After storming the Port of Longview, Washington in the early morning, 500 or more members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union disarmed, kidnapped and threatened six security personnel with baseball bats for hours, sabotaged railroad cars and dumped their contents of grain.
Police have made no arrests of the perpetrators of the violence, though most returned to their union hall after the attack, where they could have been detained by authorities.
The attack was based on the resentment of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union that the company has hired a contractor that's staffing a workforce laborers from unions other than the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
Police from several police departments and the State police were unable to control or arrest the rioting unionists, even with the assistance of agents from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, being numerically outmatched by the armed mob.
Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union had previously tried to block the railroad from delivering the grain in defiance of a federal restraining order, issued because of assaults and death threats by union members. 19 members of the ILWU were arrested for violating that order by blocking the tracks.
[NY Daily News] An Arkansas weatherman didn't predict he would wake up in a hot tub with a naked dead man, but that's exactly what police say happened. "Legume! My cape! The game's afoot!"
Now authorities are trying to determine what killed Dexter Williams, whose body was found with a "dog collar" around his neck, according to a police report. "Always, Legume, the little gray cells will point to a clue! My saxophone, please!"
The mystery began Monday night, when KARK 4 News meteorologist Brett Cummins arrived at the home of John Barbour around 11 p.m. in Maumelle, just north of Little Rock, the report stated. The 33-year-old weatherman brought Williams, 24, with him. Barbour said he did not know the doomed man. "Ahah! He did not know the man, but he knew he was doomed? Suspicious, is it not?"
"They then began to drink and use illegal narcotics," Officer Gregory Roussie said Barbour told him. "Mr. Barbour stated he was not sure of the drugs that they were using but that they were snorting them." "More drugs, Brett?"
"Yersh, shankew... [DROOL!]... Shay! Thish don't fit up m'nose!"
"It's a joint, Brett!"
About two hours later, Cummins and Williams went into the Jacuzzi to have a drink, and Barbour later joined them, police said. "Join us in the jacuzzi for a drink, John?"
"But I have no bathing suit!"
"Heh heh!"
"Heh heh!"
"Heh heh!"
Shortly afterwards, Barbour said he left the two "E-w-w-w-w-w! That's nasty! I can't bear to watch! Besides, I can watch the video tomorrow..."
and went into the living room, where he fell asleep on the couch. "Jush one more liddle snort before I... Zzzzzz!"
Barbour told police he awoke about 8 a.m. Tuesday and could hear Cummins snoring in the hot tub, "Quiet out there! You could wake the dead with that snoring!... Ooooh! My head!"
the report said. He proceeded to gather glasses in the bathroom and wake up Cummins before realizing Williams was dead. "Brett? Hey, buddy! You wanna snore a little louder?"
"Dexter's head was lying behind Brett's left shoulder," Barbour told police, according to the report. "Omigawd! Is he...?"
"Yes, Brett. He's behind your left shoulder."
"After Brett awoke they discovered that Dexter was not conscious and his face was a different color." "A different color? Ahah! His disguise had failed!"
The meteorologist was horrified, the report indicated. "Oh, horrors!"
"Brett screamed "[SHRIEK!]"
and became ill and left the bathroom and vomited on the carpet in the living room," [B-A-A-A-RF!]
"My Persian carpet!"
Barbour told police, according to the report. The weatherman then left the house, but insisted he would return. "I gotta... I gotta get outta here!"
"You better be back here as soon as you change that shirt, Brett! I ain't takin' the fall for you!"
"Bitch!"
"Cummins did return to the residence "Alright. I'm back."
"That shirt does not go with those shoes, Brett!"
and gave a statement to investigators," Roussie said in the report. No details of what he said have been released. This is a family publication, y'know.
When police arrived they observed Williams "lying on his right side in a fetal position, his face was blue and purple in color with a chain around his neck," Roussie said in the report. "The chain was silver in color and consistent with what I believed to be a dog collar." "Yes. YES! YES! He was... he was... he was my SEX POODLE!"
He also noted that he "observed a small ring of blood around the bottom of the tub." You don't wanna know.
An autopsy is underway to determine what killed Williams, "I believe we can rule out an excess of virtue, Legume!"
but so far no charges have been filed in his death. "Wait till the autopsy results are back, Mahoney!"
"But Chief! Did you see that video? That was nasty!"
KARK 4 News stated online Tuesday that "Brett will not be on the air as he is mourning the loss of his friend."
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"Don't worry, we are not going to broadcast it. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
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Eddie Edwards, that sly, great, corrupt as all hell Louisiana pol, once said that the only way he could lose an election would be to be caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.
Dexter, dude, you're doing it wrong...
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[An Nahar] A South African police officer has been arrested for stealing from his boss, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, who is tasked with bringing down high crime levels, his spokesman said Tuesday.
A laptop and cellphone were taken from the minister's home in Cape Town.
"There was no break-in," said Mthethwa's spokesman Zweli Mnisi. "The person who took them was a police officer on duty guarding the house."
The items were found and the policeman was arrested with two other people who bought the goods. The three were set to appear in court on Wednesday.
South Africa had 256,577 residential burglaries in 2009 and 18,786 aggravated house robberies, part of the staggering crime problem in a nation with an average 46 killings a day.
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What do they call that, oh, I forgot, loads and loads of freaking laughs
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Reckless attended my Recruit Training graduation ceremony at MCRD San Diego in 1958. Also in attendance was retired Lt. Gen Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller. I was in awe and honored to be in the presence of such Heroes. As we Passed in Review, it really made us stand tall and dig our heels into the "Grinder".
Today's feel-good story, though both women need some time at the range. If it's worth shooting, ladies, it's worth hitting.
And I love the journalism double-speak: "It was unknown if any shots took effect."
Shades of the RAB! I'm waiting for the Detroit coppes to find a round of bullet and a miscreant on the pavement.
You hit 'em - and especially if you kill them - you've got to deal w/ the coppes. You scare the sh$t out of 'em, you move on with life and they maybe rethink their target selection.
Mind you, I'm not averse to very selective hits, say the kind that neuter the jerk and leave him a laughing stock on the streets. But other wise, they ain't worth the trouble.
No prosecutor is going to try a woman who uses a 9 mm pistol to defend her virtue on the streets...
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Projected count, at current rate, by end of year: 350
It ain't like the good ol' days, when we was the Murder Capital. Even the villainous scum have moved off to greener pastures.
As for dealing with the le coppes, *nobody* in Detroit reports gunshots. Do-it-yourselfers will just toss the body behind a dumpster for the rats and raccoons. The more fastidious will engage a "cleaning service". Winston Wolfe comes highly recommended.
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Just do it at a distance. Blood spatters are a real pain to get out of most clothing. And if you're going somewhere it's annoying at best to have to head back home to change.
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.
No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines and spilling grain from car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said. So kidnapping and holding hostages is no longer a crime?
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor that's staffing a workforce of other union laborers.
Thursday's violence was first reported by Kelso radio station KLOG.
Police from several agencies in southwest Washington, the Washington State Patrol and Burlington Northern Santa Fe responded to the violence to secure the scene that followed a demonstration Wednesday.
"We're not surprised," Duscha said. "A lot of the protesters were telling us this in only the start." This is why I hate most Unions. They strong arm their way just like the fucking Mafia (and Nazis). The owner needs to hire a security firm with automatic weapons and an shoot to kill order. Enough of this bullshit.
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The police know who they are, and where they are, but seem unable to either confront them or arrest them for kidnapping, assault, vandalism, sabotage, making death threats, violating federal court orders, etc.
Maybe Governor Christine Gregoire should send in the National Guard, or Obama could send in the Rangers from Fort Lewis. Or if they're busy, the 1st SF Group.
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Any union member resorting to violence as the direct result of a labor dispute should be automatically labelled a criminal, a warrant issued for their arrest, and his union subject to sanctions. Barring that, having citizens hang a few of them along the pier will have an equal effect. NO ONE should be able to legally use force for their own benefit at the expense of others (Yes, that includes politicians, who if they do it, should also be hanged). Hanging is considered 'cruel and unusual' punishment, but it has a very good track record of reducing crime and eliminating recidivism.
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This act of hooliganism is a direct result of O's condoning the actions of the unions in their disputes with management. Witness Wisconsin, Hoffa's speech, and now this mob action in the Port of Longview. This is the Chicago Way applied nationwide. The Serpent shows his fangs and nobody reigns him in. We need a good, critical, and honest free press in the worst way to expose all this.
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They are on video cameras. Like England each will be marched into court. We have seven years to prosecute (I believe). When we get the legal people on them if we elect the the right people. This will only escalate till then. They have opened a can of worms. They will have no control over it. The Democrats own home areas will be the most destroyed. They loose the hounds and they will be bitten.
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Animal/Earth Liberation Front does stuff like this and gets classified as a domestic terrorist organization. Maybe its time to look at the existing laws on the book for new uses.
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Additional info: TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A federal judge ordered union protesters to stop using illegal tactics Thursday as they battle for the right to work at a new grain terminal in Washington state.
U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton issued a preliminary injunction to restrict union activity, saying there was no defense for the aggressive tactics used in recent days. Protesters twice blocked the pathway of a train carrying grain to the terminal at the Port of Longview on Wednesday, and early Thursday morning hundreds of them stormed the facility, overwhelmed guards, dumped grain and broke windows, police said.
The dispute halted work at four other Washington ports, including Seattle, on Thursday as hundreds of longshoremen refused to show up or walked off the job.
Leighton said he felt like a paper tiger because the International Longshore and Warehouse Union clearly ignored a temporary restraining order he issued last week with similar limits.
In Seattle, Tacoma, Everett and Anacortes, hundreds of Longshore workers failed to show up or walked off the job Thursday in apparent solidarity with the Longview activists, halting work at those ports. Union leaders said they had not called for any such actions.
"It appears the members have taken action on their own," said ILWU spokesman Craig Merrilees from union headquarters in San Francisco.
He said some workers might have been motivated by a photograph of ILWU President Bob McElrath in police custody in Longview on Wednesday.
Don't expect anything from Holder or the Justice Department - they are the ones giving the OK to the union to engage in terrorst acts.
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A top Libyan rebel leader, Abdul Hakim Belhadj - founder of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a subsidiary of Al Qaeda - demanded but was refused an apology from Britain's chief diplomat in Tripoli in a tense face-to-face meeting yesterday.
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BTW, this Islamic fanatic now controls Tripoli. In a year he will be running the Islamic Republic of Libya. Good job Euros. Good Job NATO. Good Obama.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A masked commando Wednesday freed a former militia leader in a spectacular raid on a southeastern DR Congo prison that also sprang hundreds of other inmates two months before presidential polls.
"Commander Gedeon", a top leader of the Mai Mai community-based militia active in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) east, was sentenced to death in a landmark trial for crimes against humanity.
"Eight armed and masked men got off a minivan and took advantage of visiting day to gain access unnoticed. They opened fire on the police and the military guards, killing two," Katanga provincial interior minister Dikanga Kazadi said.
"They freed a former militia leader and a total of 967 inmates, 150 of whom have already been brought back in," the official said.
The brazen attack on the Kassapa prison, on the outskirts of Lubumbashi, happened at around 10:30 am (0830 GMT), the minister said.
Lubumbashi is DR Congo's second largest city and one of the resource-rich country's major mining hubs.
"Commander Gedeon was the first one to be freed," said Kazadi.
In March 2009, a military court in Katanza found Gedeon Kyungu Mutanga -- his real name -- guilty on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, beturbanned goon activity and terrorism.
The crimes he was convicted for took place between 2003 and 2006 in the Mitwaba, Pweto and Manono regions of the vast, mineral-rich Katanga province.
"After freeing this high-profile detainee, the attackers asked all the other prisoners to leave," the interior ministry official said, adding that a helicopter was scanning to the area in a bid to net scattered runaways.
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Eight armed and masked men ... unnoticed
O-kay...
Claims for U.S. unemployment benefits rose last week, a sign the labor market is struggling to gain traction more than two years after the recession ended.
Yahoo Finance actually used 'unexpectedly' in the first sentence in their version of this story.
Jobless claims rose by 2,000 to 414,000 in the week ended Sept. 3, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News projected a drop in claims to 405,000, according to the median forecast. The number of people on unemployment benefit rolls and those receiving extended payments fell.
Companies are stepping up the pace of firings, raising the risk that consumer spending will slow further. Job growth stagnated last month and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.1 percent, the Labor Department reported last week. The Labor Department said there was no national effect from Hurricane Irene.
"Especially with the double-dip recession risk rising, firms are cutting labor costs," Jeffrey Roach, chief economist at Horizon Investments in Charlotte, North Carolina, said before the report. "They are not quite ready to ramp up production and create the jobs needed for our struggling economy." Really? Seriously? After all this time and all these months of jobless claims growing or staying high you say this one is "Unexpected" again? Can we please deport all these "economists" to Outer Mongolia?
I love the quote: "they are not quite ready...", as if it's only one or two small details that need to be squared away before we get going on big-time hiring.
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Obama is going to be toast in November 2012. I don't care how many speeches he makes. He does not know what he is doing. He is in way over his head.
The stock market is also yoyo-ing every couple of days. Speculators are at it.
New U.S. jobless claims rose unexpectedly last week, further evidence of a weak labor market just hours before President Barack Obama delivers a major address to Congress on the issue.
Applications for unemployment benefits rose to 414,000 in the week ending September 3 from an upwardly revised 412,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Wall Street analysts had been looking for a dip to 405,000.
[Iran Press TV] The U.S. has tumbled further down a global ranking of the world's most competitive economies, landing at fifth place because of its huge deficits and declining public faith in government, a global economic group said Wednesday.
The announcement by the World Economic Forum was the latest bad news for the B.O. regime, which has been struggling to boost the sinking U.S. economy and lower an unemployment rate of more than 9 percent.
Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... held onto the top spot for the third consecutive year in the annual ranking by the Geneva-based forum, which is best known for its exclusive meeting of luminaries in Davos each January.
The rankings, which the forum has issued for more than three decades, are based on economic data and a survey of 15,000 business executives.
The results of a survey of 142 nations comes a day before Obama is preparing to tackle jobs issues in a speech to the U.S. Congress, and just as U.S. polls show a clear majority of those surveyed say they disapprove of the way Obama is handling the economy. News Agency that Dare Not be Named
FACTS & FIGURES
The U.S. debt deal in August allowed the debt ceiling to be raised by at least 2.1 trillion dollars and cut spending of roughly 2.4 trillion dollars over the next 10 years. CNN
At present, the U.S. public debt has reached $14.5 trillion. Watching America
The government borrows an average of about $125 billion a month. Daily Mail
The U.S. budget deficit will hit a record $1.65 trillion this year, or 10.9 percent of GDP, according to figures in President Barack B.O. Obama's 2012 budget. Economic Times
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"Helvetians, home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell..." Don't forget that popular and friendly font Helvetica.
The great experiment in copyright trolling that is Righthaven appears to be nearing an end.
Righthaven, which was founded more than a year ago to monetize print news content through copyright infringement lawsuits, has suffered a myriad of courtroom setbacks in recent months. Among them, it was sanctioned $5,000 for misleading a federal judge, ordered to pay $34,000 for an opponent's legal fees (.pdf), and was told over and again by judges that it has no legal standing to even file the lawsuits.
With all those issues now on appeal, the litigation factory's machinery is grinding to a halt. A review of court records shows Righthaven has not filed a new lawsuit in two months, after a flurry of about 275 lawsuits since its launch at the beginning of last year. A court filing indicates there have already been layoffs at Righthaven's Las Vegas headquarters (.pdf), and even some already-filed lawsuits are falling by the wayside, because Righthaven isn't serving the defendants with the paperwork.
Righthaven chief executive Steve Gibson confirmed by telephone that his company has stopped filing new lawsuits, pending appellate rulings that could take months or even years to filter through the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Die assholes, die! (in a business sense and not a life threatening way) Agreed and thanks for making the distinction :-)
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monetize print news content through copyright infringement lawsuits,
The judicial system has seen through this scum-sucking scheme to steal/scam money from bloggers and blogging sites.
Wronghaven has gotten caught up in the web it has created. Hopefully, Rantburg will get its money back that it paid to get rid of the legal harassment. What DV said.
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Practically speaking, any class action against them should not be just at them, but the corporations that sponsored them, yet tried to pretend to be at arms length. And specifically, it should name those individuals responsible as apart from their corporations, as also culpable.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NY Daily News] An Arkansas weatherman didn't predict he would wake up in a hot tub with a naked dead man, but that's exactly what police say happened.
A South African police officer has been arrested for stealing from his boss, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, who is tasked with bringing down high crime levels, his spokesman said Tuesday.
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.
Claims for U.S. unemployment benefits rose last week, a sign the labor market is struggling to gain traction more than two years after the recession ended.
The great experiment in copyright trolling that is Righthaven appears to be nearing an end.
