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Another GOP Threat of Violence: Chris Christie Will “Punch Teachers In Their Faces”

Another Republican candidate for president has joined Christian freak of nature Mike Huckabee in signaling that using violence is the preferred conservative means of dealing with citizens who dare to participate in a legal activity in the “increasingly exceptional” United States of America. It is prescient that about a month ago, a major newspaper in Mexico City, La Jornada, wrote that “the U.S. has become a structurally violent state where force is frequently used domestically to resolve differences. Such a phenomenon reflects the feeling of extensive sectors about the supposed legitimacy of violent methods.” Obviously, one of the sectors touting “the supposed legitimacy of violent methods” is now mainstream Republicans and it is unclear if they are embracing their extremist supporters tactics, or devised the “methods” of their own accord; likely it is a little of both.

The latest Republican presidential candidate to express his predilection to use violence against other Americans is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Maybe he is building his tough guy bona fides in case he has to spend time in prison, but he likely did not think it through because he is threatening predominately women (over 74%) school teachers. Like every Republican, Christie hates school teachers as much as he does public education, and has particular Koch-inspired animosity for the National Teachers Union. According to Christie, the single most destructive force in public education is not poverty or underfunding, or Republican governors diverting public school funds to private religious schools, or Republican trickle down advocates slashing education to fund corporate tax cuts; it is public school teachers and their labor organization.

Christie claims that the reason he wants to “punch them in their faces” is because according to a typical Koch-Republican lie regarding public school teachers is that unions advocate for teachers, they hate educating children, and they have no concern for America’s youth.  His Koch-hatred for any organized labor is so intense that Christie embraces the increasingly natural tendency among conservatives in general, and Republicans in particular, and publicly stated “I will punch them in their faces.”

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This idea of using violence, or threatening to use violence, against Americans engaging in legal activities is gaining acceptance in conservative circles, including nationally-recognized Republicans, and is not reserved for abortion providers or school teachers. Republicans have openly called for, and supported, violence against the LGBT community long before marriage equality was settled. Recently in California a religious maniac attempted to put an initiative on the ballot calling for state-mandated execution of gays.

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