"I read the news today, O boy..."

I couldn't let this past, especially since it touches a small part of my life. See, I lost my job last week. Like so many others out there, I'm not particularly happy about it. I had to go to the "Missouri Career Center" and be humiliated by standing in line, wait around, get asked a bunch of questions that are mildly offending and then watch a video that is a thinly veiled accusation that the reason I lost my job is that I wasn't a good enough peon. Bruised ego, anyone?
So, I go get a paper, and on the front is the story about the ABB standoff (rampage, as the Post Disgrace put it) last year, and the resouces the city used during it. What bothers me is that it seems the report's purpose was to show public servants how to be better Pinkertons. I mean, what about the source, this man who snapped because his employer singled him out as a "troublemaker" and he felt "ostracized". I don't condone what he did, but why do we have this aversion to examine what drove this man to bring weapos to work?
 Here's what the paper had to say about him:

"Among those questioned was Kathleen Hendron, the shooter's wife.
She's a victim in some sense herself," Sack said. "This is not something you'd ever expect a loved one to do."
She told police her husband had been "ostracized" at ABB for trying to start a union and for participating in a lawsuit against ABB over its pension plan. She told police he was worried about his impending performance as a witness in the case in Kansas City four days later.
The morning of the shooting, Hendron left a Post-It note on their refrigerator at home in Webster Groves. It read, "I love you both," and was a common gesture toward her and their teenage son.
Sack said: "The one question we were hoping to answer was why. He left no notes. He confided in no one. ... We don't know why he did it, but the end result is that he did."

So, here we have some evidence that yet another pseudo-person who has all this power over someone's real life, and when a person decides that they need to exert their rights against such an entity, the entire scab ideology puts you in the crosshairs.
What you may not know is when Glenn Beck's ideology hits you at your job, coupled with the undeniable fact that anthropologists know that when people go to work for one of these mulinationals tends to generate "hostility, instability, and fear of being obsolete and unprotected in our kind of society. It goes on:

Multiple employees told detectives that Hendron had been a sociable, joking man who turned sullen over the previous year. Some said he changed after the shift he supervised was eliminated, sending him back to an administrative job in which he hated his boss, then back to ordinary labor. They said he was passed over as supervisor when the shift was restored.
One co-worker and self-described close friend, Kevin Podolski, told police Hendron "kept to himself and was prone to outbursts of anger." The report continued, "Podolski also advised that he has believed for a long time that Timothy H. was capable of doing something like this."
Rick Lawrence, a company supervisor, told investigators that Hendron 'seemed disgruntled and agitated much of the time."

This tragedy should have never happened, and in my not so humble opinion, I think that if Reagan and the Republican party had not worked to destroy the labor movement, not only would this tragedy probably wouldn't have happened, but our greater economic tragedy that is our current economy would not have happened.