http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/...e-via-twitter/

"Brian Beutler reported at Talking Points Memo on Friday that a health care
protester in New Mexico had been encouraging those following him on Twitter
to bring their guns to town hall meetings - and use them if provoked.

"If ACORN/SEIU attends these meetings for disruptive purposes, and you have
a license to carry..carry," Scott Oskay wrote in one tweet. In another, he
suggested, "Stop being peaceful, and hurt them. Badly."

The Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU) appears to be the latest
bogeyman for the anti-health care protesters. Conservative blogger Michelle
Malkin, for example, claimed on Friday that "SEIU thugs rolled up their
sleeves and attacked a black conservative protester in St. Louis."

As described by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, however, the facts of the
incident cited by Malkin were far less clearcut. Out of the half a dozen
people arrested following a town hall held by a Democratic Congressman, at
least three do not appear to have been involved in violence of any kind. One
supporter of a public option for health care told the paper that he and his
companion had been arrested for interference after his companion tried to
take pictures of a man who seemed to have been assaulted. A Post-Dispatch
reporter was arrested on the same charge.

A poster at Daily Kos elaborated on this incident, writing angrily, "St.
Louis cops arrested Democrats. people supporting reform and reporters. and
not the GOP thugs mobbing the healthcare townhall. A video clearly shows a
SEIU man down on the ground, injured, after he had been attacked. Another
SEIU man comes to his aid and gives him a hand up. A woman who had been on
the sidelines photographing this attack on the injured SEIU man appears to
be the 51-year old woman who was arrested for 'interference' with police.
She was peppersprayed after she was subdued."...