PRESS RELEASE re: Media Hype of "Right Wing Violence"

MyLiberty 
9.12 Project • San Mateo County • Tea Party Patriots


March 27, 2010

[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE]

MyLiberty, the San Mateo County 9.12 Project Group & Tea Party Patriots, would like to address the issue of media hysteria in spreading fear of "Right Wing" violence against Democrats who voted for or supported ObamaCare.

Considering the unconscionable, actual, documented, serious, bloody and brutal violence perpetrated against Patriots attending Town Hall meetings recently and the minimal, even dismissive way it was covered in the Press, we find it sadly ironic (but predictable) that wild, unsubstantiated rumors, demonstrably false reports and debunked accusations of violence by "Right Wing Radicals goaded on by Republicans" should be covered endlessly and breathlessly by the Mainstream Media.

It goes without saying that MyLiberty and all other Patriot organizations consider violence in the name of ideology and politics unsavory and unacceptable—no matter WHO is involved. It is illegal, immoral and un-American.

But it is clear by the howling and overblown reports sans facts that this current "reporting" is less about "news" than propaganda—with the object of making the public believe that the patriotic dissent of those who are against the passage of ObamaCare, is somehow unreasonable and dangerous.

But it is rather the biased, ecstatic, uncorroborated reportage that is objectionable and unseemly. And we believe that a Party or a Press that would use such tactics against a political opponent to be most emphatically DANGEROUS to our American political and social system - to every citizen's Constitutional right of free speech, free expression, and political dissent.

As the Left lectured us for the entire eight years of George W. Bush's presidency: DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC!

Even when it's loud, angry, boisterous and passionate.

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