Despicable Threats of Violence

I interrupt the April Fools festivities to make a 100% serious, and extremely important, point here.

According to Talking Points Memo, a young Wisconsin woman has been charged with making threats of violence against Republican Wisconsin state legislators who were voting to repeal collective bargaining rights from state employees’ unions.

I strongly and unreservedly condemn using violence, or the explicit or implicit threat of violence, as a means of making a political point or acheiving a political objective. Such threats are irresponsible, counter-productive, undemocratic, and ought to have absolutely no place in our political discourse, period.

(And now, back to your April fools’ day…)