2) I, after attending a protest, note that protesters were all very well behaved so that Jane Galt's "Goon Squad" would be unnecessary.
3) Children protesting in Georgia were hit with a cinder block by someone driving by. I note facetiously that Jane Galt's goon squad had gone to Georgia.
4) Jane gets lots of nasty emails apparently. Jane gets upset about all the incivility, and to prove her point has this parting shot to all the Saddam-sympathizers:
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I'm not responding to your deliberate attempt to cast me as Bull Connor in your own private resistance fantasy in which you singlehandedly save the people of Iraq and the world by -- agitating to keep Sadaam Hussein in power. If you can't read and comprehend multi-syllabic words strung together in a long row, this is probably not the correct forum to remedy the situation.
And Mark Kleiman takes me to task for misrepresenting Jane's words.
Well, whatever.
I don't condone sending pointlessly obscene emails to anyone, and nor did I ask anyone to. But I find it a bit odd that someone has a problem with my linking of Galt's calls for inappropriate vigilante violence to (admittedly different) vigilante violence on the grounds that doing so might cause some inappropriate emails. If my words are somehow irresponsible for that reason, then so were hers, which was the point of the 'goon squad' comment in the first place.
But, please stop sending nasty obscene emails to people. Except Mark Kleiman (Joke, Mark!).