This is another thought that cropped up for me when I read that article about Walker feeling the unions what him dead. Here, in Wisconsin, this isn't a revolution. No, it isn't.
This is a movement done within the confines of existing law, and using methods legally allowed to achieve the end game. It feels good to fight back, and surely we need to, but this has not, and is not, the toppling of a regime in the overthrow a dictator sense. We're not breaking any laws to force his removal from power.
If this were an honest to God revolution, like Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Libya, Bahrain and other points where the Arab Spring kicked off protests, then, yeah, I could see Walker - were he an actual tyrant - being legitimately worried about his well being.
However, the protests were a bunch of angry people with signs who walked around the capitol for a few laps, bought a pasty, and went home to the internet (or maybe slept inside the building). Honestly, this was not a dangerous situation and it remains a safe situation (unkind flare ups like people getting spit on happen or a beer dumped on them but those are far cries from being fucking shot).
Also, Walker isn't a tyrant. He was elected by a slim margin (in fact, only 25% of the state voted for the guy...50% turnout and he got 52% of the vote, so, viola, about 25% said they liked him, meaning 75% did not vote for this guy, however, this is the election system we have), but he was elected. And if he loses the recall election, I imagine he will step down peacefully.
This situation is pretty extreme by modern American standards, verily, but we're not to the overthrow-the-government stage of things. We're not in the chucking firebombs and out running bullets stage. This is people democratically exercising their rights.
We're all pretty much playing by the rules save for a few asshole outliers who are doing stupid things, not dangerous murder-inspiring things. Claiming to be worried about his life right now is flat out ridiculous.
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