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VIOLENCE: THE TEA PARTY GETS BLAMED, BUT IT?S USUALLY THE UNIONS WHO ACTUALLY DO IT: ?Many of the ?

By Glenn Reynolds

VIOLENCE: THE TEA PARTY GETS BLAMED, BUT IT’S USUALLY THE UNIONS WHO ACTUALLY DO IT: “Many of the letters from Wisconsin today have to do with violence: threats against Governor Walker and members of his administration, the increases in their security details, their worries about their spouses and children, and so on. I have heard from people closely connected to the threatened individuals. Their letters are hard to take. The last few days have made quite clear that, if you cross the public-employee unions, you run risks: and not merely political risks (which are nothing). . . . I have a feeling that, if conservatives had staged a lunatic and thuggish rally like the one the public employees just staged in Wisconsin, it would be huge news all across the country: cover of Time, cover of Newsweek. (Do those magazines still exist?) Sarah Palin would be called on to explain herself. David Gregory and other Sunday hosts would be warning of a sickness in the American soul ? would be warning of the brownshirting of America. There is a sickness, all right.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).