The next time you hear Kerry whining about Republican "scare tactics," remember Spokane, Wash.

* The next time you hear Kerry whining about Republican "scare tactics," remember Spokane, Wash. There, on Oct. 11, Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters were broken into; a hole was kicked through the wall of an adjacent office, and cash was stolen. On Oct. 1, three laptops with confidential campaign information were purloined from a Bellevue, Wash., Bush-Cheney office. Gunshots pierced campaign headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn.; bullets from another drive-by, in Huntington, W. Va., narrowly missed staffers gathered to watch the president's Sept. 2 convention speech. The AFL-CIO has orchestrated invasion-and-intimidation missions against several Bush-Cheney offices in Florida--where three elderly volunteers were overwhelmed by some three dozen "protesters" in Tampa, and where an Orlando campaign worker had his wrist fractured by labor-union goon squads, who slammed another staffer's head into a glass door. Anti-Republican vandalism is ubiquitous: In Madison, Wis., a Bush supporter had a swastika burned into his lawn with weed killer. Lawn signs have been stolen or defaced almost everywhere, and cars sporting Bush-Cheney stickers are prime targets for attack. Unsurprisingly, there has been little outrage from the mainstream media, and almost no contrition from the perpetrators. There is, however, perspicacity from Internet T-shirt vendors: For $19.95, you can boast that "A person of tolerance and diversity keyed my car."