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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (708593)	4/11/2013 4:11:36 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1570856

Dear Concerned, How many more power grabs are on the way? As many as 1,400 National Labor Relations Board decisions are voidable thanks to Obama's flagrant disregard for the U.S. Constitution. But despite a federal court's ruling that Barack Obama's "recess" appointments to the Board were unconstitutional, the NLRB continues operating business as usual. At the request of National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, that same federal court ordered the Board last month to justify its continued operations. The Obama Labor Board's answer boiled down to little more than thumbing their noses at the judges and stating their intent to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. But even if the Court agrees to hear the appeal, a final decision could be a year away. "In that time this unconstitutional Board can issue hundreds, if not thousands, of decisions, orders and rules," Foundation staff attorneys argue in a reply brief filed on Friday. That's why Foundation attorneys asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to enforce its decision and make the Board CEASE and DESIST. The present case shows how much is at stake. You see, the Board is trying to gut the Supreme Court's Beck decision -- won by Foundation staff attorneys in 1988 -- that held that union bosses cannot force workers in non-Right to Work states to pay for union lobbying or political activities. If the Board gets away with it, Big Labor's forced-dues war chest would be literally flooded with millions of additional dollars from independent-minded workers to subsidize the union bosses' radical political agenda. And that's just ONE power grab. Others include: * "Micro-organizing," which allows union militants to target and organize small units of workers if they know most employees at a workplace don't want to join a union; * Ambush elections, which subject workers to quick-snap organizing where only Big Labor's side of the story is ever told, and expose workers to many of the abuses of Card Check instant organizing; * Expanded dues check offs, where the NLRB violated 60 years of precedent to force companies to continue automatic dues collection for Big Labor fat cats even after union contracts expire. 1,400 decisions and counting. The ongoing fight to make the Board cease and desist. A big showdown looming at the United States Supreme Court. The reply brief filed by Foundation staff attorneys on Friday is just the latest in a long, hard battle against Barack Obama's schemes to remake American labor law in flagrant defiance of the Constitution. Your generous support helped the Foundation be the first group to challenge these bogus "recess" appointments in court. Foundation attorneys made the arguments the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals relied on to rule the appointments were unconstitutional. And we're continuing to lead the way in this pivotal fight for our Constitution. I'm grateful for all you have done to help us this far, and I hope you'll make a tax-deductible contribution of $150, $100, $50, or whatever you can afford today to help prepare for the next phase. The Obama Labor Board wants to continue ramming through one decision after another to expand Big Labor's power over American workers and the economy. It's vital we stop them dead in their tracks and SHUT DOWN the illegitimate NLRB. But with multiple legal challenges and a likely showdown at the High Court, the legal bills are starting to add up. That's why I hope you'll make a tax-deductible contribution today. I can't stress enough how much is at stake in this knock-down, drag-out battle. President Obama defiantly bypassed Congress, the Constitution, and the American people -- and now his illegal "recess" appointees are defying a federal court's ruling. Please act at once. Sincerely, Mark Mix P.S. On Friday, April 5, National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys filed the latest brief in the case to make Barack Obama's illegitimate National Labor Relations Board cease and desist. With a final showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court looming, I hope you'll make your most generous tax-deductible contribution of $150, $100, $50, or whatever you can afford** to support the Foundation's efforts to defend the Constitution from Obama's outrageous power grab. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, is assisting thousands of employees in nearly 200 cases nationwide. The Foundation's mailing address is 8001 Braddock Road, Springfield, Virginia 22160. Its web address is www.nrtw.org/. To help the National Right to Work Foundation grow; please forward this to a friend. To view as a web page, please click this link: view online.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (708593)	4/11/2013 5:58:12 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570856

White guilt. Pure and simple. That's your wish because that would make the way you think acceptable. Poor pitiful Z........can't deal with his guilt. Its BS but facing that fact would require you do some introspection.........and you can't afford any kind of introspection. What you don't get like most Rs.........and its why Rs are going down the proverbial shithole.........is that there are a lot of people of all colors in this country who wants what's fair for everyone.....not just the elite. Stacking the deck like you all want is what fucks up the country and allows the elite to increase their stranglehold. For a long time Rs had most Americans fooled. That's changing. And as more Americans see you in the dark light you all deserve.......attitudes are changing.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (708593)	4/11/2013 6:16:02 PM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1570856

>The water bottle thing is stupid, I agree. But it's not the same logic because there is no common sense involved here. Yeah, there is a chance that someone might use a liquid to bring down a plane. It's not that much more than the chances of any vote being fraudulent (this seems like literally one in every million, or to be charitable, a hundred thousand votes). So the chances of that sort of voter fraud actually changing the results of any given election, given that you'd likely need several hundred in any one municipality to swing even a local election. It's looks unlikely that there are several hundred in a given election year in the entire country, so swinging a Presidential election is, if not totally impossible, nowhere near plausible. The chances are decidedly lower than someone improvising a liquid bomb on a crowded plane before anyone gets suspicious. So why do Republicans bring this up right before Presidential elections? Because it makes it harder for traditionally Democratic leaning constituencies to vote. People who can't afford cars or who live in cities and don't need them often don't have driver's licenses. I know that when to get a mortgage I had to produce a birth certificate, I couldn't find mine and had to go to Albany City Hall and pay $45 for a copy. But I was lucky that I lived in the city where I was born and that if I didn't, I could afford to get there. Not for me and you, but for tens of millions of people in this country, $45 (and potentially $45 plus travel expenses or shipping) is a pretty big deal, and if it comes down to food or voting, they're picking food. That $45 becomes, in essence, a tax. And that's illegal, because it's a poll tax. So, in order to skirt that, these laws have free options built in. But Republican officials do everything they can to make sure that people don't know about the free option. In Wisconsin, the governor (Scott Walker, not just a Republican, but the Koch Brothers' A1 Republican) told people in the state offices that they were not to tell any caller about the free option unless they were asked directly. One employee got fired for telling someone without being asked. This isn't a conspiracy, it's the way it works. >The thing about NYC frisking young black men is unfortunate, but crimes committed by young black men are not "exceedingly rare." Not by a long shot. It's racial profiling. And it just came out that it was instituted just to make young blacks scared. But how many crimes does it actually stop? Probably very few. Though, admittedly, probably more than cases of your sort of voter fraud. And heck, they don't frisk me, and if I'm on my way to a concert or something, I might have an open container, which is illegal here. But I'm white. Go me. >>Honestly, this is embarrassing. You don't see the exact mirrors to voting restrictions during Jim Crow? >White guilt. Pure and simple. Uh, no. This stuff's got an illustrious history. Read up on Operation Eagle Eye, poll taxes, the Grandfather Clause, literacy tests... there's a straight line. You can even trace the characters from then to now. As I said, many of those things weren't all that long ago. -Z