Sometimes it's necessary to get out on the streets and "get a little bloody," a Massachusetts Democrat said Tuesday in reference to labor battles in Wisconsin.
Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) fired up a group of union members in Boston with a speech urging them to work down in the trenches to fend off limits to workers' rights like those proposed in Wisconsin.
"I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going," Capuano said, according to the Dorchester Reporter. "Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary."
Political observers have been the lookout for potentially incendiary rhetoric in the wake of January's shooting in Tucson, Ariz., where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) survived an assassination attempt, six were killed, and 12 others were injured.
Political rhetoric has become especially heated in Madison, Wis., where Republican Gov. Scott Walker has proposed major labor reforms that sparked more than a week's worth of rowdy protests at the state capitol.
"We take security seriously, whether it's for me, the lieutenant governor and all 132 members of the state legislature, Democrats or Republicans alike, because there's a lot of passion down here," Walker said Tuesday on MSNBC about his safety in Wisconsin. "And particularly when we see people coming in being bussed in from other states, that's what worries us."
Capuano made his remarks before a crowd of union members in Boston, along with other members of the state's congressional delegation. Massachusetts has an influential union population that could loom large over the 2012 Senate race. Capuano is considering getting in that race to challenge Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) next fall.
“This is going to be a struggle at least for the next two years. Let’s be serious about this. They’re not going to back down and we’re not going to back down. This is a struggle for the hearts and minds of America,” Capuano told union members.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/145627-dem-lawmaker-on-labor-protests-get-a-little-bloody-when-necessary
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Move along, there is nothing to see here accept another whining liberal from Massachusetts.
Posted Feb-23-2011 Byaussite (1867.10) 
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"We are socialists, we are enemies of today%u2019s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions."
by: Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator
Source: Hitler%u2019s speech on May 1, 1927. Cited in: Toland, John (1992). Adolf Hitle More..
Posted Feb-23-2011 Bypneal (657.02) 
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Hitler used the socialist movement as a tool and despised that branch of his party vehemently after his election win, he also crushed the unions and imprisoned and killed their leaders.
Don't just parse facts to push your shit agenda, be truthful and accurate unless that is you fear the truth as so many of you on the right do.
Posted Feb-23-2011 ByZardoz003 (1642.32) 
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Liberals are the easiest bunch to figure out. You tax, you spend, you grow government, you seek power and in his case it's the Unions and their incestuous relationship with the DNC that keeps them funded and in office.
Liberals are nothing more than ungraduated Socialists and Marxists
Posted Feb-23-2011 By_Byron_ (947.60) 
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Once again, no facts. Bush grew the government and stepped all over the constitution and you were a quite mouse.
Posted Feb-23-2011 Bydcmfox (31483.36) 
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Bush's assault on the Constitution is nothing compared that of Barack Hussein Obama. And that's no justification of Bush...only that I guess it's easy to turn a blind eye to the egregious offenses of those with whom you sympathize.
Posted Feb-23-2011 Byvicsemprini (1285.98) vicsemprini View Channel Send Message
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who's talking about Bush?! I was quiet? No no no my friend, I am consistent because I am principled.
And you are dead wrong on the constitution, terrorists are not covered under the constitution
Posted Feb-23-2011 By_Byron_ (947.60) 
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That is incitement to riot, and this Prick should be arrested and thrown in jail, now.
Posted Feb-23-2011 ByDave556 (2005.96) 
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How civil of him...pffft!
Posted Feb-23-2011 Byboomersooner (2097.94) 
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Yeah...apparently it's not "incendiary, evil hate speech" when union members draw cross hairs on Republicans, or a Democrat starts encouraging violence.
But, keep it up a-holes...show regular, taxpaying working Americans exactly what kind of statist sellouts you are, and where your loyalty really is.
Posted Feb-23-2011 Byvicsemprini (1285.98) vicsemprini View Channel Send Message
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That's who unions look out for. Regular, taxpaying, working Americans. You sound like a fairly educated fellow, so I'm sure you know what working conditions were like before unions? 14 hour work days? No weekends? No health coverage? Pay cuts at random? Or do you look back on those times fondly.
http://beyond-school.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/US-wealth-distribution-pie-chart-2007.jpg
Look at that graph. Why are you OK with this? 66% of the nation's wealth, held by 10% of the population? 33 More..
Posted Feb-23-2011 Byhellgremlin (763.22) hellgremlin Send Message
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I don't think you really understand the issues here.
Unions definitely have had their place and have done a lot for the welfare of workers in US history.
However, they have now evolved into primarily political organizations. Trumka has said so himself. He's not there to really represent workers but to effect structural political change in the US...i.e., overthrow the current constitution and start over.
All your comments about wealth distribution are a red herring, and don't address what the More..
Posted Feb-23-2011 Byvicsemprini (1285.98) vicsemprini View Channel Send Message
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But they're not a red herring and they directly address what the conflict in Wisconsin is about. They address it so directly, there might as well be a crosshair on the subject... ;f
Unions without bargaining power can't secure wages as high as workers deserve. It doesn't matter if they're private or public, their job is to ensure fat cat bosses can't employ non-union for peanuts and drive out the workers who dare asking for wages they can live on.
You did hear the gov of Wisconsin get prank ca More..
Posted Feb-23-2011 Byhellgremlin (763.22) hellgremlin Send Message
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you don't understand the bill. The bill does NOT eliminate the unions from bargaining on their wages, only their benefits. It also requres these freeloaders to pay a bit of their OWN retirement and healthcare.
Meanwhile these freeloaders are making more than the average wage of the people paying their salary.
This is about Union Greed and for the Democrats, it's not about the little guy, it's about keeping that union money flowing in and electing democrats
Posted Feb-23-2011 By_Byron_ (947.60) 
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lets get back on topic here. We've got Democrats inciting violence. Pretty typical I'd say, given that our domestic terrorists are almost always left wing
Posted Feb-23-2011 By_Byron_ (947.60) 
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So much for "civility". The Dems are just sore losers because they got their assess handed to them in Nov. Well the Gov of Wisconsin is doing the job the MAJORITY of the people voted him into office to do. I'm glad there are finally people in office that are actually doing their job instead of greedy slimeballs doing anything to keep their job. The social utopia is about to end in this country and the unions and the politicians that are in bed with them will be unemployed.
Posted Feb-23-2011 Bybigblue72 (31.06) bigblue72 View Channel Send Message
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this is violent rhetoric
Posted Feb-23-2011 Byak49 (113.16) ak49 View Channel Send Message
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another example of the libs "toning down the vitriol"
Posted Feb-23-2011 Bywharris (2343.62) 
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I swear, the liberal brain is pretty useless. By definition you people are insane. Nothing you do works, your programs create misery and chaos, you destroy economies and destroy the human spirit.
I think the one good thing about Obama's agenda is that it has put liberalism on full display for all to see. Which is why the Dems took a savage beating in November. 2012 will be another rude wake up call for you crazies
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Hey, it's the tape recording again.
Posted Feb-23-2011 Byhellgremlin (763.22) hellgremlin Send Message
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hey it's the guy with nothing to say
Posted Feb-23-2011 By_Byron_ (947.60) 
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What a pathetic comeback.
Posted Feb-23-2011 ByDave556 (2005.96) 
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But there's only one thing you ever say, dude. Ever.
Byron: "Liberals bad, abloo abloo."
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If I wanted a comeback I'd tell your mother to fart.
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This Demoncrat Rep would do well to remember the old adage,"Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it."
And not the way that he intended either.
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Careful what you wish for. You may get it.
Posted Feb-23-2011 ByKlugeBoy (51.70) 
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hahaha funny shit right there
Posted Feb-23-2011 BySLAMDANCE (120.00) 
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Class war has only one outcome and that is either the crush of the poor under the heel of the rich or open riots. Don't attack me for being the messenger.
Posted Feb-23-2011 ByZardoz003 (1642.32) 
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So this is a call for class warfare and you are cool with that coming from a Congressman?
Posted Feb-23-2011 Byjohn1054 (5475.44) 
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We have seen this nation's leadership time and again in the distant past and in the very near past used similar tones and I am talking both sides of the isle, so for you to point this out as wrong seems very disingenuous and partisan.
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Yes.
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You know, you are one of the few people who can say that with a straight face since you didn't try to climb on a high-horse about civility after the Loughner shooting.
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It's because people trying to make sense of a senseless act. War, targets, and terms like that are part of our fiber. Class warfare has been going on for 100 years at least, and that's what it is.
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he said "get bloody" not "make other people bloody". To me that means go out there and don't be afraid to get your face bashed in by a cop with a nightstick... that's a pretty quick and guaranteed way to get bloody.
hyper-sensitivity and misinterpretation (purposeful or not) doesn't serve you conservatives
Posted Feb-23-2011 Bynkdmansam (252.58) nkdmansam View Channel Send Message
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that's not hypersensitive, your side thinks saying crosshairs is violent rhetoric. Be consistent you hypocrit
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I might have bought that explaination until two months ago when Democrat leaders made a big deal of calling for civility among public figures in the wake of a mass murder they blamed (wrongly) on heated conservative rhetoric.
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Wrongly my ass
Posted Feb-23-2011 ByZardoz003 (1642.32) 
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my side... haha just cause I'm not on your side doesn't mean im on their side, but i am definitely on my side. Let me worry about what "my side" does and doesn't think, you've got enough to deal with on your side.
saying "crosshairs" isn't a curse-word and I have no problem saying it or hearing it. When you draw a picture and put a crosshair over a politicians face (or district)... I think that crosses an invisible civility line (and so does Sarah cause she took that map More..
Posted Feb-23-2011 Bynkdmansam (252.58) nkdmansam View Channel Send Message
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ah well we agree that people (Sarah and Co.) were wrongly accused (by some in the left wing) of inciting the Giffords shooting. A great way to muddy that point is to become hypersensitive in response and make similar false claims against the other side...
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