Is it possible to have a revolution and a counter-revolution at the same time?
That’s what seems to be happening state-by-state across the country as unions organize protests in sympathy with their Wisconsin counterparts — and the Tea Party brazenly comes out to confront them.
(Though it begs the question: which side are the revolutionaries and which are the counter-revolutionaries?)
Case in point: The latest unions-vs.-Tea-Party showdown has just spread to Denver, where citizen journalist “El Marco” documents Tuesday’s clash, with his uncanny ability to capture indelible images:
Union protestors seemed to have taken to heart President Obama’s admonition to “get in people’s faces”. Thankfully, they did not act on Rep. Michael Capuano’s (D-Mass.) words to union members today, when he told them “Every once and a while you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary.” If not for the presence of state troopers who controlled the howling union goons, this protest could have had a violent outcome. …
…Hundreds of state union supporters now descended the steps to just above where the tea party protesters were assembled, their advance only stopped by the police. …
The tea partiers chanted in response to chanting from the union supporters.
Unions: Stuck on Stupid! Stuck on Stupid!
While the tea partiers chanted in response: More basic math! More basic math!
When the unions shouted: We are the people! We are the people!
The tea partiers responded: You are the robots! You are the robots!
Visit El Marco’s “Looking at the Left” site for the full story and dozens more photos.
From 2003 to 2008 the Left controlled the streets. Then from 2009 to 2010 it was the Tea Party. Now in 2011, both sides are out in force in the public square — and there’s only room for one mass movement per social class.
Which side will emerge dominant?
2012 is shaping up to be a doozy.
Why aren’t these union people at work? And why are they all middle-aged, white, fat guys?
Hi from Madison, WI. This is not about the budget (that was fixed 3 weeks ago). It’s not even about union rights. This is about what it means to be an American. This isn’t Egypt, or Tunisia. This is 1932 Germany. Unions criminalized and demonized, scapegoats invented to address economic woes, government officials discussing violence against citizens, industialists dictating policy. A great Republican, Pres. Eisenhower, said it best in his 1961 Farewell Speech. It’s worth reviewing.
Riiiiiiiight. If industrialists are setting policy, then what’s the CEO of GE doing advising President O…. oh, wait.
“Unions criminalized…”
You lie. Or are lied to.
No unions are going to be “criminalized”.
The Public Employee Unions do not now have and have never have had a right to collective bargaining. NO such right is in the constitution nor has a court ever interpreted the constitution to include such a right. So if a State, Local or the Federal government decides to grant the “Privilege” of collective bargaining to Public Servants that “privilege” can be rescinded at any time the same way it was granted, for cause or giggles.
“Unions criminalized and demonized”
Not one criminalized–not that I think their behavior hasn’t been RICO worthy, if anything is–and the should be demonized. And worse…
…I think they’ll en up ignored.
Yeah. Freedom wins.
“en” != “end’
“Is it possible to have a revolution and a counter-revolution at the same time?”
Yes. It’s traditionally called a civil war.
If it must come the sooner the better….while there is something left to fight over.
This was a great effort at photo journalism, but you totally missed the best quote….
“Seeing a lone black man being shouted at by union goons, they (police) decided it was better that he joined the tea party protest at the bottom of the stairs, where he would be safe.”
Now that doesn’t fit the proscribed narrative!
http://punditpress.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-narrative.html
Hitler blah, blah, Nazi, Nazi blah, blah. Actually public employees in Germany had no unions during the period of the democratic Weimar Republic either.
Has anyone noticed that nobody is asking anymore just what it is that a “Community Organizer” does for a living?
The second generation of labor unions in America rose up from the many factions of the earliest ethnic protection mafia’s. They went on to be directly and publically run and controlled by the Italian mafia’s through the 60′s and 70′s. Today they remain run and controlled by two factions. 1) Hybrid mafia control and 2) the socialist parties of America and internationlly. ALL labor unions have long been and remain the core membership of the socialist parties here and abroad.
Their activities are generally covered in the American juris prudence system as extortion but somehow, the labor unions extortions are exempt from criminal and civil tort damages to the industries they target.
The constitution clearly makes labor unions a matter of States Rights and NOT federal government rights. There are NO constitutional authorities for the federal governments NLRB, etc., nor the federal government to unionized any of its employees. Simply another case of abusing the constotutions Article I, Section 8 Commerce Clause!