Violence and Threats in Politics Must Not Be Tolerated. Period.
My friend, Josh Shapiro, and his family nearly lost their lives last night to a violent man bent on political destruction, fire-bombing the PA Governor's mansion with Molotov cocktails made from beer bottles and gasoline. Horrific, nasty and brutish does not begin to describe the mood of our political landscape in America today. That this attack occurred on the first day of Passover, a day when Josh and his family had welcomed many Pennsylvanians of the Jewish faith for a seder in their home, cannot have escaped notice of the law enforcement professionals investigating this incident. Where politics and religion intertwine, violence often follows. History is rife with this theme, and centuries of violence all over the globe are replete with examples. The irony of using a faith that holds "love they neighbor" as its Golden Rule into a justification for violence is not lost on any thinking person. It is through the hard-earned wisdom of this that our nation's Founde...
