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On Thursday August 6, 2009, Kenneth Gladney was beaten by SEIU thugs after a Russ Carnahan town hall meeting in St. Louis. Although he was too weak to speak after his public beating on Thursday, Kenneth Gladney attended the protest against SEIU violence on Saturday in St. Louis. Kenneth was beaten, kicked and called racist names by Russ Carnahan's SEIU supporters after the town hall meeting on Thursday. Allman in the Morning at 97.1 FM Talk Radio reported today that Kenneth Gladney, the man who was beaten by Russ Carnahan-supporting SEIU thugs after a town hall meeting last Thursday, will...

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) thugs beat Mr. Gladney during a recent St. Louis town hall meeting. His crime in the eyes of a "service" employee was selling paraphernalia celebrating and advocating freedom. For his transgression, Mr. Gladney won a two-day stay at the hospital and the indignation of a racial epithet delivered by the perpetrators of the beating. Mr. Gladney was beaten protesting for freedom from coercion at the hands of a powerful government. Mr. Gladney is a black American. Crispus Attucks, a black American, was one of the first men killed by the British at the Boston Massacre....

Tea Party researchers have discovered some interesting news on one of the people arrested for beating Ken Gladney. Elston K. McCowan is a former organizer – now the Public Service Director of SEIU Local 2000 – and board member of the Walbridge Community Education Center, and is a Baptist minister, has been a community organizer for more than 23 years, and now, he is running for Mayor of the City of St. Louis under the Green Party. McCowan accused the Mayor of setting fire to his van . . . because that’s what big city mayors do in their spare...

I thought, “This is crazy”. Despite numerous attempts to convince myself that what I was feeling was absurd, tingle in my stomach persisted. Black conservative, Kenneth Gladney was beaten by SEIU (Service Employee International Union) thugs for selling buttons at a Town Hall meeting in St Louis. Gladney’s beating included racial slurs. He spent two days in the emergency room. President Obama gave marching orders to union thugs, ACORN and his followers to “push back harder” and “get in the faces” of American citizens who oppose his Health Care bill. I have been very outspoken in my national columns opposing...

As Jim Treacher says: If Kenneth Gladney was an Obama supporter, right now he'd be more famous than Rodney King. Gotta love this "post-racial America": Democrat union heavies can beat up a black guy using racial epithets and leave him in a wheelchair unable to speak — and happily (unlike, say, a black professor being asked for picture ID) it's not "symbolic" of anything at all. Not a Sharpton in sight to speak up for him: Mr. Gladney's only shot at fame is an entry in The Guinness Book of Records under "Least Famous Black Hate-Crime Victim In America." Nothing...

Those were the words of Kenneth Gladney. These words however were spoken by his lawyer since Gladney was under heavy medication as a result of the beating he took at the hands of SEIU thugs. (See pictures and a recap after the link below)

Via the indefatigable Jim Hoft, who’s back from the rally with photos galore. When last we saw Gladney, he said he was in some pain but otherwise appeared in reasonably good shape; now he’s in a wheelchair and so heavily medicated that he can’t speak. What exactly did those goons do to him? Good lord. Like Jim Treacher said, if Gladney was an Obama supporter, right now he’d be more famous than Rodney King. Good news, though: Some of the more gutless Democrats in the House have decided to make their town halls “stealth” affairs, which, while depriving constituents of...

Obamessiah come out late last night and commented on the beating of a black man by a local union in St. Louis. His exact words: "I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the SEIU acted stupidly in beating down somebody." Well, actually he didn't, but I'm sure that being the fair man that he is, he'll do it soon.

Shocking graphic video of SEIU thugs at work at the link. ______________________________________________________

White redneck assaults black man in racially motivated beating. Stunningly, Sharpton and Jackson are nowhere to be found. Typical liberal garbage.

Today I called the SEIU to express concern with their use of violence and this is the reaction I received. A live person finally picked up the phone, and I said, I"m just calling to express my concern at your organizations use of violence at the recent town hall meetings. The guy said, "What's your address?" I said, why do you need my address? He said, "Because we want to give you an apology in person and we need your name and address." I said, after what you did to Mr. Gladney you have the audacity to hope people will...

6 arrested including SEIU members... RAW VIDEO from Missourah blog: A black conservative was attacked by the Carnahan-supporting mob. At least one SEIU member is arrested by St. Louis police in this video:

DATE: Saturday, August 8, 2009 (tomorrow) TIME: Noon LOCATION: SEIU Headquarters, 5585 Pershing Ave., Suite 130, St. Louis, MO 63112 The St. Louis Tea Party will hold a press conference and peaceable protest at SEIU Headquarters 5585 Pershing Ave., Suite 130, St. Louis, MO 63112 at Noon Saturday, August 8, 2009. The protest is to demand justice for Kenneth Gladney, an African-American conservative who was brutally beaten by 4 individuals, at least 2 of whom were identified as SEIU representatives. The beatings included racial slurs and required hospitalization of Mr. Gladney. As videos show, the attack was unprovoked and no...

I guess the Democrats were right after all. At a town hall meeting held by a Democrat congressman a rowdy group of organized and angry thugs showed up to make a point about ObamaCare, and then beat up a man. Race was involved too: the victim was black - attacked by a man yelling racial slurs. It's every Democrat talking point you've read about in the last day or two, come to life in an ugly fashion. With one twist. The man was a conservative, and the assailants may well have been union thugs. ...

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Watch Video: http://butasforme.com/2009/08/07/suspects-arrested-after-racial-assault-on-black-conservative-at-st-louis-town-hall/St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Kenneth Gladney, 38, a conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don’t tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was awaiting treatment for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack

Email from eye witness and attorney confirms that SEIU-logo’d thugs attacked and beat a black man for distributing Gadsen flags following a Town Hall in St. Louis County on Thursday. Race was a factor in the beating.