Flashback: Big labor’s federal union violence exemption has cost workers their lives

The Daily Caller reports on violence sanctioned by the federal government:

a divided court held in its controversial 1973 United States v. Enmons ruling that violence and property damage done to advance “legitimate union objectives” are exempt from the Hobbs Act, a 1946 federal law that prohibited the obstruction of commerce via robbery, extortion, and violence.

In Enmons, the court ruled that striking union operatives who fired high-powered rifles at three company transformers, drained the oil from another company transformer, and blew up an entire company transformer substation were immune from federal prosecution. If these union thugs had been anyone else, they would have been subjected to prosecution under the Hobbs Act, but because they were perpetrating these crimes during a union-instigated strike against the company over higher wages, they were immune.

No wonder organized crime families like unions.