Anatomy of a Beat-Down Part 1: Why Kenneth Gladney Was Beaten, And by Whom
by Larry O'ConnorOn August 6, 2009 two Service Employee International Union (SEIU) leaders and a volunteer for Organizing for America (OFA) assaulted Kenneth Gladney outside of Rep. Russ Carnahan’s Town hall meeting on health care. The perpetrators were arrested at the scene of the crime, and three months later charges have finally been filed.
Much has been said in the past three months about this incident. Here at Big Government calls have been made for justice, for formal charges and mostly for the mass media to follow the story and delve into the government’s role in this violent attempt to intimidate and silence dissent. We can no longer wait for the establishment journalists to connect the dots and bring to light the insidious relationships between the SEIU, OFA, Russ Carnaham’s office and the Obama Administration.
Was this assault merely a flare up of tempers during a heated exchange of rival political camps? Or was it a coordinated attempt to silence the scores of protesters who had been so effective at swaying public opinion against the President’s health care scheme? Today, Big Government will bring to light documents that read like an instruction manual for the SEIU forces in St. Louis the evening of August 6th. We will also show that on the very same evening of the St. Louis assault, an almost identical scene played out in Tampa Bay, Florida. Also involving SEIU and OFA. Also resulting in hordes of union members shouting down and physically evicting protesters from a U.S. Representative’s Town hall meeting. Finally, we will introduce all of the various players in leadership roles at these organizations, what they said in instructing their members in how to fight back against the Town hall protesters, and how these individuals all connect to each other and to the Obama Administration. As I said, we’ve been waiting for the “Real” journalists to do this, we’ve waited long enough.
On June 1, 2009 President Obama enjoyed a 64% Job Approval rating with a disapproval rating of 30%. As Summer approached, the President began the plans for the roll out of his comprehensive plan to overhaul the entire distribution system for America’s health care services. As the messaging began, the talking points were clear: “If you like your current health plan, you can keep it”, “This plan will cover the 40 million Americans who have no insurance”, “This plan will not add to the deficit and not raise taxes”. It all seemed too good to be true. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce promptly passed the first version of a reform bill in June. President Obama planned multiple town hall meetings across the country including an unprecedented event televised live on ABC and everything seemed moving toward a major victory for the President and the Democratic Party.
In late June and through the month of July, members of congress held scattered town hall meetings in their districts to get their constituents’ feedback on the proposed health care bill. The clusters of semi-organized protesters who had rallied at “Tea Parties” earlier in the Spring took these meetings as opportunities to rejuvenate their energies with passionate opposition to these congressmen. YouTube videos began circulating showing outraged citizens challenging their representatives and showing those representatives completely unprepared for any legitimate questions about the proposed bill. It was clear in many cases that the representatives were not well versed on these bills beyond the boiler-plate talking points the administration had handed them. They were not used to being questioned.
By the beginning of August Sarah Palin had caught headlines by describing certain policy discussions that evaluate a patients “level of productivity in society” and how it relates to the level of prioritized care they would receive as ‘death panels’ , Rep. Michelle Bachmann had delivered a stinging speech on the House floor tearing apart the President’s advisors on health policy, Sen. Arlen Spector was caught flat-footed at a town hall meeting and protests began cropping up all around the country at various town hall meetings of Senators and Congressmen. President Obama’s job approval rating had now plummeted to 52% with a disapproval rating of 41% (an unbelievable 23% swing in approval loss and disapproval gain combined in 60 days). The White House had seen enough. It was time to take action and engage the opposition.
Somewhere between August 2nd and August 6th a strategy was devised that put all tools at the administrations disposal in line and firing at the protesters. August 4th seems to be an important day in the roll out of this strategy. The White House famously posted a new aggressive offensive on their blog calling out what they described as “mis-information” about the proposed bill and directed true-believers to report any sources of these “lies” to a special e-mail address: flag@whitehouse.gov. Also on the 4th, an organization called Health Care for America Now (HCAN) released a document that became a blueprint for intimidation and, ultimately, violence under the guise of confronting the tea party protesters at these town hall meetings.
HCAN is an organization funded by various unions, most significantly SEIU, whose main purpose is to promote and push the effort for government-provided, universal health care. (To understand the SEIU’s reasons for pushing for this government health care, read this post.) The National Field Director for HCAN is Margarida Jorge. Margarida Jorge used to work for the SEIU as an organizing director.
On August 4th Margarida Jorge released a four page memo instructing members of HCAN on how best to combat the mounting opposition on display at the town hall meetings. On the HCAN web site, the new tactics were filed on a post under the heading “Fight Back Against the Right”. A subsequent HCAN call to action on August 5th was under the benign headline “The Guns of August: A Call to Arms for Progressives and Obama Activists” likening the debate to World War I.
The entire memo can be seen here.
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The memo features instructions and tactics for the left on how to dominate the meeting and marginalize the protesters from the right:
- Their side will be smaller but noisier. You must bring enough people to drown them out and to cover all our bases so as to marginalize their disruptive tactics.
- We need to stack our folks in the front to create a wall around the Member, and we need to stake out the best spots for visibility and signs. Reconnaissance on the venue and an understanding of the staging will be important here. Make sure you do your homework so you can position your folks most effectively.
It features ideas on how to manipulate the media:
- Make sure you have people holding signs in every place where a TV camera is likely to be and that next to every right wing sign, there’s one of your signs with your message.
- Don’t wait for the reporter to approach you. You must approach the reporters and be assertive in shaping the narrative that they write. Have someone assigned to greeting the media or checking in media as they arrive. That way you will know who they are and be able to work with them both during the event and afterwards.
It has ideas about how to dominate the conversation by asking the congressman prepared, rehearsed questions:
- Line up a number of people who feel comfortable interrupting and prepare them with statements like:
- Excuse me, I came today to listen to Representative XXX explain how this bill is going to make health care more affordable for me and my family. We’re being gouged by insurance companies that just want to make more profits while we struggle to keep up with premiums and co-pays. Representative, how are you going to fix that?”
- “I’m retired and can’t afford my prescription drugs because I’m on a fixed income. Representative, how is this bill going to affect me?”
- “I want to hear the Representative speak. He’s the one voting on the bill. Representative, how will this bill help people who already have insurance at work?”
- “What I’m worried about is how we’re going to keep the insurance companies from continuing to charge people more for being sick and keep them from taking away coverage when we need it most. What’s the plan for that?”
And, on page four of the memo written by Margarida Jorge of HCAN are instructions for hosting a town hall meeting. These instructions include:
- One advantage to organizing your own Town Hall or public event with Members of Congress is that you will have much more control over the event and limit the other side’s opportunities for disruption.
- Make sure you turn out a substantial number of people from your base and that everyone signs a sign in sheet upon entering the event. Give everyone name tags so they are easily identifiable. If you want to ensure greater control over turnout, you can ask attendees to rsvp or even issue tickets to the event and require presentation of the ticket at the entrance.
- Choose a venue that is difficult for the opposition to access without being noticed. Get to your location early and make sure you set up the venue in a way that ensures that the attendees you want are at the front and that any protesters who come are sequestered as far as possible from the stage.
- Make sure that you assign marshals to take care of moving the crowd, keeping people organized and orderly, and acting as security should any need arise to ask noisy or disruptive protesters to leave.
- Another way to limit protesters’ ability to hijack your event is to confiscate signs or leaflets that they may bring into the venue from outside. The best way to do this is to make a blanket rule that no one can bring signs or leaflets and to advertise this fact as you do turn out in the weeks preceding the event. You can distribute your own signs in the event and offer them one as they enter if you choose to allow them to enter.
- It’s important that you take away right-wingers opportunities to talk with reporters by making sure that your staff or leaders are in constant contact with the media who attend.
On August 5th the DNC released a video advertisement calling the protesters an “angry mob” and showing a photo of one alleged protester hanging a congressman in effigy. Also on August 5th we had Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi derisively calling the protesters “Astro-turf” and claiming that they were carrying signs with swastikas.
By August 6th liberal web sites like Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos were cheering HCAN’s instructions and the stance taken by Organizing For America (The left-wing volunteer web site evolved from the Obama Campaign) urging liberals to call congress (providing them instructions on how to do this) and then to register the call at the OFA web site. Huffington Post celebrated the new bold move with a post urging the unions to get more involved (an astounding 11,000 comments appear on this post in just 6 days, many of them from early in the day on August 6th show that the readers of HuffPo knew exactly what this union engagement meant and what the results would be).
Finally on August 6th, hours before the Carnahan town hall meeting where Kenneth Gladney was assaulted by members of the SEIU, David Axelrod and Jim Messina gave a pep talk to Senators on Capitol Hill prior to their leaving for the August recess. According to Politico:
They showed video clips of the confrontational town halls that have dominated the media coverage, and told senators to do more prep work than usual for their public meetings by making sure their own supporters turn out, senators and aides said. And they screened TV ads and reviewed the various campaigns by critics of the Democratic plan.
”If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,” Messina said, according to an official who attended the meeting
Two days after the instructions on how to manage and control protestors at town hall meetings were released by Margarida Jorge at HCAN, one day after the Speaker of the House likened protestors to Nazis and mere hours after President Obama’s top political advisors assured Congressional Democrats that “If you get hit, we will punch them back twice as hard”, Kenneth Gladney lay beaten and bloody on the ground outside Rep. Russ Carnahan’s Town Hall meeting.
Tomorrow we will show how the people who are now charged with assaulting him are connected to SEIU and HCAN, how they followed HCAN’s instructions perfectly which inevitably led to the violence, and we will show how St. Louis was not the only meeting that followed HCAN’s template and ended in much the same way.
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Before ACORN and SEIU got into the news a few weeks ago, I had never heard of them. How many other such organizations are out there being funded by my tax dollars to promote the leftist agenda.
Better yet Charles is how many are POTUS & Friends members of?
I think that those able to defend themselves should begin attending these town halls and confront SEIU and anyone willing use intimidation and violence to silence opposition. I think a few well placed fists is just the thing to get the ball rolling. Conservatism is being pushed towards an abyss, time to cowboy up and fight. Nothing new here, our parents and grandparents did the same, now it's our turn.
As some one who wasted decades of their life firmly entrenched in the left, you better believe their organized and their sole goal is to silence any and all opposition.
Here's a few thoughts to keep in mind when dealing with modern liberals.
1) They are right, you are wrong, period.
2) Because they are right, all modern liberals are right, no matter what comes out of their mouths. Conversely, every one who is not a modern liberal is wrong, no matter what comes out of their mouths.
3) Since non modern liberals are always wrong, any action is justified to prevent them from getting their message heard. Free speech is wonderful, as long as it tows the party line. Anything else is propaganda that must be removed, least it infect a modern liberal.
These people mean business. They have been at war with the right for as long as I can remember. And they take it very seriously.
The more they try to cover this up – the worse it gets for them.
I give it a week until one of the MSM's finally realizes they don't want to go down with the sinking ship and start actually reporting the facts. This is WAY to big and WAY to close to their messiah to pretend it doesn't exist anymore.
I just wonder how high up the next scapegoat is going to be that gets thrown under the bus.
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i would really enjoy beating the crap out of any modern liberal who thinks any action is justified when dealing with me. : )
We need to take this as serious as our grandparents would have! Fight these people with all you have!
Though often at odds with each other because they want the power you can include the United Autoworkers Union (UAW), United Steel Workers (USW), United Coal Mine Workers (UMWA)… Wow, I don't have enough space to put them all. There are also tons of civil unions & organizations like ACORN. ACORN by it self has over a HUNDRED different sub-entities just by it self so you can guess that you know of them but never realized what it was.
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The MSM has already gone down with the ship. They have no intention of reporting the facts on this. All that will happen with the MSM is what always happens when it goes bad for them, they'll just ignore the story and stop reporting on it and hope their handful of viewers forget.
This is the meaning of astroturf, how ironic that the Progressives always accuse you of what they are or shortly will be doing.
Astroturf
Facisim
Genocide
Scientism
It would be funny if it wasn't so serious
Dave_C_64 is, sadly, correct on this point.
The lame-assed media care not one whit for any of us. It's all ideological with them.
Have you noticed the lack of Lib Paid Trolls®©™ posting on any of these stories trying to say we're making $hit up?
Or did they lose their funding and jobs?
Carnahan is part of a MIssouri political family that has been very successful. His brother just got a $250million loan for his wind farm project in NW Mo. The sister is Secy of State and is running for Kit Bond's Senate seat, against the former Governor's father, Roy Blunt. Tom Carnahan's father was also governor, but died (with another brother) in a small plane crash during his Senate campaign. He was elected anyway and his wife took his seat. We've lost three politicians in senate or congressional races in Missouri from small plane crashes. Just some background, ACORN is very big in St Louis and East St Louis (Illinois), where they register voters by giving them $10 bills and a couple of cigarettes.
I have to agree with Dave_C_64
I am also convinced many of the media "Journalists" are insurgents, planted right under our noses by Universities that have been training them for decades.
Stalin must be laughing his ass off in whatever hell he has been confined to.
WELCOME to the new Amerika…run by thugs and secret organizations designed to shut down desent. People, you had better wake up now and take OUR AMERICA back! Cripple the liberals and stop Obamunism in 2010. Vote them out.
Someone might actually want to read Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August before trying to use it so casually. After all, it's about how everyone blundered into a war none of them ever really wanted, one misstep after another after another…
I've already started to fight back by being a member of the NRA and have the sticker on my minivan, showing it off proudly. ALso I own a Don't Tread on Me shirt too. I'm not afraid of them. They're nothing more than a bunch of Nazis.
This is the time that we DO NOT want to use physical violence; that is exactly what they are wanting to have happen. All it takes is people standing up against these guys – they are essentially cowards hiding behind their size, but they can't take the full light of scrutiny when it is shining on them.
It won't take violence – just integrity and honor.
SEIU sucks.
Mike Flynn;
I am watching you on Glenn Beck now Monday 11/28. I decided to go to your web site to see the tape because on Glenn's show his tape does not show anything except a bunch of people milling around. I noticed here on your web site has the tape and it does not show anything in the way of a SEIU member doing anything. I did see some one step on someone but he had a white shirt on. Are you sure this happened? I did see a SEIU member with a cane. Was this the person hurt? Glenn seams to be really stuck on this as a social injust to an individual. What is his opinion on the Cheney torture camps? Does Glenn condone waterboarding? Aren't these more important crimes for this nation to deal with than wearing a "Don't Tread on Me" T-shirt and disrupting a progressive asking questions at a meeting with his representative? Last related comment…If you believe in "Don't Tread on Me" shouldn't you believe in this country, America, and the election that we had in November and support the good ole USA rather than call a fellow American a name of a past German Political Party?
Come on people let's all get together.
What I'm really pissed about, this man was beaten, called the N word and no charges were filed aginist the attackers.
However, Navy Seals, some of the countries finest, are charged for assault by hitting a known terrorist on the lip.
I wish someone would report this in the media or at least point it out.
Great rundown, Stage.
Thanks, brother
Modern liberal here. What are you so worked up for? The Constitution for the good ole USA says we are to elect a President every 4 years. We had the election and the electorate spoke so suck it up like we all did with the Chenney Bush administration for 8 years. Lets give this nation a try.
richard tonight glenn beck talked about this on fox news, the only place we'll see it. it's time for americana to wake up! we have been asleep while our rights have been takin away,god bless you and yours lee
As an added benefit SEIU thugs create more work for their health care workers.
yes, because he is a blackman who is not glued to the hand me out left wing atrocity that is the Odumbo admin. End of story.
I covered an August Town Hall at a Democratic Congressman's event as a citizen journalist, and I have footage of all these HCAN tactics, including a firm shove in my back by the friendly HCAN folks. This was followed by a brief confrontation/disruption of an interview. I'm sure that if I hadn't been 6' 1" and 210lbs.,
things could have ended much differently. Plus, we looked like a pro news crew and there was heavy presence by the Sherriff's Dept. Clearly they were afraid to push things too far.
This will all get very ugly before it is over because this bunch is not going to back down. They see their opportunity to take real control for the first time. America, brace yourself.
The beating of Kenneth Gladney by two SEIU thugs, who also yelled racial slurs during the beating, should be prosecuted by the Federal jurisdiction under the new "hate crimes" – right? If, or since, they are not, it only shows how deeply entrenched Obama and his administration is with SEIU and Thuggery attempts to push his progressive agenda, no matter the cost. Can we as Americans, flood the Federal Justice department with letters and phone calls to demand these two SEIU thugs receive the full indictment of felony that carries jail sentence of up to 1 year? If so, who do we contact? Is there a regional office that hears these cases in St. Louis? This is such a disgrace. We can not allow this behavior go unpunished.
One thing that I do to oppose the Leftist "progressives" is arm people with T-shirts, signs and facts at http://www.DooDooEcon.com
I give away as many shirts as I can afford at every event that I attend. You can find me on TWITTER as DooDooEcon or on facebook. If you can support me by buying a t-shirt it would be great and you will be a walking billboard spreading the message and waking up America.
TLH,, your right. I want you and all your ilk to get everything you ask for.
Trust me when I say,,, You will regret it. You will suffer more than those who do have and produce.
Let the left have what they want. Just remember, those who have and stop participating will truly hurt those who recieve. Govt can't do anything about it, most of those who do ahve are buying gold, silver, etc. it can be hidden.
TLH, you and your ilk will suffer more than you think you are now. Cause when the rest of us drop out and stop producing, and the govt cheese runs out, you will have no place to turn.
Good Luck with that.
It seems that the left are going to let these thugs off on a small charge , I think the victim should file a civil rights lawsuit , maybe he can get some sort of satisfaction !! I feel we should level the playing field with some good old a#s kicking , let them know two can play this game !!
What a string of red herrings. Yes, the person was hurt. Not being able to distinguish between suspected terrorists/enemy combatants and peaceful citizen protesters is an amazing grasp at straws. Apparently you believe getting a beat-down for "disrupting a progressive" is nothing unusual and perhaps deserved? And whatever happened to dissent being patriotic, like it was when Bush was President?
MidwestProducer , Where can I see a clip of this , you said the sherriffs dept. was there , aparently they were not doing their job , probably afraid of obummer and his corrupt group !!
Eugene, Oregon
Politicians protecting their “not for profits”
While living in Federally subsidized housing, just South of Eugene, Oregon in Lane County, we were shot at 14 times over a 2 week period by our landlord. The housing program was being administered by a “not for profit”, community Sharing Program of Cottage Grove Oregon. We complained about numerous problems concerning that “not for profit” to Lane County Commissioner Faye Stewart. Unfortunately, Faye also sat on the board of the “not for profit”. We called Faye and informed him that the “not for profit” was invoicing the federal government for services not rendered (fraud). He called some of the people at Community Sharing Program and called us back. He told us, “I just remembered that my wife is having a baby tomorrow and I won’t be able to help you.” Later when he and the other Commissioners held an informal hearing, they investigated themselves and decided that they did nothing wrong. See Forum at http://community.kmtr.com/forums/permalink/248750... for more information. I post under http://community.kmtr.com/forums/821/ShowForum.as... under the name “Foundation Trilogy” See http://community.kmtr.com/forums/permalink/248750... for how the “Community Foundation” system started in the mid 70’s.
Eugene, Oregon
Politicians protecting their “not for profits”
While living in Federally subsidized housing, just South of Eugene, Oregon in Lane County, we were shot at 14 times over a 2 week period by our landlord. The housing program was being administered by a “not for profit”, community Sharing Program of Cottage Grove Oregon. We complained about numerous problems concerning that “not for profit” to Lane County Commissioner Faye Stewart. Unfortunately, Faye also sat on the board of the “not for profit”. We called Faye and informed him that the “not for profit” was invoicing the federal government for services not rendered (fraud). He called some of the people at Community Sharing Program and called us back. He told us, “I just remembered that my wife is having a baby tomorrow and I won’t be able to help you.” Later when he and the other Commissioners held an informal hearing, they investigated themselves and decided that they did nothing wrong. See Forum at http://community.kmtr.com/forums/permalink/248750... for more information. I post under http://community.kmtr.com/forums/821/ShowForum.as... under the name “Foundation Trilogy” See http://community.kmtr.com/forums/permalink/248750... for how the “Community Foundation” system started in the mid 70’s.
You just put into words whast I have been thinking for a long time!
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Richard Almazan , As a vetreran it makes me sick to let this happen , while our Navy Seals get charged , This is obummer protecting his terrorist brothers !! America better wake up NOW !! We need to get this a#shole out of the white house now !! It will probably be too late in 2012 , as he will already have sold us out !!
The left-wing psychos are hateful, racist, greedy, mental patients. I CANNOT wait until that embarassment that is the Maobama circus gets thrown out of the WH on all their a$$es. That is if we last that long, or if there are even any more elections. So how soon until there has to be a discrimination law against conservatives? Or will BO just allow people the violently beat and attack anyone that doesn't agree with them? Or call them the N word? Answer that Obama…
Who is the audience here at Big Government?
If it's the Radical Right- you don't need to bring them on your side with the same articles over and over. Save yourself some time and just keep posting how Obama is the new Hitler.
If it's anybody but the Radical Right, you have to start writing shorter articles that are less biased.
I mean, seriously- who read this?
Swap the F with the A, and you have a perfect acromyn for leftists.
But don't call them 'progressives' or 'liberals'. The right is stupid enough to grant them these words, thus ceding half the battle to them.
Where were Sharpton and Jackson?!!!!!
You can be assured that the media has full knowledge of both. They just refuse to report it. Just as they refused to give any objective reporting on ACORN and SEIU and Obama himself.
Tree, Rope, Journalist – some assembly required.
I agree with Richard 100%.
I observe, however, that he uses 21st century code for that most heinous of all words…so evil is this word that it cannot be written in any news report or blog comments section, regardless of accompanying context. We have allowed our language to be high-jacked by the politically correct commisars……..
…and, yes, I understand that "nigger" is a hurtful pejorative…which is what makes its use by those union thugs newsworthy….
Robert,
Most excellent point. However when those uncle Toms will show up, it will be for SEIU's side.
Thank you for the kind words MinisterLee and God bless you!
Thank you for your Service Catfish, it's more appreciated than you will ever be led to know.
twinespc,
For you sake your better be "wrong". Because the Radical Right seems to be growing daily.
Margarida Jorge's memo instructing members of HCAN looks and sounds just like a page from the ACORN playbook.
…Nah!!!
This is an obvious Hate Crime.
Q: Where are the ACLU lawyers when you need one?
A: Having coffee in the West Wing.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, the AFL-CIO organized "protests" that "coincidentally" turned violent — all on the same day. In multiple states.
This is nothing new. The good news is that someone is finally paying enough attention that MAYBE officials will be shamed into action.
Big mistake to attack that young man out infront of that town hall meeting and being allowed to get away with it. They will repeat their offense and will sooner than later meet an American that will make them remember freedom of speech. I am one of those Americans. I hope they show up and try that crap at a town hall I'm at. It will be their last time, if you catch my drift.
The message here is to intimidate. Especially non-white people. Show up at a tea party or a townhall meeting and get beat up. And the goons who attack you will get away with it. Which is just what happened.
I think they goons knew there was a risk that this might get publicity or that there might even be arrests and small fines, but that was to them an acceptable risk. And well worth the minor inconvenience. The SEIU will pay their attorneys, under the table if necessary, and the cases will probably be dismissed on a technicality.
If Gladney is brave enough to show up again and hand out flags, I won't blame him if he looks over his shoulder from time to time, just as they planned. Others less brave won't show up at all. Theirs will be the faces that don't appear in the photos, same as if they were air brushed out of history.
Mission accomplished by the commie thugs.
Also, please don't call leftists "liberals." They have no connection with liberty.
Some of us are already doing this. It is a very uncomfortable feeling putting yourself out there in harms way like that but I know it's for the greater good of my country. I was frightened when I went to a local congressman's town hall meeting b/c I was solo and about 80% of the people there were boot kissing libs. I chose not to question anyone on that date b/c of the lack of backup (to film everything) but that is not the last rally I will be going to. : )
You need to open your eyes to reality. The reality is that this crap happens and is covered up by the groups that will mostly benefit from doing so. Been than way since the Lord only knows. Call an ace an ace, quit trying to re-shuffle the problem. Get with the program TLH 'Remember, the truth shall set you free'.
Radical Right? No sir I am not a Radical Rightist, I am a normal hard-working American who does not agree with the current administration. Am I to be villified for that disagreement when during 8 years of a Republican presidency, any and all dissent was called "patriotic"?
Gee i am always armed when i go to a rally or a Tea Party and they just don't seem to bother this 71 year old.
Folks, We are in a Cold Civil War here and it is either The Constitution or Slavery. The left which is fascism/Marxism/Socialism?Liberalism?Communism?Maoism?Democracy and so on is about slavery plain and simple. Obey the Obama or get beaten up. Well iwll not be enslaved and i will not stop fighting.
Death to Tyrants and Corrupt Politicians
The above is expressed under the protections iof the 1st and 2nd Amendments as Ratified Jan. 15,1791
Given a vile anti-Semitic, Black Supremacist in office, a craven quota-baby not even a U.S. citizen (all else aside, college transcripts list this thug as an Indonesian national for purposes of foreign student aid), ACORN and SEIU et al. rampage against Banana's hated White America unchecked. Pity the generation born AD 2000… crashing demographics, raging hyper-inflation, unemployment at permanent Depression levels, their country purposefully infested with murderous jihadists; abundant coal, oil nuclear resources held hostage to a sabotaged industrial economy– for what?
AD 2010 may well prove a seminal inflection-point, but Cloward-Piven's subverting Rule of Law by laws themselves will remain Luddite sociopaths' nihilistic stock-in-trade. We face an existential game of Tit-for-Tat [Robert Axelrod, 1980], direct action against simpering PCBS on every front. There will be blood.
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My goodness, Perry Mason is Alive and well, First bit of reporting I've been able to enjoy, in a long time!!! I feel like the truth is being vindicated!!!!! The hidden treasures available to these young aspiring Real Journalists is like finding a vein of Gold that leads to the Mother Load!!!!!!! But, sorry to say, these Aspiring Journalists will be found to be the Criminals, in this upside down wrong side out world of Justice we live in!!!!!!!!!
[...] Anatomy of a Beat-Down Part 1: Why Kenneth Gladney Was Beaten, And by Whom. [...]
In a way, I pity the union thugs. Remember 1930s Nazi Germany? The "Night of the Long Knives" when Hitler decided it was politically expedient to turn on his own "brown shirts"? These dumb bastards won't have a clue when their own downfall comes. There's nothing new under the sun.
The Democrats believe in statism, not liberalism. Recent brands of statism have been Nazism, socialism, fascism, communism, and welfare statism [sort of a mix of fascism and socialism]. Liberalism is a political philosophy of small, cheap government, and the job of a liberal government is to enforce human rights within its own jurisdiction.
I speak of the perfectly-natural and universally-valid human rights of life, liberty, private property, and the pursuit of personal happiness. The first article of private property is "the self" and all other rights are derivatives of and flow from these cardinal rights.
These rights —-The Rights of Man —- are the gift of nature or of nature's god —- and they belong to all human beings, everywhere. Show me a Democrat who subscribes to all of the above, without qualification or weasel words.
The words "liberal" and "liberalism" were hijacked by the Democrats and socialists long ago —- and the mistake of conservatives and libertarians was to let them get away with it. It is long past time that liberalism be reclaimed, defined, and explained by its rightful owners —- by the champions of freedom. Overthrow the Democrats!
This is a great site to see how these organizations are connected and who is connected to them. It was recommneded by Beck one night and I've found it to be very helpful…
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/default.asp
Thank you, thank you. We are slow but we are picking up speed. I recently found similar information at a website dealing with our education system.
And I love this from David Horowitz, "So one rule for conservatives should be this: Don’t be so polite. When progressives propose their progressive solutions, remind them of the hell they have inflicted on the people they claim to want to help — gays, blacks, Hispanics, children. And that’s just for starters."
Where are our Sons of Liberty?
The really great thing about by your response is that I have learned that you are NOT with us. I have learned that your job is to get the rest of us off track. Yeah, I am in a group that has someone just like you in, and this person has friended everyone. We just took this person off the email list.
Do you really think that everyone here can't see through you? WOW! I hope that whatever you get out of this is worth it in the end. You are a sorry pathetic little person.
You are also what I would call a "lying liar".
i beleive americans need to wake up. while we have sat on our hands our right have been taken away. people need to infrom themselfs what our goverment is doing. one of the bigest problems today is there is no acountablity today,we can do or say anything we feel it right. please be carefull in what comes out of our mouths,god bless you and america,better yet america bless god minister lee
Yup…better write shorter articles. That's all you liberal public educated mind can absorb.
and apparently you're reading it, and taking time out from your daily indoctirnation to respond.
Where the hell are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton!!!!!!!! If even a whiff of racism is sensed, they're usually there complete with a crowd for protesting!!! Oh…. wait a minute…. oh yeah…. Gladney's a Conservative…. Never mind.
I get sick of the left constantly bringing up the "torture" debate in war times. It's called war. I have no problem with getting information through interrogation prodicals in order to keep our soldiers, government and people of the USA safe. They started this war on our soil when they hit those towers, pentagon and the PA field. Why do you left care about torture and "waterboarding" but could care less about the millions of unborn that were vicously removed from the womb? What were their rights? I'm willing to listen to the torture debate after the left explains how they care about torture but do not even talk or think about abortions.
Kenneth Gladney was beaten down for standing in the path of Progressives. NEXT…………
[...] from Big Government [...]
Kenneth Gladney was not even protesting. he was selling bobbles outside the meeting when SEIU thugs beat him and called him racist names. Sounds and looks like a "hate crime" organized and executed by the obama administration and SEIU – "RICO" violation. This was not a misdemeanor crime. Way to go Big Government.
Thanks for the great post and for succinctly outlining the thuggish and intimidating strategy which leads directly to the Obama administration.
The left has been using these tactics for decades. Well, I'm not intimidated and I'm not backing down. I'll go toe to toe with these Marxists, and make no mistake about it, they ARE Marxists.
From now on, I will refer to what used to be the Democratic Party by its present incarnation; the Communist Party.
Read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Look up Sturmabteilung and their leader Ernst Roehm.
This is the role of ACORN and SEIU.
I see ACORN and the SEIU as gangs of bloodsuckers — and they are not alone. The Democrat party has spawned many, many such organizations —- and at every level of government. They are cancers which attach themselves to the PRIVATELY-EMPLOYED NON-GOVERNMENT WORKERS. They are what I call PREDATORY HUMANITARIANS — they are only here to help you, but as you are too selfish and ignorant to obey their commands, you'd better watch out or they'll beat your head in. They are OhBummer's Nazi "storm troopers" — they are his Ton Ton Macoutes. They are the reason that the Constitution of the United States has a Second Amendment protecting the right to keep and bear arms. I urge all of OhBummer's intended victims to go to any and all public events and to make themselves heard, and if OhBummer's thugs try to stop you in any way, be sure that everything you do next is rooted in Constitutional principle. I predict that your self-defense will result in the destruction of ACORN and the SEIU.
And ACORN swallows. A perfect match.
where is al sharpton on this one?
bottom line- the president of the United States is at best, a communist sympathizer. he, and the legislature are forcing unconstitutional programs through the system. these people are not stupid – they are aware of what they are doing. this is the first time in history they can accomplish this legislation – "….we must do it now while the stars are aligned…." we are talking about it – they are doing it. by the time the talking is over the bell will be rung. judicial oversight? congressional balance of power? the constitution? the media? time to make a stand.
[...] Big Government » Blog Archive » Anatomy of a Beat-Down Part 1: Why … [...]
It's obvious that the assault was scheduled to happen in St. Louis county because the fix was already in. The prosecutor's office was part of the scheme. Watch and see.
rene, i really liked what you wrote. i believe (sadly) you are right.how can people gave millions of
tax dollars to fund abortions and think nothing about it. where is the love for the children like jesus has? i also liked how you didn't get personal (calling this person names) that doesn't need to be done.very pleasent post ,please may we all stay on our knees and pray for things like this. god bless you and yours ministerlee
Rene, you said exactly what I was thinking. The Left in America is ok with murdering unborn innocents by sticking a spike into their brains but has no problem with throwing water in the faces of the people who planned 911 that may get information to save countless American citizens' lives. INSANITY!
[...] Anatomy of a Beat-Down Part 1: Why Kenneth Gladney Was Beaten, And by Whom [...]
“I want to hear the Representative speak. He’s the one voting on the bill. "
Pathetic. They must believe that the title of representative means they represent the government rather than the people. They must also believe that the representative is supposed to decide for themselves how to vote instead of LISTENING to their constituents.
Funny, it doesn't seem to have fazed them in the least in Missouri. They were cited for some minor infraction after 90 days! The time for turning the other cheek is over, I'm afraid. It's time to stand and deliver for our freedom as a people. We must become strong and forceful or they will run us over, as they are doing now.
God bless (and help) America! But remember, God helps those who help themselves. It's time to stand up.
I have read it and it was a terrible set of circumstances that ended up killing millions in World War I and led to World War II.
But what is the alternative? Do you suggest we lie down and let them run over us without firing a shot? I suggest there are many more of us than there are of them. We need to stand and face them, not kneel before them! If it comes to a counter-revolution, I suggest that some blood may have to be spilled in order to keep our freedom and return our country to something we can be proud to hand over to our children. What will you say when your children and grandchildren ask "What did you do to save the Republic?" I hope my grandchildren won't have to ask because they'll know what I did.
NObama will never be put in a position where you can question him directly.
I would not be so sure that any MSM outlets will finally see the light. These people believe in all this crap and probably are being blackmailed at some level as well.
And remember, the obvious is not always reported as the obvious. After all, what proof is there that Michael Corleone had any hand in the execution of the heads of the five families?
TLH, I am glad to hear you are watching Beck, visiting this site and taking an interest.
From what I understand Gladney was not disrupting anyone, only handing out freebies. But even if he was disruptive, he doesn't deserve to be beat. And there's no question he WAS beat. The question is why it took SO long to get charges pressed against the thugs, even if the charges were very minor. Had this taken place somewhere else it would have been aa hate crime.
I think we DO believe in this country. I do! The difference comes from what we believe this country to be and where it's headed. NObama's actions since election have been drastic and have created a HUGELY negative impact on the people of the USA.
TLH, I hope you continue to vist this site and I hope that other's respect your view, respect your curiosity and we can convince you that the right is right. I do not believe in suppressing anyone's voice even if it is in opposition to mine, because I believe in the GOLDEN RULE….
They won't try it in Va….. Open carry is legal here.
Yep. I still can't get over NOBODY is demanding proof he is a natural born citizen!!!!! What's up with that?
[...] Anatomy of a Beat-down Part 1: Why Kenneth Gladney was Beaten, and by Whom [...]
Coordinated effort.
[...] Read BigGovernment.com [...]
Waterboarding suspected terrorists captured legally on the field of battle is incomparable to being stomped on by union thugs in America for opposing Obama. Moral relativism is the crutch of liberalism. Things just cannot be plucked from reality and compared to make your point. Unless you are saying that politics is war, and in that case, you would lose, since most of you pantywaste, pinkos have never done anything.
[...] we discussed the events leading up to the August 6th health care town hall meeting featuring Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO). The event was hosted by [...]
Bumper-stickers and t-shirts will not intimidate thugs. Thugs are intimidated whey someone stomps the crap out of them in front of their other fascist anti-American comrades. Some of us are just pining for the opportunity to teach the thugs of the American left a HUGE lesson.
…from a former Union Member
Richard… That is exactly why these thugs should be charged with a HATE CRIME!
I'm 6'3" and 215 lbs… I really want to go to a town hall….
As BIGGUY said… You're reading it and responding…
As KRS9864 said… I simply do not agree with the administration. It's my patriotic duty to speak up! Besides our country was founded on standing up, disagreeing with, fighting back…
Maybe you feel patriotic… I don't know. I DO KNOW that WE feel PATRIOTIC!!!!
You know i wondered about that
Armando – I could not agree more with your statement. This cuntry was built on God and Guns!!! Now "we" as a country are so scared that someone will be offended by our actions that we cower before them. The time has come – draw a line in the sand and confront anyone who dares step over it.
it's sad in our society that either side has to resort to political campaigning just to be heard by our representitives.
I am 66 and from the old school and believe in an eye for an eye and a fist in your mouth–and i have a couple of big grandsons to back me up
[...] Anatomy of a Beat Down – Part 1 — Why Kenneth Gladney was Beaten and by Whom [...]
[...] Part 1 of this series we detailed the events leading up to the assault on Kenneth Gladney on August 6th and revealed the [...]
[...] campaign) contributed to the atmosphere outside Congressman Carnahan’s St. Louis townhall. In a three-part series, the folks at Big Government have detailed just who’s behind the efforts to undermine [...]
You go Firehawk. We need more numbers out there. They can't ignore numbers. The showup in DC gave us our biggest push. The media HAS to report those types of turnouts or our own people do via internet and they know it.
[...] a over-paid consultant for, or as a leader of HCAN. As we described in these pages last week, HCAN provided the plan for the August offensive against grass roots protestors who were rallying against the Obama Care legislation. That offensive led to violence and [...]
No – it will take violence – you can't win if you only defend yourself, we need to make these people bleed, then they will think twice about breaking te law.
I TOTALLY agree, these freaks are nothing more than Nazi-commie agitaters of the worst kind. They think they can trample over the rights of others and do as they please. Where in the hell do they think live? It's time to push back, we are AMERICANS and we don't take CRAP from anyone, even others living in this country. To do nothing will amount to cowardice. The fifth column is HERE NOW!!
And I would enjoy being right there next to you. All for one….who in the hell do they think they are? THIS IS AMERICA, not CHINA. We have to start pushing back!!
Ha ha ha ha…well said!!
That's so right Mike, we CANNOT let this go on or our children will live under Facism. How can we tell our children we stood by and did nothing?
And they both BLOW
tlh, get your head out of your a$$ or soon you won't be able to breath. There are numerous videos posted on you tube where you can see for yourself what has happened at other venues, not just this 1. Think for YOURSELF, don't allow the msm or other obamaites think for you.
Right you are Hanzo. Anyone who believes anything less than violence or the VERY real threat of it will have any effect on these thugs hasn't a clue. Like I said on another forum when someone was talking about the 3 SEALs who are being court martialled for supposedly busting a terrorist's lip when they arrested him, you can have the high ground and the pine box that goes with it. I'll get down in the mud because that's where the bacon is. The only place in Phoenix where we have any of this $hit go on is at Ed Pastor's open only to his supporters meetings. The SEIU thugs are all over those things. They don't show their ugly mugs or stupid purple shirts at the Tea Party Rallies. The crowds at the TEA party rallies in Phoenix exercise their second amendment rights. SEIU thugs want to attack and assault weak defenseless people. A crowd of thousands, almost half of whom are veterans, and hundreds of whom are armed keeps the purple shirts away. Even the women attending TEA party rallies in Phoenix are armed. I've heard the same applies to ones in Tucson.
Hate crime my arse. Screw that hate crime BS, we need to lose that entire concept from the vocabulary and treat all crimes the same. A felony aggravated assault is a felony aggravated assault. Using racial epithets doesn't make it any more or less of a crime. It's time we took the children and kindergarten mentality out of the laws of this country. It's not a crime to be offensive and obnoxious. It is a crime when you violently assault someone who hasn't physically attacked you first.
I think the correct response by the right would be a little note mailed in an envelope with no return address. informing them that Pi$$ed off citizens of America know who they are and where they live. You don't have to threaten violence, let their imagination do the work. Maybe write the note on a photo of them taken from the street. They won't be so anxious to do another beat down, and neither will their fellow SEIU members. It's called Psyops and works. Force them to change their routine, maybe move (they should have fun selling their homes in this market), who knows how they'll respond to the stress of thinking they're being watched. They have violent tendencies, it shouldn't take much to get them to assault someone again. I'd bet you'd find them in a bar on any given Friday night. Throw in a few too many drinks, and the extra stress, and you've got the perfect mix to get one of them to do something incredibly stupid that the DA won't be able to let them slide on. The court proceedings are all public record, so they've got the addresses for the offenders.
Gee I would guess that the conservatives are reading the full articles. Is the problem that it is a bit too long and the words too hard for your liberal brain to comprehend?
They only do $hit like this at Ed Pastor's invitation only town hall meetings. The SEIU crowd won't show their ugly purple shirts anywhere near a TEA party rally. They couldn't out number the TEA Party rally crowds and the crowds are generally very well armed. Besides open carry, AZ has shall issue for concealed carry permits. That means as long as you aren't a felon, or have had your rights restored if you have been a felon, your permit is automatically approved. It keeps the SEIU thugs in line when even the women are carrying openly.
It has been a week. Still nothing.
Brown shirts (operatives that use violence) are very effective against regular folk. Just ask Hitler. 1 or 2 Brown Shirts can completely shut down hundreds of peaceful people. You don't usually need to use violence though. You just tell people "vote for the other party if you want change" and they do it. Even though both sides are for big Communist Central Planning, they think their vote matters. idiots.
[...] Links to the four-part investigative series: http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/30/anatomy-of-a-beat-down-part-1-why-kenneth-gladney-was-beaten-and... [...]
[...] finds himself unemployed just as the holidays are upon us. Yes, Keith Gladney is the brother of Kenneth Gladney, the man who was assaulted by leaders of the St. Louis SEIU outside of Rep. Russ Carnahan’s Town [...]
[...] finds himself unemployed just as the holidays are upon us. Yes, Keith Gladney is the brother of Kenneth Gladney, the man who was assaulted by leaders of the St. Louis SEIU outside of Rep. Russ Carnahan’s Town [...]
[...] finds himself unemployed just as the holidays are upon us. Yes, Keith Gladney is the brother of Kenneth Gladney, the man who was assaulted by leaders of the St. Louis SEIU outside of Rep. Russ Carnahan’s Town [...]
[...] finds himself unemployed just as the holidays are upon us. Yes, Keith Gladney is the brother of Kenneth Gladney, the man who was assaulted by leaders of the St. Louis SEIU outside of Rep. Russ Carnahan’s Town [...]