Hennessy is off in fantasy land:
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 one retaliated against the union thugs.
This attack followed hours of taunts and verbal assaults by SEIU and ACORN members upon citizens gathered to express their views under the First Amendment. We believe this brutal beating is part of an organized plan to suppress dissent to the Administration’s planned seizure of the medical industry in the United States.
Anyone who believes in non-violent protest, in the rule of law, in the right of black men and women to express conservative political views, in the right to peaceably assemble, to speak freely, and to petition Congress for a redress of grievances is invited to attend.
The Tea Party specifically requests the NAACP and the ACLU to come out in support of Kenneth Gladney’s rights which were trampled by these hooligans. We call on Representative Russ Carnahan to denounce the beating. We call on President Obama to denounce the beatings. We call on St. Louis County to prosecute the assailants to fullest extent of the law.
The video only starts at the end of the incident so it’s unclear what started it. At best what you have is two guys attacking a third guy.
That’s bad and if true the two guys will be prosecuted which is the right answer.
Hours of taunts and verbal assualts by SEIU and ACORN? Not so much. As you can somewhat see, most of the pro-reform folks outside were in a circle chanting and singing while being taunted, insulted, and challenged in their personal space for the entire evening. Volunteers trying to reenter the building were grabbed and pushed. A reporter had some crazy woman following her around trying to block the reporter from taking pictures because the woman was mad the reporter had been inside at one point.
I’m trying to clean up some video of when a Central Reform Rabbi was trying to engage in dialogue and had his seven year old son with him, two clowns started yelling at him and calling him a “Socialist Bastard.” When he pointed out his son was there, they said, what do you expect, that’s your fault for bringing him there.
The event was at a Middle School.
Hennessy and his clowns can try and play the victims here, but let’s be very clear, they aren’t there for discussion or dialogue–the y are there to be disruptive. They are angry bitter people and that’s really quite sad, but it also doesn’t excuse them from basic standards of decency.
[...] of Blog Saint Louis, however, feel the anti-reform forces were the real aggressors: The video only starts at the end of the incident so it’s unclear what started it. At best what [...]
You see what I see. I think most of the bloggers writing about this are basing what they say on what Mr. Gladney has been saying. There is no video of him being roughed up. There is plenty of video showing the SEIU guys down on the ground being beaten.
Don,
I really don’t know what happened so I’m okay with waiting for everyone to figure out exactly what happened.
Hennessy implies this was a racial incident; “(t)he beatings included racial slurs,” he says. That’s really sleazy. There black guys on both sides of the incident. He must know many readers, if not most, won’t bother to get all the facts before making a judgment.
So when conservatives protest they are ‘clowns’, but when liberals protest they are just exercising their rights as Americans? I guess as long as they share your viewpoint they aren’t ‘angry bitter people.’
Can you read? Did you not read the discussion of behavior above?