Protesting Socialized Health Care

Thanks so much again to everyone for the great turnout and participation at yesterday's protest in San Francisco against socialized health care. We can be proud of what we accomplished. We distributed approximately 440 of our essay-packets, focusing on the moral aspects of the issue, directing people to read Ayn Rand and to visit ARI's website to learn more about the philosophical issues at stake.

Thanks to Sally Zelikovsky with the Bay Area Patriots for organizing the event. Thanks to Dr. John Lewis for giving us permission to reprint and distribute his article, "There is No Moral Right to Health Care," and his excellent analysis of HR3200. Thanks to Roxanne for letting us include her essay, "Immorality of Socialized Medicine," and thanks to AFCM for permission to reprint Dr. Peikoff's speech, "Health Care is Not a Right."

NOTE TO MEMBERS -- Please consider posting the above links to these excellent and important essays to your social lists and to your Facebook, etc.!

The first coverage I found on-line of the event was on Instapundit, one of the most widely read blogs on the internet. Glenn had linked to a video of the protest, and he posted a note I sent to him in response, which includes a mention of our group. There is additional video of the event posted here.

There were 13 of us present throughout the day, about half of whom enjoyed socializing for a couple of hours afterwards, across the street at Taylor’s. Great job everyone!