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2005-04-08 Fifth Column

Moonbats declare "Midwest Mobilization for a Day of Action Aganist Caterpillar"

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Posted by Mike 2005-04-08 7:05:34 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hope somebody is taking pictures & making lists.

Posted by gromgoru 2005-04-08 7:16:15 AM|| 2005-04-08 7:16:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 *snicker*

They've almost managed to make me feel sorry for a bank, lol! That takes some doin'.

All of their "actions" amount to poofery and puffery - much like bravely farting upwind. Foolishly, I have always associated "action" with "substantance". Silly me.

I also hope someone will take pix, in case they get really serious and make some paper mache Giants Puppets and Tanks or, better yet, Cat D-9s - with skeery skulls and crossbones, of course, to show how evil construction equipment really is. The sheeple ought to know the truth.

Nothing says serious like paper mache.

Upon reflection, methinks they should be holding this at the nearest House of Pancakes.

Posted by .com 2005-04-08 7:26:41 AM|| 2005-04-08 7:26:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Cold, .com, but funny. I've never been able to understand how people like these have been able to survive with such narrow tunnel vision, or how they can have such narrow vision.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-04-08 8:13:15 AM|| 2005-04-08 8:13:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 She stood in front of a moving bulldozer. And it's the bulldozer's fault she died?

Posted by PlanetDan 2005-04-08 8:51:45 AM|| 2005-04-08 8:51:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Ah, beautiful .com. "Sheeple" mayhaps they be but still idiotic by any other name. Classic nutters all. While they are wound up and at it, they would do well to protest the parents' failure to teach their children not to screw around with heavy equipment unless you wish to be maimed or killed. Shaheed by a bulldozer? Does that count? Can I get a fatwa somebody!

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-08 9:05:33 AM|| 2005-04-08 9:05:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 We'll see how this turns out. My office is only a couple of blocks away from the site. Most protests in Chicago are pretty boring (a few marchers with megaphones and signs) - nobody wants to get a "tune up" from the Chicago cops.

Posted by Spot 2005-04-08 9:07:03 AM|| 2005-04-08 9:07:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I hope Caterpillar keeps ignoring these fools. They're definitely not the market for Cat's equipment, so they've got nothing to lose by doing so.

Posted by Dar 2005-04-08 9:36:33 AM|| 2005-04-08 9:36:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 these pussies might impress me if they went to a Cat factory to protest...a bank? Hope the Chicago blues show no restraint, in fact, I hope the tellers, accountants and old security guard guys all come out to kick some moonbat ass

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-08 9:54:12 AM|| 2005-04-08 9:54:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Caterpillars don't kill people; people kill people. A handy paradigm.

Posted by Highlander 2005-04-08 10:17:44 AM|| 2005-04-08 10:17:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Moonbats protesting at a CAT plant for this crap would be a sight to behold Frank G. The CAT boys are a proud and tough crowd who are not apt to suffer fools screwing with their time or mealticket needlessly.

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-08 10:42:22 AM|| 2005-04-08 10:42:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Interesting that these "committed activists" can't be bothered to make the drive down to Peoria to protest in front of Caterpillar itself.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-04-08 10:58:18 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-04-08 10:58:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 You just can't get a decent latte down there, Bob. There are limits to what these committed activists are willing to suffer...

Posted by mojo 2005-04-08 11:37:16 AM|| 2005-04-08 11:37:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 IIUC Cat is unionized, UAW. UAW afaik is having nothing to do with this moonbattery. As a liberal, I stand with unionized American workers, proudly making a quality product, and selling it abroad to our democratic ally (an ally which has national health care, by the way) - union made, American made, right on!

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-04-08 12:09:39 PM|| 2005-04-08 12:09:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 The Stop CAT Coalition is issuing a call for all Palestine solidarity organizations and activists..

Advice: Accuracy can be maintained without the use of the indicated excessive verbiage above by using "Jew-haters" instead.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-08 12:26:05 PM|| 2005-04-08 12:26:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I hope some knuckle dragging goons show up and beat the piss out of these stupid f***tards. These people need to be put into their place. That place is down with pond scum.

Typical jew hating leftists. Unfit to benefit from the bounties of western civilization.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-04-08 12:50:44 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-04-08 12:50:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Sing it LH!

Ima never gonna leaver the Union!
unless they give me 20 bucks....

Posted by Shipman 2005-04-08 1:00:13 PM|| 2005-04-08 1:00:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Look for the Union Lapel.

hee hee

Posted by A Blue Suit You Want 2005-04-08 1:01:43 PM|| 2005-04-08 1:01:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 "Sod off, swampy!"

Has a nice ring to it, donchathink?

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-04-08 1:29:32 PM|| 2005-04-08 1:29:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Here's a fun thought: get a D-9 and put it on a lowboy, then cruise back and forth on South LaSalle Street like you're looking for a job site to deliver it to.

Posted by Mike 2005-04-08 2:26:48 PM|| 2005-04-08 2:26:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 How about listening to the Rachel Corrie Memorial I-Pod Playlist while you (counter)demonstrate?

Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company, "Caterpillar"
Jennifer Gentle, "Caterpillar Song"
Drive-By Truckers, "Bulldozers and Dirt"
The Scientifics, "My Bulldozer"
Iggy Pop, "Bulldozer"
Mojo Watson, "Run Rachel Run"
Donuts, "Caterpillar Blood"
Dave Matthews Band, "Crush"
Bruce Springsteen, "Crush On You"
Champ, "Squashed"
Badly Drawn Boy, "Rachel's Flat"

Posted by Mike 2005-04-08 2:44:27 PM|| 2005-04-08 2:44:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Mike - anything by Phil Dirt and the Dozers would be appropriate too.

Posted by Doc8404 2005-04-08 8:05:22 PM|| 2005-04-08 8:05:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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