Union members indicted for burning down Quaker church

Union members indicted for burning down Quaker church. “Ironworkers Local 401 [was charged] with allegedly participating in a conspiracy to commit criminal acts of extortion, arson, destruction of property, and assault in order to force construction contractors to hire union ironworkers,” the FBI said in a press release. But MSNBC thinks workers don’t want to join unions because of “racism.”

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  • We are talking about Philadelphia, with a very active thug labor element to it. Especially against the evil Post Brothers...

    http://www.phillybully.com/PhillyBully.com/Home.html

    ...they go right into the gutter with the thugs. The thugs would follow workers home & harass them & their families. The Post Brothers enlisted Russian gangsters to return the favor. They played the union's game & the unions did not like it.

  • Just ran across this on the FauxNews site,

    "Philadelphia union members indicted in '12 Quaker house arson"

    Which is it, a church or a house?

    • Quaker houses of Worhsip are called Houses, not churches. They are very plain and simple, little decoration and welcome all. TO bomb Quakers, the original pacifists is beyond reprehensible. As bad as bombing children's Sunday Schools in Alabama. Wait. Those were Democrats too, weren't they?

  • This happens all the time in Philadelphia and the unions enjoy the support of city council. The Philadelphia Police turn their backs on it and in some cases even endorse it. Philadelphia politicians and unions are a marriage made in heaven for them, a marriage made in hell for everyone else.

      • BTW, for anyone familiar with the area, the only reason Philadelphia exists, is to have a place to send the people that get kicked out of Camden NJ.

  • Today's HAPPY NEWS! Hopefully they'll get their rectums stretched in prison along with a new love interest. Unions, scum of civilized societies - bet they don't try to unionize their bunk buddies. I wonder how many will end up being cross-dressing girly-men instead of union thugs? This couldn't happen to a greater group of human beings...unless they were muslims too. LOL The only problem with that would be that muslims like taking it up the chocolate tunnel of love!

  • Typical union thugs, tactics imported directly from Chicago. Watch the Department of Injustice get them off due to some "technicality".

  • Notice the union thugs went after the Quakers. A pacifist church. They were men enough to take on a non religious group.

    As for racist, who is the racist in this story?