On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:41:46 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
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When I engaged in civil disobedience and broke certain laws, I anticipated
I would be arrested and subject to certain penalties for trying to end
segregation and suchlike. When Bush breaks the laws he doesn't like, he
knows that his Justice Department and his Supreme Court will for the most
part rubberstamp what he does, and give him a hall pass.

How's that for morality?


This whole discussion just became a waste of time.

Let's drop it.

Not yet. I remember at the time not having much sympathy for PATCO,
because it was partly a stickup for money, and they could have played
it smarter with Ronnie, a known anti-union wacko.
At the time I had been laid off from my first IT job. 1982.
We had the highest unemployment since the Great Depression.
In 1983, after working some time as a helper for plumber, I went to
work running packaging machines, because the plumbing work was spotty
after I demurred from toking up with my boss.
I had formerly been a packaging machine mechanic. Started the new
operator job at 5.50 an hour, about what I had been making 15 years
prior. To the point. I daily ate lunch with a QC inspector making
the same as me - 5.50 - who had 10 years experience as an ATC before
Ronnie fired him. He had 3 kids and was about to lose his house.
He had stuck with his union leadership, as many did.
He still had some hope to get his ATC job back, but when I left to go
back into IT he was still there.
Ronnie never would let any of these guys be rehired, baldly showing a
mean streak and a disconnect from the "common man."
At the same time him and Nancy were attending ostentatiously lavish
balls.
Although I never hated Ronnie, I don't have much affection for him
either. Nowadays, I really miss Dick Nixon.

--Vic