This is what anarchy looks like. It wouldn't be happening without a complicit media. Commenter asks, Where are OUR thugs?

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3/20/11, "Uncivil disobedience, Media ignores union thuggery," NY Post by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

"Just a couple of months ago, in the wake of Jared Loughner's shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, simple talk of "targeting" a political opponent for defeat was treated as beyond the pale. But let's look at some more recent language -- and conduct -- that our bien-pensant

• punditry can't be bothered to notice, let alone condemn.

In Michigan, protesters opposed to Gov. Rick Snyder's austerity budget broke a window to get into the capitol building. One faces felony charges after

• assaulting police with an edged weapon; 14 were arrested.

In Washington, DC, the windows at GOP headquarters were shot out, not the first time that Republican offices have

• been subject to such attacks.
  

In Madison, Wis., the state capitol was occupied for weeks by teachers-union members and their supporters. Doors and windows were broken; a mob tried to keep Republican state senators from entering

• the Senate chamber to vote.

And blogger Ann Althouse -- a Wisconsin law professor who voted for Barack Obama -- received nasty threats for the crime of posting video depicting this thuggish conduct on YouTube: "We will f--- you up," the threateners wrote. This was not the first threat she has received for her blogging.

The GOP state senators who supported Gov. Scott Walker's budget also received death threats, including an e-mail reading, in part: "I want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me have decided that we've had enough.

• We feel that you and your republican dictators have to die.

"This is how it's going to happen: I as well as many others know where you and your family live, it's a matter of public records. We have all planned to assult [sic] you by arriving at your house and putting

• a nice little bullet in your head.
  

"However, this isn't enough. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the message. So we have built several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent. This includes,

• your house,
• your car,
• the state capitol, and
• well I won't tell you all of them
  

because that's just no fun."

This threat was more credible because mobs of union protesters had already visited senators' houses,

• screaming and banging on the windows.

At the Huffington Post, liberal Lee Stranahan wonders why this kind of thing isn't getting more attention from the traditional media who were tut-tutting over much more minor (and even imaginary) offenses to civility so very recently. "Ignoring the story of these threats is deeply, fundamentally wrong. It's bad, biased journalism that will lead to no possible good outcome and progressives should be leading the charge against it.

(Stranahan): "Just before writing this article, I did a Google search and it's stunning to find out that the right-wing media really isn't exaggerating -- proven death threats against politicians

• are being ignored by the
  

• supposedly honest media.
  

If you've never agreed with a single thing that Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly et al have said about anything, you can't in any good conscience say that they don't have a point here. Death threats are wrong and if a story like Wisconsin is national news for days,

• then so are death threats."

He's right, but the big-media folks seem so anxious to peddle the same tired storyline -- right-wingers are violent and ignorant, left-wingers are peaceful and virtuous -- that they almost

• have to ignore anything that will spoil the narrative.

But in doing this, they only undermine their own position more. Word still gets out -- even to liberals at the Huffington Post. And people catch on: If there are big stories out there that traditional media won't cover because it offends their storyline, then

• why listen to traditional media at all?"

"Glenn Reynolds teaches law at the University of Tennessee. He also hosts "InstaVision" on PJTV.com."

"Unhappy campers: Protesters who threatened to sleep at Michigan's Capitol carry their bedding after being thrown out by state police last Tuesday." NY Post, AP photo

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Commenter to this story, "Uncivil Disobedience," at AT wants to know, where are OUR thugs?

"Posted by: old progrmr

Mar 21, 03:51 PM

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"Where are our thugs? THEY evidently have an Army; we've seen their faces. Young college leftists in their 20's and 30's, bussed-in ACORN types (very comfortable with a culture of violence), per diem Union thugs from SEIU AND AFSCME, off duty firemen and police and (the most frightening of all) those crazed,

• out-of-control middle aged tenured school teacher types.

The Tea Party appears to be represented by mostly level headed, but far past middle aged and retired grandmothers and grandfathers. WE appear to be no match for the violence prone Public Employee Union thugs and their allies. The Police appear to be no protection and certainly in WI there will be no defense found in the far left judiciary. WE certainly cannot take these people on directly. WE are in a situation where WE must simply wait until the Union thuggery does something really stupid

• and potentially deadly.

And, I predict it will not be long before these ignoramuses ultimately do somehing that even the leftist press cannot ignore. They assume they have a free pass to use violence with no retribution, but they will finally take that step too far!"

via Althouse blog