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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Has nothing do with my values.  I didn't condone or condemn, 'just stated the 
obvious.  The man shuttered the doors because the company had no money.  
Maybe of they do a sit-in in their local Democrat congressman's office, but 
wait ..... he was coming to join them, maybe to sit down too?  

The company ran flat out of money, the doors are shut.  If the workers are 
owed money, I could care less if they 'sit', 'stand', or whatever; But,  if 
the company has no money, the company can not pay them .  The smart think to 
do, if the men choose to be non-violent, is to make their claims in court.

Do you ever remember a 'sit-in", (a specific one) getting anyone money, ever, 
from a bankrupt, 'closed' business.  As I said 'wasting their time' was all I 
could see them doing.  They did 'rollo over' when they sat down ............

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--- On Sat, 12/6/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Economic 'sit - in'
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 8:52 PM
> On Dec 6, 2008, at 1:03 PM, bob ford wrote:
> 
> > I really don't know what to make of this except I
> think these people are wasting their time.  Evidently this
> is the first 'sit-in' of a closing business, since
> the 1930s, according to this article
> 
> If individuals do not stand up, or in this case, sit-in for
> their rights, who will do it for them?
> 
> A waste of time? Would you have them just roll over and
> take it? Is that really your value?