Re: Midrange Computing Closed

Regarding Sara Lee & Tobacco Industry milking their customers AND killing 
them, I was reminded by Politically Correct last nite about other outfits in 
that business.  There was a guy defending the Mafia, claiming it had been 
falsely sterotyped & most of the other guests could not get his point, 
because all believe the sterotype.  

I also remember several years ago when we had a union strike & they were 
firebombing places & cutting phone & power lines, and laying booby traps on 
the highways, running people off the road & shotgunning private residences, 
and the death threats were non-stop & the question came up WHAT IS THE 
MOTIVATION HERE ... if the company refuses to give in & the union wins, they 
are all out of a job.  Well the motivation is that the union will destroy a 
few companies & that will mean that other companies will give in to these 
tactics.

Interesting thing was that a group of members of the strikers were opposed to 
the violence & tried to get a court injunction against their own union to put 
a stop to it.  Eventually the union split up the strikers so that different 
shifts had different philosophies ... the warmongers & the peacenicks.  After 
a while, I thought that what the workers really needed was union # 2 to 
protect them from union # 1.

I think some industries are just smoother at this than others.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)


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