Yesterday, a swarm of alleged pro-union activists destroyed a tent owned by the conservative group Americans for Prosperity.
TheBlaze showed you video of both the tent being taken down and of alleged pro-union activists assaulting conservatives who were on the scene.
And now we get this:
Yes, a man wearing a Teamsters jacket is cutting out remains of the tent, but for what?
“An hour after the Americans for Prosperity tent is destroyed on the
Michigan Capitol
lawn, a demonstrator in a Teamster jacket cuts shards
from the tarp and hands out as souvenirs,” reads the video’s
description.
Meanwhile, unions and their left-wing allies have accused AFP of staging the whole thing:
No, really. Some people believe the whole thing was staged, because Koch:
As of this writing, Steven Crowder’s face is unavailable for comment:
"Last Ounce of Courage," is an intergenerational story of a grieving
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against a tide of apathy and vanishing liberty. Against a backdrop of
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highly-decorated combat veteran is reminded that we best honor our
fallen heroes by not holding too loosely what they gave their all to
defend. Alongside fellow citizens of courage, faith and integrity, he
champions the cherished principles we the people hold dear.
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Starring
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small-town mayor Bob Revere, "Last Ounce of Courage" uses the vehicle of
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fighting the "American Civil Liberties Organization" (ACLO) over the
very rights guaranteed them by the Constitution. Former NFL great Fred
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head of the ACLO.
Encouraged by his grandson, played by Hunter
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Leading the younger generation to join in and make a difference is Bob‟s
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The film is being produced by Veritas
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TheBlaze reported earlier that union activists had attacked a tent owned by the pro-right-to-work group Americans for Prosperity.
Now we have more footage of not only the attack on the tent, but also
of union activists physically attacking conservative writer and
comedian Steven Crowder:
“They were tearing down the tent,” Crowder explained when TheBlaze
asked him about the moments leading up to the violent exchange. “Now
that sort of becomes a melee. They were trying to tear down the [AFP]
tent and people were trying to pull them off … there were people in
there. It’s their property.”
“And as they [the union activists] did that, a few people tripped,”
he continued, “this guy tripped over a tent peg and then got up and hit
me.”
This is the gentleman Crowder is referring to:
Following the altercation and the destruction of AFP’s tent, Crowder tweeted the following images:
“I never hit him at all. I know he tripped,” Crowder told TheBlaze in a phone interview. “And I know he was coming into me, so hands were everywhere.”
Crowder was actually at the protest to do some “man-on-the-street” interviews with union supporters.
“I went in there to ask them why they were against right-to-work and
it immediately got violent. They immediately started tearing down the
tent and they trampled it to the ground with women inside,” he said. Speaking of which, here’s some footage taken by an AFP worker from inside the tent as it was being ripped apart:
“The union members went inside the tent to cut the ropes and knock
down the poles that we’re holding the tent up,” Michael Moroney,
Director of Communications at the Franklin Center for Government &
Public Integrity, told TheBlaze in an email.
Ironically enough, according to Moroney, AFP was actually hosting pro-right-to-work union workers when the tent was brought down by protesters.
“Am I a bit of a smart aleck? Yeah,” said Crowder, “But does that
warrant me being punched in the face and told they’ll ‘kill me with a
gun’? I don’t think so.”
And you can clearly hear people shouting about guns in the video.
TheBlaze asked Crowder, who is a staunch supporter of the 2nd amendment,
whether he discussed with anyone in the crowd his support for the right
to bear arms.
“No. I was not carrying a gun and never even broached the subject. They were not talking about me,” he responded.
Did the police at least try to break up the crowd?
“There was not one cop to be found,” Crowder told TheBlaze.
Now it’s important to note that the above video has beenedited and that the moments leading up to the attacks on Mr. Crowder have been removed.
“I wanted to show the good stuff,” he said, adding that he wanted the
keep the video to under two minutes. “Listen, if you want more context,
there are dozens of videos taken by people with their cellphones.
They’re about 45 minutes long. You can watch those.”
Now that these union activists have been caught on camera, we’re left with one big question: Will Crowder press assault charges?
“I’m going to give this guy an ultimatum,” Crowder said, “he can
either fess up and go to prison for a felony or we can meet at a
racquetball court for five minutes and we can work out our differences
ourselves. Jail or one-on-one. If he wants to play tough guy, I’m giving
him the choice.”
In case you didn’t know, Crowder is schooled in both mixed martial arts and wrestling.
“Just to be clear,” TheBlaze said, “what do you mean by ‘one-on-one’?”
“I’m talking about lock us in a racquetball court for a whole
sanctioned mixed martial arts bout, or boxing bout, or wrestling bout –
whatever he wants,” said Crowder. “He can name the terms and I will face
him one-on-one if he wants to avoid prison.”
“I am serious,” he added. “He can go to jail, or compete with me in a sanctioned bout for charity.”
The ongoing civil strife in Egypt, its Muslim Brotherhood president
grabbing sweeping powers, and a cooling of relations with Israel don’t
seem to be making much of an impression on the Defense Department’s
foreign military aid decisions.
The Obama administration is going ahead with a delivery of 20 F-16
fighter jets to the Muslim Brotherhood-led country, even as Amnesty
International is calling “dangerous” President Mohammed Morsi’s decision to grant the military the power to arrest civilians protesting against him.
Fox News reports the 20 F-16s are part of a $1 billion foreign aid package:
The first four jets are to be delivered to Egypt
beginning Jan. 22, a source at the naval air base in Fort Worth, where
the planes have been undergoing testing, told FoxNews.com. The North
African nation already has a fleet of more than 200 of the planes and
the latest shipment merely fulfills an order placed two years ago. But
given the uncertainty in Cairo, some critics wonder if it is wise to be
sending more top gun planes.
“Should an overreaction [by Egypt] spiral into a broader conflict
between Egypt and Israel, such a scenario would put U.S. officials in an
embarrassing position of having supplied massive amounts of military
hardware … to both belligerents,” said Malou Innocent, a foreign policy
analyst at the Cato Institute. “Given Washington’s fiscal woes, American
taxpayers should no longer be Egypt’s major arms supplier.”
The U.S. government ordered and paid for the fighter jets for Egypt’s
military as part of foreign aid for Egypt back in 2010, when Hosni
Mubarak ruled. The fighter jets were supposed to be delivered in 2013,
and delivery will go ahead as scheduled even though Hosni Mubarak has
been removed from power and replaced by Mohamed Morsi, who led the
Muslim Brotherhood before becoming Egypt’s president.
