SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, Have You No Sense of Decency?

The incredible reporting by my colleagues at Big Government and Big Journalism on the shameful demonstration of intimidation by SEIU President Mary Kay Henry and her purple-shirted thugs this past Sunday in Washington DC has brought to light so many revelations exposing the corrupt nature of this union and their bought and paid-for allies.

But one over-riding story has yet to be discussed. And to me, it is the obvious one: What have we come to when these kind of bullying tactics are allowed to occur in our society?

The plan to invade the neighborhood and storm the front door of the private residence of a bank executive to shame them or intimidate them into changing the bank’s policy must be denounced from all sides of the political spectrum. What kind of America do these people want?

Do they really want to encourage this kind of disturbance of the peace and sanctity of an individual’s home merely as a means to a political end? Is this a road we as a society are willing to go down?

You often read on these pages allusions to “Alinsky tactics”, and Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. When we denounce efforts by the left and their organizations that have been created to push their agenda, it is just this kind of radical and extreme act we are talking about.

How could the White House remain silent after this obnoxious event? By their silence, is the Obama Administration giving tacit approval to the SEIU and their myriad of sister organizations to go forward and continue to storm the homes of other political adversaries?

The President has raised the act of demonizing faceless corporate evil-doers to an art form. The quasi-socialist rhetoric of class-warfare pervades most of his speeches on economic policy. And, given his obvious alliance with Big Labor in general and SEIU in particular, it goes to reason that by his silence he is pleased that these bullies are doing his dirty work by trying to force banks to “volunteer” to change their policies, lest their homes and neighborhoods get invaded again and again.

But, this kind of action must not be viewed through a partisan perspective. This behavior must be denounced by left and right as beyond the boundaries of our nation’s civil discourse. Our children must be allowed to nap in the privacy of our homes without hundred’s of activists with bull-horns waking them up. Our teenage children must be allowed to be at home alone without the frightening spectacle of a mob setting up camp on our front lawns. And we must be allowed to live in our neighborhood without being seen as the “pariah who stirred up all of the trouble with the union last Sunday”.

Imagine what our country would be like if this kind of behavior goes unchecked and un-condemned.

When will the President use this as a “teachable moment” and send a clear signal to his allies in the SEIU that they crossed the line and he un-equivocally denounces their thug tactics? When?