The ObamaCare Revolution Wages War on American Democracy
Written by Sultan Knish   pa_neh_37The Town Hall meeting has
long been a hallowed symbol of American democracy, as embodied
in the famous Norman Rockwell painting, "Freedom of Speech" that
shows a man, surrounded by his neighbors, rising to speak his
mind. It is an image and idea that states forthrightly that
government belongs to the people, and that it is governed by the
people, not simply in some abstract national vote, but at the
local level. That is why the Town Hall is a far more sacred and
enduring definition of American democracy than the White House,
the the Capitol Building, and even perhaps the Constitution,
because it defines the American system of government as based on
public participation from the bottom up.   Obama began the
process with a one hour ABC network special "Town Hall" with no
Republican opposition allowed. Naturally enough the Obama
Administration's Director of Communications for the White House
Office of Health Reform (a po