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JAMES TARANTO ON PUBLIC-EMPLOYEE UNION THUGGERY: In the letter to Wisconsin businessmen, however,?

By Glenn Reynolds

JAMES TARANTO ON PUBLIC-EMPLOYEE UNION THUGGERY:

In the letter to Wisconsin businessmen, however, we see why so-called collective bargaining is particularly corrupting to the police. Although the letter explicitly threatens only an economic boycott, when it is written on behalf of the police–of those on whom all citizens depend to protect their safety–it invariably raises the prospect of another kind of boycott. Can a businessman who declines this heavy-handed “request” be confident that the police will do their job if he is the victim of a crime–particularly if the crime itself is in retaliation for his refusal to support “the dedicated public employees who serve our communities”?

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 15, 2011 (boomark / email).