Problem is that the video was edited and didn't show the guy with the America's for Prosperity button pulling down the tent...
------------------------------------ Three Ravens Consulting Eric Roberts Owner/Developer ow...@threeravensconsulting.com tel: 630-486-5255 fax: 630-310-8531 http://www.threeravensconsulting.com ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:42 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Mandatory Union Tax Ending in Michigan? I'm guessing you're going to feel silly when you watch the video. http://washingtonexaminer.com/union-protesters-at-michigan-capitol-tear-down -slash-apart-conservative-groups-tent/article/2515641 . On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > As usual, Jerry picks up whatever sounds most hateful from the right > wing blogs and posts it without question. Brilliant stuff, Jerry. > > So, according to actual news reports and interviews with the guy, > here's what seems to have happened. > > The food vendor in question, Mr. Tarver, was not attacked, nor was his > food cart attacked. Rather, his catering set up was in the tent that collapsed. > Obviously, when a tent collapses, the stuff underneath it get's squashed. > That is what happened in this case. > > The cause of the collapse is disputed with AFP claiming it was either > union protestors or occupy/anarchist folks. People on the outside > claim that the tent came down from inside. No complaint has been filed > with the police yet, so no investigation has been done. AFP > acknowledged that some of people that helped them out when the tent collapsed were union members. > > There is also a complaint from Mr. Tarver's wife (who is an AFP > supporter) that some people in the crowd said racially abusive things to Mr. Tarver. > This seems to have been backed up by witnesses. > > So there is a dispute about why the tent collapsed. When it did > collapse, some members in the crowd jumped in to help out. Others, it > seems, were really jerks about the whole thing and were horrible to > Mr. Tarver, calling him an Uncle Tom for having the temerity to be > black and do catering work for AFP. > > So no one was attacked, it isn't clear who (if anyone) is responsible > for the tent coming down and there was some horrible people who > verbally abused Mr. Tarver. That's obviously unacceptable and needs > to be condemned. As far as I know, all the organizers have condemned it. > > Now I'd love to see the crap about "union thuggery" stop and instead > focus on what did happen and how to make sure that future group > gatherings can prevent such incidents but of course that would be > entirely too optimistic to be real. Ah well. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359214 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
