It seems like every time you pick up a newspaper or turn on CNN or MSNBC, there is a “journalist” accusing Tea Party members of being violent. They cite some angry and threatening voice-mails and the arrests of a few people as proof that the movement is inciting people to violence. Of course, they ignore or down play the death threats directed at conservatives, such as Jim Bunning or Eric Cantor, and they act like the liberals who threatened to kill President George Bush over the Iraq war never existed. Let’s face it, there are crazy people in this country on the left and the right, and any large group of people (like the Tea Party movement) is going to have a few crazies in it. It’s a statistical certainty, but the main stream media is trying to demonize an entire movement because of the existence of a few crazy people.
I have decided to use this same method (and demonstrate the absurdity of liberals and the main stream media) by demonizing an entire group of people usually associated with the Democrat Party. And unlike the main stream media, I actually have a large body of evidence to justify my claim that unions incite people to commit violent acts.
A union member recently made a disturbing remark about a local politician. The Las Vegas Review Journal is reporting that a member of the firefighters union has expressed a desire to shoot the county commissioner because he suggested that firefighters take a pay cut. Wow, wanting to kill someone over a slight decrease in salary? Will liberals demand that this person is arrested for making violent threats?
In addition to this, the head of the Bergen county, New Jersey teachers union sent out a memo to members that contained the following excerpt,
“Dear lord, this year you have taken away my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, my favorite actress, Farrah Fawcett, my favorite singer, Michael Jackson, and my favorite salesman, Billy Mays. I just wanted to let you know that Chris Christie is my favorite governor.”
Here we have a union leader wishing harm on the Governor of a state. Where is the MSNBC special on violent union members?
In the another recent case of possible union violence, Flint, Mi. has been battling arson attacks after some union fire fighters were laid off because of budget cuts. According to The Ledger,
Crews battled at least five fires in Flint on Thursday, the same day the city began laying off a quarter of its firefighters as part of an effort to close its estimated $8 million budget deficit.
“This was a premeditated attack on the safety of the community that is likely to have been timed to try to achieve some kind of perverted political purpose,” Mayor Dayne Walling said at a news conference.
Isn’t it strange that arson attacks would suddenly break out when some union firefighters were losing their jobs? Why aren’t local Democrats demanding that the union be investigated? Luckily, only unoccupied building have been burned so far, but 2 firefighters have been injured fighting the blazes. To make matters worse, the local union has chosen not to condemn the blazes, but to justify them. From the same article,
A firefighters union official said Walling’s layoffs were an open invitation to arsonists.
Can you imagine the outrage from the left if a Tea Party leader said that Congressmen who voted for the health care bill had invited the death threats they received?
In just the last few weeks, union members have wished a governor dead, threatened to shoot a county commissioner, and may be responsible for a string of arson attacks. If we use the same logic that the main stream media applies to the Tea Parties, we must conclude that unions incite violence. If there is still any doubt, all we have to do is watch the video from last last summer of some SEIU members violently attacking a black conservative who had attended a town hall meeting with Congressman Russ Carnahan.
Should we also conclude that unions are racist because the victim in this video is black?
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It is pretty ironic that the MSM either exaggerates or flat out creates violence on the right, and at the same time, completely ignores violence from the left.
Excellent post Liberty. I loved you analysis of the Union and how the MSM is choosing to cherry pick what they report.
I have to admit that union thugs always scare me when I see them on TV acting like this. I think they are capable of great violence and feel justified in doing so.
Great post. Unions have a long history of inciting violence and union members know that they have the reputation of doing so; keeping “scabs” away isn’t done by sweet talk but my intimidation to do physical harm.
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