#gopropaganda

Our family buys the NY Post for the sports section. (We also get the Daily News)  I occasionally read the op ed page to keep abreast of the current GOP batshit crazy hot topics.  While I have felt disgust, bewilderment and shame at many of the views expressed there, today's (March 21, 2011) "opinion" by this Glenn Harlan Reynolds guy caused me to experience a new reaction....sorrow and pity (accompanied, of course, by the disgust and shame). So, if you are at all interested, Mr. Reynolds, please allow me to respond to the absurdity that you call an editorial regarding "union thuggery":

You begin your "editorial" by comparing the shooting of a US Congressperson and several others, including a child, with the breaking of windows.  You describe threats such as "we will fuck you up" and "I and the group of people that are working with me have decided that we've had enough...(Bombs, know where you live, blah, blah, blah)...and I won't tell you all of them because that's just no fun."  You say: "This threat is more credible because mobs of union protestors had already visited senators' houses, screaming and banging on the windows." 

You rail against the (liberal) media for underreporting  this dangerous situation.  "...but the big-media folks seem so anxious to peddle the same tired storyline--right-wingers  are more violent and ignorant, left-wingers are peaceful and virtuous--that they almost have to ignore anything that will spoil the narrative." 

To paraphrase the socioeconomic strata in which the GOP would have everyone except their chosen few inhabit....Fascist, please!  Since someone has determined that you are somehow qualified to teach others about the law, let me "break it down" for you (the quotes merely because I feel that you are too ignorant to grasp the concept otherwise) :

1. Shooting women and children and breaking windows.......worlds apart

2. Remember a doctor named George Tiller?  He, along with numerous other abortion providers (who are, mercifully, not dead yet) received, and continue to receive, death threats on a daily basis.  They are forced to take extraordinary measures to protect themselves.  Even so, Dr. Tiller was killed AT HIS CHURCH.  Are these violent anti choice groups "liberal union thugs", or right wing, batshit crazies?

3. Let's think about the last few "homegrown terrorists"...Tim McVeigh....right winger.  Jared Loughner...right winger.  Terry Nichols....right winger.  Scott Roeder....right winger.  Shelley Shannon (the first person to shoot Dr Tiller, in 1993)...right winger.  None of these people merely broke a window.

4. Liberal terrorists: None since the early 70s.  Except for the vandals who broke the windows, I suppose.

5. The "union thugs" of which you speak are persons whose personal economic security has been threatened.  Certainly, the people whose livelihoods are threatened have a right to be not quite as angry as a right winger who disgrees with a third person's decision to provide a legal medical procedure. 

6. Oh My God!!!!  Banging on windows and screaming!!!!!   Union thugs!   Again, not even close to bombs and bullets.  Fascist, please!