-- Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, writing in dissent





SEIU Gets Threatening Phone Call: “You’re Gonna Come Up Against The Second Amendment”



An official with SEIU, which has been sending members to town halls to counterbalance the Tea Party brigade, sends over this audio of a phone call the union received on its central voicemail system, threatening to teach union officials a thing or two about “the Second Amendment”…







The call seems to refer to reports today to scuffles in St. Louis between SEIU members and town hall rowdies.



“I suggest you tell your people to calm down, act like American citizens, and stop trying to repress people’s First Amendment rights,” the caller says. “That, or you all are gonna come up against the Second Amendment.”



More in a bit.



Update: Brian Beutler reports that an anti-health care reform organizer is explicitly calling on the troops to “carry” and if SEIU members get disruptive, to “hurt them.”

For all those years the Supreme Court was smart enough to steer clear of a definition of just what right "to keep and bear arms" the Second Amendment refers to. (Never mind that blather about "a well-regulated militia." We wanna go bang!) Then in blundered the Mad-Dog Activist Justices, surely less qualified to venture into such tricky territory than any incarnation of the Court in modern history, and laid the foundation for the violent thuggery now being threatened by the lunatics of the Insane Right.As yesterday on The Plum Line:Now what's really creepy here is the way the New Armed Legions of the Far, Far Right have literally everything upside down: who's suppressing free speech, who's fomenting revolution, who the Nazis are (there's nothing being done by the American Right, either politically or tactically, that wasn't developed and perfected by the Nazis, allowing for the advances in technology that today's fascists loons can avail themselves of), who's not only threatening but beginning to commit violence. Diane, from the clip, is 100 percent wrong in every diseased word she utters. She of course is the one threatening murder on behalf of the cadres of violent right-wing sociopaths who hate everything this country stands for and are prepared to use any means available to them to institute the fascists dictatorship they lust for. I think it's safe to guess that on the issues Diane imagines worth descending into an orgy of violence over, she is 100 percent misinformed.