Angry mobs or a groundswell we may or may not like?

By on August 10th, 2009 In Uncategorized

It’s one thing to cheer on when citizens take to the streets with hand-made signs, or shout from the rooftops to voice their protest in Iran and other parts of the world.

It’s a different story when people do it here, as we have seen in the angry sign-carrying mobs showing up to protest healthcare reform.

There’s lots of speculation over some PR entanglement with astroturfing practices. TechPresident ‘reveals’ that there is a method behind this madness.

But it makes me wonder if this is not the new reality we have to learn to live with, from the pay-per-protest (a la those ‘Shame On’ picketing) type, to that other phenomenon, flash mobs –appropriated by T-mobile earlier this year at London’s busy Liverpool Street station. Terrific flash event, by the way.

Comments

Jim Veihdeffer Says:
August 11th, 2009 at 3:17 pm

I want my country back…a country where townhalls weren’t dominated by thugs and loud-shouters; a country where we could make fun of a president, but we wouldn’t compare him to a Nazi concentration camp burner of Jews simply because we don’t like his healthcare concept; a country where ordinary people didn’t knowingly make up or pass along vicious rumors…rumors known to be incorrect, or maliciously edit news videos to make someone look like they were doing something they clearly weren’t.

Baseball players have a name for that kind of thing: “bush league.”

It’s enough to make someone want to leave town. So that’s what I’m doing.

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