DU celebrates union thugs taking hostages

[dandi]

And we're supposed to be the violent, dangerous ones.

Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Sep-08-11 12:38 PM
Original message
Longshoremen storm Wash. port over labor dispute (overpowered and held 6 security guards)
   
Edited on Thu Sep-08-11 12:41 PM by Omaha Steve
Source: AP-Excite

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.

Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.

No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines and spilling grain from car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said.

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.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20110908/D9PKE0CG2.htm...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4988304

If this is true, the hostage-takers need to be arrested and tried for kidnapping.

elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Sep-08-11 12:44 PM
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1. Good to see this, and remember there are/were some here who WOULD physically protest.
   
Its uncommon among most.

patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Sep-08-11 12:47 PM
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3. Goodness and Light be with these Workers and bring them Economic Justice!

SoapBox (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Sep-08-11 12:52 PM
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5. Bravo!
   
...and I can't help but contrast how these folks have to act to get a voice heard, compared to this article:

"Michigan Protesters Against Hate Pastor Terry Jones Were ***Told By Police To Keep Their Voices Down***"

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/09/08/314384/mic... /

At every turn, we are being suppressed, screwed, ordered around and held down.

Vote America...for gawd's sake, vote!

Vidar (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Sep-08-11 03:24 PM
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23. Bravo, longshoremen. It's great to see someone on our side fighting.

Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Sep-08-11 07:29 PM
Response to Reply #30
31. K&R for Solidarity.
   
This is how victories are won.

iemitsu Donating Member (395 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Sep-08-11 07:29 PM
Response to Reply #30
33. hooray for the workers
   
in the wobbly state.

[jukin]

Do any of the DUchebags know that this was one union versus another union.

Yep that's right one union got the contract and the other went in and committed at least four different felonies multiple times.

Cheaper than Dirt is having a sale. STOCK UP BECAUSE THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING.

Hoffa was issuing a real call to arms to the thugs.

[Evil_Conservative]

Uhh...

If someone came into my job acting like that, I'm taking your ass out.  You won't be going home to your family that evening.  I will.

[MoshMasterD]

Well, it seems as though the word "SOLIDARITY"  is equal to "Sieg Heil"

[BlueStateSaint]

Do any of the DUchebags know that this was one union versus another union.

Yep that's right one union got the contract and the other went in and committed at least four different felonies multiple times.

Cheaper than Dirt is having a sale. STOCK UP BECAUSE THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING.

Hoffa was issuing a real call to arms to the thugs.

My local Wal-Mart has ammo relatively cheap, too.

[JohnnyReb]

My local Wal-Mart has ammo relatively cheap, too.

Buying ammo from the WAL-MART here is a lot of trouble. First you have to find an employee, then he goes in search of someone who knows who has the key to the ammo case, then they both go in search of that person who seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth.

Personally, I like the way it was when I was a kid, every country store had a shelf full of the more popular brands and sizes of ammo. You just walked in and got all you could afford or put in an order for what you wanted and it would be there within the week.

[zeitgeist]

Buying ammo from the WAL-MART here is a lot of trouble. First you have to find an employee, then he goes in search of someone who knows who has the key to the ammo case, then they both go in search of that person who seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth.

Personally, I like the way it was when I was a kid, every country store had a shelf full of the more popular brands and sizes of ammo. You just walked in and got all you could afford or put in an order for what you wanted and it would be there within the week.

Them were the days when I had an account at the hardware store down the street and would walk in, grab a brick of .22's, yell to the guy put 'em on my account (dad's actually) and pay the bill at the end of the month. 

Seems lilke it was all a dream now.  The old neighborhood had a nice natural ridge line behind the house just made for a target shooting. I would get home from school and open up for a few minutes of target practice several times a week.   Today, at the first shot, that same neighborhood would be swarming with SWAT teams dressed up like latter day Ninjas.   

[Erasmus]

So the idiot union workers show their disappointment by kidnapping other union workers and holding them hostage.  Brilliant.  Typical uneducated thuggery by the leftists.  Here you have an ACTUAL terrorist act committed and no talking head will DARE to call this what it is.  No arrests?  WTF?

[zeitgeist]

So the idiot union workers show their disappointment by kidnapping other union workers and holding them hostage.  Brilliant.  Typical uneducated thuggery by the leftists.  Here you have an ACTUAL terrorist act committed and no talking head will DARE to call this what it is.  No arrests?  WTF?

The unions operate under special rules that make organized crime envious (and is one reason they wanted in to labor unions years ago).

http://www.thelaborers.ne...lence_union_privilege.htm

[Ballygrl]

Do any of the DUchebags know that this was one union versus another union.

Yep that's right one union got the contract and the other went in and committed at least four different felonies multiple times.

Cheaper than Dirt is having a sale. STOCK UP BECAUSE THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING.

Hoffa was issuing a real call to arms to the thugs.

This person does LOL, and quite an interesting exchange follows, with some Name Removed:

Captain Lee  (15 posts) Thu Sep-08-11 12:51 PM
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4. Counter-productive at best, dumbass more likely
   
From the article: "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."

So, it's not a union versus non-union fight, it's a 'my union' versus 'the other union' fight.

Hostage taking? Are you f'ing kidding me? Way to rally public support. Thank God the security guards were unarmed or 'exercised restraint'. Personally, I hope the organizers are arrested and charged with kidnapping. Domestic terrorism is NOT acceptable by ANY side.

[Ballygrl]

socialshockwave  (385 posts) Thu Sep-08-11 07:29 PM
Response to Reply #30
37. Nothing says "good job" on DU
   
like hostage taking.

You people make me sick. Taking hostages will never advance your cause. It only gives Republicans more fuel to use against unions.

[Erasmus]

The sad thing is, those commenters will be banned from DU shortly.

[Karin]

This guy...

coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts)      Fri Sep-09-11 02:06 AM
Response to Reply #37
61. Hey Scab, you make me sick. And it's off to Ignore list for you - n/t

is a rabid communist, a real loon.  He says the above a couple few times in that thread.  As if being put on his iggy list is going to hurt someone's feelings.     You're just not that important, DUmbass. 

[Rebel]

Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Thu Sep-08-11 07:29 PM
Response to Reply #37
39. Read up on labor history of Washington state before you mouth off   Updated at 6:30 PM
   
Edited on Thu Sep-08-11 07:28 PM by Generic Other
November 11, 1919. In the shadow of where this union action took place today, the Centralia Massacre resulted in six deaths, additional wounded, and multiple prison terms when the Wobblies fought the American Legion.

This is union territory. Always has been, always will be. You scab for the bosses, there are consequences.

This is how those jackasses think. "Generic Other" should have his skull kicked in.

[Evil_Conservative]

What does "scab for the bosses" mean?

Does it mean actually doing your job and doing what you're told to do?  I do not understand mob speak.

[Ballygrl]

Look at this sweet video:

[youtube=425,350]wFHBGGvuQhA[/youtube]

[zeitgeist]

Look at this sweet video:

[youtube=425,350]wFHBGGvuQhA[/youtube]

That actually got m/zeit into the living room to see what I was listening to.  

Such language, typical of a longshoreman.  But you might want to post a note about:

FOUL LANGUAGE ALERT

I was a sailor but not everyone might be as familiar with that type language.

[Evil_Conservative]

Look at this sweet video:

[youtube=425,350]wFHBGGvuQhA[/youtube]

Sounds like he was drunk too.

[Erasmus]

That actually got m/zeit into the living room to see what I was listening to.  

Such language, typical of a longshoreman.  But you might want to post a note about:

FOUL LANGUAGE ALERT

I was a sailor but not everyone might be as familiar with that type language.

It doesn't take a degree to operate a crane for 4 hours a day while collecting the pay of first year doctors.

[cmypay]

Them were the days when I had an account at the hardware store down the street and would walk in, grab a brick of .22's, yell to the guy put 'em on my account (dad's actually) and pay the bill at the end of the month. 

Seems lilke it was all a dream now.  The old neighborhood had a nice natural ridge line behind the house just made for a target shooting. I would get home from school and open up for a few minutes of target practice several times a week.   Today, at the first shot, that same neighborhood would be swarming with SWAT teams dressed up like latter day Ninjas.   

We find ourselves living in a small town with just such a store down on the corner (about a mile away). We had been here probably two years when my son went in one day to pick up some drinks and such before he went to mow lawns and the owner asked him if he just wanted to "put it on your parent's account." Next time I was in, the owner told me we could put anything except alcohol or tobacco on credit and he'd send a bill at the end of the month. Nothing says "your one of us" like being extended credit at the country store. 

[Ballygrl]

That actually got m/zeit into the living room to see what I was listening to.  

Such language, typical of a longshoreman.  But you might want to post a note about:

FOUL LANGUAGE ALERT

I was a sailor but not everyone might be as familiar with that type language.

I don't use language like that at all, nor does my Husband. I was going to put a warning about the foul language but I didn't because I wanted everyone to click on the link because people need a reality check and they need to see what we're up against.

[Freeper]

Look at this sweet video:

[youtube=425,350]wFHBGGvuQhA[/youtube]

And they have the nerve to call us violent, when was the last time we stormed a place of business, held the guards hostage, damaged all kinds of property, and threatened people with the media?

I'm sure the DUmmies would cheer this guy if they watched the video, he was acting like an 18 year old punk trying to impress his moronic 18 year old buddies.

[Ballygrl]

And they have the nerve to call us violent, when was the last time we stormed a place of business, held the guards hostage, damaged all kinds of property, and threatened people with the media?

I'm sure the DUmmies would cheer this guy if they watched the video, he was acting like an 18 year old punk trying to impress his moronic 18 year old buddies.

Sure they would cheer it on. O'Reilly was talking about this tonight asking where's the media coverage of it, his guest said there was a poll out that shows 2/3rds of the respondents are against the Union at this point, as usual the DU would be in the minority.

[BEG]

See how this plays in normal America DUmmies. You are losing this fight, one Union Asshole at a time. Keep telling yourself that America supports this shit, keep deluding yourself.

[seahorse513]

I hope he doesn't eat with that mouth...