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canikickit
22nd June 2003, 17:14
I don't know much about the guy, but I watched the crap Danny DeVito biopic of him last night.

Two things about him pissed me off - his thoughts that the communist party was "un-American", and the fact that he wasn't interested in revolution. In one speech (in the film) he said "the working man has become a part of the middle class, and is going to stay there". I prefer the idea of no classes.

The way it is protrayed in the film is that the power went to his head, and he acted better than the next man. He wasn't interested in true revolution, but he did aid the working man.

In some ways he was like a "benevolent businessman".

Hopefully someone knows more about him than just the film, because that's obviously glamourised and what not.
Urban Rubble
22nd June 2003, 21:54
Hoffa did some great things for the workers, unfortuantely he was a mafia patsy and from what I've heard, quite a piece of shit. I read some random mafia book years ago that talked quite a bit about him and the whole scandal, but I've smoked most of the specifics straight out of my brain.
RedComrade
22nd June 2003, 23:59
Hoffa was a bastard who let mobsters skim off the workers fund. He was a piece of shit, criminal prole at best.
commieboy
24th June 2003, 00:20
isnt that the guy who took teamsters' pensions and gave them to the mob?

They say hes buried under the rennicance center, or the Detroit River
Vinny Rafarino
27th June 2003, 23:34
Yes that was Jimmy. He was going to rat out members of the mafia to the Feds. He deserved to get clipped. And clipped is what he got.
commieboy
17th July 2003, 03:07
i just heard on the radio that they are digging somewhere in mid michigan for a buried suitcase that someone hid containing info on his murder.
Sabocat
17th July 2003, 12:59
The word around the Eastern U.S is that the mob buried him in concrete in the end zone at Giants Statium in New Jersey when they were building it.

They'll probably never know what happened to him though.
commieboy
17th July 2003, 14:10
naaawww, good ol' jimmys buried or atleast weighted down with lead here in good old michigan!
truthaddict11
17th July 2003, 14:42
Jimmy is at Area 51 with the Lindburg baby, Big Foot and Amelia Earheart.
Rastafari
21st July 2003, 00:32
haha

"good ol'" and "michigan"
good one
Comrade Ceausescu
22nd July 2003, 04:09
hoffa was a mafia puppet.plain and simple.
commieboy
22nd July 2003, 06:42
hey...im proud to live in michigan...well the lower part, up north we've got a shitload of unibomber wannabes, and rednecks.