King Hussein Obama has it humming like a sewing machine:

Ken Gladney, the man beaten by union thugs at a town hall meeting, is the latest victim of the Fear Machine: an old horror from the early twentieth century, still in service after many upgrades. It is crucial piece of hardware for collectivists of all stripes, because the success of their grand designs requires a frightened populace – now more than ever. It isn’t easy to persuade an Information Age society to forget all the lessons of the past century, and hand their money, freedom, and lives over to the same rancid ideology that bathed the world in blood and poverty. There aren’t enough suckers willing to believe that this time, the collectivists will manage to construct utopia. There aren’t enough people stupid enough to think the architects of the three trillion dollar deficit, stagnant economy, and runaway unemployment just need another fifteen or twenty percent of the economy under their control, and decades of miserable failure will suddenly turn into dazzling success. Ignorance is not a potent enough fuel to get socialism where it wants to go. It needs fear added to the mixture.

Brave and confident citizens are of little use to the socialist, because they have little appetite for government control of their daily lives. People who retain a measure of faith in their own abilities, and their ability to succeed in a free marketplace, are not looking for saviors. When a politician jumps in front of them and declares himself to be their messiah, they’re likely to respond with laughter. People like Barack Obama, and the leadership of the Democrat Party, do not like being laughed at. They are even less willing to tolerate questions about their wisdom or good intentions. Their predecessors left them the keys to a well-tuned machine that suppresses laughter, and questions, with apprehension and dread.

The Fear Machine has claws and cudgels, but it’s also wired into televisions and computers. It knows that chaos is more intimidating than raw violence. The purpose of dispatching the thugs who beat Mr. Gladney was not merely to silence him, or make other protestors feel physically threatened. The purpose is to make everyone who might attend a town hall feel as if they could be walking into a mob scene. Most Americans are decent people who don’t want to become part of a riot. Notice how quickly the Left’s media auxiliaries acted to muddy the waters, spinning tales of frightened Democrats hiding from imposing, probably racist mobs.

Just as I said they would. Incredibly, some liberal blogs jumped into the fray immediately after Obama’s union-goon attacks were reported, blaming — you guessed it — the “right-wing mob” for regime-incited left-wing violence. The idiot Carnahan tried to claim that both sides were to blame for the Left’s longtime penchant for violence, conveniently ignoring the simple fact that there was no “violent mob” until Obama’s goon squad showed up. Some even went so far as to make the risible claim…that Gladney attacked Obama’s Purpleshirts, in a brutal right-wing attempt to deny them their First Amendment right to lie about their master’s intentions.

Of course, such an utterly ass-backwards fabrication should surprise no one, coming as it does from a “reality”-based community with no connection to — in fact, an absolute horror of — reality. Here’s Gladney at yesterday’s anti-fascist rally at SEIU HQ:

Scary-looking guy, ain’t he? The very Platonic ideal of a violent right-wing Nazi, someone likely to physically assault anyone who disagrees with him in a blind frenzy of wet-brained intolerance. No wonder it took several of Obama’s courageous minions to subdue this thug.

Treacher says, “If Kenneth Gladney were an Obama supporter, right now he’d be more famous than Rodney King…What better way to convince people they need the government to run their health care than to put them in the hospital?” Oh, and while we’re at it: Alberto explains the difference between grassroots protesters and “grassroots” protesters. Get it straight and get with it, right-wing mobsters!