A few hundred protesters demonstrated against "President Obama's health care reform -- Obamacare" outside the offices of Democratic Congressman Harry Mitchell in Scottsdale Arizona Aug. 8 Who were these people? What did they want? Well, fortunately, a supporter of this demonstration did us a favor and interviewed a number of participants and posted the interviews on YouTube.
I'll let the protesters speak for themselves below the fold but in summary they:
-- don't want any bill to pay for abortion or euthanasia and believe Obamacare does;
-- don't want Obamacare to mess with their Medicare and believe it does;
-- want to give up their Medicare because they don't want government involved in their health care;
-- were organized by Americans for Prosperity, an organization that in the past has orchestrated campaigns in favor of cigarette companies.
At one point, though, a group of billionaires arrived in a limo to point out what the protest was really all about. I found their participation pretty amusing.
Please don't mess with my Medicare!
Please take away my Medicare. The government should not have a voice in my health care.
Please don't force my daughter to have an abortion. Please don't murder my grandmother.
Who sent me? Why, American's for Prosperity.
A group of billionaires, arriving in a limo, joined the protest to protect their interests.
The YouTube poster, SonoranAlliance, put up a bunch of other interviews, all of which show the underlying confusion of the participants.
These are just a few of the more interesting ones. He mistakenly called the event a town hall protest. It wasn't. Mitchell held a phone-in town hall on health care a few weeks ago. What the large, impressive gathering was, really, was a parade of the pod people.