Rampage Video! Atlanta Carpenters Union Boss Goes Nuts on Atlanta Citizen

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.