The web is buzzing about violence and vandalism directed at Democrats.

The vandalism began last weekend, when the House debated the health bill for final passage. In Wichita, someone broke the window of a county Democratic Party headquarters with a brick that had “No to Obama” and “No ObamyCare” written on it. Lyndsey Stauble, executive director of the Sedgwick County Democratic Party, said she went to work Saturday morning to clean up the shattered glass around her desk.

… Over the next 24 hours, thrown bricks shattered the glass doors and windows of party headquarters from Rochester, N.Y., to Cincinnati. A propane gas line at the Charlottesville home of Rep. Tom Perriello’s brother was severed Tuesday after a self-identified “tea party” activist posted what he believed to be the Virginia Democrat’s address on a Web site and urged opponents to “drop by” to convey their opposition to his yes vote on the health bill.

A brick was thrown through the Niagara Falls district office of Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.), who also received a threatening voice-mail message referring to sniper attacks. The front door to the Tucson district office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shattered. And Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), whose last-minute negotiations to bar federal funding of abortion helped secure the bill’s passage, received a fax with a drawing of a noose and an anonymous voice mail saying: “You’re dead. We know where you live. We’ll get you.”

In Washington on Wednesday, the attacks were roundly condemned, with some congressional leaders wondering whether the long fight over health care had unleashed an ugly dimension to the modern political discourse.

“If we fail to learn the lessons of our history, we are bound to repeat them,” said House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.). “I think all of us learned some great lessons from the ’60s and ’70s, and there are some lessons that none of us want to repeat, but one thing we know, as Steny Hoyer said, ‘Silence is consent.’ ”

House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) called the incidents unacceptable.

“I know many Americans are angry over this health-care bill, and that Washington Democrats just aren’t listening,” Boehner told Fox News Channel. “But, as I’ve said, violence and threats are unacceptable. That’s not the American way. We need to take that anger and channel it into positive change. Call your congressman, go out and register people to vote, go volunteer on a political campaign, make your voice heard — but let’s do it the right way.”

To start with, Boehner is absolutely right. These attacks are unacceptable, and if the perpetrators are caught, they should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

However, there are several interesting things that went floating through my head when I read the MSM’s take about these incidents.

First, it’s disturbing that the MSM has automatically shifted into the “all-righties-are-nutjobs” meme. It’s to be expected, of course, but it’s simply wrong, wrong, wrong. The media loves the crazy-right-wingers angle, but rarely do you ever hear about the violence you see regularly on the left side of the aisle. Liberals tend to resort to violence much more often than conservatives do. Conservative bloggers have already started rounding up the evidence to prove this point. Sister Toldjah eviscerates the media and provides several examples of lefty violence. John McCormack notes that not too long ago, Stupak was getting death threats from supporters of the Obamacare bill, not opponents. Newsbusters examines the media’s myth of right-wing violence, and provides more examples of lefty violence — including a liberal who bit off a conservatives finger, Hummer dealerships that were burned down, SEIU union thugs who beat a black conservative man, liberal threats to bomb the 2008 Republican National Convention, and more. Glenn Reynolds also remembers a lot of violence being directed towards conservatives and Republicans here. Remember the bullet-ridden Bush-Cheney headquarters? Vandalized GOP offices? And who can forget the hatred spewed onto conservative women? Michelle Malkin is practically an expert in this category, although she’s by far not alone. Being conservative and having a vagina means that you are worse than Bushitler McChimpyhalliburton to the left. Women are supposed to be liberal, and they’re all supposed to be in love with abortion. Express anything to the contrary, and you must be destroyed — or, at the very least, reduced to a some kind of crude sexual slave to Republican men.

The point of all this is, violence is just as prevalent on the left as it is on the right. At least with conservatives and tea parties, the violent wackos are just a few lone nutjobs that are immediately denounced by practically everyone else in the movement. With liberals, the violence is welcomed and applauded if it’s even mentioned at all. Most of the time, there’s just silence, and there’s never a denunciation of the violence from liberal leaders.

When you think about all of this, can Democrats really afford to make such a big drama out of this? These incidents are wrong, and like I said, the people responsible should be held accountable to the fullest extent. But perhaps Democrats should examine and deal with the amount of violence in their own party before they start looking to condemn the few instances in ours.

There was one other thing that I kept thinking over and over again when I heard about these incidents. The Revolutionary War wasn’t fought for much more than this. The American people are angry — furious, in fact. They’ve been steadily fighting this bill for the past year. They’ve made their voices heard. It couldn’t have been more obvious if it had bit the Democrats on their collective noses. Yet Democrats passed it anyways. They completely ignored the will of the constituents they are elected to serve. Did they really expect that there would be no consequences? Actions bring results, and they aren’t always good. You take an angry populace who is begging you to listen to them, and then do the exact opposite of what they want, and you’re just asking for trouble. It’s to be expected that a few people are going to go off the deep end. And yes, those people should be punished. But come on, Dems — you gotta realize, you reap what you sow. Not too long ago, citizens of the British empire were overtaxed and living under tyranny. It didn’t take much more of a spark to set off a war. Democrats seem to be emulating the British tyranny now. Another revolution isn’t the answer, but like I said — actions have consequences. You cannot trample the rights of the American people without some pushback.

This is a lesson to be learned by Democrats, not by tea partiers or conservatives or Republicans. They wrought this hell upon the country, and eventually, they’re going to have to pay… although hopefully, it will be in a non-violent manner which consists of voting their sorry asses out of office in November.

UPDATE:

I had originally cross-posted this at the Green Room at Hot Air. It was removed because apparently what I wrote comes across like I am condoning the violence and the attacks. I just want to be clear: this is not the message I am trying to convey. I also don’t believe that secession or revolution is the best course of action, and frankly, I get irritated when people talk about it as if it is a viable option. To me, that’s a huge overreaction. Yes, our representatives in Washington are not representing us well. That doesn’t mean that it’s time to overthrow the government. We still have the ability to vote them out in November. When the day comes where we can’t vote out our congressmen or our president, well, then we can talk about the possibility of revolution. Clearly, we are far from that. There were just a few points I was trying to make. One, that Republicans suffer the same violence and vandalism that Democrats do, if not worse. Two, that Democrats were making a mountain out of a molehill. Three, that the Revolutionary War happened because of a tyrannical, oppressive government. The British were sending combat troops into colonial towns and dissolving local governments; militias were established because of this. While our current situation is not nearly as dire, we are being faced with a governing majority — the Democrats — who are marching in lockstep towards tyranny. Fourth and finally, that Democrats have to accept that actions do have consequences. It doesn’t excuse the violence, but it is still the truth. I don’t mean that they deserve it or even should have expected it — simply that they had to realize there would be negative repercussions if they passed Obamacare against the will of the people. I encourage these actions when they are legal — getting involved in tea parties, volunteering with your local GOP, helping register people to vote, calling or writing your congressman, etc. Illegal activities, such as throwing bricks through a window, are WRONG. There is no excuse and the people responsible should be punished. I never intended to convey a different message, which is why I repeated my belief that the offenders should be punished repeatedly throughout the article.

I hope this clears up my intentions and my thoughts in this piece.