SCREAMING UNION THUGS Dragged Away By Troopers After Barging Into TN Capitol Senate Committee Meeting (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 8:14 PM
“This is what democracy looks like.”
The radical left was at it again today…
Shrieking union thugs were dragged away by state troopers after barging into a Tennessee Senate Committee Meeting.
News Channel 5 reported:
Seven union supporters were arrested and charged following an outburst inside a Senate Committee Hearing.
Troopers at the Tennessee Capitol had to forcibly carry out the protestors who were among a group who stood up during the Senate Commerce Committee hearing Tuesday and began chants about what they called “union busting” by the state Legislature.
Most demonstrators left the hearing room after about 30 minutes, but a small group tried to lock arms to keep from being removed.
Troopers pulled the holdouts out of the room one by one, while lawmakers, lobbyists and other observers looked on.
The ones that were arrested were held inside a room right outside the meeting room. They were interrogated by Capitol Police. Those protestors are now facing misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges, and some are facing charges of resisting arrest.
Taxing Tennessee has photos of the disruption.
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Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Some of the protestors are facing charges for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Isn’t that required for a promotion to “Union Rep”?
Catherine commented:
Taze the Bro please!
Catherine
but the leftist are still pating themselves?
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_17614760
Denver City Council endorses pay raise for elected officials
By Jeremy P. Meyer
15MARCH2011
After spirited debate Monday, Denver’s City Council voted 10-3 to tentatively approve a 6.6 percent raise for the next sitting council and every other elected official — an increase to be delayed for half of their four-year terms.
Granny commented:
Glad to see they aren’t pussyfooting around in Tennessee!
Big L commented:
they prob just got out of jail on a misdee for jostling little old ladies.
These thugs always get the benefit of the doubt.
Lisa commented:
Tennessee is getting it right. This is how you treat so called “adults” for bad behavior! I love Tennessee!
Beachluver commented:
I gotta say don’t these union thug slime ever work? Oh I forgot a sick day!!!! All the Gov.’s and all the mayors….stand strong these slugs are organized and they are everywhere and they will not give uop!!! So we can’t either!!! Stand strong and weed out this vermin once and for all!!!!! The community organizer in the White House is calling the shots alonf with OFAso it’s gonna be a battle111
Dave-O commented:
Another link:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9M006E81&show_article=1
Money quote:
“This General Assembly will not be intimidated by nomadic bands of professional agitators on spring break bent on disruption . . . [w]e talk through our differences here. Tennessee is not Wisconsin.”
Go Volunteers!!
Rhonda commented:
“do they ever work”
I’m sure they ARE getting paid. Bet money those protesters are SEIU, teamsters and auto workers and steel workers. And lets not forget Barrys personal thugs, Organizing for America!
patman commented:
The Tennessee Tasers!!!
Taxpayer commented:
The TN law enforcement folks are doing their job. TAKE NOTE, Wisconsin so-called law enforcers!
Sociology_101 commented:
Do you recognize the difference between a Liberal and a human being yet??
Keep playing!! The game isn’t over!!
Kevin commented:
I double dog dare you you try that stuff here in Alabama. No, I TRIPLE dog dare you!!
joey1959 commented:
If these are teachers, they have every right to protest, and the older gentleman with the silver hair needs to realize these are the people who elected him. Does TN have term limits? If not, better get to work getting rid of him. The arrogance of him just makes me happy he’s in TN.
Vixen commented:
My daughter is an intern in the office of an elected official in TN state government and reported that last week at the Capitol, there was a group of teachers representing the TEA (TN Education Association) monitoring legislative sessions. She said they were rude, obnoxious and had NO sense of decorum. Fast forward to today. The scuttlebutt at the Capitol was that students were being paid to protest along with these “educators.” I intend to follow up on that to see if it’s true. Tennessee is NOT Wisconsin, thank God.
lakewriter commented:
WELL, IT’S ABOUT FREAKIN’ TIME. What else can I say? …too busy jumpin up and down shouting HOOOOORAY!! Awesome, Tenn! – you guys ROCK!!!!
Andrew X commented:
Can I just chime in and say to the unionistas….
Keep it up, guys. Jes’ keeeep it up. Oh yeah, your “message” is getting through, loud and clear.
Oh, BTW… Remember how demonic Scott Walker was, how it was all his doing? Remember that? And now you’re acting this way in other states that Walker has bupkus to do with?
Oops….. guess that kinda s–ts all over that “It’s all Walkers fault” message, huh. Well, granted, that was yesterday. Whole different ballgame, now. As it will be again next week, I suppose. Kinda like you took five straight weeks of condemning “the ‘uncivil behavior’ and ‘heated politics’ that got Gabby Giffords shot”, actually made some serious progress with that lie, and then threw it out the window to shatter onto the streets of Madison, never to be put back together in this lifetime. Nice work, that.
Keeeeeep it up, guys. We are reeling before your strategic genuis.
Maria commented:
I would have thought TN, being a right to work state, would have already eliminated collective bargaining for state employees. I’m glad the police didn’t stand for it. I hope they tell where these people are actually from – it would be interesting to know.
Maria commented:
Joey1959 said: “If these are teachers, they have every right to protest, and the older gentleman with the silver hair needs to realize these are the people who elected him. Does TN have term limits? If not, better get to work getting rid of him. The arrogance of him just makes me happy he’s in TN.”
They have the right to protest, but they don’t have the right to barge in to meetings that have nothing to do with them – that’s not protesting. The “gentleman with the silver hair” realizes that the citizens of his county elected him and he is sworn to make sure EVERYONE upholds the law – EVEN union members. We’re happy YOU’RE not in TN. Please keep it that way.
valerie commented:
#13 March 15, 2011 at 9:18 pm
joey1959 commented:
If these are teachers, they have every right to protest, …
In San Diego, California, the School Board held a meeting, and the teachers showed up to demand “NO LAYOFFS,” which admittedly they can do, but some parents also showed up, to tell the Board that SOME of those teachers (nowhere as many as would be laid off) should be fired.
The Teacher’s Union in San Diego negotiated a contract that requires all layoffs be according to strict seniority, and some fools agreed to it. So now, the TU is in the odd position of protecting the kind of teacher that leaves the room for extended periods of time most days, and a counselor who specializes in bullying students into accepting decisions that are plainly not in the student’s best interest.
Meanwhile, there is a 60M shortfall in the school budget….. and they all expect the voters to just pony up the money.
Jack commented:
Why does everyone keep saying collective bargaining “rights”? What “rights” are these?….constitutional? Collective bargaining is a contractual agreement…not a right. How do they derive that this is a “right”? Someone please explain.
tommy mc donnell commented:
i would bet the guy being interviewed in the video was never in a union in his life.
BetterDeadthanRed commented:
Hey public union workers. Get a second job like the rest of us if want more. I’m done paying for your sh*t. Tell your undocumented illegal resident in the White House to stop spending our money on unions.
Vixen commented:
#19 @Maria
Ditto!
BTW, public schools in Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County need to be audited and overhauled. We’re taxed out the wazoo… “for the children”, of course. A simple review of achievement test scores and state rankings are telling. Don’t get me started on the condition of most public school properties here. Rundown and pathetic. We sacrificed to give our children a private school education to keep them OUT of those schools and we’re glad we did.
S. Wolf commented:
I hope the TN police found enough dope on these wobblies to make a felony rap.. who cares if the dope came from the evidence room.
valerie commented:
Jim,
I’m behind on my reading, but if you haven’t reported on this, I think it would be a good idea to cross-post it.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/03/protesters-destroy-recall-petitions.html
I am having real trouble keeping up right now. I miss your posts with all the links of prior stories on the bottom. I hope you have the time and that RIGHTNETWORK has or develops the capability to do those kind of historical references. It was very helpful to have a nice list of references to older stories.
Meanwhile, California has very little wrong with it that wouldn’t be fixed by two legislative measures: a right-to-work law, and a tax law that bleeds some of the volatility out of the state’s income stream.
Right now, I am looking a a situation in San Diego where the Teacher’s Union is insisting that any layoffs be on a strict seniority basis. That means, of course, that excellent to good teachers are being disadvantaged in order to suppot some real pieces of work. I am personally aware of two situations where the removal of individuals would facilitate the function of a senior high school and the District offices, and also yield from 4 to 6 entry-level teachers. People who do not do their jobs should not be defended by the Teacher’s Union at the expense of excellent or good teachers. The fix for this is to make union membership voluntary. I would not get rid of the union. I would make union membership (and therefore their dues) voluntary.
Keep ‘em honest. Make them represent all of their constituents.
Rock commented:
Well glad to see there are still some officers of the law that understand their oath includes protecting all citizens and not only union trouble makers.
Buffalobob commented:
General Assembly will not be intimidated by nomadic bands of professional agitators on spring break bent on disruption.
He was being polite. I would have added, union goons, dirty hippies and welfare queens.
BS61 commented:
Gosh, after the weakness in Wisconsin, it’s nice to see an arrest or two!
Muffin commented:
After seeing these “teachers” act out one understands why kids get so screwed up attending public schools. Can we have some sort of decency and competence threshold for teachers already?
Rock commented:
#31 March 15, 2011 at 11:24 pm
Muffin commented:
After seeing these “teachers” act out
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Oh no you didn’t just put decency and competence in the same sentence with teacher. Those day are long gone.
John Fembup commented:
“This is what democracy looks like.”
No, that is a fundamental error. This is what MOB RULE looks like. Mob rule is the antithesis of democracy. It is terribly saddening that so many out protesting, especially the school teachers, don’t understand this. I’d bet that the protesters, as leftists, assume they are more intelligent than the rest of us. Maybe they are – but they are certainly uninformed about democracy, and ignorance negates intelligence. Surrendering one’s rationality to the unreasoning emotions of a mob also negates intelligence.
But that’s what mobs do–they feed on emotion not rationality, they reduce otherwise rational people to screaming thugs, they are therefore prone to violence, and those are only some of the reasons mobs are dangerous.
Fear of mob rule is a major reason that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 took such care to create a republic. They believed a true democracy can too easily turn into a mob, and they were right – proven many times over the years and now proven again, this time by the mobs in Madison.
Here’s a link to a recent article from a good source about democracy. It’s worth a read, and worth a good deal of your thought.
http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2011/02/23/democracy_versus_liberty
Tiredof Thesethugs commented:
I’m Tennessean, we are not going to tolerate these thugs in our state. We are employment at will state, if they think they are not getting what they want, they can always quit and find another job.
gus commented:
Friends and fellow Conservatives. Wisconsin and Scott Walker, showed this NATION how to PEACEFULLY take back OUR States and our Country. The LEFT pissed themselves silly, the embarrassed themselves. This has all been about the GOOONION keeping it’s FUNDING SOURCE.
Wisconsin has ended GOOONION FORCED INDENTURED SERVITUDE.
If you LIBTARDS WANT to pay part of your paycheck to the GOOOONION. That is your RIGHT.
The LEFT has painted itself into a corner over the last 45 years. GAME OVER LIBTARDS. Earn you pay, pay your bills, contribute to your retirement/pension. Pay 1/8th of your HEALTH CARE premium. JOIN THE REAL WORLD……….OR QUIT. Scott Walker is the ROSA PARKS of this time and place. I find that HILARIOUS!!!!
tommy mc donnell commented:
#27 using seniority to lay people off is an objective standard. it is something we should want to keep. it keeps the politicans from having control over who keeps their job and who doesn’t. if you think for one second the politicans are going to keep the good teachers and lay off the bad ones you are sadly mistaken. i can tell you what teachers will keep their job, the ones that buy tickets to the politicans fund raisers, the ones that work in the politicans campaign, the ones that donate to the kickback money. which teachers do you think will do these things, the ones who are hard working and good at their job or the ones that are lazy or not good at their jobs. i can tell you from experience the politicans couldn’t care less what kind of job you do. all they want to know is are you willing to pay off or be a political flunkie or both.
RickZ commented:
# 31 Muffin,
After seeing these “teachers” act out one understands why kids get so screwed up attending public schools. Can we have some sort of decency and competence threshold for teachers already?
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Teachers used to have morals clauses they signed onto when they got hired. Now it’s more like they have immoral clauses and are proud of that fact.
jerrylud commented:
co nice to see police doing their jobs cudos tn state troopers
ogee commented:
That’s what Walker did. He made is so the bad teachers get to be laid off and the good ones stay. Seniority does not apply anymore. They either earn their pay or go away. NO MORE SCHOOL FAILURE MILLS.
So that kid in the vid said they were bussed in?
That is not what Democracy looks like.
They need to stop framing this as an attempt to remove all bargaining rights. They can bargain all they want in their own time on their own dime. Tax payers are not going to pay for their “rights” anymore. This is about the budget and NOT their phoney rights. Bargain away teachers, but don’t expect the states to do it for you anymore. States are not unions so leave the states and tax payers out of your “clubs”. Either accept what’s handed to you or everyone will be laid off when the states claim bankruptcy. There are no other choices. Why should the tax payers foot the bill for the public workers who make triple of the tax payer and triple the benefits. The buck stops here. Tax payer is no longer your sugar daddy. We are broke.
Khan Krum commented:
Uh, HELLO! If the union thugs try what they’ve done in the South, there’s going to be a big problem… for the union thugs. Homey don’t play dat game in Dixie.
Vixen commented:
#41 @Khan Krum
LOL!!!!
And you sure got that right!!
RedBeard commented:
#13: Joey, teachers and all other citizens have a right to protest, but please stop ignoring the difference between the right of free speech and the illegal actions these thugs took inside the state house.
If you had done your homework, you would know that the “older gentleman” is not a legislator, but is Tennessee’s top cop. He was simply stating that the duly elected representatives of the people should be allowed to do their jobs without being assaulted by union thugs who think they are above the law. If you think it’s arrogant to expect people to respect the law, then the problem is yours.
squeaky commented:
“…illegal actions these thugs took inside the state house.” anyone remember back to the 2009 open townhalls [well maybe not so] concerning obamacare.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouYaqBUucnI
one door for the opponents and another [side] door for the supporters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oilI9OCKV8
fake doctor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9zYH0vGB5U&feature=related
BackwardsBoy commented:
I truly hope that prosecuters throw the book at those thugs and make examples of them. They should spend the maximum amount of time in jail, pay hefty fines and have long probations that also prevent them from being withing 500 feet of any such meeting for a few years. It’s time for the intimidation of paid protesters to be stopped. If they want to protest, they can do it like the rest of us, at the polls on election day.
squeaky commented:
the seiu had this also on their site at the time……but they deleated the pushing of people out the door.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZwW718Fw5I
Listen up commented:
Union thugs will quickly learn TN is not WI. The Vols won’t put up with union thug tactics!!
The South is different! Thank God!
oldguy commented:
I remember something an old foreman at work once said. “You are white, we can do to you what we want”. This white guy doesn’t understand this.
common man commented:
This shows the difference between unionized officers and nonunionized.Tenn is a right to work state ,teachers are the only group in the state who have collective bargain rights.
TnPatriot commented:
Our future is looking better all the time here in Tennessee? STAY the heck away!
TnPatriot commented:
Tennessee !!! Not this > ?
Carry on