Via Gateway Pundit comes this report from GraniteGrok in which a Union thug attacks some Free Stater at the behest of the Democrat Gestapo:

It seems that one of the Free Staters was accosted by either an SEIU or AFSCME union thug.  The story, corroborated by several sources, is that the Free Stater said something that the Union thug did not like and hauled off and spit into his video camera

and then kicked him in the groin.

The camera was running so hopefully it will surface soon.

Meanwhile Huffington Post contributor, known historical revisionist, and Pro-Communist anti-Semite Joseph A. Palermo has called for Democrats to handle criticism of health care by enlisting large numbers of Union goons to intimidate them into silence:

So there’s a simple solution to these Republican astro-turf goon squads that are currently disrupting Democratic town hall meetings on health care. Do what Kennedy did. Speak before a crowd of supporters who have dirt under their fingernails and know how to win battles in the workplace. The fight over health care is no different from the fight over the eight-hour day or the minimum wage. At root is whether we as a nation are going to view health care as a human right or will we allow it to remain a privilege.

Democratic politicians facing town hall disruptions should seek the help of their working-class supporters. Make sure large numbers of people from the local unions come to these events. Then we’ll see if the Tea Bagger thugs can continue their bullying tactics on behalf of corporations seeking to block progress on health care.

Aside from the weird man crush Palermo has on what he thinks are rough around the edges Union bears who scare we Republicans with their “burliness” Palermo betrays what effete downwardly mobile White academics (Palermo is a college adjunct unsurprisingly) think of working class men.  In Palermo’s mind they are violent, easily led and exist to do the bidding of their “betters.”

Palermo should note that everyone attacked by a Union thug was sucker punched, a small person, or a woman. I am attending several South Carolina town halls next week and I can give you my personal guarantee that some union thug who spits on my camera or puts his hands on me will score a “full one” on the Muta scale. I can also guarantee that since I myself am “burly” no union thug will hit me no matter how many hateful things i say about their mothers, something which I can’t guarantee won’t happen.  I wonder if that would shatter his fantasy of being rescued from a mob of evil right wingers by a plaid shirted carpenter who sweeps him up in his strong arms and rushes him to his cottage in the woods to recuperate?

But I know a lot of people like Palermo, weak and fragile themselves they see the lazy, fat drunks that make up the union’s professional protest wing as the height of intimidation. Palermo’s the same person who crosses the street when he sees a Black couple or orders his lo mein in badly garbled Mandarin that he picked up on a vacation to China. Palermo is the very picture of what he himself would call White Privilege, that is the ability of people like him to insulate themselves from reality with a combination of his parents’ money and only coming into contact with minorities and working class people when they are fixing his toilet or serving him food.

Thus he sees union shops as workers’ armies waiting for an academic commissar to give them marching orders and anyone who disagrees with him is just a target of his unresolved father issues, sublimated through the lens of his adolescent fixation on Leninism. Palermo’s call for violence is a call for others to exert his absent masculinity and it is disturbingly sincere for all its eyebrow raising Freudian slippage. There are thousands of people like Palermo out there calling for violence, and if even 1% will act on it that’s a lot of crime coming our way.