University of Missouri Offering Course in Industrial Sabotage

Environmentalists and union members may soon be knocking the doors down on the administration offices at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Long known as a staple for liberal journalists, the school is now preparing the radical left tactics in industrial sabotage.



The Columbia Tribune Reports:

Videos showing two University of Missouri instructors advocating for union violence are making the rounds online.

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The videos — first posted on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website — capture Judy Ancel, director of UM-Kansas City’s Institute for Labor Studies, telling a class “violence is a tactic, and it’s to be used when it’s the appropriate tactic.” She goes on to tell a story of a friend who worked for a utility company in Peru, where it’s illegal to strike.

“They couldn’t get access to” strike, “but they had a lot of cats and they succeeded in putting cats in powerhouses,” she said. “And the cats — now, don’t think about the cats, OK? The cats would run around inside and short out the system and cause power blackouts. And that created enough chaos in the system” to get to “a negotiating position.”

Plus, she joked, they “got rid of a lot of feral cats.”

The course, Labor in Society & Politics, is offered as part of the labor studies certificate. It’s team-taught by Don Giljum of Operating Engineers 148, and Dave Robertson, a UM-St. Louis instructor. It’s unclear whether those in the class are adult workers or college students. The UM System declined to comment, and Ancel was not available Monday afternoon.

The University of Missouri is a public university funded by tax dollars.