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laidman,Mar 9 2006, 10:42 AM Wrote:I know I wouldn't, only because I have respect for the strikers, fighting for what the deserve.[right][snapback]174075[/snapback][/right]

Picket lines are a valid form of expression during a strike -- and I support the rights of union members to picket as a form of expression.

But that's it ... they have no right to put up a physical barrier ... they have no right to intimidate, they have no right to assault others or harm their property and they have no right to deny access to public property or to property that belongs to someone else.

If I had business on the other side of the picket line, I most certainly would cross - with a genuine smile on my face and with good humour, and with no disrespect intended -- and I fully expect that I would be allowed to cross the line unimpeded in the same spirit.

My rights are no less valuable and no less important than any union members, striking or not. Being on strike should not be a license to violate the law or to become anti-social asshats -- and that too often is the case.

Meford and Laidman, you have my full support to choose not to cross a line -- and I respectfully maintain my right to cross it, if I so choose.