From the Washington Times: Anti-Wal-Mart
agitprop
Inside a South Florida Wal-Mart last Thursday, union-sponsored protesters handed
out empty, gift-wrapped boxes to children and made them cry, according to multiple
witnesses — and it appears that the arrests of two of the protesters may have been
part of a grand strategy designed by Big Labor-backed WakeUpWalMart.com.Yet despite internal WakeUpWalMart.com communication — obtained exclusively by
this columnist — indicating that the union-funded front instructed its protesters
to test police patience, the organization is now playing the race card since the two
protesters arrested (out of 15 total) are both black.
If at first you don’t succeed, play the race card. How typical!
WakeUpWalMart.com, for its part, stands by the claims of its protesters that no
boxes were given to children, but no one denies that empty, gift-wrapped boxes were
brought inside the store. The symbolism, it seems, is fairly obvious: Wal-Mart’s promises
on health care are, well, empty. Except to a kid. To a small child, such a stunt is
just mean.Not only do Wal-Mart employees interviewed for this column seem credible, but
internal WakeUpWalMart.com communication obtained exclusively by this columnist indicates
that both giving “gifts” to children and tempting arrest might have been intentional.In an internal WakeUpWalMart.com PowerPoint presentation that lays out a 10-part
timeline for attacking the retailer from late October through the end of the year,
the ninth step — which is supposed to take place between Dec. 14 and Dec. 19 — calls
for activists to place “Santa Claus in front of WMT stores with children asking for
health care and signs.” Beneath that, though, it reads: “they can’t arrest Santa –
and if they do, make sure the press is there.”
Organized protests, paid for by unions to give the impression that Wal-Mart is bad.
What is bad here are unions using front groups like WakeUpWalMart.com to try and strong-arm
Wal-Mart into doing business their way. This all sounds like tactics organized crime
outfits would use to extort businesses into paying protection money.
I hope these guys eventually get whats coming to them and I am not talking about
anything good either.