Bush's Port Concerns Are With MAFIA?

[NativeTexan]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Justice Department lawyers warned eight months ago that a nefarious element had infiltrated important East Coast ports, but they weren't talking about terrorists or Arab shipping companies.

They were talking about the mafia.

In a civil suit filed in July, prosecutors accused the International Longshoremen's Association, the 65,000-member union that supplies labor to ports from Florida to Maine, of being a "vehicle for organized crime" on the waterfront.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/11/mob.ports.ap/index.html



Hell, they are just looking for another way to bust a union! And with the longshoremen unprotected, in comes more "Bush-friendly" governments to take over more of the country! TERRORISM is the greatest threat for our ports, and they wanted a government linked to terrorism to control our ports, but they are concerned about THE MAFIA!

Will this crap ever end with these people? No, it seems to just keep getting worse!

[thinkingwoman]

1. I have one question

when in the last 80-100 years have the mafia NOT been involved with the ports?

What a bunch of maroons. :eyes:

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. LOL, that was my first thought

n/t

[Richardo]

2. "I don't think anyone anticipated the Mafia on the waterfront."

Except in the movie "On the Waterfront".

And every other Mafia movie ever made.

[liberal N proud]

3. So now they are going to re-create an old enemy?

I would feel safer with the mafia any day vs. a minute with this regime.

[eShirl]

4. shocked, shocked to find gambling going on here (n/t)

[LSparkle]

5. Which "Family" do I fear more?

No contest -- it's that bunch of douches from Kennebunkport.

[NativeTexan]

6. Amen......by a LONG shot!!

[Ready4Change]

7. The Mafia is very pro-America.

True American values are very profitable for the Mafia. It won't stand for what these NeoCons are all about. Therefor, it is an enemy to this administration.

[A Brand New World]

8. It's just a mafia turf war. ** doesn't like another crime family

invading his territory.

[Connie_Corleone]

9. I thought the mafia didn't have that kind of power anymore.

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. The word Mafia is like the word cancer

it's a generic term thrown around to describe a number of different groups and people. Besides my Sicilian father always told me there was no such thing has the Mafia.

[mzmolly]

10. They want to take over illegal operations and skim the cash themselves.

That explains Bush's "veto" threat.

[rman]

11. nefarious elements in the govt are nototious for working with the mafia

see JFK and MLK.


JFK II: The Bush Connection
http://madcowpolitics.com/jfk2bb.wmv


"An Act Of State - The Execution of MLK"
by William Pepper,
(ISBN: 1859846955, Verso January 1, 2003)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1859846955/104-1291585-3918336?v=glance&n=283155
(Jury rules King assassination a conspiracy)
http://www.chomskytorrents.org/Torrents.php (search for "mlk")

[Frank Cannon]

14. Frankly, I think the Bush Crime Family and their cronies...

make the mafia look like the Shriners.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. what a feeble propaganda attempt

they're not going to dodge the bullet on the port deal this easily, though.

[Atman]

16. Takes a mafioso to know a mafioso!

Or is that MOFO?

[NativeTexan]

17. Hard Laugh Here...

.......on that one!! FUNNY!

[WinkyDink]

18. This is a NEWSFLASH for the Feds??!! "I coulda been a contender!"