The Longshore Union members have taken it a bridge too far in the effort to muscle into the jobs at the Longview  based EGT grain facility.

The months’ long battle for primacy at the Port of Longview facility has seen some pretty dirty dealing–ax handles and baseball bats used on protest signs, vandalism, HOSTAGE TAKING—but in my book none compares to what appears to be their latest gambit: sabotaging the railroad tracks. From the Longview Daily News here:

Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad officials say about a dozen locations along a 60-mile stretch of railroad tracks in Southwest Washington were tampered with on Monday.
Spokesman Gus Melonas says the main line was temporarily shut down midday while officials investigated. The tracks were later cleared for traffic. Tampering was reported along the line from just north of Vancouver to Chehalis.
Melonas would not say how the tracks were tampered with. He says BNSF workers discovered the problem shortly before 11 a.m. Monday. Police are investigating.
The tracks carry about 60 trains a day, including Amtrak passengers trains and freight that is hazardous.

Those are the tracks used by all the trains–Amtrak included. That means someone sabotaged the tracks–gee, I wonder who?–and meant to harm innocents.

It’s over.

Call the Feds. Invoke RICO, conspiracy, and attempted murder charges against the likely culprits. Let the investigation begin.