Posted on 11/09/2009 9:03:10 AM PST by your local physicist
A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose alleged corruption within the union.
Ken Hamidi is a state worker at the California Franchise Tax Board. Last night he walked into a union hall in Sacramento for an SEIU local 1000 meeting.
"We had every right to be here, very simple; it wasn't anything private or anything exclusive," said Hamidi.
But Hamidi says the union members did not want him there.
"Three, four people jumped at me, wrestled with me, then did all that," said Hamidi. "I was covered in blood and then over to the emergency room."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs13.com ...
Correction: his name is Mr. Hamidi.
Obama’s fault
Agreed!
Unions suck
Why are unions allowed to run as criminal organizations/extortion rackets and not be shut down and subject to RICO laws?
does anyone know what happened to that one beat up black guy, and that old guy with his finger bit off?
I once had a job in a union shop. They couldn’t legally make me join the union though, and it burned those bums that they didn’t get my monthly extortion payment like they got from my fellow employees. I guess I’m just uncooperative.
Unions = extortion = thuggery = Obama
Hmmmmmm.
This is the same union whose CEO has visited White House 22 times in 9 months.
In answer to you first question, if this man can obtain the names of the people who beat him up, he has a very strong case for a criminal prosecution for felony assault and I think the DA in Sacramento would be inclined to prosecute these people for assault. They’re in seious trouble if Mr. Hamidi has enough courage and determination to obtain the names of the people who assaulted him.
Because most unions are corrupt and gangsters whose only purpose is to extort all they can get from the companies they work for. Unions have destroyed the American auto industry and has peddled their corruption into Washington.
So what is the difference between the SEIU and the old Communist Party here or in Russia?
...and that is very telling. I think it tells us a lot about who is pushing so hard for a government takeover of health care and it tells us this administration has an extreme left-wing socialist position on economic issues and health care. The dems have already lost the House in 2010...the votes just haven’t been cast yet.
I spent about a month in a union shop as a kid. It was a job as a local box boy at the supermarket. There was some other kid about my age that was a union member who was a real jerk. The union angle was brought into it because I didn’t want to be a member or pay union dues. Rather than fight it out, I split.
My grandparents weren’t big fans of unions. They had seen the violence associated with Unions back in the first half of the 20th century.
Looks like those days are back. We can thank people like Obama and his enablers for that.
No criminal charges have been filed in this case.
I'd like to say "unbelievable" but it isn't.
The black guy in St. Louis - I saw something about a week ago that no charges have been filed in that incident. WHAT GIVES???
Well I think the victim has to file a complaint first which would then lead to an investigation to find out who attacked him. Because this crime is not in progress now, he has to take the first step, or perhaps somebody else can report this to the police.
This is 0bama’s #1 go-to organization for advice... Is the picture not clear already?
Yeah you would think the DOJ would be all over that incident to investigate violations of civil rights.
I suffered a spasm of knee-jerkiness....:-)
One of these days a union thug is going to attack somebody with a CCW and a willingness to defend him/herself, and there will be one less union thug contributing to global warming.
Courtesy of Barry’s buddy Andy “persuasion of power” Stern: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtSy8LIRYRU
When the “authorities” will not prosecute those who are violating the rights of others,
the citizens WILL respond and do it themselves.
Look, soon, for goonion thugs being shot in the process of “roughing someone up”.
Don’t ever expect “consistency of applying the rules” from a leftist - you’ll always be disappointed.
Such a concept has utterly NO value to them.
Their “end goals” are all that matter.
The only time the rules are invoked or followed is when it advances their goals.
He may have exposed these vermin for what they really are.
Liberalism puts a pretty mask on the vilest of passions. Once the mask is removed, the ugliness underneath is exposed to the light, and it's horrifying.
Are you kidding? This is absolutely nothing compared to what the AFL does.
My grandfather was elected the president of the machinists union at RCA, the first AFL union at RCA. The union leaders were unhappy with the election and asked that my grandfather be moved to management, so that he would be ineligible for union membership. My grandfather refused and shortly later he was run down by a hit and run driver as he stood on the curb in front of his home. RCA closed the plant and returned to the in house union. No AFL.
Isn't that the job of the Police Department?
Or do you think the unions will stick together?
I don't know anything specific about the Sacramento PD and what kind of union they have. It's certainly their legal duty and obligation to investigate this attack.
They didn’t beat him up because they’re Union thugs.
They beat him up because they post tramatic stress disorder brought on by War on Terror. :)
(Hey that excuse is working for Hasan.)
Not to worry, acorn has been taking care of those votes.
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Ping
Got a minute? Care to explain to thee guys what’s going on?
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