One of the country's largest unions has been hit by a wave of hostile calls and even death threats from people upset with its involvement in town-hall health care debates.
The Service Employers International Union was, as one aide put it, "deluged" with calls on Friday after several conservative media outlets accused the organization of trying to assault demonstrators who had showed up to protest Obama's health care agenda. Making it even scarier for union employees, the address of the union's St. Louis headquarters was mentioned on air by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Callers who reached both the front desk and the communications department compared the union officials to Nazis, union aides say. On Twitter, organizers of the town hall protest urged people to take pictures and write down the license plate numbers of attending SEIU officials. More alarming than anything else, angry callers and protesters pledged to take up arms against the union.
"If ACORN/SEIU attends these meetings for disruptive purposes, and you have a license to carry....carry," read one tweet.
"I suggest you tell your people to calm down, act like American citizens, and stop trying to repress people's First Amendment rights," one caller warned. "That, or you all are gonna come up against the Second Amendment." - Huffington Post Story
People are very upset about the direction of the Country and the way that this President and Congress are just ramming stuff down our throats. They don't feel like they have a say in what is going on in America and have turned to their elected leaders. However, the Democratic Leadership and the President are too busy playing politics and are now trying to shut people out of this process as well.
I have repeatedly said that the Country is heading down a very dangerous path. The divide is deepening and widening. The more that Democrats think that they can just pass legislation without input from the other side, this is going to continue to drive people to extremes to stop this from happening.
Obama pushed for Change and inclusion and seems to have forgotten that pledge.
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