Happy Labor Day: Top 10 union thug moments of the year; Update: Jimmy Hoffa makes the list
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As the MSM whitewashes Big Labor’s ugly threats, Tea Party smears, and history of coerced dues-subsidized racketeering this Labor Day, what better way to mark the holiday than with an illustrated list of top 10 union thug moments of the year.
10. August 16, 2011, across the Northeast. Striking Communications Workers of America declare “open season” on Verizon. Dozens of cases of sabotaged cable lines are reported.
9. February 23, 2011, Washington DC. CWA union thug strikes young female FreedomWorks activist.
8. March 1, 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. Mob rule video: Unhinged crowd corners Wisconsin GOP senator shouting “F**k you,” “Shame!” AFSCME, UFCW, SEIU:
7. August 6, 2011, Boston, MA. Local IBEW 827 storms Verizon VP Bill Foshay’s neighborhood and union members scream “We’re here to fight” in front of his private residence on a weekend afternoon.
6. February 23, 2011, Washington DC. CWA protester screams at FreedomWorks staffer for being a “bad Jew!”
5. February 27, 2011, Madison WI. Union protesters exhibit Fox News Derangement Syndrome:
Tobin said he has received much heckling, and that a teacher even told him she hates him because it made her feel good. The “utter lack of civility and harassment of reporters,” as anchor Gregg Jarrett described it, is truly breathtaking and seems like a weird strategy to try and win support for one’s cause.
And yes, they threatened to break his neck.
4. February 23, 2011, Columbus, OH. Unhinged union protester fumes: “The tea party is a bunch of d**k-sucking corporate butt-lickers who want to crush the working people of this country.”
3. March 1, 2011, Denver CO. Racist SEIU supporters taunt gay black Tea Party activist and entrepreneur Leland Robinson, who criticized teachers unions at a Capitol rally, by calling him “son,” telling him to “get behind that fence where you belong,” and jeering “Do you have any children? That you claim?”
2. February 24, 2011, Providence, R.I. Rhode Island union supporter to cameraman – “I’ll f**k you in the ass, you faggot.” The eruption starts at 7:32 in this video.
1. February 23, 2011. Democrat Rep. Michael Capuano of Mass. revs up Big Labor goons (starts at 1:50 in the video): “Get a little bloody.”
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Bonus AFL-CIO thug-in-chief Richard Trumka flashbacks…
September 8, 2010: Trumka praises Nancy Pelosi for taking Obamacare and driving “it down the Republicans’ throats and out their backsides.”
September 3, 2010: Big Labor’s legacy of violence — Trumka’s bloody rise to power.
Meet Eddie York. He was a workingman whose story will never scroll across Obama’s teleprompter. A nonunion contractor who operated heavy equipment, York was shot to death during a strike called by the United Mine Workers 17 years ago. Workmates who tried to come to his rescue were beaten in an ensuing melee. The head of the UMW spearheading the wave of strikes at that time? Richard Trumka. Responding to concerns about violence, he shrugged to the Virginian-Pilot in September 1993: “I’m saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you’re likely to get burned.” Incendiary rhetoric, anyone?
A federal jury convicted one of Trumka’s UMW captains on conspiracy and weapons charges in York’s death. According to the Washington, D.C.-based National Legal and Policy Center, which tracks Big Labor abuse, Trumka’s legal team quickly settled a $27 million wrongful death suit filed by York’s widow just days after a judge admitted evidence in the criminal trial. An investigative report by Reader’s Digest disclosed that Trumka “did not publicly discipline or reprimand a single striker present when York was killed. In fact, all eight were helped out financially by the local.”
In Illinois, Trumka told UMW members to “kick the s**t out of every last” worker who crossed his picket lines, according to the Nashville (Ill.) News. And as the National Right to Work Foundation (pdf), the leading anti-forced unionism organization in the country, pointed out, other UMW coalfield strikes resulted in what one judge determined were “violent activities … organized, orchestrated and encouraged by the leadership of this union.”
Trumka washed off the figurative bloodstains and moved up the ranks. As AFL-CIO secretary, he notoriously refused to testify in a sordid 1999 embezzlement trial involving his labor boss brethren at the Teamsters Union. No surprise. Thugs of a feather: Trumka’s violence-promoting record echoes the riotous Teamsters strikes dating back to the 1950s, when the union organized taxicab companies to target workers with gas bombs, bottles and fists.
And now, Trumka is spearheading a Democratic Party get-out-the-vote campaign by far-left groups — publicized in the revolutionary Marxist People’s World — to “energize an army of tens of thousands who will return to their neighborhoods, churches, schools and voting booths to prevent a Republican takeover of Congress in November and begin building a new permanent coalition to fight for a progressive agenda.”
Take those as literal fighting words. The bloody consequences of compulsory unionism cannot be ignored.
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Update: Aw, Jimmy Hoffa must have looked at my list and been jealous that he didn’t warrant a mention. Congrats, Jimmy. You made honorable mention for today’s performance: “‘President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out ‘…”
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Barbarians at the gate. Nice. The majority of the American People, represented by the Tea Party, want honest, accountable government, lower taxes, balanced budget, fair treatment of republicans as well as democrats, the end of corruption…oh yeah, that is really barbaric, isn’t it? What the h are these people smoking? Or should I say, injecting?? These are not rational opinions, and they are really creeping me out.
If you’re going to stick your nose in this, try doing it sometime during the first 100 ad hominems OKL post before I finally respond. Okay? Pay attention to the board or buzz off. It’s like listening to Ron Paul arguing that the terrorists have a point. No they don’t. It’s a one-way deal. If you want it to end, go after the instigator. He sure gives you ample opportunity. Why wait until I respond after 100 attacks? Are you one of his droogs too?
Just walk around to the back of your car.
come on michelle, honorable mention, if you don’t think this terrible comment makes the top of the list, why dishonorable mention? and i notice you didn’t include obama in the list, he may not be a union member, but he is the agitator in chief.
A good description. So why are we letting them (the msm corrupt media and lib pols), define what the TP stands for?? Why isn’t every single repub candidate hammering those points home, AND CALLING OUT THE MSM AND LIB NITWITS FOR LYING ABOUT WHAT THE TP STANDS FOR? I am totally sick of this. The gloves have to come off.
I really try to stay away from personal attacks, but there is really something seriously wrong with OK Loyalist. Most of us quickly learn to ignore the occasional personality clashes, but OKL is apparently stalking Pasadena Phil.
I’ve never been tempted to complain about another poster on this board, but I think he’s literally deranged.
Michelle allowed him in during the last registration, and he’s been harassing Phil ever since he arrived.
He’s deserving of a place in Michelle’s blog entry. He’s a nasty bit of work.
Ha! Couldn’t find a ‘tongue-in-cheek’ tag…
I agree with flyoverman:
All they have left is thuggery. They are so screwed. This is a last ditch effort to generate some enthusiasm among their ranks. They have to do this because liberal voters are as enthused about Obama as they are about cleaning their toilet.
Stay calm, be ready and laugh at them. They are losing ….. big time.
Maybe this with give you a laugh….
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/the_yes_we_kenya_clan_reality_show.html
Will the Real Crony Capitalist Please Stand Up?
[T]he permanent political class …[use] taxpayer dollars… to bail out their friends on Wall Street and their corporate cronies, and to reward campaign contributors, and to buy votes via earmarks. There is so much waste. And there is a name for this: It’s called corporate crony capitalism. This is not the capitalism of free men and free markets, of innovation and hard work and ethics, of sacrifice and of risk. No, this is the capitalism of connections and government bailouts and handouts, of waste and influence peddling and corporate welfare. This is the crony capitalism that destroyed Europe’s economies. It’s the collusion of big government and big business and big finance to the detriment of all the rest – to the little guys.
http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2011/09/05/will-the-real-crony-capitalist-please-stand-up/
Has nothing to do with woodworking.
You act like I started this. Phil started it with calling me and many others names. Look it up.
Wow what a day Jimmy, barry, and joe sidin with the unions against other Americans…ain’t it a grand day…./sarc
They’ve picked the sides and now in 2012 we need to show them and their supporters the door!
These union goons are starting to make the Mafia look like the good guys. If we had a Justice Department this garbage could be cleaned up, but not with Holder at it’s head. How far down the road to anarchy this country has gone under the Obama administration in less then three years is amazing.
Given that my ancestors were Vikings and Goths, I thant the Vice President for the compliment.
Ooops thant = thank
I’m quitting the AFGE union tomorrow. I work for the Veteran’s Benefits Administration. If they ask me why… I’ll let them know they threatened me, I’m a Tea Party patriot and a conservative. If they wish to come and intimidate me…. please do.
Really getting frustrated at not having a “like” button to push. So many great comments. Really disappointed, like so many others that Tea Partiers and Republicans in general seem so lacking in courage, too timid or something. Somebody needs to fight back. Comment lines in my local paper are inhabited by entirely too many Tea Party bashers. They eat up garbage like that which was spewn today.
Where do you hail from ?
Green eyed lady: That’s the unions and socialist MO. Violence. Sorry I know you put a question mark there but I don’t think there is a question. You don’t call The Tea Party “barbarians” and expect the union to take that lightly. “Terrorist”. I’ve had a personnal experience with the a union and I don’t take anything about what they say lightly. The reason for my big edit of your sentence.
I know you meant it to mean yes this is a call to violencce.
Your writing is always thought out and well written. I wish I had half your talent.
Obumblears hat tip to Thursday speech.
Yes We Can’t
I disagree.
Jimmy Hoffa Jr as a boy?
Heck, that little clip incorporates the unionist philosophy, and at the end provides the Tea Party philosophy.
This Hoffa creep is an animal. No, he’d have to grow a lot to become an animal. Here is the problem: We have labor leaders like Hoffa living like sheiks on their members money, hob-nobbing with Democrats, who likewise live large on tax payer money. For them, life is sweet. Their vision of a dictatorship by the proletariat is not unlike that of Marx, Lenin, and every other aspiring communist leader. But a dictatorship of any kind is hostile to freedom. When have you heard a Democrat or union leader utter the word ‘freedom’ ? No one is further from the world of work than these union leaders. Union members must wake up to the nature of these alien, un-American pretenders.
Ya know, OKdisLoyalist, you have a very short memory, or no memory at all, of the goings-on in the USA over the last 2 1/2 years.
Civility:
What happened to “taking violent rhetoric out of the national conversation” that ElPrezodunce called for after Gabby Giffords was shot?
The violence against Tea Partiers is going to excalate precisely because of this “anti-American” s**t that he’s shoveling.
Which party delayed the vote on a budget for over 800 days? Then Obunso has the nerve to blame the Repubs for delaying? Listen to his speech from yesterday. You will see that they have turned up the rhetoric to the point that I, for one, am not going to take it lying down.
OKIE, start quoting what the facts are before you spew what is cow-bile.
As usual, Sarah Palin has all the courage that the rest of the GOP lacks. An eloquent and rapid response:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/welcome-union-brothers-and-sisters/10150285058673435
We cannot spare this woman. She fights!
And I see that when Obama came on stage he said he was proud of Hoffa. Of course now the WH has no comment on the situation at all.
So my question is what will the DOJ do when this call to arms by hoffa leads to escaltion of violence by union coming year? Somehow I wouldn’t doubt if there was already a wink-wink, nudge-nudge going on between the union leadership and Holder.
And here is the response the DNC chair gave on Fox and Friends when asked (multiple times about this):
Gee Debbie, maybe she hasn’t asked, because there hasn’t been that kind of “coarse langauge” at the tea party rallies no matter how badly you want to believe it.
Ya know, you obviously have a reading problem.
I quoted what Obumblears said in his speech.
The following is what I wrote:
Now, if you feel that warrants name calling and personal attacks, I’ll be more than happy to reciprocate.
Bravo. We all need to stand proud on our beliefs that the progressive agenda is not what we need in this wonderful country. The sheep who go along with the union thugs to save their jobs are sadly misguided.
I made this comment yesterday because it reminds me of pre WWII Germany. People kept their mouths shut then because they feared the consequences and some really believed what was happening was right and good.
Hoffa and his gang are not playing games, they’re dead serious just like the brown shirts. We’d better learn from history or we will be repeating it.
Folks, there IS GOING TO BE VIOLENCE. There is no way around it. Scum like Trumka and Hoffa aren’t going to give up their millions in corrupt income without a fight. The sooner you accept what is coming and prepare for it the better. There is no talking to these people, this is going to require action. And no, the “authorities” will not be there to help you. This country is at a crossroads…it’s left or right, and it’s going to happen soon.
The start of the 2012 election campaign is now. The violence from the leftist and the leftist union thugs will escalate, particularly when a Republican candidate for president is chosen.
I just question how far tea party folks, a large number of whom are veterans, will put up with this garbage.
I have a Gadsden Flag Magnet on the back of my SUV. I love seeing someone with a Prius or Bumper-sticker filled “college” car and purposely positioning myself in front of them.
Will any of our elected officials stand up for the Americans who identify with the tea party? Even if you don’t agree with the tea party they are Americans like everyone else and do not deserve the vile attacks thrown their way. Its one thing to attack opposing politicians, its quite another to attack law-abiding citizens, and yet our leaders just sit there and let it happen over and over and over again. Leaders in the Dem party are just that, leaders for their own party, to hell with the rest of us.
Sorry, but I have to get into this…OK_Loyalist, are you 13 years old? Because that was definitely a Junior High response! PLEASE stop it!! This is NOT adult behavior!!!
Hey David…we live about 20 minutes from each other. If you have any trouble, I’ll grab my skillet and be right there. Good luck.
The POTUS has made his agenda and his plan very clear. The Republicans and the Tea Party HAD BETTER GET IN LINE and GIVE IN, SURRENDER, or we will GET IN THEIR FACES and THERE WILL BE VIOLENCE.
We have become quite adept at reading between the lines on this guy’s comments and he is now ramping up the stakes. He is full-blown mafia thug crazy. His speeches are sounding more like Van Jones and less like a POTUS every day.
I don’t think that ANYONE with half a brain can believe the race mongering, class warfare, and union violence just ramped up accidentally since this Thug-In-Chief took office. It was almost immediately afterward that it all started hitting the fan. This man is leading the Regressive Movement and he is taking off the gloves.
Can we NOW call it treason? Can we NOW come out and say exactly WHO and WHAT Barry Soetoro is??
Hey, I disagree! Tea Party rallies are full of coarse language. For example, “Can I help you?” “Would you like a sandwich?” “Hey kids, behave!!!” “NO NEW TAXES!!” “Big government, get out of my face!” “Don’t Tread on Me!”
See…very coarse language indeed!
We should. The evidence of treason is there to see for anyone who cares to see it.
If Barry Soetoro had tried to run for president as a conservative Republican, the media would have uncovered everything about him, and made up what it couldn’t find to make sure he failed as a candidate.
That they did the exact opposite for Barkey is telling. They covered up and iignored everything about him and much was made up when nothing was there to make sure he succeeded as a candidate.
With the NFL set to start, I was thinking about how I miss Giants Stadium. Remember how the public address system would blare out, “Paging Dr. Goldburg, paging Dr. Zawhari; please report to security in the Jimmy Hoffa end zone.”
If Alabama gets an NFL team, that is the name they must have! The Gadsden Rattlers. I think I’d start watching pro football again…
FIFY
I have to admit, I’m getting to the point where I’d support Palin, if she were the only alternative to Perry or Romney…
Why was Palin in the IBEW?
Obama’s brown shirts (actually brown $h!!ts) have been clearly identified.
I wonder if they understand the percentage of Tea Party participants who have concealed carry licenses?
This could get real ugly folks.
A great comment by someone on the Real Clear Politics Site…This is in reference to Debbie Whatshername Shmuck’s interview this a.m. with Gretchen Carlson, where she wouldn’t answer the question.
Good one, SNAPTIE, whoever you are!!
Sadly, I think I have a quote that could be used to paint the TEA Party as a bunch of hypocrites. I had a nice looking woman ask me, “Is this seat taken?” When I said no, she took it.
I’m absolutely sure the media could make that out to be a socialist theme, while insisting that welfare and Obamacare aren’t.
On September 5th, 2011 at 9:37 pm, OK_Loyalist said:
You act like I started this. Phil started it with calling me and many others names. Look it up.
Ya know, I agree with HappyScrapper. this is my final response to ANYTHING you have to say. You are an agitator. Reading comprehension is obviously not your strong suit, so I will be very clear: I did NOT say you said those remarks; I was pointing out the subject matter. I will, however, point out now that you are on the level of Junior High / Middle School. AMF. Adios. M. F.
I LOVE That!!
Does that stand for Adios My Friend?
:-}
Ya know, I could give a rat’s patooie what a dried up hag has to think.
OK…for the love of God…GROW UP!!
I vote for this poster to be banned.
Happy-I think OKL is approaching the clear thinking of ILMC.
I am going to defeend myself regardless of whether you or anyone else likes it or not.
OK…you used to contribute to this blog with interesting opinions and worthwhile things to say. But since you have taken up this strange vendetta with Phil, you have gone off the deep end. If what you have been saying is, in your opinion, “defending” yourself, you need to step back and take another look. This is not defending yourself, it is insulting, namecalling, junior high debating skills at its worst.
I hope you will step back, take a good look at what is happening to yourself and realize….this isn’t about you. Maybe a bit of counselling is in order. I’m not trying to be mean, but you are a major distraction these days.
The vendetta as you call it is about Phil being a known liar that is trying to sway people into voting for Obama. If this is what you want, keep defending him.
I have never spoken to babiesgrandma ever. She tears into me with name calling and insults, where is your disdain for that ?
I am not trying to defend Phil. He is also very polarizing. I don’t pay a lot of attention to him any more. As for swaying people to vote for Obama, do you really think he would succeed with that here??? Come on. We need to ignore that stuff and form our own opinions. Your nasty comments to him are unnecessary and childish. We have his number! Most of us know exactly what we are dealing with as Phil tries to form another political party and make the Republican Party irrelevant. What we don’t need is a silly back and forth between you two. Give it a rest. We are smarter and more perceptive than you may think.
Fear the skillet.
10 Clear clues in Sarah Palin’s New Hampshire Labor Day speech
Kevin DuJan
http://hillbuzz.org/2011/09/06/10-clear-clues-in-sarah-palins-new-hampshire-labor-day-speech-that-she-is-running-for-president/
Very well done analysis….enjoy!
Have no fear…skilletscrapper is here!
I do not have a gun, it’s true
I have a skillet…Will that do?
I have been watching “UnderDog” with the grandkids this weekend!
After seeing the response on Hot Air (almost 2100 responses-they normally get in the 300-400 range) I am buoyed by the possibility of Sarah running.
I believe that she has a REAL chance of winning.
I have always feared that she may be too polarizing, but she plays the game WAAAAAY better than the polished politicians.
She has a message that resonates with normal Americans.
I believe she can win!!
Run Sarah Run!