Unions and Government both exist, whether we want them to or not, and when two retarded things combine forces–like unions and government–what you get is the modern American police force.
In my attempt to match the vibe, I used AI to develop a prototype of mechanized discipline for local law enforcement called the “Reprimand Machine” and this machine uses what I’m calling the “Wheel of Wrist Slaps” to reprimand misbehaving cops. If Mayor Davis (or Stacie “Dark Money” Anderson) would like to give me a million dollars, I can 3-D print a version of this handy machine and start testing it out on the kind of cops who are taser-trigger-happy for tiny women in yellow cars.
Yeah, I’m talking to YOU, Lucas Bighouse!
When you let the Police Union develop disciplinary actions for their dues-paying members, what you get looks like this from the collective bargaining agreement police have with the city of Missoula:
All these colors and numbers are probably confusing for the simple creatures we give guns and tasers to, so I think MY accountability machine will simplify and streamline the process of pretend accountability, just like renters in Missoula are pretending they live in a FIGHTING COMMUNITY!
The last panelist to present, Sapp brought in qualitative information based on the work of the Tenants Union. Sapp stated that before the Tenants Union existed, he believed that there weren’t many options for renters, that they just had to accept a lack of control over housing.
But now, as more unions arise across the state, Sapp said there may be a different, more community-empowered way forward.
“Renting in Missoula now means that you are part of a fighting community,” Sapp said. “You are a part of a community of people who are rediscovering the power of strong neighborhoods and strong relationships and strong unions.
“We are rediscovering western Montana’s storied and deep history of people power and community defense, standing on the shoulders of the giants who fought before us against the Copper Kings and the Timber Barons.”
Sorry, but just saying you’re part of a “fighting community” doesn’t magically make it so. When you invoke the labor fights of yesteryear, it’s important to understand that many of those fights were, you know, ACTUAL FIGHTS where people actually got hurt, sometimes even killed, and often arrested. In fact, that’s why we have a “Free Speech Corner” in Missoula: enough rowdy laborers were willing to get arrested and fill the jail because they understood THAT is what was required, back then, to move the needle on peasant rights.
In autumn 1909, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizers Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Jack Jones arrived in Missoula, soon followed by there comrade Frank Little. After renting space for a union hall, they took to the streets, determined to spread “the glad tidings of a great revolutionary union” to Missoula’s working class. From this corner, they demanded union hiring halls for timber workers while preaching the destruction of capitalism, worker control of production and workplace-centered democracy. On September 28, 1909, the police arrested Little and Jones for violating Missoula’s long-ignored ban of public speaking. Flynn immediately put out a call for additional speakers. Her goal was to fill the Missoula jail and cost the city so much money and trouble that it would agree to allow the IWW to continue organizing. During the next week, over seventy IWW speakers were arrested, including the pregnant Flynn. On October 8, faced with overflowing jails, increasing expenses, and a growing public relations nightmare, the city council capitulated. The IWW had secured its right to speak, a lasting victory for the First Amendment.
Did the IWW secure a “lasting victory” for the First Amendment? No, I don’t they did, and I say that as a citizen journalist who would be arrested if I entered the exclusion zone pictured below, which includes the “free speech corner”, without permission from the individual tasked with monitoring my movements.
Why did the Missoula County Attorney’s Office change this NO TRAVIS bubble? Did they realize that the original one, which centered on Break Espresso, wasn’t legally binding because it banned me from accessing a Federal Highway? And why won’t they disclose the communication I demanded about this change for my appeal with the Montana Supreme Court?
What are you trying to hide from me, Mr. Bloom?
If I was a paid news reporter at the Billings Gazette then the protective umbrella of something called the Montana News Guild might be able to help me, but I’m not, so it can’t.
For the citizens of Billings, though, their union-protected reporters have taken that union support and, in turn, turned that support into stories about Veterans of wars, missing and murdered indigenous women, and the community EVERYONE knows needs the most protection, peaceful Jews who want nothing more than to get along with their neighbors and calmly integrate with their adopted local communities.
The Montana News Guild was founded to protect the future of The Billings Gazette’s journalists.
We are the inheritors of a proud tradition in a great state. Since 1885, The Billings Gazette has published in what is now Montana’s largest city, documenting the lives of a diverse citizenry in one of the largest newspaper coverage areas in the nation. In the course of that 135 years, our newsroom has educated and advocated for its readers while holding those in power accountable to a democratic society.
Our newsroom has covered the effects of combat on families and soldiers from World War I to Afghanistan and Iraq. We’ve published stories and editorials advocating for our Jewish community, and held law enforcement and political officials accountable for failing to investigate missing and murdered indigenous people.
Newspapers, cops, and unions sucking dues from their individually-impotent members have all contributed to us arriving at this point in our history. Does anyone think that’s a GOOD thing?
Information has ALWAYS been the most valuable commodity because knowing what others don’t is a tremendous advantage. I hope the corrupt, vile, and vindictive local power brokers now understand what I’m willing to take from them in order to make the community my kids are growing up in less retarded than the retarded status quo the psychopath class has worked so hard to establish.
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