I think where Redux gets a slanging in things like this is we don't hear him bitching hard enough at offenses of this kind. And he doesn't seem all that ready to pick up the clue.
The incident does forcibly recall Twain's aphorism about idiots, and then school boards. Not what you'd call the newest of problems.
Jim, Jim: can't you understand that "reasonable" is when hard leftism dies altogether and soft leftism moves rightward to a more sensible habit? We libertarians get this. Now what -- is the rest of the world dead? Or just slave-minded? Should they be?? This is not more than they need, you know. Just more than they thought to get.
We have values. Some people think we oughtn't, and that is visible here as they flail at us. It is grotesque to see men of forty or fifty whose moral thinking has not advanced beyond about age fifteen -- particularly with regard to property rights. (To be a socialist -- there are no right-wing socialists, nor conservative ones; that leaves the Left -- you have to in essence abandon the idea of property, and insist upon some "right" to take, either in your name or with your own hands.)