Ed Schultz reporting plant owners in Illinois "may" be telling workers to knock it off

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

Threatening to cut off severance if they keep demonstrating.

[joycejnr]

1. Maybe someone needs to knock off the plant owner. n/t

[TroglodyteScholar]

2. Wow, jury voted 3-3 to keep this death threat visible.

No explanation provided by the "leave it" voters.

DU is supposed to be better than this garbage.

[leftyohiolib]

4. i, also, thought it would be hidden but i didnt think it was a "threat"

[joycejnr]

6. When I posted it, I deliberately said "maybe"...

...so that it wouldn't be construed as a threat, such as "Let's kill all the capitalist bosses," or some other such nonsense. A decision by the Supreme Court protected a teacher of mine, Dr. Oliver Lee's 1st Amendment rights after the right wing went after him for what amounted to 'promoting a death threat,' when he talked about conversation regarding the theoretical fragging of senior officers in the Viet Nam conflict.

If anything is 'garbage,' it's calling the language of someone else 'garbage,' when ones premise is wrong in the first place.

[TroglodyteScholar]

8. It wasn't a direct threat...Just a suggestion that carrying out a violent act would be justified.

Parse your language all you want. It's ugly and we should be above it.

My premise is just fine, thanks.

[flamingdem]

7. People need to learn to use irony

and other literary devices, someone alerted on this?

[leftyohiolib]

3. time to double down

[Ilsa]

5. What are they scared of? That their

soon-to-be former employees are going to hurt their feelings?

Maybe they are afraid that the US auto industry may start looking for another source of parts.