Gleaned from a US based not so professional helicopter web site...
An anti-union poster made snide comments about unions and union members...said he was headed to the gulf to do a contract job and help bust the union. Someone responded with an offer to "shoot you dead".
The forum is anonymous ...neither poster can id the other...supposedly someone from "the company" has asked for the identifying information of the "shooter" with a view towards criminal prosecution (...or use against the union maybe???) and the web site owner citing commerical pressures and such... says he shall do so.
That site claims "free speech" is more important than form and decorum....until now.
The situation is getting ugly in the Gulf.....wonder how this shall play out in the end?
Wonder if that exchange constituted a "threat" under the US law?
If the "shooter" is not part of the union, local, or employee of Air Dog.....has he violated any Federal laws governing strikes, etc. ?
Is that exchange an exercise of "free speech" by both parties and not a violation of law?
Interesting age we live in....used be in labor disputes it was baseball bats and big sticks...knives...guns...chains...dirks and daggers....now it is a keyboard and mouse!