[OldFriend]

My husband who is as committed to conservative republicans as any of us.....was there when the hardhats attacked and he says it was the most frightening thing he ever saw. He did not think it was the right thing to do at all. In his words, a mob is a mob is a mob and the hardhats were a mob.

[dfwgator]

I would guess that in fact most of the hardhats were in fact Democrats themselves, albeit Scoop Jackson Democrats (and ultimately Reagan Democrats).

[robowombat]

I am sure it was frightening, no terrifying to thethose who for so long had been able to flaunt treason with impunity. This was one day when carrying a Vietcong flag was suddenly not cool and avant guard. Liberals and their ilk who utilize the courts to mug the rest of us of our constitutional right s or a regular basis and as the last election demonstrated have no compunction about trying to carry out a coup might ponder the lesson of this day . Sometime in the future the products of the Ivy League and othwer progressives who use their verbal talents, vast sense of superiority and relentless determination to destroy both our nbation and society may manage to go to far. And on that day when the rank and file of the armed forces and the police choose to look the other way whatever their politicized masters may decree those who have made a career out of hating their country and its people may find themselves where these vermin did in Manhatten on that day many years ago.