Breaking: Americans for Prosperity stages phony altercation at Michigan Right to Work rally
There’s a video on heavy rotation at Fox News, being massively retweeted by conservatives and Americans for Prosperity, where they talk about the “brutality” and “violence” of union members at today’s rally in Lansing, Michigan to protest Right to Work legislation. The video shows an Americans for Prosperity tent coming down on the front lawn of the Capitol Building.
As it turns out, American for Prosperity (AFP) themselves were responsible for at least one of the tents coming down. Tom Duckworth watched one of the folks that had been in the AFP tent go around and loosen the straps on the tent. According to Duckworth, “the tent came down from the INSIDE.”
Here’s video, shot in the office of Progress Michigan, of Duckworth being interviewed by former Progress Michigan Executive Director David Holtz:
Clearly AFP came to this rally to incite an altercation that could be shown on endless loop on Fox to show that union members are, indeed, “union thugs”. Not surprisingly, Fox News cameramen where right there on the spot to capture it all on film. The main physical altercations that occurred happened after the tents came down.
Mission accomplished.
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More AFP bullshit in conjunction with Faux Snooze, Breitbart, in their attempt to discredit Unions.
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Here's a video from the crowd. It was fun to watch 
There's also a sort of panorama at the end of the video that shows a lot of the crowd.
.... Yes, I have to remind myself all the time that many of our DUers are young adults and haven't had the opportunity yet to learn about the Labor struggles of the late 19th century, and into the 20th century. The PEOPLE built this country. And they were sorely taken advantage of, until they started to press for union representation. It's the history of the United States, really (Labor History). 
If things continue the way they are today, it just might happen. But don't be scared. I'm watching the 12-12-12 Concert on HBO. Pink Floyd just played The Wall. They had some young kids (probably Jr High or early HS aged kids). They danced and sang along with the band. And they had long baggy black t-shirts on with big white letters:
FEAR
BUILDS
WALLS
BE STRONG!
way Afghanis were "freedom fighters" when they were battling Russia but those exact same people are "terrorists" because they oppose the U.S.
It's "torture" (and probably "terrorism"
if any country water boards a Marine but only "enhanced interrogation" if the U.S. does it to someone we capture.
The examples are numerous . . .
... until the treasonous bastards on the right reversed this abominable legislation.
NAZIs perfected the tactic.
was the reason that Martin Luther King, Jr. was in Memphis on, April 4, 1968.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MinM/287
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This was a re-post from...
What Martin Luther King had to say about Right to Work 1961!
...they show up every time they know that a SERIOUS protest is going to take place. You just never know what they will look like or what havoc they will reek until you get there. They deserve an Oscar for yesterday, though. Tents. I don't know who gave them those spots to set up the tents down at City Hall. Whoever that was, was just as complicit as the AFP bunch themselves to help the hullabaloo along. It was quite irresponsible, though. They could have had their lunch ate under those tents . You just don't mess with a a crowd of 12,000 who are mostly big brawny men who feel violated already, and are mad as hell and ain't going to take it anymore. The Union boys deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for keeping themselves from taking the bait.
They could have made lunch meat out of those scum bags in no short order. 
...is fine and recommended. I praised their composure. Yeah, it ain't 1959 anymore, but sometimes I wonder.
