Remember all those violent Tea Party protests? Yeah, me neither.

The Michigan Attorney General is a Republican, Bill Schuette. There is absolutely no reason his staff should not be investigating this and pressing charges.

This is a new low, even from the union goons. Really sad to see Americans treating their fellow Americans this way. Of course, the union thugs aren’t American-remind me more of jackbooted, brownshirt goons from Nazi Germany.

This is mild violence compared to what happened in Louisiana back in the late 1970′s when Right to Work was building up to passing.

The tide turned when Jupiter Chemicals was building its plant near Lake Charles, LA. Jupiter was a JV between PPG and Kerley Industries. It had hired a composite crew from a non AFL-CIO affiliated union. As the work day began, union members crashed the gate riding bulldozers and graders firing rifles and shotguns at the workers. A few deaths occurred.

The owner of Kerley Industries, Bob Kerley did not take this sitting down. He hired an undercover investigative team and teamed up with the local newspaper The Lake Charles American Press (who by Daniel, Erick and FreedomWorks standards is uber liberal, due the paper not supporting the crony capitalist who they wanted elected). Bob Kerley met the newspaper’s owner, Hugh Shearman, over lunch with scotch and vodka martinis respectively every Friday. The paper ran a special report in the Sunday paper with the info handed over in a large manila envelope which included reports and photos.

The paper put out info weekly over and above ANYTHING in any recent expose.

Unions members were riding around the state in full sized pickup trucks brandishing rifles, shotguns and even fully automatic weapons, comparable to the Libyan “rebels” of a year ago.

They even blew up a bomb in the state senate chambers.

You know something that just occurred to me? What if the President had just visited here and gave his blessing to this violence and riled up all these lunatics with a speech about how this wasn’t about the economy, it was just about politics? Now wouldn’t THAT make all the newscasts!

You might want to asterisk a letter or two. Family site you know.

Careening towards the eventual sad conclusion that Progressivise Liberalism wreaks.

LOL!

And, bad intentions are even worse!

“This is a new low, even from the union goons.”

Not so much,gnelson. I checked Wikipedia first, found this sanitized fantasy piece about union violence in America, and checked it against this correction at The Blaze. In the grand scheme, this wasn’t even a blip on the radar screen. Our union brothers will indeed “…kill a motherf****r with a gun.”, or anything else that’s handy…repeatedly. Interesting note, the Wikinemia page was last edited 12/11/2012(hmm…).

As a former salaried employee working with UAW guys, this story does not surprise me (or any union person being honest). Low expectations breeds this kind of thinking. Once many union people “got in” they were done trying. Not all, but most definitely there is not just a few that feel this way. Arrogance and downright surliness are unpleasant realities of the “tenured” masses.
I was pleasantly surprised with some union guys and their willingness and capabilities to get the job done. Those guys get drowned out and become reluctant supporters of their not-so-proud union brothers and sisters. I feel for them. The scummy ones wield big mouths and the mentality of spoiled children. They’ll throw tantrums and act up to get “stuff” without having any idea of the bigger picture.
Give them a Mexican Twinkie to help them remember how truly good their goals are.

The spirit of Jimmy Hoffa, SR is alive and well in Michigan today.

Businesses in Wisconsin mostly notably in Madison were sent letters by police threatening and warning them of their mistakes for backing Republican budget reforms that limited collective bargaining for public employees in Wisconsin. Some of these threats were published in the papers.

The partisan Dane county DA was slow to prosecute very blatant physical violence or its threat. The occupiers took over the capitol building and camped out. One web site had a discussion thread on killing Gv Walker and the DA said only after being asked that the web site was just talking. No one had actually done anything yet.

Law and Ordfer are not always lining up with Republicans on union issues.

These folks have to realize that they can’t continue to be paid 4x what their job is worth in the real world and the company compete and survive. There is some irony in that US car companies are moving plants to Mexico and the foreign car companies locate in the US in right to work states.

Unionized police and fire have always worried me. After their behavior in Madison Wisconsin over union issues I am convinced public safety is not a concern of theirs at all. But they have the force.

The Dane county DA looked the other way whenever he could. In this case the evidence is there and so overwhelming a prosecution must take place. But, in Dane county it was still hard to get a conviction for some of the violence over Walker collective bargaining limits.
I post this comparison to Wisconsin for informational purposes not to complain as the situation is such there is not much we can do now. We must move ahead anyway despite a hostile police apparatus.

Oh, yeah, I’d just LOVE being forced to give money to a union that supported behavior like this. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

He deserves time. I suspect he will get probation given the union friendly Lansing Michigan. We do not want a martyr created and a hero who did long prison time all for union protection and so forth.
So probation, a fine and 30 days in county jail might be appropriate.

There are no issues of which I’m aware. It’s all manufactured for your pleasure and/or disgust. This stupid parade of idiots means nothing to me. There is no cause but that the unions, having abused their “sainthood” for years see it slipping away.
If you see any issues here, you’re looking wrong. Please make me aware of what is important about these morons losing their tenure. They deserve to get fired like anybody else when they screw up. They don’t deserve leadership (if you can call it that).
Whatever happened to “show up on time, work, go home”? Everything else is apparently fooling lots of people.

It was signed into law last night. Right now it’s Wednesday morning. My prediction is that by the end of the day today, some liberal-hack judge will strike it down.

I was in Lansing when this assault went down. I was about
100 yards away from the AFP tent when those union thugs started a fight and
tore it down. It was union thuggery at its finest. These “people” are
little more than rabid animals, it was pathetic. Of course, there were the
usual foul-mouthed brownshirts. But a few of these guys who got violent,
especially that older, fat t*rd wearing what appears to be an IBEW (International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) jacket. We ARE going to find that fat little
b*$tard and he WILL be brought to justice.

I have a message for Mr. Fat Man: You want to threaten people with your gun? Well,
YOU are not the only one around who is armed, Skippy. Just remember that.

On Monday, Barry was in Redford speaking at Detroit Diesel. He bears some of the responsibility for whipping up these Michigan union thugs into a frenzy. He needs chaos more than anything else.

But I want to thank the unions and the liberals for letting their true nature
be shown yesterday! Decent citizens are now even less sympathetic to the union
cause.

The Lansing major is a Dem. I am not holding my breath waiting for something to happen with him or his administration. Give him a few days just to show he is incompetent, but then the Michigan AG should step in.

It’s sure happened in other countries and the possibility (probability?) should not be ignored

When was the last time right to work passed in Michigan? I don’t know about you, but I thought I would never see this day. Just because it hasn’t happened before doesn’t mean it won’t.

It shouldn’t be a matter of politics. They should be prosecuting these thugs just on the basis of justice. But if the people in charge need a political excuse, just look at the union and Dem tactics. Even on a purely political level Gov. Synder and the rest of the GOP leadership should be pressuring anyone responsible for investigations, arrests, and prosecutions.

If the situation was reversed so that this was the Tea Party with a Dem governor, don’t you think the Dems would be pulling out all of the stops?

This is not as radical as the union laws passed in WI. Right to work has been enabled in a great number of states for a good amount of time. There is nothing on the federal level to challenge this.

On the state level, several union initiatives were voted down in the last election. I don’t know of anything in the state constitution that would prohibit this. About the only thing left is to challenge this on legislative procedural grounds. Even on that I have not heard that the legislature or the governor did anything beyond the normal rules.

Of course, all of this will not prevent someone from challenging it or even possibly some judge from trying to strike it down. But I don’t see any possibility of a successful challenge.

…now that’s funny, right there!” (Larry, the Cable Guy)

Unfortunately, middle aged union white dudes all look that same to me.

Steven ought to sue this guy for everything he has as well as have him criminally charged. These idiots need to know that if they pull this crap, they do so at a cost. Even in small claims court, he could get a $5000.00 judgement against him. At the very least get his chipped tooth capped.

Sad that investigating assault would be considered a partisan issue. Oh yeah, the police union might need some coaxing, wouldn’t it

Unfofortunately there is a provision in US law that allows the union leaders the right to conduct violent protests if in is done to futher union objectives. The democrats will not allow this to happen so it’s up to us to stop them Congress should eliminate this loophole that gives unions this protection. Since they will not act drastic action must be taken. The unions are threatening civil war so lets give them one

Maybe things have changed and its brighter now. Home is home and no need to stay away always.

Stu Dunnings is the Ingham County Prosecutor. He’s worthless.

It is obvious that these union thugs are ignorant, overpaid, spoiled brats who have no understanding of the English language. I wonder if they ever think about how they are eating their food with the same opening from which such vile verbal vomit is expelled.
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James Chapter 3 verses 1-12 (New King James Version)
1 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. 2 For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. 4 Look
also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce
winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot
desires. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.See how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is
a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members
that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature;
and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? 12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh. James 3: 1-12 NKJV