Under Obama, the Socialist Progressives have turned our nation into a war zone. Here is a perfect example:

August 1, 2013 5:00 am

A judge ordered one of Chicago’s most politically powerful labor unions to suspend picketing against 16 funeral homes last week after receiving reports that striking Teamsters had, among other things, disturbed a child’s funeral.

SCI Illinois Services, Inc., one of the nation’s largest funeral home chains, asked a district court to intervene after striking funeral directors and drivers with Teamsters Local 727 allegedly harassed grieving families.

“We are grateful that the court agreed to issue this temporary restraining order, and we are hopeful that it will help protect grieving families who are experiencing the most difficult times of their lives,” Larry Michael, managing director for SCI Illinois Services, Inc., said in a release. “While we recognize and respect the Teamsters’ right to lawfully picket, we have been shocked and saddened by their attempts to make grieving families the target of the cruel and outrageous attacks.”  Read the full story at the Beacon.

Notes:  Here we have, yet,  another example of the  violent tendencies embedded in the Progressive Left.  The larger unions in this country all have radical socialist backgrounds and have always stood firm for the advancement of their specific needs to the  detriment of the larger population,  whether in cities such as Chicago,  states such as California or Illinois,  or,  on a national level  (i.e. unions protecting federal workers).  More than this,  these large,  private sector labor unions all have  long histories of mob rule, violence and sheer intimidation.   Understand that in the present fiscal crisis,  unions such as the Teamsters have refused to “pay their fair share” and continue to demand increases in wages and benefits as if there was no crisis.  Such is the case in this Chicago circumstance.  This strike was called after the union turned down a 9% pay increase which is between $400 and $700 per month,  in most individual cases.  Obama “grew up” in this political environment and his methodology as a community organizer was one that included boycotts,  negative press releases,  and intimidation.  It is the Chicago way. 

Add to the violent types in the Democrat controlled unions,  the Congressional Black Caucus, race baiters such as the feckless Al Sharpton,  anarchists such as “Occupy,”  and the very violent environmental groups, and you have a rather large contingency,  pron to violence and expressed hate.  Obama has empowered and enabled this violent race industry,  and we all just have to wait for three years until leadership at the top changes.