Yesterday Michigan’s Republican legislators voted to bail out Detroit’s abysmally run schools with $617 million in taxpayer funding. The same bill also fought efforts to constrain charter school choices in Detroit. Prior to the vote, Stephen Henderson wrote on his editorial page:
We really ought to round up the lawmakers who took money to protect and perpetuate the failing charter-school experiment in Detroit, sew them into burlap sacks with rabid animals, and toss them into the Straits of Mackinac.
After noting that charter school advocates support charter schools, he doubled down on the violent rhetoric:
It is every bit deserving of an old-school retributive response.
A sack. An animal. A lake.
No lover of actual democracy could weep at that outcome.
If there were any doubt about his call for life-ending violence, he tweeted out the editorial with these comments:
GOP House harlots deserve worse than hanging for selling out #detroit kids on #DPS bills.
http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/stephen-henderson/2016/06/03/dps-reform-legislation/85348006/ …
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The political environment is toxic all around these days, but it’s shameful that a Pulitzer winner sought violent retribution against political opponents, much more that he wrote these thoughts down, and much more that his newspaper has no problem with it.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/07/detroit-free-press-editor-calls-for-murder-of-gop-lawmakers/That this POS can say this...broadcast it in public...and not be arrested, tried and convicted of making terroristic threats shows how f**ked up things in this nation are. These so-called "democrats" are nothing but lynch mobs who have tantrums when they don't get their way 100% of the time instead of most of the time...and their idiots in thug culture react accordingly and loot and bomb and kill and rape and nobody gives a sh*t. This "toxic" environment is 100% owned by the Left...and the infuriating part of this is the E-GOP enables it by being so feckless and weak and stupid! These Michigan Pubbies are BAILING OUT FAILED DETROIT SCHOOLS, if anything the DemonRats are getting way more than the charter school people, and they go apesh*t anyway? The proper response would be to not bail them out and let them rot in the stinking Hell they created!
Just another shining example that "the system" cannot and will never be fixed by anything other than violent rebellion.
