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He introduced himself as Mr. Fuck You Cocksucker, but his real name is Ronald Patrick Stavas, a 45-year-old member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in Washington.
Last week, Stavas confronted a news crew who had popped up at the union hall to get their side of a story of an ongoing conflict in which more than 400 union members stormed a grain terminal the prior day, vandalizing, terrorizing and further polarizing their efforts to win the public's support.
But because of his profane and threatening attitude towards the KGW reporters, the video went viral.
And someone recognized him as one of the union members who had stormed the terminal grain.
According to The Daily News of Longview, Washington:
Ronald Patrick Stavas, 45, of Kelso was arrested Monday night on suspicion of first-degree burglary, second-degree assault, intimidating a witness and sabotage, according to the sheriff's office. His bail was set at $50,000.
Stavas was identified as one of the hundreds of people who stormed the EGT terminal about 4:30 a.m. Sept. 8 and damaged a security shack, assaulted guards and spilled corn product from a mile-long train parked inside the terminal, according to the sheriff's office.
"The things that make this unusual, of course, is the large number of people, and the extent of the criminal activity. I want to emphasize that this not anti-union, pro-EGT. This is not about an entity. This about people that are committing criminal acts," Nelson said.
Stavas was identified by a witness at the terminal who later saw a video of him confronting a television news crew outside the longshore union hall on 14th Avenue in Longview, according to Nelson. In the video, which has gone viral online, a man is seen swearing profusely and threatening a Portland news crew in the parking lot of the union hall.
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"The things that make this unusual, of course, is the large number of people, and the extent of the criminal activity."
"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression." the grapes of wrath
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That was then, this is now. Unions have to go, they're nothing but parasites on the asshole of the economy, and drive jobs overseas. I personally saw them destroy the factory jobs in my hometown with their outrageous demands. Then by the time they realized that the company wasn't playing, and they really would close up and leave, it was too late to make deals and concessions.
BRAVO! You union turds! Keep up the thuglife criminal behavior, and you'll ALL get to retire on the governments dime anyway. It will be in a Medium-Maximum security prison, but it will be on the tax payers money, so you should feel right at home.
So, by your estimate, Germany, with some of the strongest unions in the world, should have a completely decimated economy, yes?
decimated means, literally, reduced by 10%.
If you're going to make analogies, at least use the right words.
Yes, you are right. Devastated might have been a better word to use.
The German system is a bit different and works on the basis of consensus and co-operation; the law there, I'm pretty sure I'm correct in saying, requires company owners to include union reps on the board; companies are run jointly by unions and management. It's pretty much the antithesis of the American approach which is too often confrontational.
Mike
Yep. I think that confrontational approach is too often the problem. As a people, we are confrontational. Hell, at least half of the stories on this site are about confrontations.
I think scott must be lost. The blaze and the bigs are way over to the right of the internet.
I won't stoop to your level and call you an idiot, but I'm sure you know I'm thinking it.
I love it when a "Cocksucker" union thug gets slammed! They need to round them ALL up, from the President to the newest card holder and charge them under the RICO statutes. That would keep them busy and out of peoples hair for awhile...10-20 years if we're lucky! Then if any of their "Brothers" raise a fuss, they can join them in prison. They need to realize that they are ONLY 10%-12% of the population, and they've outlived their usefulness. They need to just die with dignity and make the union staff get real jobs. Not to mention they need to join the real world that the other 90% of Americans seem to be able to survive in. What's wrong with these people? Why do they think they "deserve" anything? They "deserve" the same thing we all do, and that is the chance to make something of ourselves by working hard, and education. They don't deserve to have anything handed to them. It's time for them to take responsibility, and work like the rest of us. I hope Mr. Cocksucker enjoys his stay at the county jail, but it's just more of our tax money he's sucking up...Fuckin' union leech's!
But seriously though, tell us how you really feel.
Is there some sort of newsletter or 'screedsheet', if you will, that I can subscribe to?
Sorry Rich, while I'm not in any way pro corporate(despise the whole "corporate personhood" concept), if you watch that video that guy was a complete douche bag and invokes no sympathy whatsoever. He's nothing but a Joe Haadballz asshole who'd rather show everyone how tough he is than make a reasonable statement to the reporter about the union's grievances.
Agreed. This guy is a douchebag. So, for that matter, are the guys who joined him in their sabotage.
I don't need to watch the video he is irrelevant. What is relevant is that we will be seeing much more of this. Like it or not.
Well, I think I can say with about 99% certainty that he is my cousins grandson! They've lived in Longview for about 50 years I believe and they're Longshoresmen. Well, he won't be make'n anybody in the family proud, that's for sure.
You ought to forward the video link to the grandparent to let them know how their descendant is upholding the family name. Then duck as the sparks fly...
Karma's a bitch.
Mike
Mr. Fuck You Cocksucker appears to be insane and probably deserves to be locked up.
But here is a video of a Longshoremen talking rationally about the struggle against the grain terminal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcS2_fOGjOY&feature=player_embedded
"Mr. Fuck You Cocksucker".. I wonder if he'll introduce himself with that name when he's in prison. He'll quickly find out that he's not so tough.
I'm glad to see a story where media and law enforcement were able to work together. We don't hear stories like this often anymore. It's usually vise versa.
He needs to seize that moniker and it will turn into a meme. Someone can then shop a frame into a demotivational poster with the double bird or the reaching hand for the camera.
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