MICKEY KAUS points up an appalling case of left-wing political violence -- seemingly sanctioned by "respectable" communists -- in Italy. He wonders if such violence could move to the United States.
To some degree it already has. I have friends on the Berkeley faculty, and I've heard stories of professors having their cars vandalized and being threatened with personal violence. As the authoritarian hard-left becomes more and more marginalized in America, it wouldn't be surprising if some of its more desperate members turned to violence. (Indeed, with things like the SFSU assaults -- and for that matter, the Unabomber -- it already has).
The targets, likely enough, will be moderate-left people rather than right-wing people. That's always been the tendency in such things. And in America, the right-wing faculty might be distressingly likely to shoot back.
