Health Care Reform is simply to important to allow hijacking by a few loud, obnoxious thugs.
The same group of people who provided the USA with mis-information about IRAQ is now providing the USA with mis-information about Health Care Reform.
Americans were once told that young Americans were going to IRAQ to die in protecting America from Saddam's Weapons of MASS DESTRUCTION.
Well, these same people who lied about Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction did not lie about Young Americans Dying in Iraq. But now they spread lies about Health CAre Reform.
They spread misinformation about Health Care Reform. Interrupt town hall meeting so factual information can't get out.
Reminds me of the Pre-Nazi brown shirted storm trooper of the 1930's.
The Nazis and other similar groups now felt the time was right to strike. The German state of Bavaria where the Nazis were based was a hotbed of groups opposed to the democratic government in Berlin. By now, November 1923, the Nazis, with 55,000 followers, were the biggest and best organized. With Nazi members demanding action, Hitler knew he had to act or risk losing the leadership of his Party.
Hitler and the Nazis hatched a plot in which they would kidnap the leaders of the Bavarian government and force them at gunpoint to accept Hitler as their leader. Then, according to their plan, with the aid of famous World War One General Erich Ludendorff, they would win over the German army, proclaim a nationwide revolt and bring down the German democratic government in Berlin.
They put this plan into action when they learned there would be a large gathering of businessmen in a Munich beer hall and the guests of honor were to be the Bavarian leaders they wanted to kidnap.
On November 8, 1923, SA troops under the direction of Hermann Göring surrounded the place. At 8:30 p.m. Hitler and his storm troopers burst into the beer hall causing instant panic.
Hitler fired a pistol shot into the ceiling. "Silence!" he yelled at the stunned crowd.
Hitler and Göring forced their way to the podium as armed SA men continued to file into the hall. State Commissioner Gustav von Kahr, whose speech had been interrupted by all this, yielded the podium to Hitler.
In the cold evening dark, 600 SA surrounded the beer hall and a machine gun was set up pointing at the auditorium doors. Hitler, surrounded by his associates Hermann Göring, Alfred Rosenberg, Rudolf Hess, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Ulrich Graf, Johann Aigner, Adolf Lenk, Max Amann, Scheubner-Richter, Wilhelm Adam, etc. (some twenty in all), burst through the doors at 8:30 pm, pushed their way laboriously through the crowd, fired a shot into the ceiling and jumped on a chair yelling:
"The national revolution has broken out! The hall is filled with six hundred men. Nobody is allowed to leave. The Bavarian government and the government at Berlin are deposed. A new government will be formed at once. The barracks of the Reichswehr and those of the police are occupied. Both have rallied to the swastika."
On the evening of November 8, 1923, the Putsch began at the Bürgerbräukeller, where a large group of prominent Bavarians had gathered, among them Kahr, Lossow, and Seisser, as well as Hitler and Erich Ludendorff. The former army general quartermaster, Ludendorff was the man who was mainly responsible for Germany's military policy and strategy in the latter years of World War I.
For half an hour, Kahr had been reading a prepared speech to the crowd of 3,000 packed into the Burgerbräukeller, when Hitler made his grand entrance. A clutch of men in steel helmets, Hitler’s storm troopers, appeared, and pushed in a heavy machine gun. Hitler materialized, accompanied by two armed bodyguards brandishing pistols. Hitler stood on a chair, and, drowned out by the tumult, he pulled out his Browning automatic pistol and fired a shot through the ceiling.
Around eight o'clock, Hitler arrived at the Buergerbräukeller in a red Mercedes Benz accompanied by Rosenberg, Ulrich Graf (Hitler's bodyguard), and Anton Drexler. The meeting had already started and Kahr was speaking. Sometime between 8:30 and 8:45 p.m., Hitler heard the sound of trucks. As Hitler burst into the crowded beer hall, his armed storm troopers surrounded the hall and set up a machine gun in the entrance. To grab everyone's attention, Hitler jumped onto a table and fired one or two shots into the ceiling. With some help, Hitler then forced his way to the platform.
"The National Revolution has begun!" Hitler shouted. Hitler continued with a few exaggerations and lies stating that there were six hundred armed men surrounding the beer hall, the Bavarian and the national governments had been taken over, the barracks of the army and police were occupied, and that they were already marching under the swastika flag. Hitler then ordered Kahr, Lossow, and Seisser to accompany him into a side private room.