Rising Hegemon
Two union members accused of beating conservative activist Kenny Gladney outside an August 2009 town hall meeting in St. Louis were acquitted of all charges by a jury Tuesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Wonder if Kenny Gladney is married to backward "B-Girl" now?
Tbogg who is the Emile Zola of the "Gladney Affaire" (surely a proud moment for him) has more of the pathetic details.
Gladney’s testimony was the most damaging to the prosecution’s case. For starters, Gladney appeared in a neck brace, which brought back memories of him showing up at a tea party rally in a wheel chair despite the fact that he was running around with no obvious discomfort immediately after the altercation took place. The defense lawyer said that Gladney’s neck brace, which he was wearing because of surgery for a herniated disc, had nothing to do with the altercation, and Gladney did not challenge him on that point, so I assume it’s true. But this opened up a criticism from the defense lawyer who asked Gladney why he showed up at the tea party rally in a wheelchair. Gladney saidhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif, basically, that it was hot and he was on medication and “they didn’t have folding chairs or lawn chairs.” Ouch.
The defense lawyer also pointed out that Gladney had repeatedly claimed in the past that he was “handing out flags for free.” But this seemingly is in contradiction with his claim that he went to the rally to “make money” by selling buttons and flags. The defense lawyer suggested that Gladney said this because he thought it would make him appear more sympathetic, just as showing up in a wheelchair would make him appear more sympathetic.
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The part that was quite funny was actually very much in character for Gladney, when he said that he just couldn't fight the money and legal power amassed against him. The money shot quote?: “I couldn’t beat them; I didn’t have the resources they had. They had all the money in the world and the backing… I’m just an average man.” (His case was being prosecuted by the St. Louis County prosecutor's office, a case in which he was a witness, not a plaintiff in a civil suit who might have been outgunned legally by defendants).
That may play with the teabaggers, because they wouldn't know the legal system from a banana cream pie, but the rest of us think it's pretty fuckin' funny.
I was at the town hall and the Tea Party people were being loud and aggressive. I even intervened when three Tea Dumbshits were yelling down on a woman with an accent and a small pro-insurance placard. They were getting into her face and telling her to go home if she didn't like America - presumably to Europe.
I asked her if she was a naturalized US citizen and she said yes. I thanked her for participating in democracy. The Tea Dumbshits, at least one of them wearing a Constitution with flag shirt, were a bit taken aback and didn't quite know what to do. So they mouthed off to me a little bit and then ambled off.
Didn't see the Gladney thing but it sure seemed like a setup when I heard about it the next day.
i am sure CNN will hire him.
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