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Topic Started: Sep 9 2011, 04:41 PM (120 Views)
George K
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Finally
look what those knuckle-draggin tea-baggers are doing now....

Longshoremen Storm Washington State Port, Damage Railroad

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Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.

Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.

No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines and spilling grain from car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor that's staffing a workforce of other union laborers.

Thursday's violence was first reported by Kelso radio station KLOG.

Police from several agencies in southwest Washington, the Washington State Patrol and Burlington Northern Santa Fe responded to the violence to secure the scene that followed a demonstration Wednesday.

"We're not surprised," Duscha said. "A lot of the protesters were telling us this in only the start."

One sergeant was threatened with baseball bats and retreated, Duscha said. "One officer with hundreds of Longshoremen? He used the better part of discretion."

The train was the first grain shipment to arrive at Longview. It arrived Wednesday night after police arrested 19 demonstrators who tried to block the tracks. They were led by ILWU International President Robert McEllrath, who said they would return.

The blockade appeared to defy a federal restraining order issued last week against the union after it was accused of assaults and death threats.

EGT chief executive Larry Clarke said it was unfortunate that law enforcement needed to make arrests.


Cutting brakelines on railroad cars?
Defying restraining orders? (that's probably OK, because we ignore that which we don't like. Never mind.
Destruction of private property (spilling grain)?
Taking hostages?

Tell me, again, about Tea Party violence and anger...
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John D'Oh
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George K
Sep 9 2011, 04:41 PM
(that's probably OK, because we ignore that which we don't like. Never mind.
Only liberals break the speed limit?
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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George K
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John D'Oh
Sep 9 2011, 05:03 PM
George K
Sep 9 2011, 04:41 PM
(that's probably OK, because we ignore that which we don't like. Never mind.
Only Mostly liberals break the speed limit windows and brakelines?
After corrections above, yes.
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Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
Please note how much play this is getting in the national news media...
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John D'Oh
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George K
Sep 9 2011, 05:10 PM
John D'Oh
Sep 9 2011, 05:03 PM
George K
Sep 9 2011, 04:41 PM
(that's probably OK, because we ignore that which we don't like. Never mind.
Only Mostly liberals break the speed limit windows and brakelines?
After corrections above, yes.
My complaint wasn't with your criticism of the scumbags referenced, but with the apparent linkage to that enormousy silly thread about babysitters.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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George K
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The linkage was in reference to obeying laws (like the speed limit babysitter law bill) that are ignored because we don't like them, or find them silly or wrong.

Why obey a judge and a restraining order? We've got the BROOOOTHERRRS on our side!

(insert picture of raised fist here)
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Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
Where are union-busting goons when you need them?
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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