the religious nutcase you’re following this week and watch DISCOVERY for a change or (scary thought) read something OTHER THAN that mythology book you’re so dependent on!

  21. jaggygirl says

    I think that all of you as American citizens, regardless of your religious beliefs or whatever political party you support, should just be glad that STUPIDITY ISN’T A CRIME IN THE USA.

    If it were, most, if not all of you, would be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole!

    By the way, PLEASE DON’T CALL YOURSELF A CHRISTIAN IF YOU AREN’T GOING TO ACT LIKE A CHRISTIAN! If you want to learn how to do it, start by reading the 4 Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. And for the record, Planned Parenthood offers excellent medical care for women who are uninsured and can’t afford a doctor. And the last time I checked, it was up to the woman if she wanted to terminate her pregnancy (regardless of the reason) IT IS NOT MANDATORY!!! When it becomes MANDATORY in the USA (like it is China) then you can complain!

  22. Rusty says

    Wanda, quit spouting LIES – here’s the Snopes entry

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/demographics.asp

    Typical Conservative – quoting SPAM as truth!

  23. dirtycommielibtardhippy says

    The economy would be doing great if Republicans could only find a way to collect and sell their stupidity.

    It’s not even ignorance at this point. It’s stupidity, folks. Grow up and read a book once in a while.

  24. Elaine says

    You don’t have to have Medicare. You can sign up for a private insurance such as Sterling Care. There are many. Just call and cancel your Medicare.

  25. MiHi says

    Reap what you sow, you right wing brownshirts. You reap what you sow.

  26. Captain Negative says

    WTF?!?!
    That video shows NOTHING, which supports the idea that the, “victim” was a wingnut. It shows nothing at all. Not that facts – or lack of same- has any effect on the brain-dead Christo-fascists.

  27. marie says

    Hey Rusty, since you like to mock Christianity so much, if you dare google the phrase
    ‘the unpardonable sin.’

  28. Rusty says

    I don’t “mock” Christianity, Marie – I mock the so-called CHRISTIANS! Most of them aren’t very “Christian” – they’re petty, small minded, hatefull, racist eliteist fools. They insist that their way is the ONLY way and they seem to enjoy being used by the Republicans, the greedy insurance companies, the Lunatic George W. Bushs, Pat Robertsons, Jerry Fallwells and Rush Limbaughs of the world. E

  29. The Great Frank says

    Power to the PEOPLE!!!! Isn’t that the catchphrase of the sixty’s leftwing human garbage? Oh, except if the PEOPLE oppose a leftist dictatorship, and dare to disagree! “Question Authority”, another phony phrase from the scumbags of the left! Except if the authority is on the left!! The same frauds were out there screaming that Bush was Hitler and was destroying the Constitution, well look who’s really doing it now! And quit blaming Republicans, the Demotraitors are the majority in BOTH houses of Congress! You lowlifes don’t like it when someone dares to oppose your sick Marxist beliefs! Go to the archives of TRP to hear the truth about scum and vermin like Hitlery, Pelosi, ect! A taste of your own medicine!

  30. Rusty says

    Gotta love folks like Great Frank – so sad. Channelling Rush won’t get you anywhere. Just makes me want to hand you a tin foil hat and some good drugs

  31. Johann says

    @ Rusty: Your rebuttals are as pathetic as your nick…

  32. The Great Frank says

    the drugs are used by the sixties has beens who said, “question authority”. Now WE are questioning, and the left is upset over it? What’s wrong? Thought that you had a nation of sheep who were going to sit back while you stole our liberty? REAL Americans are speaking out, and voicing their opinions against the frauds and leeches in Congress. How come not one leftist has dared to argue the issues? Instead if you notice, they just use the old cliches: racist, Nazi, Facist, hatemonger, ect.” It doesn’t work any more fools! The REAL voices of the REAL America are rising up in unison, and you’re scared as are any stooges of leftwing oppression! Get the facts: more people died under socialism than any other system! Socialism is murder with a smile!

  33. Rich says

    Come on people! Union enforcers can do REAL damage. They used to bring in organized crime to mix it up with Pinkerton Union Breakers. And now, all I see is wimpy stuff, people whining like a bunch of liberals and stuff that looks staged.

    I want to see a hockey level brawl, or like the brawl that happen in MSG with the Knicks vs Nuggets a few years back, before I stop believing your politicos and Union folks are a bunch of wimps. At least give me something the level of a “Don’t Taze me Bro!” Please!

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