At Obama's Service: “Why is a nigger handing out ‘Don’t tread on me’ flags?"

Now we know what the White House meant by "Hit back twice as hard." Service Employees International Union's St. Louis Director of Thuggery, Elston K. McCowan.

Meet Elston K. McCowan. McCowan is a one-time organizer, and now the Public Service Director of SEIU Local 2000. He is also a board member of the Walbridge Community Education Center in St. Louis., Allegedly a Baptist minister he has been a community organizer for more than 23 years. Last year, he ran for Mayor of the City of St. Louis under the Green Party banner, during which time he accused the Democrat Mayor of setting fire to his van and called Slay a racist.

Funny.

It was Elston McCowan who accosted Ken Gladney, who is also black, at the Carnahan town meeting in St. Louis Thursday night with the words, “Why is a nigger handing out ‘Don’t tread on me’ flags?"

Shortly after that, McCowan and several other SEIU thugs and Carnahan supporters ganged up on Ken Gladney and beat him so badly they put him in the hospital with injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. McCowan has since been arrested by the St. Louis police for assaulting Gladney.

Of you would like to see a video of the assault, you may go here.

This is a letter from Ken Gladney's attorney to the St. Louis Tea Party:

August 7, 2009

Dear Mr. Hennessy:

I am Kenneth Gladney’s attorney. Kenneth was attacked on the evening of August 6, 2009 at Rep. Russ Carnahan’s town hall meeting in South St. Louis County. I was at the town hall meeting as well and witnessed the events leading up to the attack of Kenneth. Kenneth was approached by an SEIU representative as Kenneth was handing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags to other conservatives. The SEIU representative demanded to know why a black man was handing out these flags. The SEIU member used a racial slur against Kenneth, then punched him in the face. Kenneth fell to the ground. Another SEIU member yelled racial epithets at Kenneth as he kicked him in the head and back. Kenneth was also brutally attacked by one other male SEIU member and an unidentified woman. The three men were clearly SEIU members, as they were wearing T-shirts with the SEIU logo.

Kenneth was beaten badly. One assailant fled on foot; three others were arrested. Kenneth was admitted to St. John’s Mercy Medical Center emergency room, where he was treated for his numerous injuries. Kenneth was merely expressing his freedom of speech by handing out the flags. In fact, he merely asked people as they exited the town hall meeting whether they would like a flag. He in no way provoked any argument or altercation, as evidenced by the fact that three assailants were arrested.

We hope that Kenneth fully recovers from his injuries; however, he is in great pain at this time. We will be pursuing legal action at our discretion. This was a truly senseless hate crime carried out by racist union thugs. Regretfully, Representative Carnahan’s statements blaming Kenneth for being a disruptive force are wholly untrue and slanderous. We would like to think that an elected official in Representative Carnahan’s position would gather accurate information before carelessly rushing to judgment.

Kenneth supports conservative ideals, although he subscribes to no particular political party. We are calling on the SEIU, Representative Carnahan, and President Obama to condemn the racist actions of these union thugs. In the days to come, we will be investigating whether these thugs are working at the behest of Representative Carnahan and how strong their alliances to various organizations–such as ACORN–may be.

We hope the St. Louis Tea Party and tea party organizations around the country will protest Representative Carnahan’s offices and also protest SEIU offices in every major city across the U.S. These Democratic strong-arm tactics must end now.

Regards,

Attorney David B. Brown

I concur. This was no fluke. The SEIU has been mobilized to provide "security" at all "town meetings" of Democrats across the country so as to ensure they won't be disrupted by the "mobs" of "Don't Tread on Me" flag distributors like Ken Gladney.

Another example of SEIU thuggery from Tampa is what happened to Randy Arthur of Oldsmar, FL (photo below) who was outside the town hall meeting room with his wife, Kathy, when SEIU thugs tried to close the doors. Kathy was slammed up against the wall. Her husband was also assaulted with a ripped shirt and scratches visible on his chest as a souvenir of SEIU "organizing tactics." It is obvious he got off easy compared to Ken Gladney.



The Brown Shirts wore swastikas. These thugs wear the logo of SEIU. It is apparent that whatever "service" it is that the Service Employees International Union provides is a service on behalf of the Imperial Lightworker, King Barack the First.



Presumably the arc and the impact represent the trademark SEIU sucker punch.

You know, the website of the SEIU has a list of all their local offices. Of course, you can find such info in your local area by simply consulting the telephone book, and doing so leaves no electronic tracks.

Just a thought.

Another, possibly unconnected, thought. One day, people in this country are going to get pissed off enough at being shoved around by gangster government thugs that they are going to take the fight straight to the thugs in a way they least expect, can't defend against and one which costs the gangsters money straight from their own pockets. These new Sons of Liberty might, in fact, resort to some of these tossed through the windows of every SEIU thug office and union vehicle in the country.



Or maybe wrapped in Ken Gladney's favorite flag:



Now, wouldn't that be something?

Mike Vanderboegh
The alleged leader of a merry band of Three Percenters.
sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com
Author of The Window War, found here: /sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2009/02/back-by-semi-popular-demand-window-war.html.