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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Regarding US Trials for Combatants

I ran across this interesting historical tidbit today: A report about what the US did when it captured a WW2 German sabotage team operating within the US. These days, if this happened, they'd have been tried by the Justice Department and their legions of morons, then sent back to their home countries. Liberals would go to bed happy. But back in the day, when people knew how to do things and stuff actually mattered, that's not what happened.

"All eight German agents were tried, convicted by the Military Commission, with six men sentenced to death. President Roosevelt approved the sentences. The constitutionality of the military commissions was upheld by the Supreme Court in Ex parte Quirin and the six men were executed by electrocution on August 8."

http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Duquesne+Spy+Ring
http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Attacks+on+North+America+during+World+War+II

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The American Labor Movement as Extortionist

This picture sums up what has become of American labor unions: People have no right to work, unless it's with the approval of a labor union. Here in Maryland, and across the country, laws were enacted that required unions be paid by the individual employee regardless of whether he was a member or not; the reasoning was that he would be the beneficiary of collective bargaining no matter what, therefore he should pay. But isn't that tantamount to extortion - pay me or you can't work?

It seems the unions have truly come full circle. This is how mobs and gangs operated in large cities in the 19th century. Even the film, On the Waterfront, illustrated the control unions exert.  Governments and laws, however, were supposed to counter that kind of blackmail.  Now governments condone it, have even become the unions' enforcer. In the 21st century, Americans have no right to work with themselves as their sole representation.

No wonder American businesses look overseas for jobs.

Amid Union Protests, More Democrats Go On the Lam -- This Time in Indiana - FoxNews.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"