That's a legitimate concern. But that doesn't mean there aren't any real conspiracies. But in a free market, private employers also have the right to continue their operations, with replacement workers if they so choose, and equally free of sabotage or violent reprisal. The committee should find out. But when committee chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch says union officials should face the same penalties as anyone else when they do incite violence, he should get no argument.
Government exists to protect our rights and freedoms.
If government plays favorites in deciding who to prosecute for plotting violence for personal gain, then government no longer has any legitimate excuse to exist, at all. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The column is syndicated in the United States and Canada via Mountain Media Syndications, P.O. Box 4422, Las Vegas Nev. 89127. All rights reserved.