SEIU Protest! Did Ya'll See This on MSNBC?

[Foxfyre]

We probably wouldn't know about this if Fortune writer, Nina Easton, didn't live next door to the BofA Exec who was stormed by the SEIU last week.

If this had been Tea Partiers, you know it would have been emblazoned across the front of every newspaper and would have led ever telecast for at least a day or two. But I'm guessing that 99% of you had never seen it until now. I'm a news junkie and I hadn't.

So what do you think? Does it cross the line to storm a person's private home with an organized, loud, and threatening protest? And why wasn't this as newsworthy as a Tea Party event?

What's really behind SEIU's Bank of America protests?​

by Nina Easton

(FORTUNE) -- Every journalist loves a peaceful protest-whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history. Then there are the ones that show up on your curb--literally.

Last Sunday, on a peaceful, sun-crisp afternoon, our toddler finally napping upstairs, my front yard exploded with 500 screaming, placard-waving strangers on a mission to intimidate my neighbor, Greg Baer. Baer is deputy general counsel for corporate law at Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), a senior executive based in Washington, D.C. And that -- in the minds of the organizers at the politically influential Service Employees International Union and a Chicago outfit called National Political Action -- makes his family fair game.

Waving signs denouncing bank "greed," hordes of invaders poured out of 14 school buses, up Baer's steps, and onto his front porch. As bullhorns rattled with stories of debtor calls and foreclosed homes, Baer's teenage son Jack -- alone in the house -- locked himself in the bathroom. "When are they going to leave?" Jack pleaded when I called to check on him.

Baer, on his way home from a Little League game, parked his car around the corner, called the police, and made a quick calculation to leave his younger son behind while he tried to rescue his increasingly distressed teen. He made his way through a din of barked demands and insults from the activists who proudly "outed" him, and slipped through his front door. . . .

More here:
What's really behind SEIU's Bank of America protests - May. 19, 2010

 

[Sinatra]

Yes - and it was among the most disgusting displays yet by the far left props and union goons of SEIU...

 

[SFC Ollie]

Total complete 100% certified Morons. Cant there be any doubt that they are learning Chicago politics well?

 

[The Infidel]

I would have set off my sprinkler system on them pieces of shit.... Then got on my roof and let loose with a few cans of pepper spray.

 

[Sinatra]

They print out their posters, put them on the bus, and away they go. And make no mistake, those goons are being paid a wage by SEIU.

And now these same unions are wanting billions to bail out their pension funds...

 

[boedicca]

There's a particularly unseemly aspect about this not mentioned in Easton's article: the SEIU protestors were escorted to the house by DC Metro Police:

The family of Greg Baer, Bank of America executive, is located in a jurisdiction protected by the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD), which responded promptly to a disturbance call from his neighborhood last weekend.

According to Corporal Dan Friz, an MCPD spokesperson in Rockville, Maryland, the department received a disturbance call from one of Baer’s neighbors at 4:10 pm last Sunday. Four MCPD units arrived at Baer’s Greenville Rd. address at 4:15 pm. At least two Metropolitan Police Department units from the nearby District of Columbia were already at the scene when they arrived.

Why? Because police cars attached to the Washington MPD’s Civil Disturbance Unit had escorted the SEIU protesters’ buses to Baer’s home. Such cross-jurisdictional escort activity is not uncommon for both departments according to Friz and Metro Police Department spokesperson Officer Eric Frost. Still, the District police did not inform their colleagues of what was about to happen in one of their Maryland neighborhoods....


D.C. Metro Police Escorted SEIU Protesters to Bank Of America Executive’s Home - Big Journalism


The DC Metro Police didn't even have the professionalism to inform the local police that they were escorting the protesters into their jurisdiction - and taking them to private property to boot.

The U.S. is going FERAL.

 

[SFC Ollie]

They print out their posters, put them on the bus, and away they go. And make no mistake, those goons are being paid a wage by SEIU.

And now these same unions are wanting billions to bail out their pension funds...

Fuck that, let them fail.

 

[Foxfyre]

They print out their posters, put them on the bus, and away they go. And make no mistake, those goons are being paid a wage by SEIU.

And now these same unions are wanting billions to bail out their pension funds...

Fuck that, let them fail.

They're an important arm of the Obama machine so no doubt they'll be declared too big to fail.

 

[boedicca]

Senator Bob Casey is rolling out a pension reform bill which will bail out union pensions for a minimum of $165B.

 

[Sinatra]

They print out their posters, put them on the bus, and away they go. And make no mistake, those goons are being paid a wage by SEIU.

And now these same unions are wanting billions to bail out their pension funds...

Fuck that, let them fail.

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Agreed - if for nothing else in that on one side of their mouths these union thugs wish to penalize Wall Street - the very institution that fed those pension funds in the first place, and the very institution that would again revitalize those same pension funds in due time if the government would simply step off and let the natural course of the market do its thing.

 

[Sinatra]

Senator Bob Casey is rolling out a pension reform bill which will bail out union pensions for a minimum of $165B.

Yup - the line between the union and the government is no longer blurred - it has merged.

And that folks, is another very large step toward all out statism.

Please-please-please make your vote count come November 2010...

 

[chanel]

I would have sprayed them with a steamer and file a complaint against the police.

 

[Modbert]

It's so great to see so many posters jumping to conclusions after hearing one side of the story. Goodness knows a right wing pundit wouldn't have a biased opinion against unions.

 

[Sinatra]

It's so great to see so many posters jumping to conclusions after hearing one side of the story. Goodness knows a right wing pundit wouldn't have a biased opinion against unions.

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We have seen the footage many times now - from various news agencies.

Open your eyes pard and admit this "protest" by SEIU was disgusting...

 

[Foxfyre]

It's so great to see so many posters jumping to conclusions after hearing one side of the story. Goodness knows a right wing pundit wouldn't have a biased opinion against unions.

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We have seen the footage many times now - from various news agencies.

Open your eyes pard and admit this "protest" by SEIU was disgusting...

You have? How did I miss it? I picked it up off of RedStates news summary this afternoon and went looking for some information on it, but hadn't seen it at all until then.

 

[Foxfyre]

It's so great to see so many posters jumping to conclusions after hearing one side of the story. Goodness knows a right wing pundit wouldn't have a biased opinion against unions.

Glad you're here Modbert and I agree that the commentary so far has been pretty lopsided.

Would you do us the kindness of providing the other side of the story for this incident?

 

[SFC Ollie]

It's so great to see so many posters jumping to conclusions after hearing one side of the story. Goodness knows a right wing pundit wouldn't have a biased opinion against unions.

Um, they were on his front porch. What more do we need to know about? Other than he is also a lifetime democrat who worked for Clinton, as did his wife working for Hillary. Sure does make these SEIU folks real smart sounding doesn't it. Breaking the law and protesting one of their own. And you want to support that behavior? I hope they continue with their personal property attacks against more Democrats. It can only help vote more of them out this November.

 

[SFC Ollie]

It's so great to see so many posters jumping to conclusions after hearing one side of the story. Goodness knows a right wing pundit wouldn't have a biased opinion against unions.

Glad you're here Modbert and I agree that the commentary so far has been pretty lopsided.

Would you do us the kindness of providing the other side of the story for this incident?

There was video of this posted here on another thread. I forget which thread.

 

[WillowTree]

No, I didn't see it on msnbc. did you? Newp.

 

[jswiftproposal]

Look, just as in many cases, people got mad over something thad they were rightfully mad about, but they acted quite past what was acceptable. It is also quite asinine however to take this extreme act as a standard for liberals, unions, or people upset over the finances of this country.
It would be just as presumptuous to me to label all people who don't think gay marriage is okay as radical, U.S.-hating, troop funeral picketing, feverish, blasphemous assholes just because of the Westboro Baptist church (if you haven't heard of them, look them up. I don't think there is a Liberal or a Conservative, scratch that and make it any AMERICAN, who can condone their actions).
However, the point here is that these people are not wrong for what they are protesting, but how they did it. If they had simply stood on the sidewalk they would legally be on public property and would not have been breaking the law. But by invading the mans yard and bull-horning the peace, they did break the law and that is inexcusable no matter if you think their cause was just or not.

p.s. the sprinkler system idea is hilarious XD