Posted on 03/07/2011 1:48:43 PM PST by neverdem
American Brownshirts
Union thugs unleash violence.
‘Every once in a while, you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,” Rep. Michael Capuano (D., Mass.) told a February 22 union rally in Boston. Even if union members and their supporters missed Capuano’s call to mayhem (or his subsequent tepid apology), many of them are on the same brutal wavelength.
Although Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D., Ariz.) still is recovering from a January 8 assassination attempt, the Left’s post-Tucson civility campaign has vanished like gunsmoke in a desert breeze. Rather than make nice, labor activists and fans star in YouTube videos, preaching and perpetrating violence.
On February 23, unionized government employees held a Providence, R.I., “solidarity rally.” As columnist Michelle Malkin reports, a local TV cameraman named Adam Cole was recording the event. After about seven and a half minutes, a YouTube video shows a pro-union thug screaming at Cole, “I’ll f*** you in the ass, you faggot!” whereupon he forcefully smacks Cole’s camera with his right hand.
Holding a sign that reads “CWA — Taking a Stand for Justice,” a Communications Workers of America member protested that day at the Washington, D.C., offices of pro-market FreedomWorks. As its employee Tabitha Hale recorded him exchanging words with an opponent, the CWA member physically attacked her, as her iPhone video confirmed.
Tea Party Express activist Rodney Stanhope, former executive director of the El Dorado County, Calif., Republican party, was among a group of limited-government advocates who rallied at the state capitol in Sacramento on February 26. MoveOn.org members, Teamsters, and other Big Labor types gathered across the street. For about an hour, Stanhope says, the tea partiers yelled, “We pay your salaries,” while the unionists replied, “Fascists, go home!”
YouTube shows a young, bullhorn-wielding Teamster heading menacingly toward Stanhope.
“I told this guy, ‘You need to leave,’” Stanhope recalls. The Teamster then “took a punch and knocked me back about two to three feet. I felt my hand was in pain. I stepped back up, and he threw another punch at my throat.”
After eventually getting local police to issue a battery citation to Teamster Richard Andazola, 28, Stanhope received first aid for his swollen hand and headed for a hospital.
“I went to the emergency room and got X-rays,” Stanhope says. “It was not broken, but I had contusions.” Four days later, his hand still hurts after a few hours of typing on his computer keyboard.
In Atlanta that day, Dr. William Greene and several other free-marketeers protested near the Georgia state capitol in favor of Gov. Scott Walker (R., Wis.). According to Greene, two pro-union activists at a competing MoveOn.org demonstration crossed their anti-union picket line.
“Out of nowhere, all of a sudden, I get slammed to the side against a wrought iron fence and down onto the pavement, by one of these guys who wanted to push through,” Greene said online. “The guy came through and cold-cocked me from behind,” Greene recalled, and the blow slammed him into an older woman who stood nearby. “When he shoved me, he shoved her, too.”
“I have been involved in activism at the grassroots level for many years,” Greene added. “This is the first time that I have ever been physically assaulted personally at a protest or counter-protest.”
At another protest, an interviewer asked what should be done with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “Put him back in the fields,” suggested Don Wallace, former head of the United Firefighters of Los Angeles. And what about the leader of Fox News? “Roger Ailes should be strung up,” Wallace proposed. “Kill the bastard.”
Like a Labor Day parade in reverse, unions are losing ground. They represent a shrinking share of America’s workforce. When their Democratic allies in state legislatures decide to show up for work, they have started losing votes to right-size their privileges. The “labor” movement looks like a leisure movement, given union activists’ evidently infinite time to abandon their classrooms and other work sites so they can scream in the streets. And now they have revealed themselves as the Brownshirt element in America’s public life.
— New York commentator Deroy Murdock is a nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.
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Oops, is it okay to say “fight back” . . .
We will not fire first, but we will fire last...
And what ever happened to the lessons we were all supposed to have learned from Tucson??????
Or do those lessons NOT apply when one is in support of liberal causes????????
Sorry, we need to fire first and last, and heavily! Eradicate the unions!
BUMP...
Everybody sing!
“Look for....
the union lay bull...
and make sure you’re buying...
something...
else...
“
I think there will be a time when we may have to consider the point where our side and theirs are 180 degrees apart and there is no way of reconciliation. I hate to say it but it will end up being a battle between us and them. Possible CWII ping.
Unionism itself is fascism. Hitler's pro-labor political movement was named the National Socialist German Workers Party. Socialism for workers and terrorism for all. That's what labor unions are all about. Unions are simply evil incarnate. That's ALL of them...not just the SEIU and other public sector unions.
In the wake of unionism lies only ruin. Look at the auto industry in Detroit, killed by the UAW. Pittsburgh's rusting steel mills are a direct result of the leftist USW(A). The failure of the education system is attributable to teachers' unions such as the NEA, under the thumb of the vile leftist Dennis Van Roekel.
Unions destroy everything they touch and must be abolished. Union tyranny opposes freedom and liberty.
Really similar to the NRA (National Recovery Act) Blue Eagle during the fascist “progressive” era in the USA.
Unionism, Communism and Fascism are all descendants of the same anti-liberty, anti-freedom, anti-American and anti-God ideology. The imagery of these movements is indeed stunningly similar.
He just showed his thuggery creds to 0b0z0.
You're looking at the next 0h0m0llah appointment for "Director of WH F*****g Affairs," including but not limited to, the boss.
Fight back means just that...fight! If they hit me, I'm going to keep swinging until they're down and bleeding. If the Commies want to notch it up, we need to meet 'em head on and knuckle to knuckle. Maybe the RNC needs to hire its own "protection"?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
They all had two things in common, Local 25 represented the workers, and every single one of the trucking companies was out of business.
He’s going to “f&*k him up the a#%.”
Does that big union man have the gumption to really
“f*&k him up the a#*”? Does he have the chutzpah to assault that man and follow through on his threat of homosexual sex-assault?
Just nother scu&bag in action with a psychiatric problem being exploited by other union scu&bags.
IMHO
This must be the civilian army the Commie in Chief was talking about.
Concur.
CWII PING !!!
mark for later read
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