RE: SEIU Arson, We Didn’t Start The Fire
by Bret JacobsonKari Chisholm is a (self-described) political hack in my home state of Oregon. Chisholm is so bad that even the liberal Willamette Week has called “foul on Democratic media consultant Kari Chisholm, who runs the blog BlueOregon.com, for excessive use of bullshit in his mud-slinging.” Now he has crossed the line and taken to slyly implying in this recent post that Tea Party activists may have been involved in an arson at the offices of SEIU Local 49.
Here is the guilt-by-insinuation:
I checked in today with a spokesman for Portland Fire & Rescue, Lt. Alan Oswald. He confirmed that the arson team is investigating the fire as a deliberately-set fire. Other than that, he wasn’t able to discuss any of the details, of course.
I noted for him that there’s a lot of folks asking if there’s a connection between the SEIU arson and the teabagger rally. According to Oswald, “anything and everything is on the table” for the investigators – as it always is – until they’re ready to announce their findings.
It’s pretty scummy to make such an allegation. No one I’ve ever met fighting for the cause of liberty would condone that kind of action, and I’m willing to extrapolate that experience very broadly. I can only hope and assume I will not be proven wrong.
But here’s something interesting. Who might have more cause to show their displeasure with SEIU than small-government activists?
Well, certainly there was more motive for employees targeted by SEIU in slimy “card check” campaigns, for which that specific SEIU local was slapped by the National Labor Relations Board.
Or there was motive for SEIU Local 49’s own employees — whom the union would not allow to form their own workplace bargaining unit through card check. Instead, the union denied its own employees that ostensibly sacred right and — like most employers — demanded an election.
Frankly, there’s nothing in the public record to indicate that there was an arson. If there was, hopefully the authorities will find the culprit. In the meantime, it’s time for the radical Left to stop attacking Tea Party activists in such a shameful manner.
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They don't have anything. They're morally and intellectually bankrupt.
Of course, they must attack. Thanks for the excellent write-up and bringing this to our attention.
What do you expect coming from a SEIU "Salad Tosser?' Ewwww…
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Don't need fire to bring these scumbags down. Just use a camera and microphone.
So are the SEIU thugs into arson?
If they are, i expect they think every one else would be also.
gee…who has more reason to set a fire –
The person who wants to know More about an organization's operations?, or
The person who wants to Hide the details of the organization?
Yep – I bet it was an inside salad toss job (heh).
A man named Kari. Hmmmm…..
Peaches – See my previous comment. I think you're on to something.
If I remember correctly didn't we just go through a string of this and it turned out to be Anarchist's trying to frame conservatives? The left of course denied involvement with them, but might I just suggest that history often repeats itself, and so far the only ones who have been caught destroying property are the extremists on the left side of the agenda.
If there was an arson I would look first to people like Kari Chisholm who have more to gain by doing it and then hyping it as the other side's "radicalism" and no I wouldn't put it past her, she seems awfully interested in the case, and the perpetrators often have a fascination with their own handiwork.
he seems awfully interested in the case, and the perpetrators often have a fascination with their own handiwork.
Now that may be worth looking into. I don't know this guy, but if he's as much of an attention seeker as it seems, I wouldn't put anything past him.
From my past experience in busting unions and their goons let me suggest something.
FIRE and UNION GOONS have always been best friends ! Why fire aside from the obvious ? The fire departments are also union sympathizers as well as the arson investigators. They know the investigation will
be prejudiced in their favor. We had a similar issue with the Michigan State Police at a merit shop construction
project years ago in Hillsdale Michigan.
Of course the investigator's answer would have been the same if the question had been:
"Is there any chance it was set by someone associated with SEIU, like the vandalism of Democratic Headquarters in Denver?" When you know what the answer will be, it is very easy to slant the question to the point you want to make.
As usual it appears that the truth is created in inverse proportion to the facts at hand. Innuendo is affidavit, hearsay is DNA evidence, and coincidence is confirmation.
I suppose we must now assume that the new ‘win regardless of the human toll’ battle cry from the left has become:
'Better Dead than Red State'
http://www.thanksforthelaughs.wordpress.com
Rules for Radicals – Saul Alinsky – 1971
#2. Of Means and Ends
[Forget moral or ethical considerations]
Any chance was Maurice Schwenkler paroled in Oregon?
Seeing as how your average conservative is more interested in construction rather than destruction, I find it rather hard to believe conservative activists would be behind this. Seeing as how your average liberal is more interested in gaming the system in any way possible, I'd say suspicion of arson should be high, specifically arson as a means of insurance fraud.
Liberals are getting very adept at doing underhanded things in the dark, and then blaming 'conservative extremists' for their own crimes!
Huh, sounds like Kristallnacht, I fully expect one coming from the Traitorous Libs.
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Well, if you're going to quote me, you should probably quote everything I've written on the topic. When I first posted the breaking news, a lot of people were jumping to the "teabaggers did it!" conclusion. I wrote then: "It's plausible it was politically motivated. It's also plausible that it was more mundane on motivation — maybe it was someone who got laid off or didn't get hired and thought SEIU did something or didn't do something."
My later post, which you linked to, doesn't allege anything. It wasn't my goal to "slyly imply" anything. In fact, I expected the investigators to rule out a political motivation – but they didn't.
I remember a long time ago – 1993 – when someone blamed a fire on someone else.
And then got to be leader of his country.