Union thuggery? Naaa. Couldn't be!
/sarc
Posted on 10/02/2008 12:05:03 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
-snip On Oct. 2, 1998, 10 years ago today, at the height of the Lewinsky scandal, my sister and I traveled to Center City to protest Bill Clinton during one of his numerous presidential visits to the area. Little did we know that the Teamsters Union would be present to intimidate and harass us at every turn - --snip-- After a quick verbal exchange, an old-style Molly McGuire Union Boss, John Morris, rammed a fedora over my face, blinding me to the onslaught of Teamsters who would proceed to knock my sister and I to the ground. Once we were down, they pummeled us. If my sister hadn't protected my head from some of blows, I don't know if I'd still be alive.
In the aftermath of the highly publicized beating, District Attorney Lynne Abraham prosecuted me on trumped up charges that I had hit two Teamster women - despite exculpatory police statements
(Excerpt) Read more at thebulletin.us ...
Philly Metro/Delaware Valley Ping
I remember that episode.
The Bulletin has come out with some of the best articles on Obama that I have seen from anywhere.
Herb Denenberg has been a consistent home run hitter with his columns.
Good for the Bulletin.
Its because we let them. Its as simple as that. We have to get as mean as they are. We always hear that we don’t need to lower ourselves to their level. I say yes we do!
I remember when this happened - two innocent freepers beaten up and the MSM didn't give a damn about the "public's right to know". It was thuggery - plain and simple.
Philly has, probably the worst union thugs in the country. They run the City government for all intents and purposes. SEIU takes several days off each election year (paid, of course) and hold rallies on City property for whatever political hack they happen to support. Every election, about two or three dozen people are injured—some have been murdered—at polling places if they dare wear anything that isn’t a democrat button, shirt, etc... Lynn Abraham is a radical, pro-union DA who has absolutely refused to prosecute any union thugs for any of these incidents, despite video, testimonial from police, whatever...
Whatever the polls say, PA will go for Obama because union thugs will carry a stack of IDs around and go from one polling place to another and vote under as many bogus names (dead people, elderly people, people who’ve had IDs stolen). I’ve seen this several times with my own eyes—a barely articulate union thug with a slightly more articulate thug went in before me, the one guy whispered a name in the other’s ear, showed ID, then voted. They left and when they got to the corner, he took the ID card and threw it in the sewer, took out another and pulled out a list and figured out the next polling place they had to go to. In 2004 more “dems” voted in some districts than there were registered voters. I’ve complained to the local elections monitoring group, the “Committee of Seventy” and was hung up on, laughed at, and threatened. Oh, and most of the union thugs don’t even live in Philadelphia—they live in Jersey for the most part.
I’m not entirely anti-union. My dad was president of a local back in Ohio, but that was another time, another place. He was sickened by what unions became—nothing more than a branch of the Democrat party.
All that said, I don’t know if these guys will be able to stomach voting for Obama. We’ll see.
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Physicist, also a Freeper, had his sign pulled out of his hand so hard, that his hand bled. He along with many conservatives and Freepers helped us fight back, for which, we are ever grateful!
These are the silencing tactics of LEFTIST politics!!
It happened ten years ago TODAY (hard to believe), and it took us almost that long to pursue them in court.
Thank you very much for posting my brother's article! : )
When you have the time, could you please ping your list!
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We’ve had our share of union thuggery in Northern Virginia as well. It was toned back after some of the union punks from PA tried to intimidate the wrong people.
My comments to union would be bullies... “There are wolves among the sheep. Becareful that you don’t grab the wolf... we will bite you hard.”
Mike
Go Sarah!!!!!!! : )
Kudos to you and your brother for fighting the good fight against the leftists -- not only for yourselves, but on behalf of the whole conservative movement.
So proud to know you and your brother-remember standing in DC against that creeoy bill clinton and his horrid DOJ head, reno, and protesting their trashing of Elian's Mommy's dream for her son?
God Bless you both!!
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