Mr. Pot, please say hello to Mr. Kettle.

Quote:Last week, AFL-CIO bosses viciously accused the grassroots citizens who are increasingly alarmed about unfolding Big Government power grabs (and who are expressing their legitimate concerns at Congressional town hall meetings on government run health care) of orchestrating "extremist disruptions" in coordination with "a growing number of health care reform opponents, including Republican leaders trying to kill President Obama’s reform initiatives."

AFL-CIO operatives are convinced that these so-called "extremist disruptions" are meant "to kill health care reform, not debate it, not refine it, not find a middle ground, just kill it."

Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer and heir apparent to AFL-CIO chieftain John Sweeney, had this to say:

"Mob rule is not a democracy. People have a democratic right to express themselves and our elected leaders have a right to hear from their constituents -- not organized thugs whose sole purpose is to shut down the conversation and attempt to scare our leaders into inaction."


Such over-the-top hyperbole might be dismissed if it didn't come from someone who makes his living coercing and intimidating. After all, union bosses are the ones known for intimidating and shouting-down people who refuse to toe the union line. When anyone questions Big Labor's government-granted special privileges, union bosses frequently resort to intimidation, harassment, or worse to end the discussion.

And Trumka himself has tacitly endorsed such thuggery. Here's how he responded to reports of UMW union violence against independent-minded workers:

"I'm saying if you strike a match and put your finger in, common sense tells you you're going to burn your finger."


The presumptive AFL-CIO president Trumka isn't the only culprit, of course. When California teachers Judy Liegmann and Jeralee Smith spoke out against forced union dues for politics, union bosses rounded up a mob of union toughs to shout down and intimidate them. As Ms. Liegmann and Ms. Smith bravely announced their opposition to funding union political activism, union militants chanted "shame on you" while other Big Labor goons booed and hurled insults. This sounds like REAL "extremist disruption" to me.

http://www.nrtw.org/en/blog/Hypocritical...s-08112009

And from the whitehouse..... silence .... even though the DNC and the Unions are an arm of the whitehouse.

Lay low until it all quiets down...then try to sneak your agenda in.

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And this is the sweet little sock knitting Grannie Union of the Great and Still Missing Jimmy Hoffa.

Why the AFL-CIO has NEVER EVER Incited Violence or Civil Unrest to strike out and Scab Workers, Company Property, or just People in General.

We should all take lessons from the AFL-CIO and bake cookies and darn our mittens for a hobby so we could always be calm and cool under any circumstances.

What a bunch of

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Actually, direct democracy IS mob rule. We're a representative Republic....which is why they're bitching to their representatives and senators.

Rebel Wrote:Actually, direct democracy IS mob rule.

Big +1.

Want to see mob rule liberals? Get rid of the electoral college.

Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner.


Ben Franklin

The rest: Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.

FYI, it's a great quote but it's not Franklin's.

(08-13-2009 12:52 PM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  

Rebel Wrote:Actually, direct democracy IS mob rule.

Big +1.

Want to see mob rule liberals? Get rid of the electoral college.

Bigger +2 and on the money.

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Unions: cry baby bed wetters. F 'em. Worthless punks.

And for the record, at the age of twenty, I stood up in a union meeting and said the same to their faces. Paid my dues, only 'cause they were stolen from my pay check, but had no use for them. Had the same non-use for all three unions I ever belonged to.