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SEIU Demonstrates Its Lack of Civility With ‘Civil Disobedience’

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 11th, 2011 at 07:30 AM  | 

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You’ve certainly seen enough video footage of the unruly union mobs in Madison, WI for the last two months. Well, the SEIU has taken its mob show on the road and, like the pioneers of old, headed West.

For the last week, SEIU protesters have been demonstrating at the Washington State Capitol–a state largely controlled by Democrats. Late Thursday, however, the SEIU took its protests to a whole new level by attacking state troopers as the purple people beaters tried to push and shove their way into Democrat Governor Christine Gregoire’s office.

Demonstrators were forced out of a legislative gallery and stopped by state troopers outside Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire’s office, said Robert Calkins, spokesman for the Washington State Patrol.

About 400 protesters were in the building, loud but orderly, Calkins told CNN. Some tried to rush to Gregoire’s office.

“There were a group that planned to be arrested and they were accommodated,” Calkins said. “We’re happy to have people come down and express their opinion, but we want it to be safe for everyone involved.”

One protester kicked an officer and elbowed another and was booked on two counts of third-degree assault, Calkins said. Sixteen protesters were charged with disorderly conduct and released.

Below are two clips of the confrontation in Olympia.

The first clip comes via Gateway Pundit:



This second clip comes via The Blaze:



Thankfully, unlike what happened to GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin, at least there were no death threats made to Democrat lawmakers in Olympia…

Oh, wait!

This is only the first week.

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  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    It’s no longer N. Korea. It’s now the SEIU.

  • http://www.twitter.com/AWG9_yoyo yoyo

    “About 400 protesters were in the building, loud but orderly, Calkins told CNN. Some tried to rush to Gregoire

  • gazill

    they’re going to keep taking and taking and taking and taking…” (around the 1:56 mark)

    Well, SEIU has been taking and taking and taking and taking, and the taxpayers (and some politicians) are standing up; the PPB have taken enough.

  • renny

    The public unions have tried to associate their “cause” with the great civil rights movement of the mid-20th C., but King and his drive for minority equality bear no resemblance to the aggressive criminality and thuggery of this “modern-day” unionizing.

    The union members should be reminded that Thoreau’s, Gandhi’s, and King’s civil disobedience was nonviolent, and they used the non-response to gov’t oppression as a moral club to expose the hypocrisy and violation of rights endowed, in the US by, our Creator to force major legal and social change.

    SEIU and ilk are not looking for change. They are looking to fight a restructuring of formal and social contracts with their employers, the rep. gov’t elected by tax payers. And their use of dictatorial-tyrannical methods is self-defearing and terrible pr for workers who want to portray themselves as downtrodden victims.

    I am glad NJ state troopers threw the intruders out of state offices. One thing Walker and WI should have done was never let the mobs takeover the statehouse and commit vandalism and intimidation for weeks in an out-of-control environment that encouraged the public unions into thinking such tactics would work.

    They should get the hook.

  • chbroussard

    My dad was in a union (not his choice) back when the guys were coming home from WWII and there were jobs to be had in the plants and factories. But growing up, NEVER did I see this type of behavior, and I’m fairly confident it would not have been tolerated in our small town.

    But somewhere along the way. these union thugs have gotten the mindset that they are *entitled* to a certain lifestyle regardless of their skills or education. More and more people are getting tired of their antics whether they’re a factory worker, a teacher, or a nurse. Bad behavior is bad behavior, no matter what the job.

  • johnt

    Funny, but it’s the Tea Party people, the Normal, the well behaved, and at times, the assaulted, who are the targets of the media and it’s stooges, the Democrats. Violence in a leftist cause is desirable & the means to an end, even praiseworthy. Kind of like the Bolsheviks of fond memory.

  • taylerdog23

    Are you pro-Bull Connor?

    If so, that’s reprehensible.

  • taylerdog23

    And yes, I see the irony of my own comment title above… :)

  • sparkyva

    “Give us what we want or we will promote anarchy!” These simpletons are ever the tool of the would be dictator. Hitler’s brown shirts come to mind…

  • bk
    • ihateliberals

      out to “Protect” the people. Hah!!!!What a crook he is.

  • nhbuckeye

    of stuff. They are materialists. That, my friends, is what social justice is all about. “Gimme what you have because I want it. MY way, MY way, MY way!” They have to bully and scream because they aren’t good enough to EARN, aren’t patient enough to work, and aren’t humble enough to have less than their neighbors. They are the very definition of lowest common denominator. They are self-indulgent to the point to evil.

    • merryj1

      “What is a communist? One who has yearnings…
      for equal divisions of unequal earnings.”

  • ihateliberals

    All they want is your money. their main goal of existence is to get your money. Everything else associated with the unions is merely coincidental. If they can’t get your money they will start a campaign to get your money. People cave and give into the scam and then they think they need the Union. Unions will lead to the end of our American freedoms and way of life.