Threats of Violence: When Are They All Right?

15Mar/110

Threats of Violence: When Are They All Right?

As you're aware, but most of America is not, Scott Walker and the other Wisconsin Republicans who have curbed union "rights"--which are now civil rights or human rights according to lefties--have received death threats directed not only at them, but also at their families. In one instance, a leftist agitator called in a bomb threat at an aviation business where Scott Walker had just given an address on business prospects in Wisconsin. Numerous photographs and videos bear witness to the signs comparing Governor Walker to Mubarak and Hitler.

Wisconsin police and firefighters are among those who have called on a variety of businesses either to denounce the legislation or to face boycotts. Meanwhile--I know that the comparison is growing tired, but it's so clearly illustrative of leftist objectivity that it needs to be stated repeatedly--there is in the MFM, so solicitous of politicians' welfare regarding imagined rhetorical violence among Tea Partiers, Palinites and the like, a virtual blackout on any discussion of these actual threats. To employ the tactics of those promising boycotts in Wisconsin, I call on all union houses and their supporters specifically to denounce the threats of unions and their supporters or face boycotts themselves. What? Nothing?

Even when I was in high school, there was something already seedy about Madison's radicalism. There was a great nostalgia for the heady days of the '60s, the sit-ins and demonstrations and the generational sense of self-importance. What became of this self-proclaimed "greatest generation" is largely what ails this country at this time. Tuning in, turning on and dropping out turns out not to have been a very effective way of dealing with life, after all. A more conceited and selfish generation of Americans there has never been.

It flatters their vanity to think that collective bargaining "rights" are the equivalent of what disenfranchised Egyptians endured under Mubarak, and in their self-pitying romanticism they think that theirs is the American equivalent of the demonstrations in Tahrir Square (minus the shooting and batons). Many of them in their bravado believe that this is something desirable, and there are no end of Marxist idiots with megaphones who will flatter them that it is so, to cheer them on with their infantile polemics.

So, is this all right?

The NLRB seems to think so:

On Friday, in its continuing attempt to hand over the American workplace to union bosses at all costs, the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board has thrown employees’ rights under the bus once again. This time, however, the NLRB’s obedience to union bosses could cause employees to get hurt...

Under the National Labor Relations Act, employees are presumably free to choose to unionize or not to unionize free from coercion or interference. In previous cases, the National Labor Relations Board had considered threats (even by third parties) enough cause for an election to be overturned. This was the case even recently...

...Unbelievably, on Friday, the union-controlled NLRB ruled that threats of physical violence by pro-union supporters is not coercive.

It's no exaggeration to say that this decision is sociopathy in its purest form. Moreover:

By contrast, Shuler notes "Wisconsin years ago passed" a mandate for labor education within its schools. "That's why the students came with their teachers," she said about the ongoing protests in Madison against right wing GOP Gov. Scott Walker's moves to strip 200,000 state and local workers of collective bargaining rights.

"High school is too late" to educate students about unions and workers, says Shuler, the daughter of union parents in Oregon who joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers as an activist and organizer after college. "We need to get into the elementary schools."

Obviously, when one considers the primary function of education to be political indoctrination rather than the content of math, language, science, this is so. The sociologists--the most godforsaken racket of dullards in all of academia, along with their certifying enablers in "education"--are firmly in charge of the agenda.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin's Secretary of State, Doug LaFollette, is holding on to the Governor's legislation as long as he's legally allowed, to provide the unions more time to negotiate favorable contracts with local officials and to screw the taxpayers of Wisconsin one more time.

And why shouldn't he? Students and unions were permitted to occupy the Capitol building against a court order. Teachers took high school students out of school to demonstrate with them, though there are laws on the books against truancy. Democratic State Senators flouted their constitutional duties. Police demonstrated on the side of lawbreakers.

Now the unions and their allies want to recall as many Republicans as they can. That is their right. It is not their right, however, to try to intimidate their opponents who wish to do the same thing to Democrats, or to tear up their petitions, or to threaten violence at the locations where they plan to assemble.

Either the rules of engagement apply to everyone, or they apply to no one. Take your pick, peaceable lefties.