The Union Liars are out in Force. Obama Jackboot Thugs have their orders from ObamaMessiah.

Unions Muscle Up to Confront Healthcare Protesters

Monday, August 10, 2009 1:02 PM

By: David A. Patten

Organized labor is gearing up to make a big push for President Obama’s “public-option” health care plan, while also claiming to be the victim in melees that sent one town hall protester to the hospital late last week.

Union leaders appear to have decided that their best defense, following charges that town hall protesters were roughed up, is to levy those same allegations against the opponents of reform.

“Attacking a staffer? Harassing a pregnant woman? All in a day’s work for the opposition to health care reform,” one post on the Web site of the Service Employees International Union stated.

The SEIU blamed conservative town hall protesters for “fear-mongering,” charging they are guilty of “harassment, intimidation, and physical violence.”

That allegation will come as a surprise to the town hall protesters who were blocked from attending a Tampa Bay town hall meeting last week by SEIU members, as well as a protester in Missouri who was seriously beaten.

Kenneth Gladney, a conservative activist, said he was handing out yellow flags with “Don’t treat on me” printed on them when he was attacked.

According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Gladney sustained injuries to his knee, back, shoulder, and face. An African-American, Gladney told the newspaper that one attacker who was also an African-American used a racial slur before striking him.

“It just seems there’s no freedom of speech without being attacked,” Gladney told the newspaper.

A St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter and an SEIU staffer were among the six people arrested at the Missouri town hall event featuring Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo.

Last week’s violence occurred the same day AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney sent out a memo to members urging “major union participation to counter the right-wing ‘Tea-Party Patriots’ who will try to disrupt those meetings, as they've been trying to do to meetings for the last month.”

Sweeney referred to the town hall protesters as the same “hooligans” whom he says harassed Florida vote counters during the contentious 2000 presidential election.

An SEIU post over the weekend accused the protesters of “harassment, intimidation, and physical violence.”

In an effort to seize the moral high ground in the town hall debate, the SEIU has posted on its Web site a pledge for members and others to take.

Members would promise to attend town hall meetings “without being disruptive or disrespectful” and “to allow the opinions of fellow attendees to be heard even if I disagree.”

On Friday, the unions claimed to be victims of violent threats. The Huffington Post reports that the SEIU was “deluged” with calls Friday accusing the organization of trying to assault demonstrators who showed up to protest “public-option” healthcare reform.

The Huffington Post report cited one anonymous tweet and one anonymous phone call to the union offering veiled threats of violence should the union try to “repress people’s First Amendment rights.”

The AFL-CIO has also reported receiving a flurry of angry e-mails.

The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that congressional Democrats are rethinking their strategy of town hall meetings.

Democrats are considering teleconferences and smaller, invitation only gatherings as ways to avoid meetings where outspoken opponents of healthcare reform are free to voice their opinions in disruptive ways.

“Democrats may think that attacking or ignoring this growing chorus of Americans is a smart strategy,” Paul Lindsay, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, told the Journal. “But they are obviously forgetting that these concerned citizens are voters as well.”

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs recommended on Friday that Democrats continue to hold town hall meetings, while urging that the proceedings remain civil. “I would recommend people that go to have their voices heard, that they have some respect for everybody else’s ability to be heard and participate in a town hall meeting.”


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The Dems accuse the right wing of organizing protests at town hall meetings, then the Dems do just that with Unions?

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All I can say is, "COME THE F'CK ON" !!!!!!!

When you are drawing disability and sucking Steak thru a Straw oh Union Hack, you may think twice about getting in the way of '260 Pounds of Pure Pissed Off Conservative'.

This crap is going to get Uber-Bloody before Obama is shamed back down to just being a regular Human and not The Messiah.

We gonna need some "Free Health Care" to sow all these Liberal Fools and Union Hacks up with before this mess ends.

A New Age is Dawning and a New Civil War is Brewing folks .... Obama ain't gonna like what he thinks he wants when he gets it.

And it only took this Fool 7 Months to lose the Oval Office .... he is gone in 2012 and there ain't nuthin' that can save this clown.

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Quote:Sweeney referred to the town hall protesters as the same “hooligans” ..........

........accused the protesters of “harassment, intimidation, and physical violence.”

I bet this was the first time a union ever said this about someone else. Usually it's them doing all this crap.

Why are unions involved in this debate at all? Don't they, like Congress, have some of the best health care? Shouldn't they be against Obama Death if anything? Or are they exempt from all the changes and just want to f it up for every body else?

Lots of SEIU Thugs at Hank Jackson's Town Hall last night. They all had on the same purple T- shirts.

(08-11-2009 07:45 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Why are unions involved in this debate at all? Don't they, like Congress, have some of the best health care? Shouldn't they be against Obama Death if anything? Or are they exempt from all the changes and just want to f it up for every body else?

Almost:

Union workers would be exempt from Dem health care tax

That little "tax" they want to charge is something the high and mighty unions don't need to concern themselves with.

(08-11-2009 07:55 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Lots of SEIU Thugs at Hank Jackson's Town Hall last night. They all had on the same purple T- shirts.

Purple is the new brown.

(08-11-2009 08:10 AM)Paul M Wrote:  

(08-11-2009 07:55 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Lots of SEIU Thugs at Hank Jackson's Town Hall last night. They all had on the same purple T- shirts.

Purple is the new brown.

Good. It's easier to paint from a distance.

(08-11-2009 08:02 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

(08-11-2009 07:45 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Why are unions involved in this debate at all? Don't they, like Congress, have some of the best health care? Shouldn't they be against Obama Death if anything? Or are they exempt from all the changes and just want to f it up for every body else?

Almost:

Union workers would be exempt from Dem health care tax

That little "tax" they want to charge is something the high and mighty unions don't need to concern themselves with.

Thanks for the link.

Fu(kers.

(08-11-2009 08:11 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

(08-11-2009 08:10 AM)Paul M Wrote:  

(08-11-2009 07:55 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Lots of SEIU Thugs at Hank Jackson's Town Hall last night. They all had on the same purple T- shirts.

Purple is the new brown.

Good. It's easier to paint from a distance.

That will blow right over the heads of most.

(08-11-2009 08:14 AM)Paul M Wrote:  

(08-11-2009 08:11 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

(08-11-2009 08:10 AM)Paul M Wrote:  

(08-11-2009 07:55 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Lots of SEIU Thugs at Hank Jackson's Town Hall last night. They all had on the same purple T- shirts.

Purple is the new brown.

Good. It's easier to paint from a distance.

That will blow right over the heads of most.

Oh I've got that one down like White on Rice ....

That wasn't to much of a Racist statement was it Lib's ????

I mean I am White and Rich IS White and White on Rice is like saying Water is Wet ....

But I know you Lib's are in Denial Mode right now and I don't want to hurt any of you Guyz Feelings .... (NOT .... )

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