Hotel faces left versus right struggle.
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on February 17th, 2008
Here’s a link to a fascinating article. A large hotel refused to allow a union organization to have its annual meeting on its premises. The main reason for this was that the hotel felt threatened by rightest organizations. So there is a kind of leftists versus rightest feel to the article. Interestingly enough, the owners of the hotel make a libertarian argument that the hotel is their property, and they should be free to rent it out to whoever they wish.
As is typical the rightists seem pro-business because they are anti-union, but this is really misconceived. The right to organize and petition doesn’t necessarily mean someone advocates socialist government policies. And even to the extent it does, the right often want something similar. The main difference between the left and the right at the extremes is the same difference between international socialism and national socialism. That is both are pretty much against the free market.
The hotel owners are correct that they should be free to rent to whomever they choose, but they seem really wimpish here. But if the government will not provide adequate security then that is the real problem. What can be said of a government that won’t protect people from far rightest organizations? 
February 17th, 2008 at 11:52 am
An interesting perspective on the right and the left at the extreme.
I think the police does provide security. But the security is not good enough： The hotel like that wants to provide the convenient and peaceful atmosphere for other customers. You know, with loud speaker, black-van rightist can be a lot of troubles. That said, the hotel should have checked the consequence before it accepted the contract with the union.
February 17th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Actually it slipped by me that they had *already* signed the contract. Thanks for pointing that out.