Scared Citizenry Asserting Inalienable Rights

August 12, 2009 (LPAC) The older father now famous for having confronted Rep. John Dingell face to face at the recent town meeting in Michigan, with his 20-year old son who has cerebral palsy, reported in an interview with FoxNews that is spreading across the Internet, that he and his family had been delivered a threat by a middle-of-the-night visitor to his house, after the town hall meeting. His wife was left terrified, yet, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer dared label him and his son, and others like them, "un-American" and "thugs"!

The nervous but determined father told FoxNews: "The harm that's being done is by the President and by the Congress. They want to foist on us a health-care plan that they themselves will not take. I challenge you, Barack Obama— the members of Congress—both Parties: If you believe so much in this plan, then you use it, on your families, before you put it on our families.

"What you are doing is sentencing our families to death. We lose the right to life— The old people are discarded. Those who cannot fend for themselves are discarded. There is no liberty under your plan, and that's the problem. The people have seen it— the people know it, and you can't hide it, anymore. So, if I'm a thug, fine. But don't call my son a thug. And don't call the rest of us, the senior citizens who want to be heard, 'thugs.' We are one thing. We are American citizens, who are trying to be heard before you put us down."

Fox then showed Dingell, saying, "This meeting has been rather heavily infiltrated, by folks who wish to make trouble..." Sola responded: "I came with my wife, and my son, as an American citizen, concerned about the plan that they are trying to put on us— I'm not a Republican, I'm not a Democrat, I've voted both ways— And, Mr. Dingell, if he was under this plan, ma'am, he would not have the two knees, nor the hip. They would tell him, 'You're 84, you're not worth it.'"

A similar face-to-face confrontation occurred in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, at a meeting with Sen. Arlen Specter. An older boomer, one of many who had not received one of the only 30 question cards passed out at the meeting, loudly stood up and began to walk out. After the man was literally thrown back into his seat by a younger attendee, Specter almost lost control of the meeting, walking toward the two while lamely repeating "Now, Wait a minute— Wait a minute..." He finally gave the mike to the gentleman, who, voice shaking with bitterness, told Specter to his face: "Your office lied to me; they told me I could speak. You and your cronies do this kind of stuff all the time. I'm not a lobbyist stuffing your pockets with cash, and I'm going to leave. But one day God's gonna stand before you [sic] and God is going to judge you and the rest of your cronies up on the Hill— and then you'll get your just desserts..."