{"id":6130,"date":"2011-09-09T11:57:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T02:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2011-09-09T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T02:57:43","slug":"the-ingrates-of-wrath2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-ingrates-of-wrath2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ingrates of Wrath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Obama&#8217;s army is at it again, both in the streets of Washington, and the editorial meetings of the Associated Press. \u00a0This time we find terrorists damaging critical infrastructure that our economy depends upon. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because one group of union thugs is upset that their strike (or whatever, I don&#8217;t care) was upended by &#8212; wait for it &#8212; the hiring of different union workers. \u00a0Ooh, those filthy capitalist yankee running dogs! How dare those pigs hire people from a different union?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The International Longshore and Warehouse Union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor that&#8217;s staffing a workforce of other union laborers.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/longshoremen-storm-wash-state-port-damage-rr-144921214.html\">Longshoremen storm Wash. state port, damage RR &#8211; Yahoo! News<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the oft-discussed dumping of oranges in a Steinbeck novel of grinding interminable oppression by price-fixing, orange-dumping, plutocrats (Oh, and Roosevelt&#8217;s disastrous economic policies, but that&#8217;s another matter). \u00a0This is simply about power. \u00a0Getting it, keeping it, displaying it. \u00a0The privileged leeches with great pensions are bound and determined to prevent the hard-pressed proles from upsetting their arrangement, and the media gets the message loud and clear.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what you think or thought about unions, you need to realize that in modern America, unions are just another Marxist tool, domestic enemies inside the wire. \u00a0Nevermind the honest, hard-working Americans who are one way or another &#8220;members&#8221; of the unions&#8211;I am talking about the Obamaist leadership of these organizations, and their subsidized goon squads, like those who feel that the safety of their union &#8220;brothers&#8221; who operate the nation&#8217;s rail system is a small price to pay for the consolidation of their own power. \u00a0Eggs for omelets, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody has a &#8220;right&#8221; to a particular job, or to a job in general. \u00a0You have the right to try, to apply, to access the job IF HIRED, and no union sons of bitches get to keep you away from your job.<\/p>\n<p>The American worker has a choice to make, and believe me, they will always be welcome in the midst of those who know that businesses create jobs, and workers create businesses. \u00a0The right will not begrudge labor its dalliance with organization, especially in times such as this. \u00a0But the unions themselves must be smashed, or they will bring this all down.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take my word for it. \u00a0Ask the otherwise unionized railroad crews, or the union labor whose employment has these goons literally out in the streets, tearing things up.<\/p>\n<p>And a note to the AP&#8211;these are not &#8220;protesters&#8221; who &#8220;returned to their union hall&#8221;. \u00a0These are Marxist thugs who are rioting and looting, destroying property and infrastructure alike, and actually &#8212; in your own words &#8212; <em>taking hostages<\/em>. \u00a0 I know that journalists feel a need to fit stories into a narrative quickly, sometimes more quickly than the facts are known, but nothing justifies this shameful laundering of domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.unr.edu\/faculty-staff\/app-faculty\/3\/jerry-ceppos\/\">Jerry Ceppos<\/a>, dean of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.unr.edu\/\">the journalism school<\/a> at the University of Nevada, Reno, said journalists\u2019 impulse to quickly impose a frame on a story is \u201cgenetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJournalists developed automatic framing protocols generations ago because of the need to report quickly,\u201d he said. \u201cToday\u2019s hyper-deadlines, requiring journalists to report all day long and all night long, made that genetic disposition even more dominant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; from the New York Times pathetic weak-kneed half-apology for blaming the Giffords shooting on Sarah Palin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/16\/opinion\/16pubed.html?pagewanted=all\">Time, the Enemy<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Giffords shooting blamed on Palin, but union thugs taking hostages referred to as &#8220;protesters&#8221;. \u00a0How swift they are to blame the right, yet absolve the left. \u00a0This is terrorism. \u00a0I eagerly await the AP&#8217;s correction.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6130\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6130\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Obama&#8217;s army is at it again, both in the streets of Washington, and the editorial meetings of the Associated Press. \u00a0This time we find terrorists damaging critical infrastructure that our economy depends upon. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because one group of union thugs is upset that their strike (or whatever, I don&#8217;t care) was upended by &#8212; wait for it &#8212; the hiring of different union workers. \u00a0Ooh, those filthy capitalist yankee running dogs! How dare those pigs hire people from a different union?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-ingrates-of-wrath2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,251,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-marxism","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}