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Old 03-02-2011, 09:17 AM
 
Location: Texas
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How many arrests at Tea Party protests?
The lefties who showed up to counter-protest must have been well behaved and not tried to interfere with the tea party, is what that means.

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How many are beating each other up? If you count the 2 SEIU guys who were violent, then the answer is 2.
How many right wingers have shown up at the labor rallies to start trouble?
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Old 03-02-2011, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Back in COLORADO!!!
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Marx could not have said it better himself.
Lol... That's the best response you can think of? Calling me a Marxist?

I assure you friend, nothing could be further from the truth...

Here's something to think about. It's a quote from Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath....


This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".

Did you catch that? The part about Paine, Marx, Jefferson, and Lenin being results not causes?

Just think about that for a while.....

If Republicans really want to prevent Democrats (or other groups they peg as Socialists) from being elected to positions of power, then it is incumbent upon them to ensure that the regular working man is not getting a raw deal....
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Old 03-02-2011, 09:21 AM
 
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some teachers are being used by the union thugs, some are just trying to protect jobs from which they should have been fired years ago..but it seems like the left union thugs are painting a self portrait..they don't need any help from the right
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Old 03-02-2011, 09:59 AM
 
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Default Far right tries to paint teachers and unions as thugs

Unions arn't thugs?
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Old 03-02-2011, 10:00 AM
 
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No one has to "paint" unions as thugs as they do a pretty good job of proving it themselves.
Their actions speak much louder than any ones words.

Does OP not understand the tawdry history of unions? Google search!
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Old 03-02-2011, 10:18 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Lightbulb Far right tries to paint teachers and unions as thugs BUT THAT'S NOT ALL...

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Yet they are the ones that bring rifles to protests, talk about need to spill blood and start a revolution.

I'm a little puzzled as to why our radical right brethren haven't yet pointed out that librarians are evil and libraries are ungodly.
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Old 03-02-2011, 11:43 AM
 
Location: Gone
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Cross a picket line and tell how peaceable unions are.

And what is a picket line, but a human fence that relies on the threat of violent force to prevent fellow employees, property owners and consumers from freely entering a place of employment or business.
I have crossed them several times at two different companies, funny thing, no one made threats or even called those that did names.
Casper
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Old 03-02-2011, 11:52 AM
 
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Yet they are the ones that bring rifles to protests, talk about need to spill blood and start a revolution.
How many Tea Partiers have been arrested in the last 2 years compared to teachers in Wisconsin the last couple weeks? From what I understand the union members ARE the violent ones, as the arrest #'s show.
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Old 03-02-2011, 11:52 AM
 
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Lol... That's the best response you can think of? Calling me a Marxist?

I assure you friend, nothing could be further from the truth...

Here's something to think about. It's a quote from Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath....


This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".

Did you catch that? The part about Paine, Marx, Jefferson, and Lenin being results not causes?

Just think about that for a while.....

If Republicans really want to prevent Democrats (or other groups they peg as Socialists) from being elected to positions of power, then it is incumbent upon them to ensure that the regular working man is not getting a raw deal....
Quoting John Steinbeck, who belonged to several communist-front organizations, does little to buttress your argument.
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Old 03-02-2011, 11:55 AM
 
Location: Inland Levy County, FL
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Yet they are the ones that bring rifles to protests, talk about need to spill blood and start a revolution.
Two comments:

1) The Bill of Rights gives us the ability to keep and bear arms.

2) Union members have been acting like thugs with their behavior, threatening, pushing, punching, getting in people's faces...that is all thug-like behavior, is it not?
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