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LONGVIEW, Wash. —The main BNSF rail line is shut down through southwest Washington, as BNSF police and inspectors investigate tampering along the railway from north of Vancouver to Chehalis.
Spokesman Gus Melonas says BNSF personnel discovered the tampering shortly before 11 a.m. Monday along that corridor. He says nine trains including Amtrak are being held. A limited number of freight trains are being escorted through at restricted speeds. The first incident was reported near the Longview…
( 9.21.2011 )
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) Longshoremen returned to the railroad tracks near a Columbia River grain terminal with union members’ wives and mothers Wednesday, blocking a shipment and facing more arrests in their battle for jobs.
Two union officers and about 10 of the women were detained, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 21 President Dan Coffman said in a statement. Coffman was among those involved despite a judge’s repeated orders that the union not block entrance to the site.
Law enforcement officers brought a massive force to various parts of the railroad tracks, including two tactical vehicles, canine units and about a dozen personnel in full riot gear. At least two protesters were treated after being hit with pepper spray, and the train eventually made its way into the EGT Development facility.
Union leaders decried the law enforcement activity, saying it amount to a private security force paid for by taxpayers…
…The actions appeared to defy the National Labor Relations Board and the orders of a federal judge who has already held the union in contempt and is considering fines for previous actions…
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Head… hurts.. must have a nice lie down….
^Yea, I know.
Tampering with the Rails is Domestic Terrorism …. oh, my bad, these are Left Wingers…. never mind, they’re just lawfully protesting.
Eff ‘em.
Just pepper spray???
Sabotage of transportation infrastructure?
Obama’s not gonna like that.
Oh, wait, maybe repairing union thuggery is what the stimulus re-bill is for.
I remember a small item from Atlas Shrugged where rail workers, retirees, and their families guarded the John Galt Line from union sabotage … armed.
Maybe Obama would like to get the saboteurs rounded up before opening his yap about (much more vulnerable) highspeed rail again.
“a private security force paid for by taxpayers…”
The Police are always “thugs” when they ain’t doing what YOU want.
We are, after all, dealing with people with the mindset of that profane nitwit we all saw in that video a few days ago.
A nice $12MM fine should cool things down.
Better yet, a 20 year sentence for the Union bosses.
Captain Bullshit, Warrior For The Middle Class, told them to take off their bedroom slippers and put on their boots. Smart man; hard to tamper with the railroad in bedroom slippers.
LOL
Y’know, the military has a lot of experience watching roads and looking for IED emplacers…..
Just sayin’……
I thought they were just Sock Luckers.
Isn’t that what the union PR man said to KGW TV?
Or was it Box Kites?
THIS is domestic terrorism, despite the dyke(s) saying it isn’t.
They’re just trying to find a way to blame it all on conservatives, and then it can be called terrorism. As long as the unions are involved, it’s just tolerance, diversity, and a peaceful protest.
Doesn’t Omama understand… this is part of the “international railroad” he was braggin’ on over the weekend.