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SEIU Roughs-Up Healthcare Protester: Kenneth Gladney Interview (Video of incident)
FoxNews.com ^ | 8/7/2009

Posted on 08/07/2009 9:23:20 PM PDT by GVnana

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

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Gladney said he was giving out the “Don’t Tread on Me” flags when someone walked up to him and asked, “Who in the &%* is selling this @&%! here?”

Gladney said he asked him if he wanted one of his flags, and the man (who was also black) asked Gladney, “What kind of n_____ are you to be giving out this kind of stuff?”

Gladney said he snatched a board of political buttons from him, Gladney grabbed it back from him and according to Gladney that is when the union thug hit him in the face. Then another union thug came up and started hitting Gladney in the face. At this point, Gladney fell down and then someone else started hitting him in the face and kicking him while he was on the ground.

David Brown, Gladney’s lawyer, released this statement earlier today:

Kenneth was attacked on the evening of August 6, 2009 at Rep. Russ Carnahan’s town hall meeting in South St. Louis County. I was at the town hall meeting as well and witnessed the events leading up to the attack of Kenneth. Kenneth was approached by an SEIU representative as Kenneth was handing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags to other conservatives. The SEIU representative demanded to know why a black man was handing out these flags. The SEIU member used a racial slur against Kenneth, then punched him in the face. Kenneth fell to the ground. Another SEIU member yelled racial epithets at Kenneth as he kicked him in the head and back. Kenneth was also brutally attacked by one other male SEIU member and an unidentified woman. The three men were clearly SEIU members, as they were wearing T-shirts with the SEIU logo.

Kenneth was beaten badly. One assailant fled on foot; three others were arrested. Kenneth was admitted to St. John’s Mercy Medical Center emergency room, where he was treated for his numerous injuries. Kenneth was merely expressing his freedom of speech by handing out the flags. In fact, he merely asked people as they exited the town hall meeting whether they would like a flag. He in no way provoked any argument or altercation, as evidenced by the fact that three assailants were arrested.

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/08/interview-with-kenneth-gladney-man-assaulted-by-union-thugs-at-town-hall/

JUSTICE FOR KENNETH GLADNEY.

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1 posted on 08/07/2009 9:23:20 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: GVnana
One assailant fled on foot; three others were arrested

Anybody know how we can keep track of what happens to these Union-Democrats?

2 posted on 08/07/2009 9:25:11 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: Jeff Head

A couple of ideas for signs:

Amendment:
1st or 2nd
Choice is yours.

JUSTICE FOR KENNETH GLADNEY!


3 posted on 08/07/2009 9:27:40 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: GVnana
Abject evil is amongst us. It has been festering for decades and is now rapidly advancing. The American people are awakening to it as a result of the health care plan, the stimulus, the bail-outs, and the coming Cap & Trade and are angry...and tired of being the patsy for all of these marxistic, socailistic, destructive, initiative robbing, liberty destroying, un- American, and unconstituional actions of the DNC, Dems, left, MSM, and RINOs.

Something is going to give, and so help me God, it will not be the liberty, constitution, and way of life my forefathers sacrificed their life's blood for.

The liberal-left and Obama seem intent on turning the frustration and angst of the American people over his policies into something more akin to Iran over this issue, with their own Basij thugs sent out to silence us, and Obama supporters called on by the Whitehouse to report any dissent. But that will not work here. It will backfire on them and ultimately they will be held accountable. We are not only aware of our rights and the sacrifices that have vouchsafed them for us, but we are also unwilling to submit to thugery and tyranny, and will use all means to prevent it and stop it.

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4 posted on 08/07/2009 9:31:29 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: GVnana

Guess this is what Obama meant when he said. . “get in their faces.”


5 posted on 08/07/2009 9:33:51 PM PDT by vekzen
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To: hoosiermama

Justice for Kenneth-
NO JUSTICE NO PEACE


6 posted on 08/07/2009 9:35:25 PM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan (I AM JIM THOMPSON! I'm so faking mad, I could manufacture scream.)
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To: GVnana

I guess they took Obama literally and punched harder and many times. Can Gladney add him to a lawsuit or is he covered while president?


7 posted on 08/07/2009 9:36:42 PM PDT by swheats (Time is the greatest equalizer. This isn't a Godless society yet. Be fruitful and multiply.)
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To: All
Headline?

President Obama to have another get-together
Health Care Protester, SEIU member invited to White House
No beer. Obama asks conservative black man to bring Oreo cookies.

8 posted on 08/07/2009 9:38:40 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: GVnana

"well, pack up da plane Weezy,we're heading out of town. ..don't need more questions now...especially with me tellin people to get in peoples faces"

9 posted on 08/07/2009 9:40:49 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: GVnana
I'll put my NRA membership up against their SEIU membership any day. They will respect my first amendment rights or my second amendment right. The choice is up to them.
10 posted on 08/07/2009 9:41:03 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: VeniVidiVici

Their website makes you put in an email and even makes you volunteer a few other emails to get into the main site—which is full of Obaminoid insanity.

http://www.seiu.org


11 posted on 08/07/2009 9:46:27 PM PDT by farmer18th (If you preach "too big to let fail," you're also preaching "too small to let succeed.")
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To: swheats

Paula Jones filed a civil suit against Clinton, didn’t she? I believe Bill paid her around $700k to make it go away.

Gladney should name Obama as a conspirator in a suit against the SEIU.


12 posted on 08/07/2009 9:51:29 PM PDT by Carling (Gatesgate: Obama's Waterloo)
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To: vekzen
Guess this is what Obama meant when he said. . “get in their faces.”

“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.”Herbert Hoover quotes

 “Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion”  Richard John Neuhaus quotes

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. Roger Nash Baldwin

“This is not activism. This is a group of lawless thugs attacking innocent men, women and children.” Christopher Christie

“Money and Corruption Are ruining the land Crooked politicians Betray the working man, Pocketing the profits And treating us like sheep, And we're tired of hearing promises That we know they'll never keep” Ray Davies quotes

13 posted on 08/07/2009 9:54:18 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: farmer18th

I bet it’s full of Obama insanity.

The IAW has been mistakenly sending their magazine to me for 10 years. It is really amazing what hardcore communists these union leaders are.

And the funniest part is they spend most of their time flying around the country in “meetings” then report on the “meetings” in the magazine. I always wonder if anyone in the rank-and-file reads the rag and wonders if these prima donnas are actually doing anything productive!


14 posted on 08/07/2009 9:54:34 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: GVnana
Hate Crime

Felony hate crime against a minority memeber of a political group, add mandatory 10 years no early release. Motive being to terrorize that group

15 posted on 08/07/2009 9:56:49 PM PDT by KTM rider ( ..........tell me this really isn't happening ! !)
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To: Carling

You’re right. I forgot about that.


16 posted on 08/07/2009 9:58:45 PM PDT by swheats (Time is the greatest equalizer. This isn't a Godless society yet. Be fruitful and multiply.)
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To: Doogle

LOL so he takes the family on vacation again. We’ll have to see how he uses the family going forward when he’s done messed up again. Pattern and practice or something like that.


17 posted on 08/07/2009 10:00:58 PM PDT by swheats (Time is the greatest equalizer. This isn't a Godless society yet. Be fruitful and multiply.)
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To: GVnana

F U B H O !


18 posted on 08/07/2009 10:01:03 PM PDT by unkus
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To: GVnana
SEIU is run by leftist socialist thugs. It's a problem in a lot of unions.

I was not only a union member while working for the City of San Francisco, I became an high-up officer of a local of AFL/CIO, getting involved to make sure they were taking care of employee's concerns. The leftists wanted to divert funds to protest marches for some liberal cause, having nothing to do with the employees. They would always try to back SEIU causes (SEIU is the largest City union in SF). They wanted members to take part in protest marches and other causes. I would always get up in their face, give a counter-argument and call for a vote. Usually, I won.

The leftist activists hated me. But I said they should be concerned with protecting employees' grievances about mistreatment, unfair practices, and arbitration on wages. That's what the dues are for, not to pay for some socialist leftist cause. One time, I got very vocal with the law staff of the local and threatened to call for a vote from the City employees to split from AFL/CIO and to form a more conservative union. The law staff then backed me, and killed any further open support for socialist protests.

You see, there are conservative employees. They're just not as rabid as the leftists. A lot of leftists roost in the union halls. Conservatives need to get active and in the face of leftists, and we can make them back down (I did get other conservatives to get active in union affairs). People couldn't understand me as a conservative being a union officer, but they were taking my dues and I wanted to make sure my money was well spent.

19 posted on 08/07/2009 10:04:53 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Doogle

IS Weezy from NOLA?


20 posted on 08/07/2009 10:09:47 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: GVnana

Leftist thugs beating up ordinary citizens. Sounds like the ‘20s Soviet Union.


21 posted on 08/07/2009 10:16:16 PM PDT by Judges Gone Wild (Who is this uncircumcised, to oppose the armies of The Living God?)
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To: MamaDearest

Rush played today some of jeramiah write’s racial slurs. Right on the money!!!


22 posted on 08/07/2009 10:18:35 PM PDT by danamco
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To: roadcat

They ran Eastern Airline out of business, and maybe Pan-Am as well!!!


23 posted on 08/07/2009 10:22:23 PM PDT by danamco
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To: Carling
Gladney should name Obama as a conspirator in a suit against the SEIU.

Forget conspirator. He's the mastermind, the instigator. He AUTHORIZED the use of violence when he said "Punch back twice as hard." You don't use language like that unless you mean it to be taken literally by the goons he was addressing.

24 posted on 08/07/2009 10:30:09 PM PDT by giotto
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To: vekzen

Yep, they intend to bring guns to a knife fight.

Because thats what Obama TOLD em to do!
Can you BELIEVE THIS???????????

Its ASTOUNDING, the President of the United States is SUPPORTING average people ATTACKING and Beating others into submission!

This is WORSE than Abu Grihab! That guy didn’t get PANTIES put on his head, he got BEAT!!! In the UNITED STATES for handing out FLAGS!!!!!!!!!!!!

W
T
F
?

Be prepared people!


25 posted on 08/07/2009 10:46:30 PM PDT by Danae (- Conservative does not equal Republican. Conservative does not compromise.)
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To: Natural Law

I left a message in their Public relations department, stop repressing 1st Amendment Rights or they were gonna come up against the Second right quick!


26 posted on 08/07/2009 10:47:49 PM PDT by Danae (- Conservative does not equal Republican. Conservative does not compromise.)
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To: Carling

Your post,.... “Gladney should name Obama as a conspirator in a suit against the SEIU.”
Now you’re talkin’ Go after Zero and Sebelius for language meant to incite violence. Go for big bucks against these thugs, and yes, I include the metrosexual Zero as a thug.
In my 74 years, I have never seen more contempt for the American people than shown by those in power today. Make no mistake about it......they want only total power and total control.


27 posted on 08/07/2009 10:50:06 PM PDT by Islander2
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To: giotto
It's probably why the good Lord invented pepper spray.

So that when an SEIU thug tries to illegally rough you up at a "Town Hall" meeting with your about-to-be-voted-out-on-his-ass Congressional Scumbag, you can blast the union thug in the eyes with the pepper spray right before you mule-kick him twice, real hard, right in the testicals in self defense.

Sounds like a plan to me. To paraphrase Obama's "fisting" partner, David Assh*lerod, if we get punched, we kick them back in the testicals twice and hard (after we blast 'em in both eyes with our pepper spray).

:-)

28 posted on 08/07/2009 10:51:48 PM PDT by Gargantua ("Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people..." John Adams)
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To: GVnana

Wheres the “Justice Brothers”, Al and Jesse? OH WAIT! Nevermind...


29 posted on 08/07/2009 10:55:24 PM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: GVnana
Gladney has one heck of a law suit here. He was the victim of an intentional tort and the unions have deep pockets. I'd name the perp and the unions they work for and the political action committees. There is money to be made off these violent lefties. Fire up the Lawyers!!!!!!!!!!
30 posted on 08/07/2009 11:01:00 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Natural Law
I'll put my NRA membership up against their SEIU membership any day. They will respect my first amendment rights or my second amendment right. The choice is up to them.

Why let them chose? Just give them both!!!

31 posted on 08/07/2009 11:02:32 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Gargantua
Maybe offer dancing lessons. Use the Tazer and watch the ants in the pants dance!
32 posted on 08/07/2009 11:04:21 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Danae
It is truly amazing to hear a president advocate the use of guns at a political event. Obama is one crazy guy!
33 posted on 08/07/2009 11:06:28 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: GVnana

Between the union thugs and ACORN, I see a lot of violence in our future. Unfortunately, that’s the way I see it.

A shame union thugs haven’t done anything to help our economy in almost 100 years. If fact, it’s their greedy lazy azzes is that reason we don’t make anything much over here anymore.


34 posted on 08/07/2009 11:09:15 PM PDT by boycott
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35 posted on 08/07/2009 11:30:43 PM PDT by kara2008 (Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem)
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To: April Lexington

A crazy Narcissist who needs Psych help and a padded Cell in Leavenworth!


36 posted on 08/07/2009 11:34:51 PM PDT by Danae (- Conservative does not equal Republican. Conservative does not compromise.)
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To: GVnana

SEIU is the new Al Qaeda and a bunch of non-working, two bit commie thugs.


37 posted on 08/07/2009 11:39:44 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Proud member of "The Angry Mob" Est. April 19, 1775)
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To: Carling

I agree. And given the number of times SEIU members have been guilty of political violence, wouldn’t RICO charges of some sort be in order? If conservatives don’t seriously explore all the ways to rid the world of this “union” front for a democrat gang, we are fools.


38 posted on 08/07/2009 11:44:30 PM PDT by I_like_good_things_too (Check the "Yes" box next to survival)
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To: farmer18th

What a joke! seiu.org may as well be the dnc.org or obama.org. Dirty, lying, leftist scum suckers.


39 posted on 08/08/2009 12:11:35 AM PDT by soycd
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To: April Lexington

From what I heard on Laura tonight they had reserved seats for the union members so I would go after the person giving the townhall meeting too.


40 posted on 08/08/2009 12:21:37 AM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Warning: Some words may be misspelled/ You will get over it / Klingon is my 1st language)
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To: GVnana
The union thug thinks an American Flag is "@&%!".

So does the King.


41 posted on 08/08/2009 12:45:56 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ("Prosperity is just around the corner." Herbert Hoover, 1932)
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To: GVnana
Thanks for posting that video. I would not have seen it otherwise. Those union thugs are extremely dangerous, beating up people who are simply exercising the right to free speech. Have browns shirts been replaced by blue shirts?
42 posted on 08/08/2009 1:01:45 AM PDT by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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To: danamco
They ran Eastern Airline out of business, and maybe Pan-Am as well!!!

Many of the people running unions are there to line their pockets. I saw it up close, in my involvements with unions. They would campaign for a union office, ostensibly to act on grievances for employees. Then they would use the power of the office to curry favor with management and obtain promotions for themselves and their friends, thereby earning much more money. Some of those friends ended up in upper management. It takes two to dance this tango. The bad people running the unions, and the bad people in management running companies. But I agree, overall, unions are destroying businesses in our country.

43 posted on 08/08/2009 1:06:05 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: roadcat
Conservatives need to get active and in the face of leftists, and we can make them back down

The same with the teachers unions. We need to get conservatives into these and take back our educational system. And we need more profs in the colleges as well. The leftists have been running all this stuff in the background for years leading up to getting one of theirs into the WH. Now that it has happened, people are starting to see the danger of what we have ignored/tolerated for years. We are starting to wake up. Obama may be the best thing that has happened in a while. Time to lance this boil.

44 posted on 08/08/2009 2:48:53 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Obama - fooling fewer people every day.)
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To: GVnana

I don’t know about others on this board but I guarantee if some card carrying labor union pussy ever attempted to assault me they would get face full of my fist.


45 posted on 08/08/2009 3:26:58 AM PDT by saneright
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To: GVnana

The day after this happened, HHS Secretary Sebelius made a conference call to the SEIU, praising them for their support. This is nothing less than Administration approval of thuggery in repression of free speech. She must go.

Justice for the people attacked by union thugs.


46 posted on 08/08/2009 4:47:09 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: GVnana

I’ve written this a few times already, but when I went to a Republican rally during the last election, the guy organizing the demonstration outside was wearing an SEIU jacket.


47 posted on 08/08/2009 4:50:31 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Don’t insult kings please!
Some kings can be good BUT NOT TYRANTS LUNATIC IDEOLOGISTS


48 posted on 08/08/2009 5:46:24 AM PDT by Ulysse
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To: GVnana

Service Employees (SEIU)
National Headquarters
1313 L STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, DC 20005

http://unionfacts.com/unions/unionProfile.cfm?id=137

SEIU Local 880 (which represents workers in Illinois) and Local 100 (representing New Orleans, Texas, and Arkansas) are both run by the often-in-trouble “community group” ACORN — an organization that has been tied to government fraud, Teamsters election fraud, and recurring voter fraud. Local 100 is run by Wade Rathke, ACORN’s head organizer and a chief strategist in the multi-union PR campaign attacking Wal-Mart.

The SEIU seeks to unionize just about anyone. In 1997 Local 790 organized strippers from the Lusty Lady peep show in San Francisco.


49 posted on 08/08/2009 5:52:37 AM PDT by Son House (President Ă˜bama Turns His Back On The Oppressed During Their Darkest Hours)
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To: roadcat

Just had to tell you how deeply proud I am of you!!! If we all do our best we can win our country back but we still need to wake more of the American people up!!!


50 posted on 08/08/2009 6:01:37 AM PDT by righteousindignation
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