Do Not Miss Zombie’s Latest: ‘SEIU drops mask, goes full commie’
Go see the pictorial proof.
Why isn’t this in the news? How long would it take for far less problematic Tea Party posters and signs to make the news? (Answer: Milliseconds)
This is especially relevant given Barack Obama’s longtime association with and special affinity for SEIU, as seen in the following January 15, 2008 video:
Full Text (note the affected accent):
Barack Obama: “Everybody: There’s not a presidential candidate, a gubernatorial candidate, a congressional candidate, who won’t tell ya, that they’re pro-union, when they’re looking for their endorsements. They’ll all say, ‘Oh we love SEIU.’ But the question you gotta ask yourself is, do they have it in their gut, do they have a track record of standing alongside you on picket lines? Do they have a track record of going after the companies that aren’t letting you organize? Do they have a track record of voting the right way? But also helping you organize to build more and more power?
And some of you know I come from an organizing background, so — I’ve been working with the SEIU before I was elected to anything. When I was a community organizer, SEIU Local 880 and myself we organized people, to make sure that healthcare workers had basic rights; we organized voter registration drives, that’s how we built political power on the South Side of Chicago….and now the time has come for us to do it all across this country, and then we’ll paint the nation purple, with SEIU!
I would not be a United States Senator had it not been for the support of your brothers and sisters in Illinois. Those folks, they supported me early, they supported me often. I’ve got my purple windbreaker from my campaign in 2004.
And so, we’ve just got, what, four more days? Four more days of knocking on some doors. Four more days of working the precinct. Four more days of making sure all your co-workers are caucusing.
SEIU, I am glad you are with me, let’s together change the country! SEIU! SEIU! SEIU! SEIU! SEIU!”
SEIU goes full commie? Since when have unions been anything but “full commie?”
Unions are an anachronism of the communist movement near two centuries old – which itself was a response to inequities that arose early in the Industrial Age, something that has long been consigned to the history books. Whatever justification for unions existed in 1848, when Marx, in the Communist Manifesto, described unions as the building blocks of his Communist utopia, those justifications do not exist in America today.
Comment by GW — May 8, 2011 @ 12:05 am
#1, there’s certainly room for debating their degree of true belief in capitalism, but until the late 1980s top national union leaders were clearly anti-communist in word and deed.
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/kirkland.cfm
Kirkland quickly put his own stamp on the organization. He took up the cause of Solidarity, funneling more than $6 million in aid to Polish workers in the form of cash and communications equipment. This aid was considered instrumental in Solidarity’s successful effort to end 50 years of Communist Party rule in Poland. In 1994, President Bill Clinton recognized Kirkland’s efforts by presenting him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/tceh/georgemeany.html
A fervent opponent of Communism, (George) Meany helped to lead the United States out of the International Labor Organization in 1977 when it refused to criticize repressive Communist policies.
Comment by TBlumer — May 8, 2011 @ 8:39 am