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MATTHEW VADUM ON FRANCES FOX PIVEN: Socialist advocate for mob violence complains she is target. ?

By Glenn Reynolds

MATTHEW VADUM ON FRANCES FOX PIVEN: Socialist advocate for mob violence complains she is target.

Related thoughts from David Mastio. And here’s what those Greek riots Piven wanted to see emulated in America were like:

At the same time, tens of thousands of protesters marched through Athens in the largest and most violent protests since the country?s budget crisis began last fall. Angry youths rampaged through the center of Athens, torching several businesses and vehicles and smashing shop windows. Protesters and police clashed in front of parliament and fought running street battles around the city.

Witnesses said hooded protesters smashed the front window of Marfin Bank in central Athens and hurled a Molotov cocktail inside. The three victims died from asphyxiation from smoke inhalation, the Athens coroner?s office said. Four others were seriously injured there, fire department officials said.

Just a reminder, since Piven’s defenders keep trying to make it sound as if she were calling for Gandhi-like nonviolent resistance, when she was quite explicitly calling for violence.

Plus, “The real armed tyranny is the one Piven seeks to impose.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 02, 2011 (boomark / email).