Rampage Video! Atlanta Carpenters Union Boss Goes Nuts on Atlanta Citizen
Monday, October 19, 2009 at 04:03AM Displaying what has become his trademark tactic, Atlanta Local 225/Southeastern Carpenters Regional Council (SECRC) organizer Jimmy Gibbs recently melted down in profane rage while verbally attacking a passerby at a union demonstration in Atlanta. And it was all caught on tape!
"I make fu-king more than you do, so shut the fu-k up!" screams Gibbs at his victim. "So shut the fu-k up mother fu-ker and get the fu-k out of here! Move your ass back to Iraq or somewhere if you like Saddam and those sand people! Go! Go! Go!"
For years, Atlanta area citizens have complained to the police about intimidation tactics and threats used by Gibbs and an ever-changing cast of SECRC union-paid homeless agitators who show up for unruly demonstrations at sites that employ carpenters and drywallers exercising their right to work as non-union merit-shop tradesmen in Georgia. In almost all cases, Gibbs and his agitators have been allowed to harass and abuse anyone who comes within striking distance by claiming protection under the First Amendment statute of free speech.
That is about to change.
The carpenters union has already been slapped with a $1.7 million jury verdict over illegal protest tactics devised by Gibbs and other union bosses in the case of Fidelity Interiors v. SECRC. Now Atlanta lawmakers and business leaders are questioning why Gibbs and his cronies are allowed to hide behind the First Amendment while denying the right of free speech to anyone who crosses their path.
Amateur video captured Gibbs and his union-paid bodyguard as they recently confronted the young passerby who was standing on a public sidewalk. The young man, who was exercising his free speech right to question Gibbs' spending of union money and tactics of sending a busload of desperate homeless people to scream pro-union rhetoric on Atlanta street corners, soon learned that his free speech rights meant nothing when in opposition to Gibbs' free speech rights.
Here's a transcript of the encounter after Gibbs refers to the Arabic race as "sand people."
Passerby: "You call them sand people?"
Gibbs: "Get the fu-k off! Go, go, go, go, go!"
Passerby: "Now that's racist. That is racist, sir."
Gibbs: "I ain't racist."
Passerby: "You called them sand people. That is racist."
Gibbs: "You go and kiss their ass then."
Passerby: "You have gone over there and you have made fun of Arab-Americans . . . Barack Obama has shown that racism is wrong for America. You go around calling people sand people? What the heck is wrong with you?"
Gibbs: "Sand people. They live in the sand country. Go, go, go!"
Passerby: "They live in the sand, they're sand people? This guy doesn't like Arabs."
Gibbs: "You wearing your fu-king shirt, you wear your shirt thinking people gonna give you some sympathy. We don't give no sympathy here. You don't get none of that here from us."
Passerby: "I know."
Of course, anyone who has followed the carpenters union Local 225 demonstrations designed to upset spinal injury victims
and disabled Iraq War veterans at the Shepherd Center know that sympathy and compassion for anyone other than a union boss is not in the SECRC and Local 225 playbook.
It's beyond shameful.
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Reader Comments (32)
This is disgusting. This cannot be legal. The police need to step in wherever this nut shows up and put him in a cage and take him back to the zoo.
That little prison bitch in this video wouldn't talk so tough if he didn't have his goon behind him.
What's really weird is I think I know the guy who Gibbs is screaming at. I think he's a veteran. I'm not sure, but I think the guy shipped out to Iraq in 2004, and has been working on some jobs for the past year.
Either way, it just ain't right that Gibbs is able to run up and down public sidewalks and assault anybody who disagrees with him. Where are the police? How long is this going to be allowed to go on?
Justice is coming.
The United States Government supports and sanctions this behavior.... speak up people, tell your congressmen and senators that you do not think the US Gov't should support the continued unionization of America where people like Jimmy Gibbs are figures of authority.
STOP THE MADNESS!
Be it Jimmy Gibbs, Dickie Bone, Douglas McCarron, Ron Gettelfinger, James P Hoffa, John Sweeney or any of the current union leaders; tell your elected officials we are tired of their abuse in the name of "worker rights". We are on to their criminal behavior and well aware of how rich they are (thank you for telling us Jimmy), but the time has come to fight back!
All unions are these days are special interest groups more concerned about fleecing their own members and the businesses that are forced to employ them to line their own corrupt pockets and the senators and congressmen who assist them in doing so should be thrown out of office and criminally prosecuted.
This "manager" gives no merit to their cause. He only subtracts,
Jimmy gibbs, one of these days you and your hired goons are gonna show up on the wrong picket line. You're gonna try to terrorize the wrong Georgia folk, just 'cause you think we in Georgia buy your country act.
You're a frickin' bag man for a Washington union who thinks because the boss of Circle Group is from New York City you can get away with your union shakedowns. Now you gonna pay 1.7 million in your member dues because you and the hacks cooked up a stupid plan to boycott a small outfit called Fidelity
I looked up what Hank would say about Jimmy gibbs.
"I had a good friend in New York City,
He never called me by my name, just hillbilly...
"My grandpa taught me how to live off the land,
And his taught him to be a businessman...
"He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights,
And I'd send him some homemade wine...
"But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife,
For forty-three dollars, my friend lost his life...
"I'd love to spit some Beech-Nut in that dude's eye
As I shoot him with my old forty-five
'Cause a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive...
"Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run
'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotguns...
We say grace, and we say ma'am,
If you ain't into that, we don't give a damn...
"We're from North California and South Alabam',
And little towns all around this land...
"And we can skin a buck, we can run a trout line,
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive
A country boy can survive
Country folks can survive..."
Wow this is a shocking video!
He looks like a crime lord with his big bodyguard next to him screaming like a rabid dog.
LOL!!!
Hold on while I forward this link to all the General Contractors in town.
LOL!!!!
The walls are closing in on Jimmy and the rest of his thieving cohorts, as union leadership has had just about enough of the types of press coverage he's been getting them, let alone the fact that he has garnered virtually no support from the general populace due to his actions. There's a reason union membership has declined throughout the years, and Jimmy and his thugs are making sure they never come back.
He's so tiny.
The Union should not be allowed to talk about and to people like this.
I can't believe he's ranken on that dudes military t-shirt. is this really a union manager??
He's yelling "you don't want them to have health care or retirement"
?????
What is he talking about? Everyone at Circle Group qualifies for health care, dental, 401k, etc. Does he mean the soldier?
How proud would you be if your ony skill set was being smart enough to hire the homeless and your vocabularly was limited to "F" bombs. I kind of think it is funny this guy is so low on the totem pole he can't hold a real job with the union.
LoL poster who pulls up Hank Williams Jr.
I got another one for Jimmy Gibbs, courtesy of John Lennon. It tells the story of a union hack, sorta an assistant bitch, who keeps getting promised he's gonna get promoted to head bitch if he hauls around the homeless and sings and dances on street corners while a bunch of crazy shit plays in the background. Take it away, John
"There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
" When theyve tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you cant really function youre so full of fear..
"Keep you doped with religion and sex and tv
And you think youre so clever and classless and free
But youre still fucking peasants as far as I can see"
That photo of the little black-leathered coat old thug pointing UP at the tall handsome young man is very funny ;)
Mr. Gibbs is just a classless loser working for thugs! Racism, Ignorance, Stupidity, are all wrong but doesn’t mean they don’t exist apparently.
What's concerning is that Gibbs can not keep control over that language while in confrontation and video. everything there is wrong with the Union.
Yes good point Proud Citizen, people like this are ego driven and unconscious.
His ego has identified himself with "his idea of his cause."
He thinks (thinks) he is above the law and everyone else, which we've clearly seen, the Atlanta judges have shown, he is not.
All villains are justified in their own mind.
ahhh I think I know who southern truth is now ;)
That is an army logo on that young guys shirt. He is military. I cannot believe this asswipe James Gibbs would give someone who defended our country such a hard time and scream at him like a raving lunatic.
Gibbs is pure trash and Un-American. Get him the hell out of Georgia.
Hilarious how he goes from yelling "Get the hell out of here! Go! Go! Go!" to yelling "So Please come around!" What a jerk, who does he think he's fooling anyway?
this clown is who runs the show?? didn't he see the camera?? he just doesn't care huh?? how shocking
Is he another one of those "card-sellers"?!
"I make more than you do so shut the fuck up!"
My goodness, such genius and intellect.
Is this the voice of President Obama's union label?
ANGER and HATE are still king in the SOUTH! The hateful messages I saw this weekend painted on buildings throughout South Carolina targeting Mexicans shows their level of thinking.
It should come as no surprise to anyone why the south lags behind most of the country in income and education. It’s like they live in a bubble. Unlike the real estate bubble, this one live on!