-Caveat Lector-
Forgive my delay in posting a reply to this excellent post.
See my comments below interspersed in the text.
In a message dated 12/7/99 7:48:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> The LAST exit to asserting our rights is already tightly locked --we long
ago
> locked it OURSELVES, locking ourselves IN, in return for only the false
> promise of the faintest possibility of that will-o'-the-wisp "financial
> security"-- and there's no longer any hope of finding an EFFECTIVE way OUT
> again, except through violence or the THREAT of it.
"Social Security" was the final bullshit item to promise us some
semblance of financial security (what a sham). Can't opt out even. Let us
not forget the sense of physical security that good old Uncle Sam gives to
us, well worth throwing away what little rights we have. No?
> Take, for example, my local "union," in which I was duly and correctly, in
> accord with its rules, elected shop steward -- yet in practice I am denied
> any opportunity to participate in negotiations that might affect the lot of
> all those who elected me to represent them. Yet membership in this "union"
> is mandatory for all employees at the site where we work, so that union
dues
> are automatically deducted from our paychecks, destined only for the union
> bosses' pockets. We get the same "benefits" as NON-union workers.
You're singing a tune that I know by heart. I work for the Postal
Service, and we have a LARGE union, that IS affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
What an incredible joke it is. We "negotiated" our last contract without
going to arbitration (which the Union hailed as a major step for us. The
deal sucked through and through. Then when another Postal Union went to
arbitration and got a better deal all the sudden OUR union was crying foul.
Just politics, so BLATANT now that it is pathetic. The same rights and wages
as non-union members, and if we want to get out of the union we must wait
until our hire date anniversary, if you miss the window you gotta wait
another year. Labor and anagement EQUAL one.
> It's a scam, it's a fraud -- but it's a good example of what the
institution
> of the "labor union" --granted political power over half a century ago,
ONLY
> after strikes, rioting and bloodshed-- has DEGENERATED into, in modern-day
> Korporate-controlled America. In the very first paragraph of its contract
> with our employers, our "union" RENOUNCES the right to strike or otherwise
> interfere with the normal conduct of our employer's business, and in
return,
> our employer "agrees" to pay union members whatever it sees fit -- which is
> comparable to what it'd pay us WITHOUT a union. Admittedly, our "union" is
> NOT under the authority of the AFL-CIO --which makes this scam even more
> acceptable to Korporate employers, and more profitable to the "union's"
> bosses, who monopolize an entire profession in this town-- but that really
> doesn't matter, since the AFL-CIO itself --under CFR member George Meany,
> and
> under MAFIOSI union bosses who secretly colluded with the FBI and/or CIA,
> after WWII, when the federal government cut a deal with organized crime--
> functions primarily, if not solely, as an instrument to keep labor under
> Korporate control. "Labor" is as thoroughly corrupt as any other warehouse
> of voters, another wolf-in-sheep's-clothing "shepherd" of American sheeple
> at
> the polls.
So true. Of course we can't strike either, and it is the ONLY power that
we ever had and it is no longer in our hands. Does anyone ever wonder why
there are so many postal shootings? I could tell you some of the reasons for
it.
> Surrender the THREAT of "violence" --the option of SHUTTING DOWN THE
SYSTEM,
> NON-violently EXCEPT IN SELF-DEFENSE, i.e., when under violent COUNTER-
> attack
> by the Korporate State's armed goons-- and you throw away the ONLY
> bargaining
> chip the non-rich and un-privileged HAVE -- have EVER had, historically, or
> CAN ever have.
>
> The Elite's TRUE source of POWER is the "government's" MONOPOLY on
violence:
> there's NO possibility of "bargaining" for JUSTICE when UNARMED, facing a
> GUN.
>
> You have ONLY those "rights" you can --individually or collectively--
> ENFORCE
> and DEFEND. Ah, but HOW? WITHOUT "violence"? Without recourse to
violence,
>
> the GOVERNMENT ITSELF can't rely on the "legitimacy" of its "moral" right
to
> govern us! How, then, can WE possibly have any rights, left UNsecured by
> an
> EQUAL defense?
>
As I said in a recent post on a similar topic, violence is unfortunately
necessary in some cases. When the shackles are pulled taut one too many
times, when the eye gets bruised one too many times, when the boot stomps you
that one last time.
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