President Obama visited Montana last Friday. Watching the video footage, you get the impression that the entire state's human population (and most of the trees) are solidly and enthusiastically behind the President and his vision of socialized health care.

Right?

Not so, says Montana resident Sue in a letter to Pamela Geller's Atlas Shrugs blog:

During the week, cargo by the TONS was being shipped in constantly. Airport employees could not believe how it just kept coming. Though it was our President coming several expressed how excessive it was, especially during a recession. $$$$$ Late Tuesday/early Wednesday the 12th, they said that tickets would be handed out on Thursday 9am at two locations and the president would be arriving around 12:30 Friday. Thursday morning about 600 tickets were passed out. However, 1500 were printed at a Local printing shop per White House request. Hmmmm... 900 tickets just DISAPPEARED.

Read the letter... apparently the President's staff needed those 900 extra tickets to stack the hall in Obama's favor.

But the real action occurred outside. Once again, SEIU figured in heavily:

On Friday Joe and I got out to the airport about 10:45am. The groups that wanted to protest Obama's spending and healthcare had gotten a permit to protest and that area was roped off. But that was not to be. A large bus carrying SEIU (Service Employees International Union) members drove up onto the area (illegal)and unloaded right there. It was quite a commotion and there were specifically 2 SEIU men trying to make trouble and start a fight. Police did get involved and arrested the one man but they said they did not have the manpower to remove the SEIU crowd.

The SEIU crowd was very organized and young. About 99% were under the age of 30 and they were not locals! They had bullhorns and PROFESSIONALLY made signs. Some even wore preprinted T-shirts. Oh, and Planned Parenthood folks were with them.....professing abortion rights with their T-shirts and preprinted signs. (BTW, all these folks did have a permit to protest in ANOTHER area)

Those against healthcare/spending moved away from the SEIU crowd to avoid confrontation. They were orderly and respectful. Even though SEIU kept coming over and walking through, continuing to be very intimidating and aggressive at the direction of the one SEIU man.

So once again we have a band of union thugs acting as agents of Government to intimidate Citizens exercising their Constitutionally guaranteed rights to free assembly and expression. Local police did their best, but were simply outnumbered and out-maneuvered by the well-organized SEIU crowd.

Let's get the word out, shipmates! From Bozeman to Baton Rouge, no event is so small that our Statist President can't drum up an army of thugs to silence the voices of American Citizens in protest. And no army of thugs is so large that it can lurch its ham-hocked way through a stalwart line of trusty Navy Jacks.

Hat tip: Smitty.