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    The SCOTUS is too often the tool of money and power. The idea they are fair arbitrators of anything at all is kinda funny. Read their history and wake up.

    "With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed" Clarence Darrow

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    'Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted' Ian Millhiser

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    All history is a history of class struggles, and without strong trades unions you get a dictatorship by the rich - it's as simple as that, as we see swiftly being demonstrated in both the USA and the UK. The main problem, always, is for the membership to see that the Union represents them, otherwise it is simply a copy of the class-dictatorship they have to live in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Penderyn View Post
    All history is a history of class struggles,
    To Penderyn: No it is not.

    History has always been a struggle between individual liberties and oppressive government. Every other struggle is subordinate. In fact, the government created by the Founders is the first time in history the struggle is being fought openly.

    Here are the main foes of limited government. Note that do-gooders and democracy’s parasites have been at it the longest:

    1. Do-gooders.

    2. The Democracy Movement.

    3. Economic equality.

    More recently and just as poisonous:

    4. Race hustlers.

    5. The UNIC (United Nations/International Community.)

    6. International law.

    7. Open-borders.

    There are too many minor struggles to list, but the ancient conflict is obvious.
    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    To Penderyn: No it is not.

    History has always been a struggle between individual liberties and oppressive government. Every other struggle is subordinate. In fact, the government created by the Founders is the first time in history the struggle is being fought openly.

    Here are the main foes of limited government. Note that do-gooders and democracy’s parasites have been at it the longest:

    1. Do-gooders.

    2. The Democracy Movement.

    3. Economic equality.

    More recently and just as poisonous:

    4. Race hustlers.

    5. The UNIC (United Nations/International Community.)

    6. International law.

    7. Open-borders.

    There are too many minor struggles to list, but the ancient conflict is obvious.

    You can see it that way, if it keeps you happy, but it leaves out huge periods of time, and most of the movements you mention are means either to divide the majority or to distract its atterntion from the constant reality of exploitation. 'Do-gooding' is normally just a sign, at absolute best, of a guilty conscience in the boss-class: usually it is just a cover for real class struggles.

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    UPDATE



    Slowly but surely decisions like this are erasing Socialism's/Communism's grip on our laws:


    Right-to-work simply means that a union cannot get a worker fired for not paying the union. A right-to-work law gives workers the freedom to support a union if they are doing a good job, and refrain from supporting a union if they wish.


    West Virginia Supreme Court Decision Could Lead to National Right to Work
    by F. Vincent Vernuccio
    June 3, 2020, 12:11 AM

    https://spectator.org/west-virginia-...right-to-work/

    NOTE: A labor union’s permission to work is a pillar holding up the Communist revolution taking place in our cities. Put it in perspective by examining how elected Democrats are preventing Americans from working under the guise of stopping COVID-19 from spreading.
    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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