The Left's Escalating Union Violence

See IBD, "Union Thugs? No Kidding."

An Ohio contractor was wounded by gunfire Wednesday by a shadowy man vandalizing his SUV with union threats. Where's Washington's outrage at such lawlessness?

Had King Electrical Services owner John King been shot by, say, a Tea Partyer, there'd be no end to the public pontificating from Washington's politicians and media commentators about their rhetoric or protests inciting violence.

It's quite a different story for the Lambertville, Mich., contractor who woke up in the dead of night a week ago found a silhouetted figure on his driveway spraying "SCAB" on the side of his vehicle. The figure fired a gun at him before fleeing.

King runs a small business employing 40 people at high wages with good benefits. His success at a time when unionized contractors are failing made him the target of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), which has unsuccessfully sought to unionize his workers.

Now it's come down to guns, and Washington's chattering classes are strangely silent.

RTWT.

To say these developments are troubling is putting it mildly.

And from John Hinderaker, "DOES ANYONE CARE ABOUT ACTUAL POLITICAL VIOLENCE?" Well, yeah. They care enough to cheer it on and deny that progressive ideology is the cancer of American politics. ASFLs.

And video at Breitbart TV: "OHIO BUSINESS OWNER SHOT FOR BEING NON-UNION."