Unions: Now Ok to Attack Women

Wow - way to spin a story so it loses context and its grip on the facts

for the record, violence is uncalled for whether it is at a union rally or a Rand Paul rally

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However, I fail to see that this man hit this woman. I watched your video several times and saw what appeared to be a man, being baited and relentlessly antagonized, push a phone/camera out of his face. As I watch and listen closely, I assume your friend/s are trying to provoke a confrontation.
Also, party tip, quoting Michelle Malkin is like quoting Anne Coulter in civilized society. If you want to evoke a visceral negative reaction in even those who lean towards moderate in politics, quote Anne Coulter or Michelle Malkin. Oy.

Saw the headline and thought I'd mistakenly stumbled onto Limbaugh's website. Sorry your friend was assaulted, but jerks come in all affiliations. In 1886 seven workers were shot and killed on order of the then governor of Wisconsin for marching for the right to have weekends off. You like your weekends off? Thank a dead union worker. The most prosperous years in this country, the 60's & 60's also coincided with when we had the largest union membership and therefore the strongest middle class. Ever work a job that paid minimum wage? Again, thank a union member or you wouldn't have even gotten that. Enjoy employee health insurance? Thank a union member. Educate yourself before you spout off about "horrible unions."

None of the union members at our fire department would hit a woman, let alone a man that wasn't threatening their family. Do not blame the actions of the minority on the majority.

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The first thing that stood out to me about this post is this sentence:

"Union or not, in what universe is it ok for a man to strike a woman, grab her phone and throw it on the ground?"

I would counter and say, in what universe is it okay for a woman to hit a man? Your sentence makes it sound like violence would have been okay if it had been a man hitting another man or a woman hitting a man. Violence is wrong regardless of who is the aggressor or who is the receiver.

You may not have meant that, but it really bothers me when we suggest that violence is a man vs. woman problem when, in reality, it's a people problem.

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I have to join with the opinion that the title of this piece is inflammatory.
There is no doubt that this man's reaction and behavior was outrageous and inexcusable still does that really equate that all people exercising their 2nd Amendment rights who happen to be union members or wearing union t-shirts or carrying union signs are thugs out to violently attack women? I just can't try to accept that conclusion. What I see is just more evidence that many in our country, in our society have diminished into people who can no longer engage in healthy, polite debate but rather are rude (in your face), abusive and sometimes violent.
I agree with your last statement:
This type of behavior: not acceptable. Under any circumstance. From any point on the political spectrum. Union or not.
Thank goodness your friend is okay.

I normally try to stay far away from political discourse, because nothing good ever comes of it, but this post really bothers me. As noted by other commenters, your post is needlessly inflammatory.

I'm glad that she wasn't hurt in the debacle and no he should not have done that at all, but but to say that it's condoned by an entire group of people?

I am a union member, and haven't gotten the memo okaying violence against women. I'm sorry that your friend experienced that but think the title of your post is misleading and needlessly inflammatory.

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The title of your post is inflammatory and misleading. Are you stating that unions support violence toward women as a matter of policy?

What I saw from this video is a man clearly being baited, being antagonized despite stating that he did not want to engage in any further discussion.

Was it right to knock her cell phone to the ground? No. Neither was the other side's aggressive behaviour.

I'd say civility calls are in order for both sides here.

I wrote this post immediately after the video was released, so some details were left out.

The protest took place in the courtyard as the same building as Fox News (Hall of States building on Capital Hill) Why protest outside of a major media outlet and get upset when someone films you?

The protest was apparently in response to Gov. Walker in Wisconsin. Wisconsin has an office there?

FreedomWorks is also in the same building (it's a huge office space and extremely convenient to the U.S. Capitol and Union Station). They went down to take photos and film since it was in a public space.

Tabitha was standing pretty far away from the guy. She had to edit the film from her iPhone to upload it to YouTube.

She also wrote about her experience here. ( http://www.redstate.com/tabithahale/2011/02/23/uni... ) She wasn't provoking the guy. She was just a bystander.

It wasn't gotcha recording. Freedomworks happened to be at the same location as a planned union protest and was observing it.

What's wrong with highlighting how horrible unions are? They've used these tactics for years. Video is just exposing them and will eventually end the corruption. Remember, sunshine is the best disinfectant.

If Unions are going to plan protests outside of offices where cable news outlets are held, shouldn't they warn their members? There's no excuse for what this guy did.

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This is horrible. Neither side should engage in physical conflict.

Sadly, videos of this type are becoming all to common. Even sadder people are going out of their way to create these videos.

We should all remember a few certain things about engaging each other. If a person clearly doesn't want to talk with you or appears to be getting agitated the best course of action is to walk away not continue in the conversation. It is obvious from this film the man with the sign did not want to talk with the other gentleman and was getting upset. At that point in time it would have been prudent to walk away. The same thing holds for the man with the sign. As his anger level grew, he should have walked away instead of engaging physically.

Our society is suffering from people trying to play gotcha with video recording devices. Wouldn't it be nice if both sides called a halt to it.

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Implying that Unions are now advocating violence against woman is so low, so immature, that I cannot believe someone who is seemingly intelligent like yourself would stoop to that. Obviously violence is never ok, no matter who is doing it to who. Really, this is pretty pathetic.

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