The most powerful image of this whole health care debate (or screaming match if you will) is the man with Parkinson's disease who simply sat in front of the people who were wanting to deny him health care (to be his personal death panel).
His name is Robert Letcher, he has a PhD and was a nuclear engineer before being diagnosed with Parkinson's 15 years ago.
He is also a Martial Artist and he said he used his breathing exercises while he sat there and absorbed the hatred and condescension that was being violently hurled at him.
Personally I consider him an American Hero because of that moment.
Like Martin Luther King Jr, like Gandhi, like others have shown us throughout civil rights struggles in the past
pure and centered, righteous peace in the face of injustice really can change people's hearts. And when you have changed their hearts, they will change their minds
