DOUG BANDOW: AARP Members Not Buying Obama Health Care Plan.

These people obviously were having trouble with the line, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” And they were quite vocal in stating their concerns. But they were acting well within the American political tradition, which seems to be what has spooked advocates of a government medical takeover speaking breathlessly of “mobs”–presumably like the one in Dallas–opposing “reform.”

Protest is extremely dangerous unless it’s engaged in by Officially Sanctioned Aggrieved Groups.