BTPers try disrupting MoveOn rally

The recent Tea Party movement is as plagued by mission creep as Bush's illegal Iraq War was.

This corporate-funded movement's purported goal at first was to protest stimulus spending. But now their mission has crept into protesting against health care reform as well - and trying to deprive the free speech rights of anyone who dares to disagree.

Yesterday, MoveOn held rallies in front of senators' offices to support fixing America's broken health care system. The media almost completely ignored these events - until the BTPers showed up to shout them down.

In Raleigh, North Carolina, the LOSEianne crew tried doing just that. The right-wing counterprotest was organized by the misnamed NC Freedom. NC Fascism's website features links to Tea Party vitriol, so it's obvious they're connected to the Tea Partiers.

Media outlets claimed MoveOn was outnumbered by the Tea Party terrorists in Raleigh, but this seems iffy. Even if this is accurate, NC Fascism seemed to generate hardly any interest at all in other cities - even in a state that is more Republican than the national average. The BTPers only had enough followers to amass any real numbers in one city. Which is why they move from town to town.

NC Fascism's own website brags that its only purpose was to "surround" MoveOn - which certainly sounds like a threat of violence to me. It's not even clear if they were successful at that. If they were that successful, the media would be boasting of it in its usual bandwagon appeals.

What's perhaps most baffling is that the BTPers think they can convince people that the health care system shouldn't be reformed.

(Source: http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/cops_split_up_hagan_protest)