Front Page Magazine today carries a shocking account of political violence yesterday on the campus of San Francisco State University. While campus police looked on doing nothing, Palestinian students (a highly organized and powerful campus presence) physically assaulted Republican students manning a get—out—the—vote table.

It is long past time for the nation to take seriously the rising tide of political thuggery. America is no more immune from the effects of organized violence on the political process than was "civilized" (and decadent) Weimar Germany. History has issued a clear warning, one that we ignore at our great peril.

Thomas Lifson  11 2 04