Stay classy, Tea Party

Last Tuesday in Ohio, Tea Partiers protesting against health insurance reform outside of the district office of Democratic Representative Mary Jo Kilroy, viciously ridiculed a man who favours reform and claimed to have Parkinson's disease. The man held a sign which read: "Got Parkinson's? I do and you might. Thanks for your help" The man approached the angry mob of teabaggers and their nasty, cruel and callous responses were filmed by the Columbus Dispatch.

One Tea Partier leaned down to get into the man's face and said:

If you're looking for a handout, you're in the wrong part of town. Nothing for free. You have to work for everything you get.

Another Tea Partier threw dollar bills at the man, and told the man to:

Start a pot, I'll pay for you. I'll decide when to give you money.

There were then other shouts of "Communism" and "no more handouts" heard.

This Tea Party protest wasn't the only protest where Tea Partiers made comparisons to Communism or sounded like maniacs, but the video demonstrates that despite the Tea Partiers claim that they're not on the side of corporations and are anti-corporatists, they in fact are. They are on the side of greed, private health insurance organizations and don't care at all about their country's 45 million uninsured, nor the 45,000 who die every year because they lack health insurance.

What's also interesting about the Tea Party movement is that it claims to be all about supporting the constitution and rights and liberties, but these people were nowhere to be seen during the Bush Administration when the Patriot Act was legislated.