Yesterday, I posted an article from the local paper on the candlelight vigil.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

The story detailed the threats generated by the thought of a peaceful demonstration in their city. I sent the paper a LTTE today although I doubt that it will get printed. I just needed to vent off some anger.
Has this been happening at the other vigils? I'm not sure if I'm allowed to use the same link twice, so let me know if this is a faux pas.
Original link: http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/522184.html?nav=742

This is my LTTE.

Once again a small number of local residents have managed to demonstrate that Altoona needs no assistance to embarrass itself.

When a peaceful candlelight vigil was scheduled to highlight the need for Health Care Reform in this country, a few clueless and cowardly individuals managed to once again demonstrate their disdain of compassion and understanding. These cowards used the time honored tradition of the threat of violence and retaliation against a local business owner for allowing the truth to be told. Here’s a radical suggestion for these cowards; stop treating knowledge as an anathema. I can’t blame Mr. Morris for the change of heart when he was concerned about the possibility of violence by these intolerant and non-informed people. I do of course use the term people rather loosely when their solution to everything is violence. The disgusting aspect of this is that although I’m sure that they will deny it, a large part of this is most likely racially motivated. I don’t remember hearing this much outrage against the previous administration and their decision to invade, occupy and murder the citizens of two countries which posed no threat to the US. Of course, the people in those countries were Asian so that makes it acceptable to these cowards. Last November, the people of this country gave overwhelming support to the idea that Barack Obama was the right person to lead this country out of the abyss created by the Chickenhawk reign of error led by Cheney and Bush. Part of his plan is to allow Americans to actually have access to affordable healthcare like most civilized countries have done for years. By the way, for the record; the US was ranked as having the 37th best healthcare system in the last survey by the World Health Organization. Now why would people be against improving that? Well first of all, President Obama doesn’t look like most of the people around here so that’s a reason for concern. That’s probably why a lot of these inane ideas like Death Panels were able to gain traction despite the fact that there is no such thing mentioned in any of the proposed plans.

The only death panels are the ones already in use by the Health Insurance companies who are able to deny life-saving procedures and drugs in order to pad the already obscene compensation packages of their top executives. What does it matter to them that thousands of people die each year because of their avaricious behavior, after all, these aren’t their family members or loved ones. They’re just another new Mercedes or a new cottage in the Hamptons as far as they’re concerned.

So go ahead and feel oh so proud of yourselves for stopping a peaceful vigil with your intolerance. In your own twisted little minds, I’m sure that you consider yourselves far more important than the truth.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I missed your earlier post. Great letter, but if you're truly in such a bigoted place, it may not be

published.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

2. I 'm pretty sure that it won't be published.

It was just one of those things that had me pissed off all night and I've already given up hope that the attitudes of a lot of people around here can ever be changed. It just felt good to make the attempt even if it was futile.