John Kerry vs. Single-Payer
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Armed Homeland Security Guards Try to Intimidate Demonstrators at Kerry’s Boston Office
John Kerry vs. Single-Payer
By JOHN WALSH
Inspired by the civil disobedience of the Baucus 13, members of SinglePayerAction.org and its allies, including several doctors in Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) took our call for single-payer to Senator John Kerry’s Boston Office last Friday afternoon. To our surprise three police cars and at least five armed, uniformed cops quickly appeared along with a few “undercover” agents to greet us. It is standard for John Kerry to call the cops whenever a protest materializes at his office – but usually it is some very unenthusiastic Boston cops. This time, however, it was the feds, armed, uniformed cops with cars and badges marked “Homeland Security: Executive Protective Service.” They demanded to read our fliers- no problem- and maintained their presence long after we left.
At the Senate hearings on Obama’s Health Care “reform,” Senator Baucus, Obama’s point man in the Senate made fun of the 13 single-payer protesters who were carried off by the cops when they dared to call for single-payer. Baucus ridiculed the demonstrators, in which he was joined by the despicable, narcissist, John Kerry. Baucus famously declared that what was needed was not egalitarian, comprehensive health care for all – but “more cops.” And it looks like Obama’s Homeland Security is doing just that.
The Boston demonstration took place from 4:30 to 5:30 on Friday afternoon, and they will take continue every Friday until Kerry signs onto the Single Payer bill, S. 704, which Bernie Sanders has put before the Senate, a companion bill to Conyers single payer bill in the House, H.R. 676. However although H.R. 676 now has 75 signatories, Sanders bill has not a single co-sponsor to date, another sign of the deep corruption of the Democrat Party. (Where are the signatures of Senators like Russell Feingold who recently identified himself to Amy Goodman as a single-payer supporter? Have they no shame in their hypocrisy?)
via John Walsh: John Kerry vs. Single-Payer.
Filed Under: Fascism, Police State, Authoritarianism • Health
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