“Let’s take these sons of bitches out”
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.
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.
The Longshoremen believe it is their right to work at that port, apparently regardless of the law.
The best part of all this?
…nobody has been arrested.
The Longshoremen defied a restraining order to cut brake lines, spilled grain, take six guards hostage, and threaten a sergeant with a baseball bat.
And no one was arrested??
It’s not over, either.
“A lot of the protesters were telling us this in only the start.”
Fabulous.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
Here’s a bonus video of what I guess is a typical Longshoremen union member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFHBGGvuQhA&feature=player_embedded#!
Safe to say it’s NSFW
So this is why we should all thank the unions for our working conditions.
The union coffers and retirement plans should pay for the damage. The leadership should face charges for the “official” actions of the members. Oh! I forgot, we have a president that is supported by and promotes rule by thuggery. The name Obama will forever be linked to Thuggery or perhaps Obama the Thug President.
A new era, the Kleptocracy of America, championed by Obama the Thug.
If you are an enemy of the Kleptocracy, he will steal your assets, prosecute you, tax you, or regulate you into oblivion. America the Kleptocracy, where thuggery is supreme under Obama.
A UNION leaning newspaper states:
After months of ILWU Local 21 protests the company announced it would hire a unionized subcontractor to run the terminal. EGT signed an agreement with Federal Way-based General Construction Co., a subsidiary of Kiewit, to operate the terminal with union members from the Portland-based International Union of Operating Engineers Local 701.
That was NOT good enough for the members of the ILWU Local 21.
They felt entitled to these 50 jobs.
Obama’s union-packed National Labor Relations Board announced it was seeking a court order to end “aggressive picketing” at the EGT facility and allow Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains to deliver grain to the facility. Such an order was issued last week, according to Rich Ahearn, director of the NLRB’s Seattle office.
That’s when the destruction of the railway, the destruction of the wheat, the hostage-taking of 5 men and many assaults happened, all perpetrated by picketers representing the ILWU Local 21.
BUT, police are UNION members, too.
So, despite all the criminality no one was arrested.
Cool beans!
(If you’re in a UNION, that is.)
Tacoma, Seattle, and Everett are respectively 100, 130, and 160 miles north of Longview — all are along the I-5 freeway coridor. An article I read in either the Seattle or Tacoma paper said the unions walked off job in Tacoma at 1:30 am Thursday — plenty of time to drive to Longview in the wee hours on a wide open freeway. There is no way there are 400-500 ILWU members in the Longiew area. At any rate – the media BS has it that the “dispute spread” to Tacoma, Seattle and Everett. Just adding a little twist to your Kool-Aide there Mr. JQP. Nothing to see here.
Meanwhile Union “leadership” in San Fran and Waaaah, DC have been shown to be Sgt Schultzes — I see nothing, know nothing — right — BS.
Turn over West Coast Port operations to the Chinese — all we need are some unspoiled, grown up crane operators — to unload Chinese containers full of Chinese STUFF from Chinese built and crewed ships using Chinese cranes — uhh — the Chinese cranes are already here. Give these crybaby union SOB’s a taste of what the professional classes have had to put up with the last 40 years.
Adding to Nan’s post above — Federal Way is located halfway between Seattle and Tacoma.
[Quote] 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
THAT alone is a felony! And anyone who is knowingly involved is an accessory. Send them all to Walla-Walla!
For a little history lesson re southwest Waaah State labor crap — google “Centralia massacre”. Centralia is approx 50 miles north of Longview — also on I-5. IWW (International Workers of the World) shooting from rooftops at ex doughboys marching in an Armistice Day parade in 1919. The key word in all Union titles is “International” as in – International Bro-hood of this or — International Bro- or Sister -hood of that. They have always been communist, violent, selfish, crybaby, whining, paranoid, blackmailing thugs. Not to mention a dose of anti-Americanism. They are the biggest bunch of sheeple in the country.
They overwhelmed guards, smashed windows in the guard shack and dumped grain. Six guards were trapped for a couple of hours, Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha said. He initially referred to the guards as “hostages,” but later retracted that after the guards clarified no one had threatened them.
Yep it all depends on what the meaning of threatened is. It wasn’t like they were threatened, threatened.
@RudeCrudeAndSociallyUnacceptable:
Maybe those guards “chose” not to press charges. Maybe someone made them an offer they couldn’t refuse.
In Canada this thuggery has been going on for years. The farmers would get grain quotas and the longshoremen would strike. We needed Thunder Bay , Ontario, but forget it. Grain was shipped to Montreal to give them work. They broke whiskey bottles in the cargo holds to ruin loads and cause daily penalty demerits. Churchill, Manitoba was used but its ice free for about 7 months. Alberta built grain cars(always a shortage) and a rail line to Prince Rupert, BC. The terminal and port facility was non union and extremely efficient. Another problem solver was Cargill terminals and elevators. They shipped out of Portland, Oregon, bypassing all the Union crap in W Canada. Today, longshoremen cry the blues. Corporate farms avoid unions like the plague. Jobs, what jobs?
Time to take out the trash!!
“We stood by and passively let union thugs invade and smash private property, and take hostages. It was great,” said said Unionized-Longview-Police Chief Jim Duscha. “Looking sold-out and weak is all part of being an effective police force that has the confidence and respect of the public.”
Yuppers… action in the ‘hood. Longview is about 18 miles north of me, and a town I rarely like to visit, but occasionally have to. Unemployment there is above the national (and fake) norm at 12.7%. Negative job growth. Overall crime rates are almost twice the national norm per 100K people. It was a Longview/Kelso guy who crossed the Lewis and Clark Bridge and killed a Rainier police officer this past year.
The local rag, The Daily News has an update with Dan Coffman, president of Longview-based Local 21 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, denying it was any of his guys.
Also recants a previous incident on Wednesday, with most laying the blame for the destructive protest on imported protesters.
Nothing new about unions busing in thugs.
Oh yes… INRE the security guards in this incident:
A bit more more history about the dispute between EGT and ILWU. There is a testy lawsuit between the two also contributing. You can read more about the events with this Longview Daily News article from July 29th.
But I will say that OR/WA communities on either side of the Columbia have always been competitive in trying to keep their state job openings confined to that state’s citizens. So it’s no surprise the WA union members are annoyed that OR workers are taking the jobs.
Ironic it’s union vs union in this instance, with EGT and those who are caught as collateral damage (i.e. the grain owners who have lost their product) in the middle.
I wonder if some of that grain is Canadian grain on its way to Portland? Cargill is huge in Canada. Gonna check this out.
When war was declared last week against the rest of us son-of-a-bitches by Hoffa and condoned by Obama, we were told by supporters that the war was at the ballot box and it wasn’t a physical threat. Perhaps these union folks got their dates mixed up and became frustrated when they couldn’t find the voting booths and began vandalizing things in their search for them. We shouldn’t jump to conclusions.
@Nan G:
Hell, the cops probably went out drinking with their union brothers afterwords.
Mata – Who is this “Duscha” guy. Is his last name “Bag”?
LOL @John Cooper! Actually, Duscha in the latest is a round robin of chiefs, and a newbie on the job since the end of June. His predecessors had problems with the Longview Police Guild (their union). They hated California imports and felt the previous chiefs didn’t know the “Longview culture” of the department. The “duscha bag” is a local boy, so they should be happy with him.
Altho, considering the Guild is always proactive with the city for raises, I can’t imagine that letting union thugs off will score any points with the adversary across the wage table, the city of Longview. The damage for all of this and interruption in business isn’t likely to be looked upon with favor by the city officials. If they don’t feel it important enough to investigate and prosecute the offenders, the city is also just as likely to say they don’t need their wages increased after this latest 2010/11 agreement.
But the latest TDN articles say they do anticipate making some arrests. The prior arrests of 19 for the Wednesday incident is mostly locals within 10 miles, with the furthest ones away in Estacada, Oregon City, Warren and Portland, OR… plus a few about 35-40 miles away from Vancouver WA, right across the river from Portland.
So six counts of kidnapping per union thug at that port, let the court sessions begin!
(Kangaroo court that is)
Where are our lefty union supporters on this thread.
@DrJohn: True. Maybe they were even Union associates?
Buffalobob: [Quote] They overwhelmed guards, smashed windows in the guard shack and dumped grain. Six guards were trapped for a couple of hours, Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha said. He initially referred to the guards as “hostages,” but later retracted that after the guards clarified no one had threatened them.
Unless the guards were complicit the activity as quoted would have implied some one had threatened them. My guess is they were threatened by the Union thugs and developed the ole’ yeller stripe up their backs!
RudeCrude, you have to understand the demographics and size of Longview. The security guards worked for EGT where, in a town of about 37,000, they probably knew many of the protesters that were local. It’s hard to say if they were threatened, or just wanted to stay out of it. Thus why they may not be pressing charges. That’s an area with lumber mills, a gypsum plant and the grain plant there on the river, all small town attitudes. Even smaller from those coming from Rainier or Clatskanie, which are bergs of about 3000 in population. The Kelso/Longview area are the “big towns” in SW Washington. The nearest town of any size in Washington State is 68 miles to the north – Olympia, or Vancouver, WA to the south at 42 miles. Portland is about 50 miles. In other words, it’s the only game in town for some “big city shopping”, taking that definition loosely.
Because it’s a small world in those industries, I’d say most of the guards knew some, if not most, of the protesters. If the ire was directed mostly against law enforcement, it’s entirely possible the guards simply wanted to stay out of it… again perhaps because it’s a small world, and their kids may go to the same schools, or the protesters know where they live.
Fear of repercussions by taking sides in a dispute can often lead to silence. My first guess is the guards were trying to stay both neutral, and out of the line of fire, just based on the intimate area we are discussing.
BTW, don’t misconstrue this as any type of support for the union thugs. Just speaking about the security guards and charges in general.
@Randy, #21:
If you want the socialist perspective, refer to a socialist website.
I’m not familiar with the background, but it sounds as if the socialists aren’t especially happy with the federal government’s position.
Thanks for at least qualifying the caveats for your source, Greg. And, as usual, it’s hyperbole for shock jock value.
With all due respect to the original post, Hoffa’s got shit to do with this since this battle has been raging for quite some time. Most definitely longer than Hoffa’s “bitches” statement. And most of it has to do with the facility becoming more advanced, automated, and more efficient, demanding a well trained but smaller workforce. You know how the union likes to keep places “barefoot and pregnant”, so to speak… since automation and efficiency really cuts into their dues and power. Thus the reason that the socialists wouldn’t like any support for a company that was modernizing by the NLRB and the District Courts.
You might want to read this August article in the local TDN about the details of the dispute. I would also suggest you stay off agenda driven socialist sites, if you’re interested in facts, and comb the archives of the Longview Daily News instead.
It is good to read that 19 were arrested.
Hopefully someone will follow their progress through the criminal justice system and report on how hard they get slapped on the wrist.
Somehow I don’t see anyone doing much time for any of this.
Edited to add:
A media outlet went to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union office and the union member who met them tiraded them with the dirtiest words in English.
Sure, now that makes a company WANT to hire them, huh?
Story and a video here:
Just to clarify, Nan G… the 19 that were arrested were for the previous incident… not the one that this post is about. As I said, this has been going on for some time and isn’t isolated to just this. Just happened to make the national news. But they are investigating this incident as well, and do anticipate arrests.
I’m not much sure how much time they are supposed to do. Rather depends upon the local ordinances and what property damage they can assign to any particular individual.
@Greg: So Greg, issues with employer makes it alright to break the law? That is exactly what Alinsky or Bill Ayers would recommend. You and the other postmodernist actually believe that the end justifes the means!
@Nan G, I had read about the KGW folk going up there, and not being received well. It’s a Portland station… like I said, Longview/Kelson don’t have much of their own to offer in big city media or amenities. Then again, KGW is like most Portland progressive stations. They’d be offended if you called them progressive. Thin skinned liberal sorts, and most definitely out of their league when playing with union thugs that they thought they would support.
Personally, I laughed my tuckus off watching the way they were received. Muttered more than a few profanities under my breath at the local Portland stations myself for issues far less controversial.
@MataHarley:Mata; I know the demographics of western Washington well (I worked a beat there for twenty-five years). I question the purpose of hiring security guards and paying them money to protect anything when they are cutting-slack to friends or to those whom they fear. Police or security work can get tough and therefore it is something that not everyone can hack. Fire these slackers and send them packing. Don’t explain retribution taken out on children or family, I have experienced it firsthand. These Union goons are akin to the Khmer Rouge; given the opportunity they will beat or kill you, terrorize your family, pillage your belongings and burn your house. There is only one way to deal with behavior like this and it is to come back with a ‘bigger stick’ and put every damn one of them in prison!
My MANTRA was always, “Swift-Sure Retribution” and it is even more so here.
My advice is since war was declared last week against the son-of-a -bitches who own the property and most likely provide jobs to those who attacked their facilities, that this was an operation conducted by Obama’s army to penetrate the perimeter of the enemy that being the owners. The owners of the property that was attacked by Obama’s army should arm themselves in order to secure their perimeter and repulse the next attack. They need to inflict the maximum amount of casualties as possible in order to prevent future attacks and to win the war that was declared last week in order to achieve victory. Also, being a firm believer in Patton’s theory that the only defense is a strong offense, I recommend that the owners locate the residences of those who were involved in the attack and launch an offensive operation against them and their families. This is a war you know as we were told last week and everyone likes a fight. Us son-of-a-bitches need to prevail!
@another vet: Sounds like you have studied the Veitkong? Union members are like other entities, they gain courage by numbers. Threaten a crowd and you get violence. Intimidate an individual and you get compliance. Unions (and governments) practice this drill; When was the last time a single union member threatened someone? … woops …Forgot about Jimmy Sr.
@RudeCrudeAndSociallyUnacceptable: @RudeCrudeAndSociallyUnacceptable: @RudeCrudeAndSociallyUnacceptable: You are very right. It took two or three union goons to rough up my aunt back in the late ’70’s. Real tough people. One on one and they behave themselves or at least try to. That was part of the reasoning behind my sarcasm, if their victims raise the stakes by defending themselves or if people started attacking their homes and families the way they do to others, they would probably think twice about their actions. Oh well, they were told they were an army and to march and that they did. They also took out part of someone’s business so they met part of the call to take people out as well. Eventually they will mess with the wrong crowd and it won’t be pretty.
@another vet: Your aunt was not the first victim of the Unions nor unfortunately the last.
If the current wind continues blowing, it could well come to pass that by Executive Order, Unions will become a ‘protected class’ and speaking out against them will become a retroactive Federal Hate Crime. Sounds ridiculous? So did protecting the New Black Panthers from prosecution for intimidating presidential voters at the polls in 2008. But it happened.
As law abiding grass-roots conservatives WE must never advocate violence or war against the rabble, but we can demand a legitimate force of sufficient strength to squelch this illegal activity and send the perpetrators to prison. … All the perpetrators!