Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Tea Party thugs stage fight at work-for-less rally

As protests get under way at the Michigan State Capitol against the fascist "right-to-work" law, 17,000 people who oppose the law have been met by one or two tents that contain the law's supporters. The tents are maintained by the far-right Americans for Prosperity (AFP) - a group that has helped prop up the Tea Party.

Fox News has been endlessly running a video that purports to show labor union supporters tearing down one of the tents and starting a fight. But it turns out that AFP tore the tent down themselves so they could blame it on the union folks. One witness says he saw one of the AFP operatives who had been inside the tent loosen the straps on the tent poles. Then the tent collapsed from the inside.

Fox News conveniently caught on camera most of the ensuing altercation - but not the collapse of the tent or the actual start of the fistfight.

Is this anything like the time Scott Walker was caught on tape talking about staging fights at the labor rallies in Wisconsin?

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/11/1169038/-BREAKING-Americans-for-Prosperity-stages-phony-altercation-at-Mich-Right-to-Work-rally-interview)

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