Union Workers in Wisconsin Threaten to Shoot, Bomb Homes of Republican Lawmakers
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Less than two months after the horrifying shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona prompted nationwide calls for civility in public discourse, mobs of angry union workers in Wisconsin have thrown all sense of decency to the wind and are turning to violence in revenge for the passage of a bill that will restrict their collective bargaining rights.