A group of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania Quakers has discovered they have no “friends” in the union movement. The gentile folk that are called Friends or Quakers wanted to have a new meetinghouse built and foolishly thought they should engage the cheapest construction company to get the job done. Their problems arose when the word got out that the company they hired used non-union workers. This “insult” enraged the members of several unions that lost out on the work involved. The Friends Community could not afford to build their new meetinghouse if they had to knuckle under and pay union extortionist rates. But that meant nothing to the thugs who represent the construction unions in the Philadelphia area. They wanted their tribute, and that was all there was to it.
Like so many honest people we’d see in old black and white gangster movies, the Friends could not believe that in modern America, they would/should have to pay extra to appease greedy unions. Just four days before Christmas, reality knocked on the Quakers’ door.
According to local police, someone with particular skill in the use of an acetylene torch destroyed the initial work that had been completed on the project. The amount of damage was set at about $500,000. The Philadelphia Inquirer described the vandalism this way: “Vandals with an acetylene torch crept onto the project’s muddy construction site in the middle of the night. Working out of view in the meetinghouse’s freshly cemented basement, they sliced off dozens of bolts securing the bare steel columns and set fire to the building crane, causing $500,000 in damage. Police detectives deemed the attack arson because of a series of confrontational visits from union officials days before the incident. They say the torch could only have been operated by a trained professional, and believe it was almost certainly the work of disgruntled union members. The city has assigned extra investigators to the case and is working with federal forensic experts to track down the vandals, said Michael Resnick, the city’s public safety commissioner.”
In ordinary times, things like this might not happen; but we are not living in ordinary times. Things like this are the new normal.
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Too bad the Quakers are such pacifists … The union thugs will stomp the hell out of them.
On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .
Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi’s theories of “passive resistance” would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. — Mike Vanderboegh.
If people understood the “self-righteousness” of Quakers and their “instigator” positions they use because of their so called “pacifism” you would understand that Quakers are actually a pretty greedy people that likes to control others through manipulation, including lots of propaganda. There was good reason the Puritans in days gone by, when they caught a Quaker alone, they would nail his tongue to a fence post. Their attitude is just intolerable to many people.
I’m not taking up for the unions as they are guilty of many things in their own ways, and they are wrong here. They are greedy and self-serving just as the Quakers are, only much worse. But the Quakers should have expected such as they are union supporters to begin with. The problem was, their greed and desire to save a little money meant rejecting the unions for this job in spite of all their past support. This doubly ticked off the union people, some of whom, I wouldn’t be surprised would claim to be Quakers. (Not necessarily the ones who committed the acts of violence, but simple union members.)
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
Spoken like a true liberal.
@MoutainMamaMSB
I’m sure there is an exception somewhere but all the Quakers I know are liberals! And I know quiet a few of them…
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
I wonder if the Unions would have done this if those men working to constuct what they wanted were men from ‘under the bridge’….. Men without a job who were homeless ? The unions of today are just as bad as they were when the teamsters were in full swing down on the wharves in the upper states. You did not fool with the unions… There were pay offs from anyone who wanted to have a place of business there.. just a little one.. but they had to pay.
The Unions have not stopped their nasty ways… I was working at a place one time.. and the man who bought the place I worked at didnt want the union in there.. so he paid this lawyer X amount of money for his advice… he said they (union men) were to work in this particular area.. just the same as the other people and not what they normally did since a NEW man was owner…. That said… they were told and walked out … but someone.. came back that very night and with a huge ball bearing a little bigger than a golf ball pitched it in the huge wide window above the double doors. I called the police and told them who I thought it had to be.. but nothing ever came of it… cause it couldnt be proven. But it was the UNION….. that’s for sure. You do NOT cross them. So times have not changed. I have always been against the unions for many many years… cause everytime they got a raise… groceries, cars, furniture, tools, etc go up in price… so what good did it do to get a raise when you are taking in the ‘raise money’ with one hand.. but paying out with the other hand… Made no sense to me..
I find this hilarious…I know I shouldn’t, but, oh what the hell I just do. I don’t like the liberal quakers and their dumb-ass attitudes about how we could all be one big happy people. They’re way too much into promoting muslims and in the past as stated above they’ve been big union supporters. So they should just put their money where their big fat hypocrtiical mouths are and hire the union company to do the work. Let them pay more just like they think we All should do…they support and promote the unions and get political active with the liberals so now let them have of taste of what it’s all about – what they want us to live with they should not be exempted from…. I really like this story, LMFAO over this one. humm
@newmorning
What do you mean you shouldn’t?
The Quakers are one of the worst instigators in liberalism there is today who as a group *TRIES* to identify themselves as Christians. Although not all Quakers even identifies themselves as Christians. They came about holding many values that the Puritans had concerning morality and self-righteousness, except they were non-violent. Being non-violent peed the Puritans off who would take a Quaker, if they caught on alone, and nail his or her tongue to a fence post or tree or tree branch. Neither group could tolerate the other or anyone else besides their own kind. It is from the Puritans and Quakers you see the majority of this *TV stereotyped* religion today. They were responsible for what is known as *Dispensationalism* which has been the parents of many so called Christian Organizations and Groups. The Shakers, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witness, New Age Churches of many types are included as evolving from the Puritan and Quaker religions. This is also a main reason today the church as a whole has lost its’ credibility among most people. People may still claim in a god, but there are few churches that actually teaches Christianity the original way. btw- The original way Christianity was taught is actually much more forgiving and allowing for individual freedoms than anything you see today in any church. As for me, the Quakers don’t mean anything except another being cult practicing what they believe is their way to salvation. Problem is, if they had their way, they would force all of us to come with them, where ever that may end up! They are one sorry group of people!
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur