When I was still defending the idiots on the right, I used to cringe when I would hear this sort of rhetoric tossed around about liberals, union people or anyone else for that matter:
Union workers who were protesting the passage of so-called “right-to-work” laws outside the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan are “terrorists,” according to a former high-ranking official in the Republican Party of Virginia who now serves in a county-level elected office.
Shawn Kenney, who formerly served as the communications director for the state GOP and is now the chairman of the Fluvanna Co. Board of Supervisors, posted an entry on his blog titled, “We Don’t Negotiate With (Union) Terrorists.” The post features a video of a brief fight that occurred outside the Michigan state capitol. Before the video, Kenney writes: “…and these people are terrorists.”
via Virginia GOP Official Calls Union Members ‘Terrorists’ | ThinkProgress.
Yes, this Shawn Kenney compared union members, who were a bit pissed off about a group of corporatist shills coming to their demonstration and provoking union members into fights — to the people who flew those planes into the trade center towers, the Pentagon and crashed that plane in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Seriously.
Yes, folks, that is the right, that I used to defend. The emphases on used to; I no longer do. This is a perfect example of the internal rot that I referred to in a previous posting.