Puts meaning to the second word in “Union Goons.”
Any firefighter who sets a fire, not in a fireplace or BBQ pit, or under the command of your Chief, must be expelled from the Fire Service. I am a 19 yr. Volunteer.
Michigan is what this country will look like after 8 years of Obama.
This is about union power. Abolish the whole union. Any fireman willing to come back to work without the union still has a job. Oh, send the bill for fighting the arsons to the union and send the thugs to prison who actually set the fires.
Didn’t even read that on the obit page.
That’s where they bury bad news.
What in the Hell is wrong with these people!? >_<;
The linked article to MLive.com on this blog article does not support the conclusion that union firefighters set these fires.... Investigators have drawn no such conclusion.
“Is this where unions have taken the safety of our cities..”
Of course it is. If the stuff hits the fan, do you really think they will be there selflessly protecting you?
Dream on.
If they lose their jobs, do you think they will accept responsibility for being too expensive to employ? of course not.
Right now we have “over response” to even minor issues - so that everyone looks busy in fire/police.....but it’s coming. The gravy train is going off the tracks - and displaced, but coddled government employees of every sort are not going to take it calmly or non-violently.
While this seems like a probable conclusion from the rash of arson fires, there is no actual proof that they are being set by the firemen. No one has been arrested or charged.
The arson or attempted arson of any property carries a statutory minimum sentence of 5 years and a maximum of 20 years. If any person is injured in the arson or attempted arson, the statutory minimum is 7 years and maximum is 40 years, and if the fire results in the death of a firefighter or other person the defendant may receive up to life in prison, or even be subject to the death penalty.
Nice pic from Fahrenheit 451. I was about to comment that Michigan seems to have taken Ray Bradbury to heart about firemen.
This “fire” department should be disbanded and the perpetrators punished severely. Reform a new department and ban any of the previous employees from joining it.
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This one is from 1905:
Bayonne Man Admits Burning 15 Houses, Police Say. HE LOVED THE EXCITEMENT Never Missed Responding to an Alarm and Was Always First at the Engine House.
March 27, 1905, Monday
The police of Bayonne yesterday afternoon arrested James McInerny, a member of Americus Engine Company of that city, and later declared they had obtained from him a confession that he had for months been starting fires for the sake of fighting them when the alarms were turned in
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950DE7DE173DE733A25754C2A9659C946497D6CF
More recent cases:
Too Close To The Fire
A Problem Few Firefighters Want To Talk About
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/20/60II/main530103.shtml
Burn Baby Burn
http://www.deweyfromdetroit.com/
why does the title have a Zot in it?
Not only did they go berserk in putting out the fire on a Norton Commando motorcycle, they purposely destroyed anything that was NOT touched by the fire. They smashed with their axes all the glass, the headlight, both tires and used their water jet to push the bike down the road on its side. It was disgusting!
A pickup truck had rolled over on its side in the snow - not on fire, but that didn't stop the firefighters! They forced water into the gas tank, opened the hood and started chopping away! Destroyed the truck. They could have easily started a fire by shorting out the battery!
A good friend's brother was a ambulance driver - he told me a few stories about the dirty tricks that they got away with that would make you wonder, ‘why are they trusted so much’
These guys use their uniforms to give them power - if they are not tightly controlled, in a military fashion, they will take quickly advantage of their position.
Many third world countries don't even have to pay their policemen a living salary. Many bullies will actually pay the govt to work as a officer because the uniform and the ‘bakeesh’ or bribes will make them very rich.
Just like teachers fail to teach anything useful and our kids are dumb and that justifies ever increased spending.
Not much has changed since “On the Waterfront”.
Should have been shot on sight for doing something like that.