According to Iron County Chair and Hurley Mayor, we’re now all just terrorists if we resist, protest!!

In a side note on one of the most unsettling business responses to angry citizens, paramilitary armed soldiers of fortune, was this comment by Iron County Board Chairman and Hurley Mayor Joe Pinardi:

jsonline: The well-armed security guards are warranted in the light of the protesters, whom he called "nothing more than a small group of terrorists. By these (security) people being present out there, they are hoping that any person out there causing a disturbance will leave," said Pinardi.

Mayor Pinardi?

Or be shot dead. That’s freedom and liberty for...business.

Sen. Bob Jauch (D-Poplar) said, “It is not the security. They can't justify this militarized security."
   Bob Seitz, a spokesman for Gogebic, gave no sign of dropping Bulletproof, saying the company had done a "great job" and been "nothing but professional." "No one on our side has aggressively acted against any protesters at any time," Seitz said. Seitz said the guards would use force only if Gogebic employees are attacked and not to protect property.

How satisfying is that?