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REP. MICHAEL CAPUANO (D-MA) CALLS FOR LABOR PROTESTS TO ?GET A LITTLE BLOODY,? and James Taranto com?

By Glenn Reynolds

REP. MICHAEL CAPUANO (D-MA) CALLS FOR LABOR PROTESTS TO “GET A LITTLE BLOODY,” and James Taranto comments:

It will not surprise you to learn that Capuano is another “civility” hypocrite. On Jan. 9, the day after a madman in Tucson, Ariz., got a little bloody, the Globe quoted him: “What the hell is going on? There’s always some degree of tension in politics; everybody knows the last couple of years there’s been an intentional increase in the degree of heat in political discourse. . . . If nothing else good comes out of this, I’m hoping it causes people to reconsider how they deal with things.”

Not so much, apparently. Plus this:

Capuano’s rhetoric at yesterday’s rally was not just violent but authoritarian. He urged government employees to “get a little bloody”–to commit violent acts against citizens, as if this were Libya. As we noted yesterday, public sector “collective bargaining,” in which public officials “negotiate” with the unions that helped elect them, is essentially a conspiracy to steal money from taxpayers. Capuano, it seems, would like to escalate that to armed robbery.

Indeed.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 23, 2011 (boomark / email).