What this? A trade union planning the overthrow of our economic system and the Sovietization of America? Who would have seen this coming?

The danger here is that Trumpka represents tens of thousands of thugs, I mean workers, who he has proven will violently take to the streets at his direction. At some point that means a new Red Army might be marching on your town to enforce the will of the “workers” which is basically the will of our global Marxist enemies.

I predict that when food becomes scarce and and the economy hits bottom much of the civil unrest will be of the organized kind and it will be led by Trumpka and people like him. Are you ready to defend your property from these thugs?

From the AFL-CIO NOW Blog:

With the economy continuing to stagger and job creation  not moving quickly, “working people are justifiably angry and frustrated” as they approach the Nov. 2 elections, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

Trumka and Working America Executive Director Karen Nussbaum, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, Eric Alterman, journalist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and moderator Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation, led a panel discussion—Which Way for the Working Class? Elections 2010 and Beyond—Friday afternoon in New York City.

More than 400 people attended the event at the Great Hall at Cooper Union.

Trumka said it is vital to channel working-class anger away from Fox News and Tea Party extremists who are delivering

a cynical, deeply dishonest and incoherent message—that big government is somehow to blame for the current crisis that the budget deficit will eat our children, and that illegal immigrants took all the good jobs.

[…]

In the short term, said Trumka, the labor movement has to “recapture the moment and take control of the national conversation.” Building for the future,

we need to fundamentally restructure our economy and re-establish popular control over the private corporations which have distorted our economy and hijacked our government.  That’s a long-term job, but one we should start now.

Sounds like Trumpka is trying to use the economic collapse to build an empire with him at the wheel, and populated with communists angry at the world. Dangerous and reason number one you need to gather intel on which unions are powerful in your area, who the players are and what precautions you’ll need to take to protect your family and loved one once their pogroms start.

Since unions activists tend to be far left many will be armed with makeshift weapons, but that doesn’t mean they won’t have a stockpile of Venezuelan AKs courtesy of their man Chavez hidden in one of their warehouses. But recent history proves most union assaults are beatings and large crowds intimidating people. Plan for hardening your house against crowds. Keep extra wood around to board up windows and door jams to keep people from kicking their way in. Also keep plenty of fire extinguishers around the house and in your car. Tundra mini-extinguishers are particularly easy to store in every room but should not be used as your primary extinguisher.

Leather motorcycle jackets have provided urban goers (including myself for many years) with modest protection from assaults for decades and now often come with removable “armor” plates that may take the sting out of a union goons cudgel. Hot but when that box cutter attack doesn’t open you up you’ll appreciate it. There are fabric jackets of similar design which are lighter and cheaper, and even a denim jacket lined with a thin layer of kevlar that will give (very) minor flame and slash resistance.

But your best defense is to figure out where these neo-reds are going to be, what their flash point is and be bugged in when they take to the streets.

Actually this is a surprise since even during the Bush administration “Peace” groups were basically allowed to fund and supply our enemies at will. Obama’s DOJ cracking down on these traitors is the first thing he’s done I can get behind. I can’t wait until Code Pink is rounded up:

The FBI raided the Minneapolis homes of five antiwar activists, including three leaders of the Twin Cities peace movement, Friday morning as part of what it called a probe of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.”

The Minneapolis office of an antiwar organization was also raided, protest leaders said. No one was arrested in any of the raids.

FBI spokesman Steve Warfield said the searches were conducted at about 7 a.m. Lawyers said the agents seized computers, cell phones and documents in the protesters’ homes.

The federal search warrants in Minneapolis were related to an ongoing Joint Terrorism Task Force, Warfield said. He offered no details.

Protest leaders said the raids surprised them. Mick Kelly, whose home was searched, played a central role in the 2008 demonstrations at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. Asked if he was involved in illegal activities, he replied, “Absolutely not.”

Ted Dooley, Kelly’s attorney, called the raids “a probe into the political beliefs of American citizens and any organization anywhere that opposes the American imperial design.” He said the warrants cited a federal law making it a violation to provide or conspire to provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations.

That last paragraph is the important one. For years lefties have been traveling abroad and giving money they raise here to terror groups who use that money against our allies. In some cases they even scam other peaceniks to get the money, like Cindy Sheehan did with the Crawford Peace House.

The F.B.I. has stated that they are looking into other groups across the country. The Freedom Road Socialist Organization is one of the groups the raids targeted. As you can see at the link, they were attempting to gin up class and race war in America.

Many will claim this is a sign of “martial law” coming but in reality this is a long time coming. But the timing is strange. Marxist groups are waiting for a collapse of our system to “make their move” so to speak, so a leftist government’s crackdown on these groups suggests that they are worried that civil unrest is just around the corner and they’re trying to neutralize key players in the red revolution that will follow.