Obama protester rips up Rosa Parks poster


Posted August 13, 2009 by Tim Henley Comment on this article Leave a comment
I support free speech. It’s one of the greatest freedoms we have in this country. 

Many protesters who oppose President Obama’s health care plan have been heckling members of Congress during their town hall meetings. 

If you don’t like the president’s health care plan, that’s fine.  I support your right to protest. 

But when you disrespect Rosa Parks, the mother of the Civil Rights Movement, that’s where I draw the line.

According to Politico, during a health care town hall meeting hosted by Sen. Claire McCaskill in Missouri, a few women were holding posters of Rosa Parks.  Then, the crowd began booing them. 

When one woman unrolled her poster, an angry man went up to her, grabbed the poster and tore it up. 

When the woman tried to get her poster back from the protester, she along with the protester were escorted out of the building. 

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