Freedom of speech stolen with IUOE members own dues money

IUOE General President Vince Giblin and his anointed executive board spent well over $200,000 in members dues money in 2007 to take away union democracy and quietly threaten and coerce union members. Using a high powered Washington DC law firm that brags on it's web site the "we have been characterized as “the voice of labor,” sure as hell doesn't know what an operating engineer life is all about, let alone labor. Its the rich pot of dues money they like. Isn't it amazing how a small group of letters or numbers can have such a brutally chilling affect on people, a password, a simple password that a person plucks out on a keyboard, yet never ever knows whose watching chills one to the core. How many members passed on clicking ENTER instead of choosing to be informed because they were scared? Scared of the local. Scared of the IUOE. How many members didn't vote in a local election because they had to sign one of the ballot envelopes? They say justice is blind, but I didn't realize it was stupid too. In what I believe to be an insanely dumb and reckless decision the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of big brother union taking away the rights of members to surf the internet freely and without coercion simply because big brother international union is scared to death of new and emerging technologies that tell the truth at the speed of light, and light up the dark, dank back offices of the anointed not elected leaders of our international union like never before. In a one page statement the court found in favor of the IUOE in what I believe was a travesty for every union member in this country. The internet is the last free space where a citizen member can criticize, challenge, and possibly even win an election against the forces of evil that have been written into every bylaw and constitution in the IUOE international or local. Brother and Sister members the deck is stacked against you and I unless we start challenging what is going on around us, if we don't we will forever be slaves to the IUOE and they will forever use your dues as their personal piggy bank. This union belongs to the membership, not the dictatorship, yet if you take the time to read the rules, you lose. Let your voice be heard, fight back. One member, one vote!