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.
>>The history of labor unions in the United States is filled with corrupt bosses with Communist influences from the days of the Wobblies (IWW) to the present. <<
I’ve shared this before; but it bears repeating. In 1948-49, my dad ran for President of his local of the restaurant union in NYC. He lost by 10 votes; but when all the votes, the total exceeded membership by 15 votes. A complaint to NLRB escalated into an FBI investigation and visits to our abode. My dad’s cooperation and work for the FBI netted 10 officials who were Communists and their trial ended in deportation.
My dad’s “reward” was a three-year blackball from EVERY restaurant in NYC. We continued to receive visits from the FBI into the mid-50’s, even after we moved to FL. Dad died last month; he would have been 93 come March 14. He died an unsung hero, except for his sons.
This is why, when good people rally, we have to do so in large numbers. Do NOT let these thugs intimidate you. If they push, push back 10 times as hard. If they want to start violence, be sure to finish it on your terms. They are less than human, and they’re going to be angry now that their gravy train of stolen taxpayer dollars is coming to an end.
“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to obtain or preserve their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them.” Stockpirate 2006
When the soldiers are ready the leader will appear.
I'm gonna party like its 1859...
I’m just waiting for the invitation to show up in the mail... I’ll bring plenty of snacks and some party favors.
These are the same hypocritical idiots who like to call us “hate-mongering teabaggers”. Only their fellow idiots don’t see the irony.
Sounds like they missed a few.
Communists, that is. And maybe more than a "few".
The union thugs are flying that flag at the Wisconsin rallies.
They are too stupid to understand the irony.
Why the pro-union thug thought it was necessary to bring his carnal desires into the confrontation is beyond my understanding ...
Just imagine how many communist thugs there are today. You cannot walk down the street without bumping into one.
It’s so bad that there is a 0% chance of restoring our freedoms without using brute force.
To: ez
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????????
5 posted on Monday, March 07, 2011 5:01:51 PM by Dilbert San Diego
Whatever happened to the lesson they were all supposed to have learned in kindergarden?
It's called the communist civility. Strong-arming is their way under get-in-their-faces 0b0z0.
It's expected. No surprise there. The question is how long will We The People take it?
Bottom line is the Unions ARE losing ground, and in their last gasps of trying to remain legitimate they commit crimes against those of us remaining on the front lines taking these shots of theirs...
Interesting...I was parusing the Texas Penal Code and found some interesting things about how all you have todo is “resonably determine” that force or Deadly force is immediately necessary to “STOP” a continued physical assault...
I mean, I am just floored (/sarc) by this revelation, considering that these union thugs do not realize that there is a high probability that someday, someone having a different opinion about the issue may very well be armed for lawful self defensive purposes and may very well “STOP” an attack(s), like the ones mentioned above...
Won’t that just be a cryin’ shame.../sarc
That why I don’t hear much about these types of attacks here in Texas I suppose...
“When the soldiers are ready the leader will appear.”
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