As quoted in Wikipedia regarding Nathaniel Taggart: "When a Senator attempted to block one of his initiatives with a law that Taggart saw as serving no higher purpose than to obstruct him, Taggart had the man murdered. The offending bill died with that politician. This is important because his descendant Dagny Taggart would threaten to do something similar if any politicians tried to stop one of her own initiatives."

My question is this: Does Ayn Rand support murder in the case of political obstructionism? Or was it just good fiction to lay a precedent in Atlas Shrugged? What is permitted to shut down threats when someone proposes to obstruct?