Union Thugs Energized by Occupy Wall Street: Film at Eleven!

At New York Times, "Occupy Movement Inspires Unions to Embrace Bold Tactics":

Organized labor’s early flirtation with Occupy Wall Street is starting to get serious.

Union leaders, who were initially cautious in embracing the Occupy movement, have in recent weeks showered the protesters with help — tents, air mattresses, propane heaters and tons of food. The protesters, for their part, have joined in union marches and picket lines across the nation. About 100 protesters from Occupy Wall Street are expected to join a Teamsters picket line at the Sotheby’s auction house in Manhattan on Wednesday night to back the union in a bitter contract fight.

Labor unions, marveling at how the protesters have fired up the public on traditional labor issues like income inequality, are also starting to embrace some of the bold tactics and social media skills of the Occupy movement.

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This whole thing --- the occupy movement and the epic enabling by the Democrat-Media-Complex --- is shaping up as the Big Lie of 2011. Immediately I'm reminded of Walter Russell Mead, "Occupy Blue Wall Street?" (Read it!) No surprise, but the news of sexual assaults, thug beatings, attacks on restaurant owners and street vendors, and multiple deaths don't seem to be dampening the media's #OWS enthusiasm one bit. Another death was reported last night. See the New Orleans Times-Picayune, "Man found dead in Occupy New Orleans encampment."

The deceased had been dead for two days. Hello!

Did anyone die at a tea party? I don't think so, but if someone had it would have been the biggest story since the death of George Tiller. I can see the headlines: "Survival of the Fittest: Tea Partiers Leave Protesters to Die." Or, "Ayn Rand Shrugs."