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Caught on tape: Union thug assaults female videographer

One of the absolute dumbest things anyone can do is take a swing at another person when that other person has a video camera on and recording. The momentary swing become permanent evidence of assault.

Here is such evidence, captured today, as a union thug gets frustrated and decides to act on Rep. Mike Capuano’s advice.

The victim of the assault is Tabitha Hale of FreedomWorks, who you will be glad to know is fine. No word yet on whether assault charges are going to be filed. Based on the T-shirt the guy was wearing, he belongs to the Communications Workers of America union.

Tabitha isn’t the first to come under physical attack in the wave of union protests sweeping several states. In Denver, SEIU goons harassed and hurled racial epithets at a gay black Tea Party activist.

More: From the blogmaster – the man on that YouTube is “the angry, yet impotent face of today’s labor movement.” Indeed.

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4 Comments, 4 Threads, 7 Trackbacks

1. Marc Malone

He took a swing at someone with a camera recording. Even more stupid is that he took a swing at a pretty young woman. I’m sure N.O.W. will be decrying his act any time now. In 5… 4… 3… 3… 3… 3….

It is getting so that women journalists better start having a couple big, male guards when they cover these mobs.

Come to think of it, didn’t some young college male get roughed up by Democratic Congressman Etheridge? Perhaps anyone engaging in political reporting needs a bodyguard these days.

Or a gun. It is coming to that, now.

February 23, 2011 - 8:54 pm Link to this Comment
2. a fellow patriot

This is learned behavior yes? Do you suppose this is how this big hard working guy wins arguments at home? A push here… a shove there… a trip to the ER once a year?

February 24, 2011 - 1:05 am Link to this Comment
3. Mr. FIFY

There is *never* a justifiable excuse for this kind of attack.

February 24, 2011 - 6:07 pm Link to this Comment
4. Daryl Hoyt

A discussion of an event like this, to be complete, must occur on two levels: legality and morality. The law is plain enough, if only you can rustle up an honest prosecutor, an honest judge, and an intelligent jury. The moral argument, however, seems dead weak and susceptible to simple dismissal—unless you happen to violate the other guy’s moral rights. Then, as C.S Lewis aptly observed, he’ll be cry foul “before you can say Jack Robinson!”

Hmmm…perhaps morality exists after all…huh?

August 10, 2011 - 10:57 am Link to this Comment