Union Threatens Blog Against Using Union’s Name
Posted on October 21, 2009
-By Warner Todd Huston
In an interesting take on what is or isn’t legal, a union is threatening a critical blog for using the union’s name in its blog title. The American Federation of Teachers had its lawyers send a cease and desist letter to the operators of a blog called AFTexposed.com.
Now right off the top, this is an idiotic attempt to use legal threats on a blog. Imagine if this proscription became a legal precedent! Imagine a movie reviewer not being able to use a movie title in an article critical of the movie. Imagine a TV news station not being able to use the name of an organization it is investigating. Obviously this is more union thuggery on display, attempting to use the threat of law to stop people from criticizing them.
So, what happened? Here is Kyle Olson’s post on the matter at BigGovernment.com:
On Friday, October 9, we received a threatening letter from the AFT’s general counsel (which was carbon copied to AFT President Randi Weingarten), demanding we immediately stop using the acronym ‘AFT’ anywhere on the site, effectively neutering it, and turn over the domain registration to the union. [See the letter here.] How can we have a website completely dedicated to analyzing the AFT and its agenda if we aren’t allowed to use the acronym ‘AFT?’
What got these union thugs so upset? Well, for one thing AFTExposed.com used the union’s financial reports (called LM-2 filings) to report that the teachers union had donated $1.3 million dollars to ACORN.
Why would a teacher’s union be donating such a huge amount of money to the criminal ACORN organization? Why do teachers need to affiliate with a group known primarily for government shakedowns and voter fraud? Good question, so good that the AFT is a bit miffed that anyone would dare to report on their generous donation.
So, it’s off to the lawyers to try and bully someone into shutting up and violating their free political speech.
No wonder our schools are in such a mess.
(Cross posted at TheUnionLabelBlog.com.)
» Filed Under 1st Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Anti-free speech, Bill Of Rights, Delusional Dupes and DUmmies, Democrats, Education, Internet, Liberal World, News, Union Mafias/Thugs, Where's the ACLU, liberalism, transparency/accountability
Trackback URL
Comments
One Response to “Union Threatens Blog Against Using Union’s Name”
Leave a Reply
How did a communist organization; the ACLU
get to become a union? They are not a labor
union, they do not organize work for anyone,
and they do not support common work ethic’s
for anyone including pay or anything related
to the right to work. So, how did they get
to become a Union. This is and was a com-
munist organization comprised mostly of self
employed attorneys claiming to be defending
America’s rights for the little guy? What
does that have to do with Unions. They need
to cease to exist as a union, and say who they really are; Communists first, defense
attorneys second, destroyers of Democracy
third, and anti-American lastly. This makes
them elgible to be on all terrorist list be-
cause they promote illegals to enter the
country illegally. They promote anti-faith
for all religions, they promote to destroy
all 50 States Constitutions as well as the
Constitution of The United States of America.
This is not a Union, this is Communism and
they should be exposed for what they really
are: ACLU = Communism, not a Union of any-
kind. They need to cease to exist.