Liberals falsely accused the Tea Party of lawlessness and violence, but now ignore or excuse actual lawlessness and violence from 'Occupy Wall Street,' union leaders and other supportive groups.

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“You’re going to find yourself in a country where you and your wealthy friends are going to be hunted.” 

It’s been easy to dismiss “Occupy Wall Street” as a silly circus of unbathed graduate students, stoned dropouts and fossilized 1960s nostalgists who can’t even formulate a coherent platform. 

But consider the brazen threat set forth above, part of an email sent anonymously last week to New York state legislators.  It suggests a much more sinister form this movement may assume as the left becomes increasingly desperate entering 2012. 

Sure, there are the usual discordant guitars, the bongos, the overpowering body odors, the misspelled placards, the incoherent group chants.  There’s the demand for another $1 trillion in immediate infrastructure spending, ignoring the fact that transportation spending has already approximately doubled over the past decade.  Then there’s the demand for immediate cancellation of all student loan debt and increased educational spending, ignoring that federal education spending has tripled since 1970 with little to show for it. 

There’s also the claim that Wall Street has somehow remained immune from the hardships perpetuated by the Obama Administration, even though 22,000 securities industry jobs have disappeared since 2008, and a report released this week predicts 10,000 more by the end of 2012.  Then there’s the demand that the undefined “rich” be forced to pay their “fair share,” ignoring the fact that the portion of income taxes paid by the top 1% of Americans is approximately twice as high - roughly 40% to 20% - as its share of national income earned. 

All of that silliness aside, there are increasing signs of a violent turn as we approach 2012. 

The excerpted threat above was part of a message under the subject line, “time to kill the wealthy.”  The email threatened violence while mindlessly demanding that lawmakers “stop shoveling wealth from the lower 99 percent to the top 1 percent”: 

“If you don’t, I’m going to pay a visit with my carbine to one of those tech companies you are so proud of and shoot every spoiled Ivy League [expletive] I can find…  How hard is it for us to stake out one of the obvious access roads to some tech company, tail an employee home and toss a liquor bottle full of flaming gasoline through their nice picture window into their cute house…  We are going to sow the kind of choas [sic] you are unequipped to deal with.  And you’re going to find yourself in a country where you and your wealthy friends are gonig [sic] to be hunted.” 

Worse, increasing evidence suggests that the Obama Administration, the mainstream media and the professional political left are either cultivating the frenzy or passively allowing it to germinate. 

Other well-publicized and repeated lawlessness from “Occupy Wall Street” agitants included an attempt to overrun the nation’s treasured Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, defecation on a police car, videotaped anti-Semitic rants and mass harassment of bankers’ family homes.  Yet Obama issued no condemnation or call for lawful restraint.  In fact, he expressed solidarity with the increasingly lawless movement, desperate as he is for a placated base. 

Also recall just last month, when Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. introduced Obama by promising a “war” and threatening to “take the son [sic] of bitches out”: 

“They’ve got a war, they’ve got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner.  It’s going to be the workers of Michigan and America.  We’re going to win that war…  President Obama, this is your army.  We are ready to march…  Everybody here’s got a vote.  Let’s take these son [sic] of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong!” 

Obama made no effort to rebuke Hoffa, yet later falsely admonished Republican candidates for the behavior of two or three random audience members at a debate.  This is the same Obama whose administration refused to prosecute polling place threats by the Black Panthers, so the behavioral pattern has a long pedigree. 

For its part, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee recently started a mass petition stating, “I stand with the Occupy Wall Street protests.” 

Liberals falsely accused the Tea Party of lawlessness and violence, but now ignore or excuse actual lawlessness and violence from “Occupy Wall Street,” union leaders and other supportive groups. 

And the reason is obvious.  As James Taranto observed, they’re suffering a “nervous breakdown.”  The left won unimpeded political control in 2008, and its agenda failed miserably.  Consequently, they are undergoing a collective meltdown and lashing out because that’s all they have left. 

Obama, Congressional Democrats and liberal leaders had better speak up soon.  They must make good on their sanctimonious calls for civility earlier this year, lest the street movement they’re cultivating take an even more violent and dangerous character.