I relish the opportunity to attack the unions. I do so with regularity. But on this point, I have to sing their praises. The Rhode Island protesters done good. Michelle Malkin has the story.
At AFSCME’s “solidarity” rally in Providence, Rhode Island on Tuesday, a cameraman was accosted by a fuming pro-union protester. The cameraman had his back to the goon, who appears to accost him unprovoked. The goon screams:
“I’ll f**k you in the ass, you faggot!”
His shouting escalates and other union supporters try to intervene as he threatened the cameraman, but he continues to foam at the mouth.
The “solidarity” mob finally starts chanting “Hey, hey, ho, ho, union-busting’s got to go” to drown out the goon’s snit fit. He yells that he will “follow you out of here.”
The eruption starts at 7:32 in this video.
That goon was out of control. That goon was violent. That goon was criminal. And that goon got arrested and charged.
But it was the rest of them that deserve praise. The crowd tried to calm him down. When that didn’t work, they separated him from the cameramen who were obviously there to record “the enemy” in action. And then they began loudly chanting their spiel to drown him out. The kerfuffle interrupted the speechifying as the police were brought in to deal with the goon. And then the emcee stepped up and gave a very appropriate caution to the crowd.
This is what I like to see. A large crowd of boisterous protesters peacefully protesting and properly policing the goons within. I disagree with just about everything the union protesters are pushing — because it’s wrong for society — but I support their right to boisterously do so, peacefully. They done good.
This is what I like to see. A large crowd of boisterous protesters peacefully protesting and properly policing the goons within.
You’re really trying to backpeddle furiously from your previous remarks where you try to justify three grown men stomping a small woman, aren’t you?
Matthew 7:15-20 covers your brand of “Christianity” quite nicely.
NZT, you’re a liar. In other news, the Earth is round, water is wet, and there is a 100 percent chance of weather.
But thanks for playing.
Well, the discourteous protestor was just obviously a right-wing plant, paid by Andrew Breitbart, to make it seem as though the peaceful union protestors were not so peaceful.
I’m surprised you didn’t realize that.
A shining ray of reason. Gives me a little hope.
Unlike this Onion story, which offers a glimpse of non-insanity from an alternate universe… but I know it’s only fiction.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/embarrassed-republicans-admit-theyve-been-thinking,19248/
The entire exercise of “protesting” has become a silly charade, a melodrama for the media, and an opportunity for ignorant louts to misbehave in public.
In Wisconsin, the protesters aren’t about to even consider the possibility their antics are exposing them as greedy, self-serving, jerks. Increasingly, the public sees them as overpaid, ungrateful, and unfit for the jobs they’re fortunate to have and because of their selfish refusal face fiscal realities are now in danger of losing.
ropelight: “…greedy…”
The union agreed with all of Walker’s financial demands. Nobody in this issue is thinking about money.
Then again… if greed is bad… you must hate all CEO’s and bankers and investors and “productive” people in society, right, ropelight?
Yes, greedy! Union pigs pay only 1/5th of one penny toward their retirement pensions, and taxpayers pay 99.8%, and that’s in addition to a wage structure more generous than private sector employment. On top of that, the union pigs only pay 1/4th of the going rate for health care insurance, and guess who pays the balance?
Greedy public sector union bosses spend millions to elect Democrats to office, then those bought and paid for politicians sign sweetheart union contracts with union fat cats for the kind of benefits described above and stick taxpayers for the tab. That’s greed times ten, and nearly 7 out of every 10 Americans can see it, clear as a bell.
Nangleator is correct, ropelight, as your misapplication of the greed label is very telling about your prejudices and biases. Your true colors are showing loudly and clearly, which we regulars on here already knew quite well!!!
We now know that we have a dictatorially and conspiratorially minded Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker who is attempting to lead an attack on public workers’ right to negotiate, that is, public employees’ unions, in consort with other Republican Governors.
Interestingly, most of the other Governors have begun to back off as their strategy has begun to backfire politically.
Worked out better than the SEIU goons last year and the goon that put a hurtin’ on person half his size. Real brave of the gooney bird. This was better that the union policed itself.
That’s probably true, as we now can see by virtue of the faux Koch phone call! Governor Walker was caught red-handed, so now his face is really red!!
Let’s try this again, ropelight. “Wisconsin’s unions have already agreed to $30 million in pay cuts and to increase their members’ pension and insurance contributions…”
From here: http://www.danagoldstein.net/dana_goldstein/2011/02/reality-check-wisconsin-unions-have-already-agreed-to-major-concessions.html
Perry, I think most of our readers recognized
when they saw it. 
Well, so much for your good-natured attempt to toss the left a bone …
Naggy, greedy union parasites owe the taxpayers much more than just a temporary pause in their gluttonous pillaging of private sector workers paychecks.
Crocodile tears, sympathetic words, and a few crumbs from the “collective bargaining” feast aren’t going to make up for years and years of greed and political corruption. Nothing short of a complete and permanent ban on public employee unions will do to make sure corrupt union thugs operating in cahoots with crooked Democrat politicians never again subverts elections and results in wholesale looting of the public treasury.
Dana and I both wrote separate articles close together chronologically where we refused to condemn Obama for certain things, in fact we said he did right. That does not impact the venomous hate and lies of the left — on this board or anywhere else — but that’s not why we wrote those articles in the first place.
Right’s right. And when we see leftists doing right, we say so. And that’s the point, really. It’s not a popularity gimmick or a “please like me” gimmick. I would rather be right than popular. That’s my overriding philosophy. Let spineless cretins seek false praise and fair-weather friends. It’s all whitewash on filthy sepulchres full of dead men’s bones.
Yes, greedy! Union pigs pay only 1/5th of one penny toward their retirement pensions, and taxpayers pay 99.8%, and that’s in addition to a wage structure more generous than private sector employment. On top of that, the union pigs only pay 1/4th of the going rate for health care insurance, and guess who pays the balance?
Uh-huh
I see ropelight has been swallowing the Fox News Kool Aid again.
Without question! And he makes stuff up too!!
So, Perry, are your opinions independent of your own selfish interests, or are your own “prejudices and biases” on display here?
Are you one of the greedy union pigs taking food out of the mouths of children while their parents are stuck in low wage jobs working to provide you and your fellow retired union parasites a cushy pension?
Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin: Who ‘Contributes’ to Public Workers’ Pensions?
Damn. The blockquotes should be stepping up not down before the second italics.
Q: What’s the difference between a Wisconsin public employee and a Somali pirate?
A: Somali pirates pay for their own health insurance and retirement
Q: What’s the difference between a wingnut and a Somali pirate?
A: Somali pirates pay for their own health insurance and retirement
(A bit of a pointless joke, but probably more based in reality than yours)
Oops:
The Wisconsin Retirement System and deferred compensation are two completely separate things. Full-time state- and local-government employees are participants in the Wisconsin Retirement System, which uses taxpayer money to fund both the state (around 5 percent of salary) and employee (another 5 percent) contributions to their pensions.
Uh-huh.
Go read this, dumbass.