Oy Vey
posted at 2:44 pm on April 29, 2011 by Mike Antonucci
Having found that their traditional political might was insufficient to smite the Amalekites in the Wisconsin capitol, labor unions are turning to the only entity even more powerful and vengeful – the God of the Old Testament:
How was the special seventh-night Seder at the University of Wisconsin’s Hillel Foundation different from all other Seders?
Well to start with, the plague of boils became exploding landfills and destroyed wetlands defacing the earth. The plague of locusts, featuring insects traveling in a swarm? The symbol of a state public transportation system pulverized.
Traditionalists might scoff at such adaptations of the Passover meal. But some 30 battle-hardened labor activists and members of the Jewish community took to the changes without blinking as they gathered near ground zero of labor’s battle against government efforts to curb collective bargaining rights.
At the “Labor Seder” held on April 25, the traditional text was rewritten to reflect the past three months of protests against the efforts of Republican Governor Scott Walker to dilute collective bargaining rights for public employees.
Eli Fishman, a representative of the Jewish Labor Committee in Chicago, said, “There are similar issues of oppression between workers today and the Israelites in Egypt.”
Right. Moses led the Hebrews into the desert because Pharaoh wouldn’t let them collectively bargain pension levels and health care providers.
If you thought the Madison protests were bad, wait until the plague of lice hits.
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Only those who had not actually experienced oppression would make such a ridiculously false comparison. Somehow I get the impression that Mr. Fishman’s ties to his Labor roots are rather stronger than his ties to his Jewish roots.
jwolf on April 29, 2011 at 3:22 PM
This so reminds me of hilarious videos from a few years back in something purporting to be a Catholic service with drums and dancing dragons and crap for their hippie boomer audience. Fail.
Sekhmet on April 29, 2011 at 3:44 PM
These socialists who keep using the Bible and God to make their points will rue the day. God will judge the quick and the dead on judgment day. There is a hell and HE gets to decide who goes there.
Kissmygrits on April 29, 2011 at 4:02 PM
Hey. Wasn’t Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Jewish?
BigAlSouth on April 29, 2011 at 4:12 PM
*sigh*
We’re now at a point where being forced to pay a pittance towards your pension and health care is “oppression”.
If that’s oppression, what am I experiencing, given that I pay more for my health care, and I don’t even have a pension to pay into?
MadisonConservative on April 29, 2011 at 5:38 PM
Actually that should be “weren’t”, and yes they were. So was the prosecutor who got them convicted, and the judge who sat on the case. Yes, there have been plenty of Jewish communists. On the other hand, there have been more than a few Jewish capitalists, too.
Of course, had it not been for a large number of Jewish physicists like Teller, Oppenheimer, and Feynman who worked on the Manhattan Project and Jewish theoretical physicists like Einstein and Neils Bohr, there never would have been any atomic secrets for the Rosenbergs to give to the Russians.
rokemronnie on April 30, 2011 at 12:23 AM
Apparently Mr. Fishman has absolutely NO concept of what of “slavery” actually is.
9 …the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, 10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they might believe what is false, 12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 (NASB) (emphasis added)
2,000 years ago Paul explained a great deal about our contemporary culture.
oldleprechaun on April 30, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Cradle to grave entitlements are now “similar” to slavery?
uknowmorethanme on May 1, 2011 at 10:40 AM