Despicable Threats of Violence
April 1, 2011
I interrupt the April Fools festivities to make a 100% serious, and extremely important, point here.
According to Talking Points Memo, a young Wisconsin woman has been charged with making threats of violence against Republican Wisconsin state legislators who were voting to repeal collective bargaining rights from state employees’ unions.
I strongly and unreservedly condemn using violence, or the explicit or implicit threat of violence, as a means of making a political point or acheiving a political objective. Such threats are irresponsible, counter-productive, undemocratic, and ought to have absolutely no place in our political discourse, period.
(And now, back to your April fools’ day…)
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Kudos for your condemnation. In fact, not just threats of violence, but death threats from this Wisconsin teacher against Republican lawmakers. Here is one, verbatim. Quite chilling and very specific:
[Quoted (and thoroughly disturbing) email contents deleted - Matt]
Thanks, Mark. Our politics are contentious enough – glad you agree that death threats and other explicit or implicit threats of violence are well beyond the pale in our discourse and should be immediately and strongly condemned.