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The headlines tell a bit of the story:
"Pro-gun activists threaten to kill state lawmaker over bill they misunderstood"
and
"Death Threats Will Force Virginia Lawmaker To A Safe House During Pro-Gun Rally"
Lee Carter of Virginia is the only avowed socialist lawmaker in a southern state (and a USMC veteran). He's been getting death threats pretty much as a general rule for years, but lately they've been taken to an extreme level.
As the 2nd article explains:
BUT... if you're pro-business (i.e. anti-worker) you DO NOT WANT public sector employees - or any employees - to have strike protections under the law.
If you can get deformed mutants like Gun Nuts and other conspiracy mongering types to threaten to kill lawmakers simply by telling them a pro-worker bill is actually intended to "TAKE YOUR GUNS"... so much the better. So I find it hard to believe the Wall Street Journal made an "innocent mistake" here. Fuckers.
How the sausage gets made...
"Pro-gun activists threaten to kill state lawmaker over bill they misunderstood"
and
"Death Threats Will Force Virginia Lawmaker To A Safe House During Pro-Gun Rally"
Lee Carter of Virginia is the only avowed socialist lawmaker in a southern state (and a USMC veteran). He's been getting death threats pretty much as a general rule for years, but lately they've been taken to an extreme level.
As the 2nd article explains:
... The threats against Carter?a Democratic Socialist first elected in 2017?also show how an echo chamber of conspiracy theories that begin as social media posts get laundered into mainstream outlets like the Wall Street Journal, and can ultimately lead to real-world peril.
...
This situation stems from a fundamental misunderstanding about a bill he reintroduced, which would allow public sector employees to go on strike. For at least the past 70 years, engaging in work stoppages would automatically be considered a resignation for Virginia employees, without the possibility of getting rehired for a year. Carter?s bill, inspired by teachers? strikes across the country, would change that policy.
...
But the intent of the bill, and the fact that law enforcement currently are not allowed to strike, has been lost. Instead, it has been lumped into a broader category of bills that gun-rights advocates and far-right groups [editor's note: the "Useful Idiots" I was referring to] allege are designed to take away their freedoms after Democrats won control of the General Assembly in November. ...
Social media posts began erroneously characterizing Carter?s legislation as trying to make sure police enforce gun control legislation on threat of being terminated from their jobs, in concert with Northam (?who I?m not particularly a fan of,? Carter notes). An article in Law Enforcement Today alleges that Carter?s bill is trying to ?punish police,? and pro-confederate group the Virginia Flaggers tweeted that the bill would allow the commonwealth to ?fire law enforcement officers if they won?t enforce unconstitutional gun laws.? Ultimately, those claims made their way into a Wall Street Journal editorial, which said that a Virginia lawmaker ?introduced a bill that requires firing police officers who don?t enforce a gun statute.?
All this is even dumber because Carter is on the record opposing "red flag laws" and his record on gun control is more "Conservative" than "Liberal"...
This situation stems from a fundamental misunderstanding about a bill he reintroduced, which would allow public sector employees to go on strike. For at least the past 70 years, engaging in work stoppages would automatically be considered a resignation for Virginia employees, without the possibility of getting rehired for a year. Carter?s bill, inspired by teachers? strikes across the country, would change that policy.
...
But the intent of the bill, and the fact that law enforcement currently are not allowed to strike, has been lost. Instead, it has been lumped into a broader category of bills that gun-rights advocates and far-right groups [editor's note: the "Useful Idiots" I was referring to] allege are designed to take away their freedoms after Democrats won control of the General Assembly in November. ...
Social media posts began erroneously characterizing Carter?s legislation as trying to make sure police enforce gun control legislation on threat of being terminated from their jobs, in concert with Northam (?who I?m not particularly a fan of,? Carter notes). An article in Law Enforcement Today alleges that Carter?s bill is trying to ?punish police,? and pro-confederate group the Virginia Flaggers tweeted that the bill would allow the commonwealth to ?fire law enforcement officers if they won?t enforce unconstitutional gun laws.? Ultimately, those claims made their way into a Wall Street Journal editorial, which said that a Virginia lawmaker ?introduced a bill that requires firing police officers who don?t enforce a gun statute.?
BUT... if you're pro-business (i.e. anti-worker) you DO NOT WANT public sector employees - or any employees - to have strike protections under the law.
If you can get deformed mutants like Gun Nuts and other conspiracy mongering types to threaten to kill lawmakers simply by telling them a pro-worker bill is actually intended to "TAKE YOUR GUNS"... so much the better. So I find it hard to believe the Wall Street Journal made an "innocent mistake" here. Fuckers.
How the sausage gets made...
