Domestic Terrorism Strikes Longview, Washington
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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor that's staffing a workforce of other union laborers.
It's almost as if you aren't even trying to make a point.
It's almost as if you aren't even trying to make a point.
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My point was that 500 or more members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union committed an act of domestic terrorism when they held six guards hostage for a couple of hours after breaking and entering and destroying property.
If you'd like to make a point that taking and holding six Americans hostage for any reason isn't terrorism...
...good luck with that, hotdog.
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If that was your point, you really are as dumb as your posts would indicate.
Get a job and pay some taxes, mooch. Then you can have an opinion.
Just like you, azzhole...
...I "have an opinion".
Your true problem with that is...
...you know you're not man enough to take it away from me as you clearly long to.
Alas, that's simply a personal shortcoming issue you should've have dealt with by now...
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No one was shot?
WTF?
I guess the security guards were union, too.
And property damage is covered by insurance, so who cares.
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No one has a 'right' to their job beyond the owner of the company. ALL company jobs belong to the company, not any individual or group. Employees are merely filling a slot in the table of organization and those names are written in in pencil.
As far as the thuggish behavior, it's to be expected by union members. It's what they do and what they've done as long as my memory serves me.
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I seem to remember some guys dressing up as Indians and doing something similar a couple of hundred years ago...
Replace the Union workers with non union Mexicans.
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No one was hurt????
What a pussy you are.
First you start crying, complaining because Hoffa talks some shit, just like the shit we've been hearing from the extreme right for months.
Then you call this terrorism.
That's some kind of nasty vicious terrorism you're talking about.
It raises the question: Do you even know what the word "terrorism" actually means?
-- Having said that, I will say that longshoremen seem to me to be an overpaid greedy bunch.
Only a fellow traveller would term criminals "working people" in this instance and condone their taking hostages as any form of justifiable protest.
Just goes once again to show that statists - whatever collective tag they deem to label themselves with - have absolutely no regard for the unalienable individual liberty of another human being.
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So the Boston Tea Party participants were criminals?
They certainly were considered so, and that single act immediately led to stiffer legislation against all colonists...
...in fact, the Sons of Liberty "criminal" ringleaders - Samuel Adams and John Hancock - were being pursued by the Regulars when "the shot heard 'round the world" was fired.
There's no question the British considered patriot acts "terrorism"...
...but, how many hostages did the Sons of Liberty take and hold that night in Boston's harbor?
Only a socialist mortally infected with relativism can directly link today's hostage taking and the destruction of the tea...
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Really? So the anchor watch weren't taken hostage? I suggest you learn your history. The only difference is "the sons of liberty" were working for the rich landowners and the longshoremen were working men.
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It sounds like working class people are finally waking up and realizing that they have to stop the right wing from taking their rights away.
Good for them.
Good for them.
Perhaps you can steer me to your "learnin" of anchor watches (or anyone else that night) being taken hostage?
And what you now seem to be implying, since you deem no relative difference between them and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, is that you actually endorse the Sons of Liberty against the British...
Not in the eyes of the settlers.
Here's more substantive info from a local paper, part of which reads:
Federal judge issues restraining order against ILWU members
"Union protests have prevented train deliveries of grain to the plant since July, when hundreds of ILWU protesters blocked a mile-long train from entering the terminal."
"A second hearing is scheduled Sept. 8 to decide whether to make the order permanent, said Richard Ahearn, director of the Seattle office of the National Labor Relations Board, which filed for the order Wednesday after receiving a complaint from EGT. Leighton was appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush in 2002."
"Leighton's order should quiet down activity at the terminal, where more than 100 longshore protesters have been arrested since July 11. Local 21 has been pressuring EGT to hire its members to run the facility, saying EGT is obligated to do so under its lease agreement with the port and an agreement between the port and union. Talks between EGT and ILWU broke off in January, and this summer EGT hired union operators employed by General Construction Co. of Federal Way to run the terminal."
"On Monday, the NLRB filed a formal complaint against the ILWU, alleging multiple incidents of harassment and threatening of EGT employees and vandalism of the company's property. A hearing is scheduled Oct. 11 in Portland."
The rest @
http://tdn.com/news/local/article_b77ac7a8-d50f-11e0-affa-001cc4c002e0.html
BTW:
Another headline writer seems to associate Hoffa's words Monday with today's criminal action:
The Hoffa Effect? Union Agitators Storm Port, Hold Security Guards Hostage
http://nation.foxnews.com/unions/2011/09/08/union-agitators-storm-port-hold-security-guards-hostage
Federal judge issues restraining order against ILWU members
"Union protests have prevented train deliveries of grain to the plant since July, when hundreds of ILWU protesters blocked a mile-long train from entering the terminal."
"A second hearing is scheduled Sept. 8 to decide whether to make the order permanent, said Richard Ahearn, director of the Seattle office of the National Labor Relations Board, which filed for the order Wednesday after receiving a complaint from EGT. Leighton was appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush in 2002."
"Leighton's order should quiet down activity at the terminal, where more than 100 longshore protesters have been arrested since July 11. Local 21 has been pressuring EGT to hire its members to run the facility, saying EGT is obligated to do so under its lease agreement with the port and an agreement between the port and union. Talks between EGT and ILWU broke off in January, and this summer EGT hired union operators employed by General Construction Co. of Federal Way to run the terminal."
"On Monday, the NLRB filed a formal complaint against the ILWU, alleging multiple incidents of harassment and threatening of EGT employees and vandalism of the company's property. A hearing is scheduled Oct. 11 in Portland."
The rest @
http://tdn.com/news/local/article_b77ac7a8-d50f-11e0-affa-001cc4c002e0.html
BTW:
Another headline writer seems to associate Hoffa's words Monday with today's criminal action:
The Hoffa Effect? Union Agitators Storm Port, Hold Security Guards Hostage
http://nation.foxnews.com/unions/2011/09/08/union-agitators-storm-port-hold-security-guards-hostage
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