Protestors Ransack Bush/Cheney Headquarters In Orlando (overtime)

[donsu]

http://www.local6.com/politics/3785861/detail.html

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Local 6 News reported that several people from the group of 100 Orlando protestors face possible assault charges after the group forced their way inside the Republican headquarters office.

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"We want to send a clear message to Bush, we want him to take his hands off our overtime pay," protestor Esmeralda Heuilar said.

Local 6 News learned that most of the protestors were from the AFL-CIO and were taking part in one of 20 other coordinated protests around the country.

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A protest similar to Orlando's demonstration was held at a Bush-Cheney office in Miami at the same approximate time, Local 6 News reported.
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americans fighting back - hooray

[Jack_Dawson]

1. Bad PR

Reinforces negative stereotypes of us.

[mimitabby]

3. they sound pissed. they should be

the gop spin makes us look bad no matter what anyway.
at least these are real people with a real agenda.
this country was founded on civil disobedience.

[MatrixEscape]

4. I don't see ...

How the AFL-CIO is us, per se.

[TexasSissy]

7. True. But it's not a Dem. thing. It's a labor dispute. But it won't

help. Some people are so dense. (Like the American Airlines workers who were going to go on strike AFTER 9/11. Hello. You want a job or don't you? Bad PR.)

[Skittles]

2. I don't like this sort of stuff

I am less likely to listen to a beef if the person beefing is acting like an asshole.

[donsu]

5. was your overtime cut?

nt

[Skittles]

9. LOL

I haven't received overtime in years and no, I am not a professional.

[Ready4Change]

6. Ransack?

The article says "While in the building, some of the protestors drew horns and a mustache on a poster of President George W. Bush and poured piles of letters in the office".

The article doesn't even say whether they drew on a poster that was already on the premises, or if they brought in their own poster to draw on.

Ransacking, to my mind, is upturning desks, dumping wastebaskets, destroying large amounts of material, maybe setting fires.

If they indeed forced their way in, that's wrong. (Breaking and entering.) If they stayed on private property when asked to leave that is wrong. (Trespass.) If they drew on someone elses property, that is wrong. Dumping the letters (what WERE those letters, anyway?) might be littering?

But RANSACKING? Hardly.

[BQueen]

8. Has everybody else forgotten the rash of staged protests?

Most people would have exactly the same reaction to this that the first two posts did, which is why no sane union leaders would do it on purpose, and every sane union leader would try to prevent something like that happening. Unfortunately the location of the protest lends a specifically political air to it...

The article said the union protest "didn't go as planned" it quoted one specific protester who "wanted to send a message" it noted that "not all" the protesters were AFL-CIO (the message was from just plain "protestor Esmeralda Heuilar"), and the injuries were to other protesters (also possible plants?) and a noble young repug volunteer, whom I'm certain is the one posing so dramatically for the camera. (although the sentence has phrasing that is "interesting" -- "Two protestors received minor injuries when the crowd stormed the building, including a Republican volunteer." What includes the volunteer -- the protesters, the building, the storming?)

I'm curious, what happened at the simultaneous protest in Miami, if anything?

ok, maybe I need some tinfoil - but this is just toooo convenient for the thugs if ya get my meaning.

edit for punctuation/clarity
dratted typo!