Posted on 04/29/2011 4:47:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
On May 1, left-wing vigilantes will target companies across the country that have committed a mortal sin: sending donations to GOP Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Rest assured, such intolerable acts of political free speech will not go unpunished by tolerant Big Labor activists. They're calling for both a national boycott of Walker's corporate donors and a coordinated sticker vandalism campaign on GOP-tainted products.
The Wisconsin Grocers Association is bracing for the anti-Walker witch hunt. Anonymous operatives have circulated sabotage stickers on the Internet and around Wisconsin that single out Angel Soft tissue paper ("Wiping your (expletive) on Wisconsin workers"), Johnsonville Sausage ("These Brats Bust Unions") and Coors ("Labor Rights Flow Away Like A Mountain Stream"). Earlier this week, a "Stick It To Walker" website boasted photos of vandalized Angel Soft tissue packages at a Super Foodtown grocery store in Brooklyn, N.Y.
This destruction of private property is illegal. Not that it matters to anti-Walker protest mobsters, who trampled Wisconsin's Capitol at an estimated $5 million in security, repair and cleaning costs to taxpayers. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "The identity of the backers of the sticker effort is unknown, although many assume it is being orchestrated by public employee unions. This latest effort follows boycotts organized by members of the Wisconsin State Employees Union AFSCME 24."
AFSCME 24 is the same union affiliate that recently disseminated intimidation letters throughout southeast Wisconsin, demanding that local businesses support unions by putting up signs in their windows. The letter threatened not just Walker supporters, but any and all businesses that have chosen to sit on the sidelines and stay out of politics altogether: "Failure to do so will leave us no choice but (to) do a public boycott of your business. And sorry, neutral means 'no' to those who work for the largest employer in the area and are union members." Others on Big Labor's hit list: Kwik Trip, Sargento Foods Inc. and M&I Bank.
Walker, of course, has been at the forefront of government pension and budget reforms. Similar measures are being advanced by Democratic governors and Democrat-run legislatures from Massachusetts to New York to California. But union bosses have yet to sic their goons on individual and corporate donors to Democratic politicians imposing long-overdue benefit and collective bargaining limits for public employee unions.
How convenient, yes? Just as they secured a big fat waiver from the federal health care mandate and tax scheme they lobbied to impose on the rest of America, Big Labor is giving Democratic legislative water-carriers who have been forced to adopt cuts and cost controls a big fat waiver from their organized wrath and vandalism.
Now, a few hundred or thousand ruined grocery store items may not seem to matter much to the average reader, but this little property destruction campaign spotlights a nasty tactic increasingly employed by the left: campaign finance disclosure as a speech-squelching weapon.
We saw it last fall when Democratic operatives targeted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for donating to Obamacare opposition ads.
We saw it in 2008 when a top MoveOn.org alumnus launched attacks on Republican donors with the express purpose of "hoping to create a chilling effect that will dry up contributions."
We saw it when Obama campaign committee lawyers lobbied the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute a GOP donor for funding campaign ads exposing Obama's ties to Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.
We saw it during the Proposition 8 traditional marriage battle in California, where gay rights avengers compiled black lists, harassment lists and Google target maps of citizens who contributed to the ballot measure.
We saw it when "progressive" zealots smeared Target Corporation and Chick-fil-A for daring to associate with social conservatives.
And we're seeing it again this month as the Obama White House readies an executive order that would force federal contractors to disclose all political donations to candidates and independent groups in excess of $5,000 made not just by a corporate entity, but by all of its individual executives, directors and officers.
Former Federal Election Commission official Hans von Spakovsky obtained the sweeping draft executive order, which -- surprise, surprise -- exempts unions and predominantly left-wing federal grant recipients from the mandate. On Wednesday, GOP senators spelled out the bullying agenda in an open letter objecting to the Obama order: "Political activity would obviously be chilled if prospective contractors have to fear that their livelihood could be threatened if the causes they support are disfavored by the administration." Join the club.
When disclosure's a bludgeon, all but Obama's cronies are nails.
Must remember to pick up some Johnsonville brats for the weekend.
In Wisconsin, conservatives will respond with a “buycott” - they will buy the stickered items and tell the clerk that they support the store and Scott Walker at checkout.
I’ll make sure I buy those produces even if I don’t normally use them. Reverse boycott?
Good idea, they are so yummy right off the grill.
These are the death throes of a mortally wounded animal.
My thoughts exactly!!!! GMTA ;)
Let this crap speed up the demise of Labor Unions across the country.
I’ll make sure I buy those produces even if I don’t normally use them. Reverse boycott?
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Buycott. Yes, indeed.
Time to go shopping for all three!
There are more of us, then there are of them, soooooo I will make a point of buying the products that will be ticketed. I can not however go to a Target or Chik(whatchacall) because there isn’t one anywhere near me :( Target is 2.5 hours away and I haven’t a clue where the closest Chik is.
“Let this crap speed up the demise of Labor Unions across the country.”
Things like this just go for the capillaries. We ought go for the jugular, and see to it that no one needs to join a union if they do not wish, and that no one is compelled to hire union labor in public or private sectors. This is simple freedom of contract, but this is an authoritarian, socialist, welfare state nation.
I’d also take any and all stickers I see. This probably is not going to work and will probably back fire. Most people don’t like this kind of stuff and there are far more conservatives then there are left wingnuts. The wingnuts are just super noisy, like 2 year olds having a tantrum.
Rahm Emannuel is busting unions in Chicago, but not a word from anyone because he is a Democrat.
Double standard rears it’s ugly head again!!
Target has since bent over backwards, if you will pardon the expression, to accommodate the Gaystapo.
had johnsonville brats the other day....looked for them specifically, and man were they tasty!!!!
I’ll buy the brats and the TP, but I’ve boycotted Coors for 40 years.
Johnsonville brats on the grill, Coors in the garage fridge nearby. It’s going to be a great weekend.
The executive order on political contributions will be found unconstitutional by our high court. It’s like much of Obumma’s work...
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