Riot Police called on strikers Walmart

[TalkingDog]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/05/1236604/-Breaking-News-SWAT-Team-called-out-to-deal-with-the-WalmartStrikers-and-protesters-in-Renton-WA




A Hundred Arrested Protesting Walmart Firings
http://www.labornotes.org/2013/09/hundred-arrested-protesting-walmart-firings

[mike_c]

1. that picture is worth a thousand words....

None of them acceptable in polite company, I might add.

[Egalitarian Thug]

2. K&R #5

[indepat]

3. Is this militarized SWAT team acting as if it were a wholly-owned subsidiary of WALMART or

what? This is freakin' obscene imo.

[Dragonfli]

34. In the modern age they don't even need to pay Pinkerton, they get their thugs gratis for labor

and strike busting needs. Is all that gear really necessary in order to harass unarmed protesters? I mean, one would think meter readers would have been able to "subdue" these evil working people rather than some paramilitary police group.

[JEFF9K]

4. ...

Happy Labor Day!

[marmar]

5. k/r

[pangaia]

6. That's the police?

Looks like some black opps wackos...

[Curmudgeoness]

7. Remember when unions first started

and the companies either had the local police "deal with" the strikers, or the company brought in their own hooligans?

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Coming full circle.

[Iliyah]

10. Remember hearing George Benson

singing that song. The Conversatives are destroying the Unions for profit. Workers suffer. Strikers across America, I applaud you!

[DebJ]

8. Pinkerton.

[HumansAndResources]

19. Rockefeller and Carnegie Had to PAY Pinkerton to Protect The Natural Resources They Stole From Us

Externalize Costs, Internalize Profits - and convince the masses "Elite's bought and paid-for govt" works for "us." Epic Trick.

Your 'tax dollars' pay for their goon-squads, their gas, tasers, and batons - and the animal-cages you will be placed in if you "disobey" the Billionaires orders, as filtered through the politicians and judges they appoint with their dollars.

The good news, as this Planetary Rip Off will only last as long as the Kochs', Rockefellers', and Waltons' government and other "institutions" have "credibility." That is fading fast.

[backscatter712]

30. The corporations routinely hire cops to do their thug work.

Today's pigs are no better than pinkertons.

[Iliyah]

9. This

corporate media is not covering this.

[TeeYiYi]

11. Jayzuss... Don't those robot guys have a war to fight somewhere outside our borders?...

Maybe the striking rebels could get some Tomahawk support here at home...

TYY

[ChazInAz]

12. Harlan County:

"You'll either be a union man,
Or a thug for A.D. Blair.
Which side are you on, men?
Which side are you on?"

[Half-Century Man]

13. Good Idea, but the execution could have been better.

Study the opposition, and plan accordingly.
Police in riot gear/ Washington state/ conducted on dark surfaced parking lot.

Okay, prime time for this sort of event in in high summer. The riot cops in their super-trooper, uber spiffy, black, poorly ventilated, heavy, unyielding, urban-crusader-outfits-of-intimidation (complete with the wooden version of light sabers, all the better to defend AMERICA from the Americans) who get to stand for hours on blacktop; look like they could use sometime in their personal portable saunas.
The night before...dump 30 2 liters root beers on the parking lot to attract bugs. (wear lots of OFF at the protest).
At least 5 videographers 2 in the mob 3 outside the mob. Live feed via WiFi if possible.

[tavalon]

22. Washington State

We're about to hit the rainy season and it lasts most of nine months. Trust me, September is the very best time (usually) to stage this. It's still hot this year, usually by now, it's cooled and it only rains about every third day instead of every day as it will come October.

[DeSwiss]

14. Goon Squad.

- So sad to see you like this America. But then, you have no one to blame but yourself......

K&R

[adirondacker]

15. Looks like a Ninja Turtle convention! nt

[mwrguy]

16. Is that a public street or a walmart parking lot they are sitting in?

[ocpagu]

24. And are those state policemen paid by the citizens or private security guards baid by Wall Mart? n/t

[marble falls]

17. Protect and serve ..... Walmart. Screw the police.

[cheapdate]

18. Holy shit! Those people sitting on the ground look scary!

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

20. Wow,

they really are the Black Shirts. They're hiding their death head symbols however.

[zentrum]

21. Googled the words

..Walmart+strike and the first name in the list that showed up was not MSNBC, Or KQED, or CNN or ABC, NBC, or CBS.

The first outlet reporting labor news in America was Al Jazeera.

[Iliyah]

23. Where is Fake news?

Please let work together for the better good for America, I hope.

[gopiscrap]

25. FUCK WAL MART and fuck the cops who do their bidding!

[Starry Messenger]

26. Pinkertons 2.0

[JEB]

27. Gun thugs.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

28. That is simply perverse.

[bluedeathray]

29. Low Prices! Always!

Social ruin! Corporate greed! Short sighted capitalism!

Always!

[backscatter712]

31. Fuck Walmart and fuck the pigs! Every single nazi fuck among them. n/t

[DLevine]

32. That is beyond disgusting. Thugs working for the 1%. nt

[DiverDave]

33. Gun Thugs

eom

[Trillo]

35. The strikers should take the message and dress up as SWAT members.

I would not cross their picket line in any case, however, I also would run as fast as I could away from walmart if that's what I saw there, armed thugs protecting elitesters. So, perhaps the strikers should all dress up as SWAT team personnel, get some plastic but real looking bean-bag guns or whatever, and strike around Walmart.

What better way to insure the customer goes the other way!

[99Forever]

36. The battle line are drawn.

Which side are you on?