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RUSH: Jerry in Long Beach<\/a>, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir, welcome to the program.<\/line>CALLER: Uh, Rush, I\u2019m a proud member of the longshoremen\u2019s union.<\/line>RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/line>CALLER: I don\u2019t appreciate you attacking our union, try to make this part of this debate. Are you telling us that Republicans don\u2019t care about our jobs? Are you telling us that Republicans want to break our union?<\/line>RUSH: No.<\/line>CALLER: Is that what this deal was about?<\/line>RUSH: No! No.<\/line>CALLER: Or is this about — Or is this about President —<\/line>RUSH: There you go again! There you go stereotyping! There you go stereotyping. <\/line>CALLER: Is he afraid he\u2019s not going to get his commission?<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m telling you that from everything I know, nothing\u2019s going to change<\/emphasize>. I have said this for the past two days.<\/line>CALLER: So why are you attacking my union?<\/line> RUSH: I\u2019m not “attacking your union”! I\u2019m simply pointing out who your union donates to and explaining why Schumer and Hillary and these other Democrats are speaking out in opposition to the deal. While they\u2019re telling us it\u2019s about national security, it\u2019s not, they\u2019re telling it because they\u2019re trying to loyal to you. You\u2019re the ones that —<\/line>CALLER: What you\u2019re not saying is [sic] that this is a violation of the Trading with Enemies Act. You couple this with the violation of the Espionage Act, a violation of the Foreign Intelligence —<\/line>RUSH: It\u2019s none of that.<\/line>CALLER: — Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, you\u2019ve got this president committing three felonies, sir!<\/line>RUSH: It\u2019s none of that!<\/line>CALLER: He\u2019s a criminal. <\/line>RUSH: (laughing)<\/line>CALLER: And what you\u2019re doing is criminal — and don\u2019t you attack my union!<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I didn\u2019t <\/emphasize>attack your union, but I\u2019m about to start —<\/line>CALLER: Well, let\u2019s get it on, buddy.<\/line>RUSH: — because you are so dead wrong about this. You Democrats, all it takes, give you one little shred of rope, and you\u2019ve got a noose around your neck inside of 30 seconds! This is not <\/emphasize>trading with the enemies. Your union was not “attacked.” Your union is not going to be put out of business. Where did you go to the idea that Bush wants the deal to go through to put the longshoreman out of business is beyond me. That\u2019s paranoia. That\u2019s stereotypical. You are profiling. You are profiling Republicans — and you\u2019re doing all with that absolutely zero <\/emphasize>knowledge. Trading with the Enemy Act! Three felonies! <\/line>You wish. <\/emphasize>(sigh)<\/line>If these are felonies, give me one.<\/emphasize><\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>If you missed the previous — well, the last call in the previous hour, a man identifying himself as a proud member of the longshoremen union in Long Beach, a man named Jerry, called and said, don\u2019t you threaten my union, or don\u2019t you criticize my union. Well, what he was referring to is that I continue to dig deep on the port deal, and I have learned that much of the opposition to the port deal — from the likes of Senator Schumer and Senator Clinton, Senator Lautenberg, Senator Menendez, Senator Boxer and others — may not be what it seems. They\u2019re hiding, I think, under the cloak of being concerned about national security, but when you look at it what really is happening here is that they are all huge <\/emphasize>recipients of large contributions from the longshoremen\u2019s union, which, I mean, that\u2019s not a surprise to anybody. Organized labor supports the Democratic Party en rote. They just don\u2019t even think about it. It\u2019s a reflex action — and it\u2019s a little hypocrite because we already have all kinds of business deals and arrangements with the United Arab Emirates and the Clinton administration way back when sold them 60 F-16s. <\/line>We\u2019ve allowed them to own property in this country and so forth. But when the longshoremen union member threatened me, it jogged my fertile memory, ladies and gentlemen. I recalled in recent years — I thought it was two or three years ago, turns out it was, well, a little over three, 2002 — there was a strike by the Long Beach longshoreman over the modernization of procedures cataloging and inventorying cargo that was on ships and was off-loaded. You\u2019ll remember this. It was the bar code scanning controversy. They wanted to put bar code scanning on all of the incoming cargo to help find out where it is, rather than send off a bunch of human beings to try to find it. <\/line>“Let\u2019s find out exactly where it is; let\u2019s computerize it,” and the longshoremen fought this. This is nothing new. Unions have been fighting advanced technology since there has been advanced technology. I mean, they\u2019re afraid it will affect their jobs — and they went on strike right around Christmastime in this year in order to make their case, and they had ships that couldn\u2019t get into port because the ships that were in port wouldn\u2019t be off-loaded, and those ships couldn\u2019t be reloaded and sent back out. You had a fleet of cargo ships out in the Pacific waiting to get in, and it got so bad that people were demanding that President Bush get involved. This was Christmas, <\/emphasize>after all. <\/line>The longshoremen — let me read to you, this is from a little website here, Slate.com — and it\u2019s titled, “Short Port Report<\/a>,” and I\u2019ll just read you an excerpt: “…and organized workers have resisted new technology since the 1800s,” and that\u2019s exactly <\/emphasize>what the longshoremen are doing now. “The port operators want to start using bar code scanners to speed cargo through terminals. More likely than not those operators will want to engage outside contractors to run the new scanners, and those contractors will employ nonunion labor. It\u2019s easy to sympathize with workers whose jobs are displaced technology. EZ Pass has meant the elimination of many decent paying jobs for toll booth clerks,” and, of course, we used to have a buggy whip industry and a buggy industry. But with the car, out went the buggy and the buggy whip industry. “Union members in question here get paid more like accountants than day laborers. According to Pacific Maritime Association, the average annual salaries at the ports for longshore workers is $82,895 a year for class A workers, $118,444 for clerks, and $157,352 a year for foremen.” <\/line>This piece published, by the way, Wednesday, October 2002. “The six-figure clerks who chart the inflow and outflow of the trucks in the containers frequently by hand say they\u2019ll be happy to use these new gizmos, but only if the bar code jobs are unionized,” and that\u2019s what the fight was over,” and I am sure that that\u2019s what the concern is here. You say, “What\u2019s this God to do with the UAE port deal, Rush? Stick to the issues!” I\u2019m getting there, folks, stick with me. Realize I never get lost in this program. I never lose my train of thought. I never forget what I\u2019m going to say. I always stay on track. <\/line>There is no doubt that the concern in these six ports is — that longshoremen have –0 is exactly over the same thing. We have, I shared with you a story today from the New York Sun about how the United Arab Emirates port company is modernizing and streamlining all of its ports around the world. I told you that the number two — I say number one port operator — in the world is owned out of Hong Kong, and they don\u2019t want to buy the six ports in question here because they don\u2019t want to deal with the union regulations. I doubt that anything is going to change, and I\u2019ve been saying that all week. But I can understand their fear that things might change, and so that\u2019s why they\u2019re donating heavily all these years to protect their jobs. That\u2019s what the union people do. <\/line>So we\u2019re faced with the age-old problem of how do we modernize and advance technologically without putting a whole bunch of people out of work. And so there has to be obviously thought attached to all of this. What always happens, I mean I hate to tell you something, but during the NAFTA debate, you know, all we heard about was the Singer sewing machine plant up in New Hampshire, you know, and how people would be put out of jobs. But, you know, economics is what it is — and the global market is what it is. It can\u2019t go back with a wall around the country and pretend that this global economy, interlinked economic dependence is not happening. <\/line> You can\u2019t turn back the hands of time on things like this. I actually think this. I was telling my staff here during the break, “What I fully expect to happen is if the UAE deal does go through, after all of this tsunami and all the bad PR, the UAE people are going to bend over backwards <\/emphasize>to show they have no intention of causing anybody <\/emphasize>here any <\/emphasize>harm, and they\u2019ll probably hire more longshoremen and they\u2019ll say, ‘Just sit on the dock. You\u2019re on permanent break, and we\u2019re going to pay you whatever you get paid for it. We\u2019re going to increase the number of longshoremen,\u2019 and they\u2019ll do this for a while just as a PR issue.” I know some of you are saying, “What\u2019s the difference between a permanent break and a regular job?” Don\u2019t make that joke, folks.<\/line><\/p>\n

I have been threatened by these longshoreman people now, and we\u2019re not going to make jokes about them. I\u2019ve already had to beef up security. You start telling jokes about them, I\u2019m going to be in even further peril. But there\u2019s no question that at some point these ports are going to have to be modernized. I mean, it\u2019s just the way of the world! There\u2019s going to be new technology. There\u2019s going to be faster ways of getting port in and out of the docks, off-loaded and on-loaded. It\u2019s going to happen, and there will be steps taken to as this modernization takes place to incorporate everybody involved. Found another longshoremen story for you. This is from the Capital News Service. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s from Friday, March 12th of 2004. ‘Longshoremen worry that port security proposals could hit them hardest.\u2019 I\u2019m just going to read to you what the story says. ‘Men with criminal past the in need of a job have long turned to the one industry here that would take them,\u2019 this is from Baltimore, ‘the waterfront.\u2019 Well, don\u2019t blame me. I\u2019m not the one who said yesterday, ‘Let the Mafia have this.\u2019 Somebody said, ‘Turn this back over to the Mafia,\u2019 and Snerdley agreed that it would be better than the UAE. That\u2019s what you said yesterday. The guy who wrote this is named Joe Eaton, E-a-t-o-n, and that lead story is his, for those of you who are members of the longshoremen\u2019s union. <\/p>\n

‘Many of the same longshoremen who found a solid paycheck at the port of Baltimore worry that could change under a 2002 law that aims to protect American ports from terrorism. The law requires criminal background checks for longshoremen and other dock workers who could lose their jobs if they have a conviction in their past. The Department of Homeland Security is still developing rules for the checks and could not say when they might take effect but any time is too soon for longshoremen here. ‘The waterfront saved a lot of people, man, I mean a lot,\u2019 said Anthony White, 36, a second-generation longshoremen who\u2019s been at the port of Baltimore for five years. White conceded he has a felony conviction for a crime he refused to talk about that\u2019s 17 years old. He said he knows several other longshoremen with records. He worries about their families. He questions how they\u2019ll pay their bills. ‘You gotta get your life together, man. Why do they want to take that away from you? You have a car payment, you have a house payment, what are you supposed to do?” <\/p>\n

Well, obviously we need income insurance. Just like we have health insurance, income insurance. Speaking of that, I can\u2019t wait to get to this story in the Wall Street Journal about health care costs and how fast they\u2019re rising. It might be cheaper to just buy every employee a house than give them health care. That\u2019s how out of control it\u2019s gotten. I will have the details coming up for you. The bottom line here in this Baltimore story, the longshoremen opposed background checks on dock workers passed in 2002 intended to improve national security. They opposed it — and they contribute to Democrats. That\u2019s the connection here. <\/p>\n

So when you hear these northeastern liberal Democrats talking (nattering Democrat voice), ‘Nat\u2019nal security! Nat\u2019nal security! Nat\u2019nal security!\u2019 Think: ‘Longshoreman union. Longshoreman union. Longshoreman union contributions.\u2019<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Let me address something I think that\u2019s bothering those of you who oppose the deal, and I think it\u2019s part of the tsunami effect, and it\u2019s quite understandable too — in a mass hysteria way — given the post-9\/11 world we live in. Well, that\u2019s what the tsunami is. It\u2019s been mass hysteria. That\u2019s one of the reasons red flags went up, and I would imagine that when you some of you first heard this, you had pictures form in your mind. You had visions of Abdul and Sahib wearing turbans operating the cranes and driving the equipment on these docks at these six ports, and, ‘Good God, what are we doing? How stupid can we be?\u2019<\/p>\n

Admit it, that\u2019s what you saw. If we\u2019re going to have a United Arab Emirates company owning it, then you concluded that they\u2019re going to hire their own people. Now, if that were going to happen, that would change the whole tenor of the deal. There is no question. Now you are talking about a genuine legitimate security risk, because you\u2019d have to go through all kinds of hiring practices and steps. You would have to implement the Patriot Act practically as an employment tool — and I can understand people having that attitude.<\/p>\n

I also know that when you hear me say, ‘Well, the Dutch companies, Denmark, that\u2019s a big company out there, and the Brits, they\u2019re in the port business and getting out of it and so forth,\u2019 you think, ‘Okay, fine. Well, those are nations that we have had a long and traditional relationship of trust with.\u2019 The United Arab Emirates, even if what we\u2019re being told is true that they\u2019re new allies in the war on terror and that they are on our side in this, and if you happen to believe what I do that what they actually want to do is be like us, then you say, ‘Well, yeah, but that\u2019s just been since 9\/11, and can we trust them?\u2019 Because you don\u2019t have a long period of institutional trust such as that that we have with long-term allies like the allies — or the British and the — well, not the French and not the Germans. Well, some of the Germans, but the Danes, the Dutch and so forth. So all these things are understandable. People in a post-9\/11 world are being asked to trust some things that that\u2019s not an institution of trust to trust, or to believe in — and I understand. I understand all these things, which is, you know, why I\u2019m spending the time on this that I am and as I say, I\u2019m just sharing with you the thought processes that I have, and as I learn things. <\/p>\n

For example, reading the Wall Street Journal today, they got an editorial, ‘Ports of Politics.\u2019 And an interesting paragraph here. ‘The timing of this sudden uproar over the port deal is a tad suspicious. A bidding war for the British-owned P&amp;O has been going on since last autumn, and the P&amp;O bored accepted Dubai\u2019s latest offer last month. The story only blew up last week as a Florida firm that is a partner with P&amp;O in Miami, Continental Stevedoring and Terminals, Incorporated, filed a suit to block the purchase by Dubai. Miami\u2019s mayor also sent a letter of protest to President Bush.\u2019 As the Journal editorial writers say, ‘It wouldn\u2019t be the first time certain politicians were acting here on behalf of private American commercial interests.\u2019 So we now know also that there is a partner of P&amp;O in Miami which doesn\u2019t want this sale to go through, and has enlisted political support from the mayor of Miami. It\u2019s common, no big deal, but there are elements of this that are being reported, you just have to dig deep to find them. <\/p>\n

The mainstream press is simply doing what it\u2019s been reduced to doing: ‘Bush is bad; Bush is selling us out, and let\u2019s give the Democrats 90% of our broadcast time to express their thoughts on it.\u2019 They\u2019re not giving us any reporting on this, which is why I\u2019m spending the time here doing it myself. I also — after having been threatened by the longshoreman in Long Beach — I asked Cookie to find out who owns the Port of Long Beach because I wanted to find out if perhaps it was foreign owned. Turns out it is not. The Port of Long Beach is owned by the City <\/emphasize>of Long Beach and it is governed by the board of Harbor Department Commissioners. We called them, and the Port of Long Beach operates as a landlord. The Board of Harbor Commissioners leases port shipping terminals and other facilities to private firms, and some of them are no doubt foreign. No question about it. Phil in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Thank you for waiting. You\u2019re up next on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Dittos, Rush. It\u2019s good to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was wondering, are you having a little bit of a double standard here? You talked about the importance of the Patriot Act and keeping the Patriot Act in full force, and not letting down our guard. Are we letting down our guard on the ports?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I thought I just <\/emphasize>addressed that. If the fear that a lot of people first had no doubt was that every employee of these six ports would become essentially a foreigner, somebody from the Emirates or somebody from the Middle East, then you\u2019d have to almost have a Patriot Act to go through the employment procedure to check security and backgrounds and all of that. That\u2019s not the case.<\/emphasize> The case is that the United States will continue to — and its laws will — oversee the operation, the union contracts will remain the same, the Coast Guard and Customs are still going to be doing what they\u2019re doing, as though they do it now. Somebody else is going to be writing the checks. Just somebody else going to be writing the checks and making the prophet on the operations at these six ports, but I don\u2019t know what this has to do with the Patriot Act. <\/p>\n

Like I say, if you\u2019re going to attach this danger to the UAE, then you gotta stop them from flying into the country with their commercial airlines. You\u2019ve gotta make sure that whatever property they own here, they divest themselves; they get out of it. Freeze their assets, and then we\u2019ve gotta make sure that if they are funding — which they are at Columbia University — Muslim studies courses, we have to shut that down. You know, we gotta stop selling them fighter jets like Clinton did back in 1998: sixty F-16s. They could have used those against us already.<\/p>\n

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