(Union) Gangs of Wisconsin

Townhall. com ^ | March 19, 2011 | Kyle Olsen

[Kaslin]

Union leaders can dress it up and use innocuous-sounding phrases like “voluntary consumer activism,” but the bottom line is that Wisconsin’s unions are now resorting to thug-like behavior against political opponents, real or imagined.

The state’s largest teachers union, Wisconsin Education Association Council, along with the Green Bay Education Association, Madison Teachers Inc. and a handful of other public employee unions are carrying their fight over collective bargaining to innocent business owners.

News accounts reveal that the Fox Valley chapter of WEAC has e-mailed local businesses, asking them to show their support for collective bargaining privileges by putting a poster in their business’ window. The union’s e-mail suggests the posters will help members with “substantially less discretionary money to spend” know where to shop.

This is a thinly-veiled threat from a bunch of thugs if there ever was one. First there were the Gangs of New York. Then there were the Gangs of Chicago. Now we see the Gangs of Wisconsin.

The fact that Wisconsin’s teachers unions are now intimidating innocent business owners reveals the depth of the union’s political radicalism. It also reinforces old stereotypes of union members behaving like lawless gangsters.

This behavior is unworthy of teachers who are entrusted with educating Wisconsin’s children. They might as well be demanding protection money, just like Al Capone.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that WEAC is having its summer strategy meetings at Little Bohemia.

[chickadee]

From 1931-2 SA "brownshirt" thugs physically prevented customers from entering Jewish shops, windows were systematically smashed and Jewish shop owners threatened. In Christmas 1932, the central office of the Nazi party organized a nation-wide boycott.

Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses

Some things never change. Thugs are thugs. Bullies are bullies.

[Kaslin]

Not any different, is it?

[chickadee]

Looking at a different aspect of this:

The amendments enacted in Taft-Hartley added a list of prohibited actions, or "unfair labor practices", on the part of unions to the NLRB, which had previously only prohibited "unfair labor practices" committed by employers. The Taft–Hartley Act prohibited jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts. . .

I know that Obama is in charge of the Justice Department and that the current Federal Attorney in WI is a Democrat, but they should be shamed into taking action against this violation of the Taft-Hartley laws.

[chickadee]

Wow - html gone rogue. I do apologize for all the red. Only “secondary boycotts” was supposed to be in red.

[Happy Rain]

Obama needs to call off his Public Service Union Brownshirts a bit because his MSM bumkissers are really taking a licking in the credibility department downplaying or spiking their blatant Bolshevik tactics.
Even so-called “independents” are starting to notice and it does not bode well for the Leftists in 2012 when even those indoctrinated dolts discover the mendacity of the liberal press and the anti-American socialist evil of the Obama regime.

[Libloather]

This morning, Fox News showed a recent video of teacher thugs bringing children into the capitol building and having them chant anti-Walker slogans. I’ve looked but have yet to find those shots.

[Kaslin]

Ha, no chance of this happening

[Kaslin]

Yeah, I seen it. Fox News has been reporting on this for several days and Meghyn Kelly had a segment about it on her show yesterday or the day before

[Logical me]

What causes me more worry is a communists liberal judge that issued an illegal injunction and should know she was totally wrong. She said she did it because her constituents demanded it. What an ass the entire judicial system has become.

[Kaslin]

According to Vote smart.org he is a republican

Attorney General John 'J.B.' Van Hollen (WI)

[Happy Rain]

Does Obama really want a civil war?

Sad thing is,everybody who says he does will be called a nut by the MSM until they and their beloved Obama are completely surrounded by well-armed “nuts” applying the 2nd Amendment as originally intended by our Founders.

[Nuc 1.1]

The judicial system was targeted and taken over by marxists for the purpose of imposing the marxist / socialist agenda and destroying the Constitution.

[Tax-chick]

I hope they keep it up. The worse things get, the harder it will be for the MSM to hide it from the average citizen.

It can’t be emphasized enough: THESE ARE THE PEOPLE YOU ARE TRUSTING TO RAISE YOUR CHILDREN.

[chickadee]

Yes, our AG is a Repub. But, it will take action by the U. S. attorney in the region as Taft-Hartley is a federal law. (I think:)

[Choozer]

Here it is ...

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4589002/wisconsin-teachers-lead-students-in-anti-walker-chants

[chickadee]

Here's the video

This video was shot by Ann Althouse. She is the same person who took the video of the protesters using the war memorial in the Capitol as a staging area for their pamphlets.

For her efforts at bringing the truth forward that the media won't, she is being threatened:

“We will hang up wanted posters of you everywhere you like to go. We will picket on public property as close to your house as we can every day. We will harrass the ever loving sh–out of you all the time. . . . Because we aren’t anti-social, life-denying, world-sterilizing pieces of human garbage like the two of you. WE WILL F— YOU UP.”

[Bean Counter]

[Principle Over Politics]

Van Hollen is the Wisconsin State A.G. He is not a “Federal Attorney”, as in the posting you replied to.

[Kaslin]

Oh , I did not know this. Thanks for the clarification