Two worlds [Point of View]

The front page photographs of the New York Times last week were a striking study in contrasts. In the 12 August 2009 photograph, a man at a Lebanon, Pennsylvania, healthcare town-hall meeting was angrily shouting at his senator, Arlen Spector. According to the accompanying article, many of the attendees had been alerted of the meeting by e-mail from the Constitutional Organization of Liberty and the Berks County Tea Party. The primary concerns of those who spoke were abortion, euthanasia, coverage of immigrants, and privacy rather than health-care reform [1]. A link on the Berks County Tea Party Web site discusses Liberty Counsel´s analysis of the proposed health-care bill, HR 3,200. Some of the verbatim analysis points that do not match their cited HR 3,200 sections.