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smurfygirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 04:49 PM
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They go after the gansters at the ports but leave the gansters in the WH
So now it's the mobs fault that security at the ports is utter shit?
Does anyone else see how this story is just utter hypocrisy? When will they go after the king pins sitting in the White House?

Federal lawsuit alleges mob infiltration at ports
U.S. attorney’s office charge organized crime along East Coast waterfront

Updated: 2:58 p.m. ET March 11, 2006
NEW YORK - Justice Department lawyers warned eight months ago that a nefarious element had infiltrated important East Coast ports, but they weren’t talking about terrorists or Arab shipping companies.

They were talking about the mafia.

In a civil suit filed in July, prosecutors accused the International Longshoremen’s Association, the 65,000-member union that supplies labor to ports from Florida to Maine, of being a “vehicle for organized crime” on the waterfront.

Packed with tales of corruption, embezzling and extortion, the complaint accused union executives of being associates of the Genovese and Gambino crime families.

The U.S. attorney’s office asked a judge to seize control of the union, remove its officers and “put an end to the conspiracy among union officials, organized crime figures and others that has plagued some of the nation’s most important ports for decades.”

you gotta read the rest...obviously they want the union out.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10774148/

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HockeyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 05:02 PM
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1. I would rather have Cosa Nostra
than AlQeada. Besides, Unions give workers LIVING WAGES and benefits, not anything goes, WalMart SLAVE LABOR. Once again, this administration wants the elimination of the Middle Class. If you cannot be RICH, they you will be regulated to the ranks of POOR.

Daughter of a Longshoreman.
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 06:00 PM
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2. The timing would have been perfect
with the new owners coming in to the ports. The headlines would have read...."New port owners vow to rid East coast dock workers of mob ties". The gubmint would have helped in this undertaking. No doubt they would have also rid the East coast dock workers of Unions as well. That would have been a real feather in chimpy's hat, but now that ain't gonna happen. At least not the way bushco wanted.
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