This just in my mail from the St. Louis Tea Party

CONTACT: Billy Hennessy

PHONE: 314.266.1775

DATE: Saturday, August 8, 2009 (tomorrow)

TIME: Noon

LOCATION: SEIU Headquarters, 5585 Pershing Ave., Suite 130, St. Louis, MO 63112

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The St. Louis Tea Party will hold a press conference and peaceable protest at SEIU Headquarters



August 8th, 2009, St. Louis, MO—St. Louis Tea Party will be protesting tomorrow is to demand justice for Kenneth Gladney, an African-American conservative who was brutally beaten by 4 individuals, at least 2 of whom were identified as SEIU representatives. The beatings included racial slurs and required hospitalization of Mr. Gladney.



As videos show, the attack was unprovoked and no one retaliated against the union thugs.



This attack followed hours of taunts and verbal assaults by SEIU and ACORN members upon citizens gathered to express their views under the First Amendment. We believe this brutal beating is part of an organized plan to suppress dissent to the Administration's planned seizure of the medical industry in the United States.



Anyone who believes in non-violent protest, in the rule of law, in the right of black men and women to express conservative political views, in the right to peaceably assemble, to speak freely, and to petition Congress for a redress of grievances is invited to attend.



The Tea Party specifically requests the NAACP and the ACLU to come out in support of Kenneth Gladney's rights which were trampled by these hooligans. We call on Representative Russ Carnahan to denounce the beating. We call on President Obama to denounce the beatings. We call on St. Louis County to prosecute the assailants to fullest extent of the law.

What video are they referring to in their e-mail?

looked like he was stomping on the SEIU guy at the beginning.

and then a second white SEIU guy came in and threw him off the first SEIU guy.

I'm sure there will be a rally filled with lots of white middle aged and elderly folks chanting obscene and hateful crap.

to peacefully exercise your Second Amendment rights of course.

that video shows a fight in progress. i'm a cube rat atm so i have no audio, so please correct me if i am wrong.

this doesn't show how this started, so who knows if the email is true.

They go to the police. I wonder why Mr. Gladney and his Tea Party pals aren't going to the cops?

Gladney has admitted that he was hired by the organizers to pass out stuff.

On first inspection, it does appear that there is a guy on the ground, and another guy steps over the guy on the ground and puts his hand out to stop people. HOWEVER, if you read the comments by the conservatives on YouTube (below the video), it's quite appalling that they immediately assume it's the union guys, and begin advocating shooting and killing. Regardless of who started what, it was a fight, not something that would warrent bringing out the firearms, as most Repugs just can't wait to do.