When Socialist Shaun Harkin Attacks!

[TheGabrjone]

Should be re-titled: "When annoying fucks make a youtube video"

[sheilamaeb]

I rebuke this as pillory.

[sonsofspartacus]

Hahaha, he should have thrown it harder and into the street.

[TheAlisonChannel]

Shaun may be a cavalier jerk, but I assure you, he's not violent.

[godzilla1979]

This video does nothing to corroborate the author's slanderous claims. About the only reliable conclusions I can draw from this video and its author's profile is that Shaun exercised a good deal more restraint than I probably would have and that, unable to find any legitimate justification for their jingoism and xenophobia, Jake and MJ have resorted to ad hominem attacks. For some reason, this does not surprise me in the least.

[TheAlisonChannel]

This is ridiculous. To know Shaun is to love Shaun. Also, if you're going to make accusations, have some proof! Duh!

[MrProctorvt]

Way to highlight the complete poverty of intelligence in America. Go for outright provocation and character assassination rather than intelligent debate on the issues.

How did the leftists fare at the so-called Teabagger "protests"? My point exactly. Provocation for the sake of provocation yields aggression.

Politics is about taking sides. You're on the wrong one. Get out of our way.

[Xproletariatx]

Ha! Im so glad Shaun did that. You right wingers need to get taught a lesson. They're trying to organize a mass march and all you right wing nuts can do is run around with your dumb video cameras and secretly film busy activists. Get a life!

[JesusIsSocialist]

Duh!

[RadioBagpipe]

Wow, this video is dumb and tells us nothing. Shaun is an intelligent and gracious person. I get the feeling that you must have provoked him before the camera starting rolling. If you wanted to commit character assassination or slander, it could have been done a little bit more professionally than this piece of crud.

[thebaldchick]

Unfortunately for you, the facts and your feelings aren't one and the same. As I've commented before, Shaun came stalking across the park to confront us. Just on the outside chance you're interested in facts...

[RadioBagpipe]

Ok, where are the "facts" in this video? You seem to talk a lot about the facts...but have none. As I said before, filming people in public places:  not illegal. Character assassination: illegal. Unless you have something more decent than this, no wonder you've made no legal headway.

[amsterdam78]

Shaun Harkin rocks!! Long live the Socialist Revolution!

[Valo212]

Also, if savagery includes "unpolished and rude" according to the dictionary...then I would say you are included in that definition if you're photographing/filming people without their permission.

[Valo212]

Get a life. If you have time to go around filming people, you obviously need one. You don't have the right to film or publish films of a person without their permission. Shaun is actually a really nice guy, when stupid people aren't provoking him by being rude and nosy.

[thebaldchick]

Check the law. Shaun was in a public place, giving me every right to take video and photographs.

And I, for one, could not care less if you think he's "nice." I was more concerned for my own physical safety and for protecting the equipment I worked hard to earn the money to pay for, and which I was using in a demonstrably legal fashion.

But thanks for calling me stupid, rude and nosy. You made my case against the left for me, and I bet it was without one iota of a clue that you had done so.

[chicagoray40]

I woulda bashed that guys frickin head in and I'm sure Jake had to hold back from doing it as well.. What a marxist twig

[PixelFool]

In addition, it wouldn't be very socialist of him to disrespect or attack women in any way, or to refuse to consider alternative opinions. Marxists are for equality of the sexes and have continually reassessed their positions throughout history, which includes being critical about Lenin's opinions.

[jakejacobsen]

Yes, gosh, Russia was an equal rights bonanza! Are you seriously this dense? Please tell me your kidding.

[PixelFool]

Yeah, it's unfortunate that this video doesn't really tell us anything useful except the opinions of the person behind the camera. Shaun is a kind and intelligent person, so this video doesn't exactly convince me that he's a savage or a thug. Such is the nature of information and empiricism.

[jakejacobsen]

May want to get that glasses prescription checked out.

[amsterdam78]

I agree, the video shows little, except to republicans looking for trouble and, WOW, they find it. Good job Shaun Harkin.

[thebaldchick]

LOL. Again, not sure you're interested in facts, but I am not and have never been a Republican. I love it when people make narrow-minded and fallacious assumptions about someone they don't know, though. So much for the tolerant left!

[amsterdam78]

Capitalist propaganda meat puppet.

[crazymaddopeyo]

What a nice guy.

I would of broken that thing.

[wagzetsu]

I'm lost. What's the big deal?

[Dedalus3008]

you people are pathetic!if you are going to run around sticking a camera in peoples faces like the papparazzi then you deserve all you get.Also if thats what you call an attack then you are seriously deluded as to the way of the world!

[jakejacobsen]

Still defending savages D? Yawn, how surprising.

[alexmh17]

Give me a break. Savagery is murder and violence, not knocking a camera away How would you like someone sticking a camera in your face. Seriously if some lefwing group followed you around with a camera how would you react?

[thebaldchick]

Actually, according to the dictionary, savagery includes:

uncivilized

enraged or furiously angry

unpolished or rude

to attack or criticize thoroughly

I wasn't "sticking the camera in his face" -- I was taking pictures. There IS a difference.

And I wasn't following him around. I was walking through a public park taking pictures.

Listen to the end of the video. Even his buddies knew he was wrong and tried to get him to stop.

[alexmh17]

You might want to do an experiment and go stick your camera in some random person's face and see what their reaction is. I'd imagine if you didn't refuse to stop filming it would be similar to the guy you decided to harass.

[jakejacobsen]

When you condone savagery Alex, you are the savage.

[stripe66506]

I know this man personally, he's a very good man.

Too bad you didn't show what happened before your video cuts in. You wouldn't be as self-righteous if that was in this clip.

[thebaldchick]

I can't show you, because you saw the video when it started. But I can tell you what happened. We were walking through the park, taking pictures of the crowd and the signs. Shaun came striding across the grass and started yelling at us. I took out the video camera when he threatened us and started shoving my husband in the chest.

Do I WISH I'd already been videotaping, so I could show you that as well? Absolutely. Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20.

[rights07]

jkhkjhjk

[sinwaters909]

lame. how does him being a socialist make him a "thug?" its seems like the person who posted this video had nothing intelligent to say. lame.

[thebaldchick]

He isn't a thug because he's a socialist...he's a thug because he grabbed my camera and threatened to get his friends to "push us out" of a public park because we hold opposing political views.

He's also a self-proclaimed socialist.

That makes him a socialist thug.

Get it?

[themodpoet]

yawn... youtube is so much for children and adults who think like children... go pray to a flag or something

[Peskypurple1]

This is just for you.

Oh, great and powerful American flag,

Please use your ALL-WHITE STRIPES to strike down all our enemies, including but not limited to Marxists that hang out on YouTube. Use your pointy death stars to annihilate those that would dishonour you by striking down innocent people armed with (shock! horror!) the tiniest of video cameras. And please, if it be your will, resurrect the spirit of Ronald Reagan so we may do his bidding. In the name of Uncle Sam, Amen!

[TruthSekker]

This post by Peskypurple1 got me to literally LOL!!! Bring back the spirit of Ronald Regan! You know, he is the one that signed AMNESTY for all back in 1986.

[Peskypurple1]

Yeah. I think that Ronnie actually BELIEVED the Democrats and Republicans who said that they would secure the border. Still waiting on that one. Poor Ronnie. He never knew what was coming.

[themodpoet]

um, so where in this video is the violence or attack? All I see is a man swatting a fly... er, child with a video camera.

[jakejacobsen]

Well Modpoet that would be because your an idiot! :) Don't worry though, I'm sure your an highly edumacated idiot, but sadly, an idiot nonetheless!

Just curious, how do think the camera went sailing in the first place, magic? Socialist magic?

[sinwaters909]

lol

[Storm2u724]

No MJ, you are wrong. Shaun does not attack women who disagree with him. He might be a socialist, and that is great for him. At least he stands FOR something instead of against something the way you people do. He NEVER attacks women! He does however, have serious disliking for RACIST PUNKS of any gender who stick their noses where they don't belong.

[rights07]

Could you not have made better use of your new camera by firstly, reading the instructions and secondly, recording the actual issue that people were protesting about. What was your real purpose in attending this event, if the only thing you have mentioned has been about the organisers? 'J' and 'MJ' maybe you should use your time to attend marches that you are actually interested in.

[TruthSekker]

OK folks, the video clearly states that they "snuck" in, they knew that they would not be welcomed by the march organizers so why are they surprised to have been treated this way? Clearly Jake and MJ were there to provoke . . . so they got just what they were asking for . .

[Peskypurple1]

Sarcasm. How can one sneak into a public place?

[turntapzap]

That kind of shit makes my blood boil.

[arkivx1]

All he need was his Brown Shirt, lol, So true.

[boycottmc]

This is outrageous! According to Counter Punch, SHAUN HARKIN works with Chicago's March 10 Coalition immigrant rights group and writes for the Socialist Worker. He can be reached at: shaunharkin (at) gmail (dot) com. Let him know how tough he was by attacking a woman.

[oldrebel]

What a cowardly bunch of low life snakes in the grass. Thanks for the video. We will be sending it all over the U.S. He will have his 15 minutes of fame the hard way. Big tough guy. He is lucky he didn't do that in our part of the country.

[wrightpaw]

What I'm wondering, is did you bring this to the police and file a battery complaint? Criminal mischeof, etc?, Next maybe have a BIG friend go with on these excursions. anyway, you keep going and doing just what you are. Your great!

[MassachusettsPatriot]

I'll be more than happy to teach this asshole a lesson in good old fashion New England morals and values by giving my foot a good shove up his ass for treating MJ and her friend like that.

[Auggie56]

All he needed was a brown shirt.

[linwooddeaton]

Isn't that illegal? Are you suing him for this attack?

[simplydannygirl]

Is this Shaun Harkin one those illegal Irish? A all time low wrestling a camera from a woman.

Danny

[raccoonbrat]

Too bad that Shaun Harkin doesn't try that down here in Arkansas where self-defense is legal. Depending on the tastes of the individual he is assaulting, he would be the proud owner of a .44 magnum, .357 magnum, .40 S&W, .38 special, or .45 ACP souvenir. Love you Jake and the 'Bald Chick' MJ.