A Specter of Violence is Haunting Our Democracy

That's Michael Walsh, at New York Post, "Attack on civility: ‘Occupy’ alive in NY, DC" (via Glenn Reynolds):

A specter is haunting America — the specter of violence that challenges the notion of civil discourse and threatens our democracy. Embodied by the Occupy Wall Street rabble and its imitators, and shamefully abetted by far too many Democratic elected officials, what once masqueraded as “dissent” is now unmasked as partisan thuggery.

I like how Walsh is riffing on the Communist Manifesto, which begins, "A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism."