New video from St. Louis town hall beating
posted at 3:56 pm on August 8, 2009 by Patrick Ishmael
The hits just keep on comin’. Literally.
I’ll pass along the details of who the camerawoman was, who her batterer was, and what has happened since when I get them. In the meantime, Jim Hoft and others are covering the protest held in support of Kenneth Gladney outside the SEIU office.
As the image below suggests, you can bet on it: this is not over. Click the photo for more of Josh Schroeder’s Gladney rally photos.
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Obama’s Change. Governance by intimidation.
pat on August 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Try that crap in Texas.
Johan Klaus on August 8, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Bolsheviks.
Pelayo on August 8, 2009 at 4:04 PM
It’ll get worse. This behavior comes straight from the top. Trickle down douchebaggery…
Ozprey on August 8, 2009 at 4:07 PM
The SEIU has plenty of money so I hope Mr. Gladney and his lawyer go after all of it. They must be held accountable for their tactics by their member thugs.
larvcom on August 8, 2009 at 4:07 PM
I,m sure seiu loves it when a plan comes toghter…
twiggman on August 8, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Tyrany can only prosper in this country, if the Normal Citizen is intimidated into not speaking their opinion.
The Government, through its spokesmen, is inciting violence, in order to intimidate.
Connect the dots.
Romeo13 on August 8, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Disgusting bastards. Keep it up, more and more people are beginning to awaken from their haze.
darwin on August 8, 2009 at 4:07 PM
I think PJTV should hire Kenneth Gladney to do a vid called “Garofalo and Me”.
mad saint jack on August 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Ozprey on August 8, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Yeah, but unfortunately for the guy at the top people are beginning to connect the dots.
darwin on August 8, 2009 at 4:09 PM
I guess beating down a black man is Ok now.
Paging Reverend Jackson.
Hello…Henry Louis Gates…are you home?
I wonder if Mr. Gladney will get a beer summit of his own at the White House because I heard they were interested in protecting the rights of minorities or something.
What a difference a (D) makes.
If a union thug beats a black man and nobody marches…did it make a sound?
NeoKong on August 8, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Someone will put her name to the Whitehouse.org enemies list…
ChrisB on August 8, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Hooligans .
the_nile on August 8, 2009 at 4:11 PM
I think its time for the constituents to bring triplicate copies of resignation letters to offices of representatives who are supporting this administration…
phreshone on August 8, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Got bad news for you. Remember, the St. Louis city Attorney and the County District Atty are the ones who formed the Obama truth squads to intimidate anyone who disagreed with Obama last fall.
If you expect them to file criminal charges and prosecute with out a wink and a not, don’t hold your breath.
Blake on August 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM
agreed, fortunately for us indeed. I was a little worried there for a bit. It’s becoming pretty clear now though that the train is beginning to derail.
Ozprey on August 8, 2009 at 4:13 PM
What is happening now, with full support of Barry Obama and the Democratic party, is nothing short of the most disgusting display of state-sponsored tyranny in this nation’s history.
The call goes out to every TRUE American to stand up to Obama’s Brownshirts. The state-sponsored media will follow the party line like the lemmings that they are…
Forget November 2008…THIS is the time to save the United States of America once and for all. War has been declared by Barry Hussein Obama and his gang of thugs.
You want a fight, Barry? You just might get it…
WhatDukeSaid on August 8, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Spare the beating, spoil the uppity peasant.
Luka on August 8, 2009 at 4:14 PM
I promise to do my best to avoid buying union from now on.
jgapinoy on August 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM
wink and a nod
Blake on August 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM
There’s a certain point this is going to reach no matter what. Let’s go through a three more years of this and let’s say, let’s just say, Obama loses in 2012. Do you see any way under the sun there won’t be violence for some time after?
CC
CapedConservative on August 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Maybe the book Hugo Chavez gave to Obama showed him how to bypass democracy to become dictator. Looks like its right out of Chavez or Ahmadinajad’s playbook. Thuggery.
Christian Conservative on August 8, 2009 at 4:16 PM
What he said.
Proud Texan on August 8, 2009 at 4:17 PM
From Wikipedia;
That explains a lot.
Neo-socialists from Chicago.
jgapinoy on August 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Or anything made by GE… or Progressive Insurance… or anything advertised on NBC, MSNBC, CNBS… or (you get the idea). Using your wallet to vote every day, and making sure the retailer knows, will be the best way to solve this.
CC
CapedConservative on August 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Time to lawyer up, sue the SEIU.
joeindc44 on August 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Can you spell incitement?
joeindc44 on August 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM
I’m normally a pretty mellow dude…
But the more I see of this kind of crud, the more my blood boils.
JetBoy on August 8, 2009 at 4:21 PM
All I know is the Obama Brown Shirts are quite happy beating the people who say the people are not happy.
Tuco on August 8, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Mark Levin may help in this. He mentioned on his show ( I believe it was before this happened) that people were to send him any video of violence and his Landmark Legal Foundation would jump in.
He’s pissed!
katy on August 8, 2009 at 4:22 PM
“Did you just hit me?!?!” I wouldn’t have asked. That lady would’ve been eating some of her teeth. Self-defense. It’s on the tape.
SouthernGent on August 8, 2009 at 4:24 PM
I like how people using violence and other measures to try to shut us up call us the Nazis.
You can’t get more ignorant than that. One more reason to un-f$%& our education system too.
El Guapo on August 8, 2009 at 4:25 PM
“Did you just hit me?!?!” I wouldn’t have asked. That lady would’ve been eating some of her teeth. Self-defense. It’s on the tape.
SouthernGent on August 8, 2009 at 4:24 PM
I’m with you.
txag92 on August 8, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Chilling. Someone is going to lose his/her life eventually at one of these.
jennifernaz on August 8, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Those emtpy NAACP and ACLU chairs…simply brilliant.
SouthernGent on August 8, 2009 at 4:28 PM
This whole thing was an entirely avoidable political disaster for the Democrats. I thought is was a huge mistake to call normal local citizens “phonies” and radicals, but actually calling in uniformed union goons just won’t stand.
forest on August 8, 2009 at 4:28 PM
jennifernaz,
Sadly the Democrats have put us on that very path.
rob verdi on August 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM
“Straight from the top” means Chief Thug Rahm Emmanuel.
Every time I see these SEIU thugs pushing people around, I see them getting their marching orders straight from Emmanuel himself, being the classic street punk thug that he is.
pilamaye on August 8, 2009 at 4:30 PM
You might be right. The Great Unifier has turned out to be the most polarizing politician I can remember.
forest on August 8, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Soon, California will be releasing lots of their state prison inmates, to help cut the budget, so the pro-Obamacare folks will have plenty of replacement free-speech management technicians to choose from. Experts.
RBMN on August 8, 2009 at 4:31 PM
:::Shaking head::::: I am still stunned.
Noelie on August 8, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Okay folks.
We need to have a serious rundown of everything the SEIU is involved with in the US. I don’t know nor care what it is but I want the names–are they hotels, food chains, bricklayers, whatever–we need to get the names and ask everyone of those businesses if they condone what has just happened.
SEIU needs a taste of freedom and liberty.
ted c on August 8, 2009 at 4:31 PM
I am going to laugh if these mal-educated union goons show up here in Atlanta at our Town Hall scheduled for the 15th.
Should be a hoot.
Dave R. on August 8, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Rahm works for Obama, so he’s the top, not his lackey, Rahm.
FloatingRock on August 8, 2009 at 4:35 PM
There is an extraordinary lesson in this confrontation. The racist question the SEIU thug asked Mr. Gladney was, “What kind of n…..r are you?” Then proceeded to scuff him up.
This is basically the same question that Mr. Harry Alford was asked by “Call me Senator I think I’ve earned it” Barbara Boxer (D-CA) as well as by Justice Clarence Thomas and many other blacks who happen to be conservatives. This is essentially the question that racist Dems as well as blacks use against other blacks when they fall “out of line” such as Mr. Gladney was apparently doing by selling “Don’t Tread on Me” stuff.
As for Mr. Gladney’s answer, well it was emblazoned on the flags and pins he was trying to sell–”Don’t Tread On Me”–the same point all of the other Patriots at that townhall meeting were trying to make.
The thugs who used a racist slur against Mr. Ken Gladney in St. Louis ought to be tried for a hate crime as well as assault. The “organizers” who sent them there ought to be coconspirators to commit assault and infringe upon someone’s freedom of speech. They should be pursued, tried and imprisoned. Blacks everywhere ought to be shown this story and see this telling, revealing question by one black man to another for exactly what it is—control.
So, what we have on the 6th of August is the nation’s first black president, unsheathing the sword of state against citizens, and a black man violates the rights of another black man…. Now THIS, is a teachable moment.
ted c on August 8, 2009 at 4:36 PM
I have no words to express how outraged these LIBS and Union Thugs make me feel. If they think this will make us regular Americans shut up and go away they are wrong!
lanesmerge on August 8, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Similarly, Chavez is the top in Venezuela, so he is responsible for the thuggery there rather than his underling(s) that direct the violence for him.
FloatingRock on August 8, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Two words for those who are being intimidated, crowded:
Shin stomp.
Hurts like hell. And almost impossible for anyone other than you and your attacker to notice.
guntotinglibertarian on August 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Remember Gladney.
TXUS on August 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM
“Who’s the angry mob?”
“You are, bitch!”
Jim Treacher on August 8, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Good work, Patrick! Keep ‘em coming.
Let us not back down to their bullying. Rather, be strengthened by it.
petefrt on August 8, 2009 at 4:40 PM
keep the cameras out there people. They will show who is truelly starting this crap. I guarantee any situation will be blamed on the “right wing mobs” unless there is video refuting that.
I can’t decide if these guys are:
1-douchebagsjust being douchebags.
2-Trying to intimidate opposition opinion into shutting up
or
3-trying to just start a riot so democrats and the media can finally run wild “mob” meme and perhaps instill a little marshal law at these meetings.
It’s probably a combo of more than one of those. I guess #1 is a given.
What the PHUCK is up with our media?!?!?!? I have a very low opinion of the media but even I’m shocked at how they are covering this story. Have they finally over played their cards? I wish I could think that way. I’m worried they will get away with it once agaim
Ampersand on August 8, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Absolutely disgraceful.
Terrye on August 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM
So the African-American Harvard professor, who was inconvenienced by the police (and if you prefer to insert a different word for it, go ahead) was invited to the White House by Dear Leader for a beer.
But the African-American who is unemployed and who was beaten by SEIU thugs gets–silence from the ACLU, NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Dear Leader, etc. etc.
OK, I get it.
labwriter on August 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM
How come union thugs are always so ugly? And the women…yikes.
katy on August 8, 2009 at 4:44 PM
So which media member will ask Sibelius why she advocates violence?
misslizzi on August 8, 2009 at 4:44 PM
…….(crickets)…….
Ozprey on August 8, 2009 at 4:45 PM
This is not going to have a happy ending.
Obama has severely miscalculated by sending these thugs to combat everyday Americans.
It’s just too bad this will never be on the network news, except by showing concerned citizens only in the worst possible light.
fogw on August 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM
The SEIU wants to unionize Bank of America…
http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/10001407/seiu-targets-banks-for-union-push/
What a great idea! (Do I really need a /sarc tag?)
UnderstandingisPower on August 8, 2009 at 4:47 PM
I am, however, wondering how long it’s going to take the filthy bastards at 1600 to Joe-the-Plumber Mr. Gladney.
For the over-under, I’m bettin 48 hours. Any takers?
TXUS on August 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM
This really scares me. I feel like we’re living in Animal Farm and it’s too late.
Simona on August 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Wow. Chicago Thug Politics. News Flash to SEIU Brown Shirt thugs, our side will win. Guaranteed.
Zorro on August 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Not only will Obama fail to be re-elected, he may very well lose the democratic nomination to Hillary. Nancy Pelosi and the far left fringe in the House have all but guaranteed a bigtime drubbing in 2010 and make Obama’s battle for re-election more challenging (if that’s even possible).
We are witnessing a political implosion unprecedented in our lifetimes.
Going down as the worst president in better than 100 years will be tough to swallow for an unaccomplished, inexperienced, chicago thug community organizer. He’ll only be 51 when he loses re-election. The self-absorbed, celebrity seeking failure of a president will have many years to endure the ridicule and disdain Carter experienced following his disastrous presidency.
jdflorida on August 8, 2009 at 4:49 PM
I just bought a video recorder today. I put it on my plastic. Did I want to? Hell no, I would prefer not to spend a damn dime in Obama’s ecnonomy. But I did it anyway, and I’ll take it to every event I can get to.
Tuesday is Claire McCaskill’s “listening” event in Hillsboro, MO. The one near St. Louis on the same day was cancelled because someone at the venue was afraid of violence or something. It was a school. For the love of God. So fine, I’ll drive a couple of hours instead of 20 minutes to watch Claire “listen.” and I’ll take my video recorder.
Do I have things I’d rather do with my time? Damn straight I do. But if we let Thug-in-Chief Obama destroy our country, then someday my grandchildren and all our grandchildren will say, “Why didn’t you do something?”
labwriter on August 8, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Some uppity peasants are going to have the Brown Shirts after them!
Lawrence Talbot on August 8, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Can you imagine your union, if you belong to one, calling you out to some place to beat up and intimidate people? Its’ so silly. Who still does that crap in this day and age.
I have a friend who is contracted to defend Teamsters in criminal cases. I suspect the SEIU thugs have similar coverage. They probably all have records. And I bet they get paid to appear at these places, too.
Blake on August 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Lesson: When you go anywhere near anything political, always take your camera. Document everything.
petefrt on August 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM
The Left has one opportunity: denounce this thuggishness, step away from authoritarianism, and end this insanity of trying to push stuff on the American people.
The ones doing the punching, the intimidating, the violence is not the Right, not conservatives, nor the center.
Civil debate requires civility.
Remember that the American people are better armed than any other people on this planet. If this goes to the Purple Shirted Left killing someone, then defending your right to be civil becomes operative and paramount. That is what being a citizen is all about… not becoming a subject.
ajacksonian on August 8, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Josh is a hero!
I getting a Don’t Tread on Me Flag for my porch and a little one to put on my Jeep!
JellyToast on August 8, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Way to go, labwriter!
petefrt on August 8, 2009 at 4:53 PM
People are on to Obama and his gang of Marxists. More and more people are suddenly shocked to realize who and what he really is.
Don’t worry, we’ll take the country back.
darwin on August 8, 2009 at 4:53 PM
It could be Animal Farm or 1984 or The Twilight Zone or Alice in Wonderland or Soylent Green. It has many traits and characteristics of all so it could very possibly be some combined mutant hybrid.
Luka on August 8, 2009 at 4:54 PM
I hate Illinois Neo-socialists.
James on August 8, 2009 at 4:55 PM
And, the good news is… You won’t be alone.
TXUS on August 8, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Katy: Why are union thugs so ugly? They are filled with hate, selfishness, and covetousness. Those kinds of emotions make one ugly.
Driefromseattle on August 8, 2009 at 4:56 PM
That’s too funny. Somebody from a Labor Union calling anybody a Punk. Unions are made-up of punks and weak people afraid of the Organized Criminals who run them. The lady with the camera had every right, according to Hussein Obama, to strike back twice as hard. The political left in this country parallels the Nazi Party more than any other group in American history. Let Operation Valkyrie begin.
ronnyraygun on August 8, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Those of us who are against Obama and the union thugs need to prepared to answer the following questions from the original 3:15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWnxlFbYjVY&feature=player_embedded video:
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1) Why is a union thug (black man, purple shirt) already on the ground in the original video even before we see Gladney getting thrown down? This same man was later seen walking around holding his left shoulder like he was in pain. The conservative later says that the black unionist “attacked me”. Did Gladney knock him to the ground while defending himself?
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2) Why does the original video show Gladney walking around seemingly not in pain and without a limp, but later we hear he went to the hospital with mulitple injuries and today he even show up in a wheelchair with his left knee bandaged?
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3) When confronted by a white man saying “You attacked that guy for nuttin”, the union thug (white man, purple shirt) first says “He hit (unintellible)”. Later he says “He attacked America”.
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4) What happpenned immediately prior to the video starting?
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Our opponents will surely ask these questions. Let’s have some explanations ready.
ksm on August 8, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Buzz words and phrases for the day …
Palinsky trumps Alinsky!
and
Neo-Socialist
Use often!
darwin on August 8, 2009 at 4:57 PM
This is Dick Gephardt old district. One of the most Democratic districts in the St. Louis area. I wonder how many of the union people even live in the district?
For St. Louis this is really out there. Most of the time people could give a crap about any of this. Amazing.
This is a town that never burnt itself down like other cites.
Mr. Paul on August 8, 2009 at 4:57 PM
A black man gets called a racist name and is physically attacked. Isn’t this where DOJ is supposed to step in and file Federal hate crime charges?
entropent on August 8, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Can you imagine the national uproar if a white conservative went to an anti-war rally 5 years ago and assulated a black man selling peace flags at the rally and then someone assaulted a women who was filming the disgusting acts? Whoever did that would be crucified by the media and the ACLU would demand they be sent to prison.
Has anyone seen a report about this anywhere other then “tempers flair at St. Louis town hall”?
cadams on August 8, 2009 at 4:57 PM
I was at this rally in the St. Louis heat today at noon. My son observed four young men who had shown up for a “counter-rally.” He overheard them bemoaning the fact that they were the only ones who showed up. The protest against SEIU being sent out to shut people up and was held outside the SEIU offices in St. Louis. We could see people peeking through the blinds on the second floor. No purple SEIU shirts showed up. The cops had easy duty, covering a rally of conservatives who ended the day with a prayer and “God Bless America.”
labwriter on August 8, 2009 at 4:58 PM
L – Lying
I – Intimidating
B – Bullying
E – Escalating
R – Repulsing
A – American
L – Left
OneConservative on August 8, 2009 at 4:58 PM
SEIU: Sadistics, Egomaniacs, and Initmidators Union.
boomer on August 8, 2009 at 4:58 PM
As racist as it might sound, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the other way around.
/s
TinMan13 on August 8, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Lawrence Talbot on August 8, 2009 at 4:49 PM
“Uppity Peasant”–I love that! Put it on a t-shirt and I’ll buy that.
NebCon on August 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Where do we contribute to a legal fund for suing the animals? Take the fight to them.
Security Mom on August 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM
I hope you’re right, but these tactics worked for Chavez, and it has worked at other times and places in history. I think Chavez faced more opposition from the Venezuelan press, too, but his thugs proved more persuasive.
I only mention this because if Obama continues down this path he’s already started on, we may have to respond sooner and more persuasively than Chavez’s opponents in Venezuela did.
FloatingRock on August 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM
I particularly liked the one where Burgess Meredith was no longer of use to The State, and so was sentenced to death.
Ozprey on August 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Sorry. That’s too inflammatory for Allahpundit and his herd of RINOS.
Blake on August 8, 2009 at 5:02 PM
I hope this isn’t against the rules of HotAir. I don’t mean to be selling something on this site–I have no connections to these people. But I bought a Gadsden flag from them and they were SO NICE.
Anyway, even if you don’t buy anything from them, it’s a good informational site.
http://www.gadsdenandculpeper.com/
labwriter on August 8, 2009 at 5:02 PM
This really scares me. I feel like we’re living in Animal Farm and it’s too late.
Simona on August 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM
bill30097 on August 8, 2009 at 5:04 PM
I want to know where these thugs are from, what their names are, who they work for, who pays them, who gives them their marching orders and all the damn details. I want to know who prints their shirts and all of it. This is not going to stand.
ted c on August 8, 2009 at 5:05 PM
They are making a grave mistake.
Now, due to “early voting” I am wondering how many SEIU locals will require members to submit mail-in ballots for “review” before being mailed in the next election.
crosspatch on August 8, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Video cameras, digital voice recorders, a lawyer or two, courage, prayer, Psalm 91: things to take with you to a townhall or tea party.
I gotta ask this rhetorical question: Do you think any of these fools realize that they are SERIOUSLY outnumbered? I don’t think they do. It may be that these thugs feel that they can force their opinions on us by sheer threat of bodily harm or worse. Well, folks. I’ve been in pain before. It isn’t fun but it is survivable. As far as the “worse”? I have had to consider my own mortality as well. I know where I’m going when I die. As far as the woman I was before I took Jesus as my Savior, she is already dead. You can’t really kill a dead woman.
Driefromseattle on August 8, 2009 at 5:06 PM
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