Unions are terrorist organizations

What do terrorists do?

In extreme cases they kill you or someone you love, and in mild cases, they make your life miserable. Just like swine flu, it can kill you in extreme cases, and in mild cases it can make you weak for a few days, lying in bed and feeling miserable. So, in short, terrorists terrorize your life.

Unions are very similar to terrorist organizations, but at the milder end of the spectrum. When the union workers of a manufacturing plant are on strike, they make the lives of their non-union colleagues miserable: their non-union colleagues are stopped at the picket line for15 minutes or so before being allowed to enter the premises and work.

When the unions are of public servants, the terrorist territories are much, much wider. For example, in April last year (2008), the sudden Toronto Transit (TTC) workers strike terrorized the innocent working people who worked hard to earn every penny to put food on the table for the family.

An even better example is what is happening right now here in Toronto. The City of Toronto employees started to strike on June 22, 2009. The strike, as of today, has lasted a month and is counting.

Because of the strike, garbage is not being picked up by city workers. The City of Toronto has opened up some dump sites for people to dump their garbage, so people have to put their garbage in their car and drive to a dump site. Yet, the strike workers will not miss any opportunity to terrorize; they set up picket line in front of the entrance to the dump sites, they delay people for 15 minutes or more, they do not allow people to drive to the dump area so people have to carry their garbage and walk to the dump area in the hot summer days.

To me, this is not much difference from a terrorist. Innocent people’s life is being terrorized and made miserable. “Hold on,” you may say, “terrorists usually kill innocent people!”

The strike workers may not be as violent as the kind of terrorists we get used to through the media, but apparently they start to cause death.

Last week, a 50-year-old man had a heart attack in the lobby of an apartment building in mid-town Toronto just after 11 p.m. Neighbors rushed to help. They called 911. A security guard of the building arrived within minutes and was told that an ambulance had been called. People were sent to different entrances to watch for paramedic people. The security guard called 911 again to say the man had no pulse. The paramedics finally arrived at about 11:45 p.m., some 45 minutes after the first 911 call. The man, unfortunately, died.

Arguably, he became the first casualty of the union strike, but I’m sure he won’t be the last one, as unions may plan to step up their terrorizing power in the future. Stay tuned for the next terrorist attack, and be prepared for being terrorized.