Right-wing blogs and pseudo-media outlets are working themselves into a frenzy over a job posting for SEIU Healthcare 775NW, the Washington state union that represents thousands of home healthcare workers. The posting for "Senior/Lead Internal Organizer, Home Care" comes with a job description that includes among other things:

· Train and lead members in non-violent civil disobedience, such as occupying state buildings and banks, and peaceful resistance.

· Plan and execute strategic direct action field plans including banner drops, bank takeovers, and capitol occupations with membership, other local unions, and coalition partners.

It's plain language that has prompted the entertainingly wacko RedState to brand SEIU a "radical and militantly Marxist union," and the objectively addlepated Objectivist Pam Geller to prattle about unions being "looters, moochers, destroyers, rapists, thieves, arsonist, killers, etc." Meanwhile, the obviously anti-labor LaborUnionReport asks:

Since the SEIU has already shown it has no respect for private property, the question that lingers is: Will 2013 be the year when a real attorney general finally begins to look at the entire SEIU structure with RICO in mind?

That's right, the stupid, fucking, crazy, paranoid, right-wing morons apparently view this job listing as reason to prosecute SEIU under racketeering laws devised to combat organized crime. What a bunch of stupid, fucking, crazy, paranoid, right-wing morons.

Um... it's no secret that SEIU and other unions have organized non-violent civil disobedience like occupying government buildings and banks. In fact, this is the sort of thing that organized labor routinely does—plan and participate in protests—and from my personal experience covering such protests, they tend to do it in an extraordinarily organized manner. The sit-ins at the DC offices of Rep. Dave Reichert and other Republicans earlier this month—there was nothing particularly "radical" or "militant" about it. The massive occupation of K Street the next day—there was zero "looting, mooching, destroying, raping, thieving, arson, or killing."

These protests were remarkably well planned and executed; the discipline was impressive. And much of the credit must surely go to the training and guidance provided by professional organizers like the one being hired through this job listing.

And as for Fox Business' assertion that this job listing is evidence of SEIU attempting to hire "professional protesters" to co-opt the Occupy movement, well, that's just plain dumb. SEIU has been hiring organizers like this since long before Occupy Wall Street, and will continue to hire them long after. And while organized labor has certainly borrowed some of the rhetorical themes of the Occupy movement, it's gone to great pains to avoid co-opting.

Besides, have these people ever talked to the Occupy folks? Not exactly a crowd that's ripe for co-opting.

But then, I guess it's hard to resist branding your political opponents as radical, militant, Marxists when you're a stupid, fucking, crazy, paranoid, right-wing moron.