{"id":771,"date":"2012-12-11T19:15:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T03:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2012-12-11T19:15:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T03:15:26","slug":"there-will-be-blood-in-michigan-over-new-right-to-work-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/12\/11\/there-will-be-blood-in-michigan-over-new-right-to-work-law\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There Will Be Blood&#8221; In Michigan Over New Right To Work Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Michigan has now become the 24<sup>th<\/sup> &#8220;Right to Work&#8221; state.\u00a0 This means that from now on, employees are free to join or otherwise support a union, or not, as they see fit.\u00a0 Unions do not have to represent these non-union workers, but choose to do so because they then have a monopoly on representation of the workers.\u00a0 This special privilege, though is not enough for the unions, who want to keep the power to force people to pay their &#8220;share&#8221; and thus forcibly require non-members to support them.\u00a0 Michigan&#8217;s new &#8220;Right to Work&#8221; legislation empowers the workers and is a triumph for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Amendment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;However, the unions have not taken losing their special privileges lightly, and have become violent with promises of more violence.\u00a0 All this ends up benefiting the <em>real<\/em> &#8220;1%&#8221;: The union bosses, who are more than happy to crush their members in order to declare victory and protect the union bosses elite status and income.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The call to violence has been, and will likely continue to be, explicit.\u00a0 State Representative, and union tool, Douglas Geiss went so far as to declare that &#8220;there will be blood.\u00a0 We will relive the Battle of the Overpass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zdsjPiX3aGU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The &#8220;<a title=\"Battle of the Overpass\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_the_Overpass\" target=\"_blank\">Battle of the Overpass<\/a>&#8221; that he referenced was a violent clash involving auto workers in 1937.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His sentiments were not just his own, but that of the Michigan House Democrats which tweeted (and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/335342\/house-democrats-promise-blood-michigan-charles-c-w-cooke#\" target=\"_blank\">deleted<\/a>) this comment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-772\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-12-11 at 12.27.26 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-11-at-12.27.26-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-11-at-12.27.26-PM.png 427w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-11-at-12.27.26-PM-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not to be outdone, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. has predicted &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/12\/11\/hoffa-predicts-civil-war-in-michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\">civil war<\/a>&#8221; will break out.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Alas, all these threats are not empty ones, as violence has already begun.\u00a0 Conservative commentator and comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scrowder\/status\/278591130600366080\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Crowder<\/a> was violently assaulted on camera:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u_F3oev06i0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-TV\/2012\/12\/11\/Union-Mob-Destroys-Tent-With-People-Inside\" target=\"_blank\">angry union mob<\/a> even tore down and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/335363\/union-thugs-vs-afp-jonah-goldberg#\" target=\"_blank\">started slashing<\/a> at the tent of American for Prosperity&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/theothermccain.com\/2012\/12\/11\/breaking-video-mi-union-thugs-greet-right-to-work-law-with-thuggery-and-cupcakes-but-mostly-thuggery\/\" target=\"_blank\">while people were still inside<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GtbWbw66KrI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sadly, many of these union goons truly believe that the special privileges the unions, or more accurately the union bosses get, are what &#8220;democracy&#8221; is all about.\u00a0 Perhaps their ignorance is understandable since teachers unions in Detroit are responsible for only 7% of 8th graders being proficient in grade school reading!\u00a0 Detroit, a city now <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/12\/07\/time-to-euthanize-detroit\/\" target=\"_blank\">reminiscent<\/a> of Gibbons&#8217; &#8220;Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire&#8221; than anything resembling an\u00a0 industrial giant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Under Michigan&#8217;s new &#8220;Right to Work&#8221; laws, though, this once great state has a chance to become great once again.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Michigan has now become the 24th &#8220;Right to Work&#8221; state.\u00a0 This means that from now on, employees are free to join or otherwise support a union, or not, as they see fit.\u00a0 Unions do not have to represent these non-union &hellip; 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