You may have heard that health care reform opponents are planning and carrying out fake protests to disrupt town hall meetings that congresspeople may hold this month.
For a quick update, check out MediaMatters.org for some videos and articles on what conservatives are up to (go soon, before they post new stuff on top of it).
Actually, I am not sure what a fake protest is. It would be fake, I suppose, if they paid people to go out and protest. Just having your people agree to take action on a subject isn’t necessarily "fake" in my book.
I hope it will have the effect of galvanizing supporters of health care reform and other good causes. It’s not enough to sit home at a keyboard and sign names to petitions. That’s ok to do, but hitting the streets is better. Why? Because the opposition is doing it, and it works.
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