Wed Oct 24, 2012, 12:52 PM

ProudToBeBlueInRhody (10,328 posts)

Ed Schultz reporting plant owners in Illinois "may" be telling workers to knock it off

Threatening to cut off severance if they keep demonstrating.

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8 replies	Author	Time	Post
Ed Schultz reporting plant owners in Illinois "may" be telling workers to knock it off (Original post)	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	Oct 2012	OP
Maybe someone needs to knock off the plant owner. n/t	joycejnr	Oct 2012	#1
Wow, jury voted 3-3 to keep this death threat visible.	TroglodyteScholar	Oct 2012	#2
i, also, thought it would be hidden but i didnt think it was a "threat"	leftyohiolib	Oct 2012	#4
When I posted it, I deliberately said "maybe"...	joycejnr	Oct 2012	#6
It wasn't a direct threat...Just a suggestion that carrying out a violent act would be justified.	TroglodyteScholar	Oct 2012	#8
People need to learn to use irony	flamingdem	Oct 2012	#7
time to double down	leftyohiolib	Oct 2012	#3
What are they scared of? That their	Ilsa	Oct 2012	#5

Response to ProudToBeBlueInRhody (Original post)

Wed Oct 24, 2012, 12:55 PM

joycejnr (326 posts)

1. Maybe someone needs to knock off the plant owner. n/t

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 01:03 PM

TroglodyteScholar (4,541 posts)

2. Wow, jury voted 3-3 to keep this death threat visible.

No explanation provided by the "leave it" voters.

DU is supposed to be better than this garbage.

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Response to TroglodyteScholar (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 24, 2012, 01:17 PM

leftyohiolib (3,122 posts)

4. i, also, thought it would be hidden but i didnt think it was a "threat"

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Response to TroglodyteScholar (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 25, 2012, 12:51 PM

joycejnr (326 posts)

6. When I posted it, I deliberately said "maybe"...

...so that it wouldn't be construed as a threat, such as "Let's kill all the capitalist bosses," or some other such nonsense. A decision by the Supreme Court protected a teacher of mine, Dr. Oliver Lee's 1st Amendment rights after the right wing went after him for what amounted to 'promoting a death threat,' when he talked about conversation regarding the theoretical fragging of senior officers in the Viet Nam conflict.

If anything is 'garbage,' it's calling the language of someone else 'garbage,' when ones premise is wrong in the first place.

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Response to joycejnr (Reply #6)

Thu Oct 25, 2012, 09:26 PM

TroglodyteScholar (4,541 posts)

8. It wasn't a direct threat...Just a suggestion that carrying out a violent act would be justified.

Parse your language all you want. It's ugly and we should be above it.

My premise is just fine, thanks.

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Response to joycejnr (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 25, 2012, 12:53 PM

flamingdem (22,699 posts)

7. People need to learn to use irony

and other literary devices, someone alerted on this?

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Response to ProudToBeBlueInRhody (Original post)

Wed Oct 24, 2012, 01:07 PM

leftyohiolib (3,122 posts)

3. time to double down

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Response to ProudToBeBlueInRhody (Original post)

Wed Oct 24, 2012, 01:29 PM

Ilsa (31,676 posts)

5. What are they scared of? That their

soon-to-be former employees are going to hurt their feelings?

Maybe they are afraid that the US auto industry may start looking for another source of parts.

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