Contributed by: filbert Friday, August 07 2009 @ 08:24 AM CST
The violence against citizens who presume to insist on their First Amendment rights, that is. From the St. Louis Post Dispatch[*1] :
Kenneth Gladney, 38, a conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don’t tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was awaiting treatment for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack.
“It just seems there’s no freedom of speech without being attacked,” he said.
To provide balance in the story, they also interviewed a Democrat activist who was viciously assaulted . . . well, no, he was photographed by a someone allegedly from the “GOP,” got in the way of the police, and got himself arrested.
Balanced reporting, you see.