Tom
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
> >Back in the 80's after this incident happened, I had 3 or 4 letters
> >published cautioning my fellow union brothers and other union friends
> >not to kill anyone over a foreign car. In the letter I recounted how
> >Chin a Chinese American driving a Japanese car had been killed. I asked
> >rhetorically if it was worth killing someone over a foreign car. In my
> >opinion it was not!
>
> What are you saying? that if Chin spent a lot of money on Japanese consumer
> electronics as well as driving a Toyota, it may have been then been worth
> it to kill him.
>
> >By the same token at the same time foreign steel import penatration had
> >reached 50% or more in some product lines and steel production had
> >slumped to around 40% of or less of steelmaking capacity.
> >
> >Personally, I think the Steelworkers and other unionists at that time
> >showed true courage and self control in the face of terrible adversity.
>
> It takes a lot of self -control not to kill a Korean American, who is
> perhaps a fellow factory worker or engineer or grocer, if South Korea edges
> towards the circle of industrialised nations?!?! Lehmann, you are a sick
> fuck and an overrated golfer.
>
> Yours, Rakesh