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DAVID HARSANYI on the bogus concern about ?threats? and ?mobs.? For those grappling with history,?

By Glenn Reynolds

DAVID HARSANYI on the bogus concern about “threats” and “mobs.”

For those grappling with history, here’s what a “mob” looks like: furious citizens raiding the Bastille, stabbing and decapitating its governor, Marquis Bernard de Launay, and placing his head on a pike to parade around Paris streets to cheering crowds.

Or, to put it in more contemporary terms, think anti-capitalist, stone-throwing, Starbucks-hating, economic-justice thugs. Or perhaps radical environmentalists who burn down housing projects and research facilities for Mother Earth. For a domestic terrorist, you won’t need to go farther than your local Chicago university to spot a Weatherman.

But if you bring up Bill Ayers, that’s a sign you’re an “extremist.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 26, 2010 (boomark / email).