First Amendment is on life support in Wisconsin

[Lefta Dissenter]

The cops are now tracking down Solidarity Singers at their homes in order to issue citations for holding banners in the Wisconsin State Capitol.

http://wcmcoop.com/2012/09/10/new-capitol-police-tactic-home-delivery-of-citations/

[msongs]

1. dear wisconsin - you get what you vote for. have a nice day :-) nt

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. hey, thanks for the support. :( (n/t)

[Lifelong Protester]

3. well, I'm guessing none of the Solidarity Singers

voted for Walker.

Please remember, Scooter only won 51% of the vote (give or take a percentage) so there are a lot of us who did NOT get what we voted for.

Oh, and have a nice day to you too.

[Scuba]

5. I didn't vote for him. Thanks a lot.

[ananda]

7. One word answer: Waukesha

nt

[gollygee]

8. The Constitution applies even if they voted in a bad governor :-) nt

[midnight]

12. msongs... I don't think that we got what we voted for... I think we got what private corporate

source code was programed for.... http://wisconsinwave.org/nmse

In Wisconsin, no such hand-examination is done --- not without both a recount request and an order from a judge. They simply do not do manual, post-election spot checks of ballots in WI, other than for Presidential elections, and even then it is only done months after the election has concluded. So there is no way to know if the results reported by the computers reflect what the actual ballots say in Wisconsin.

The numbers used to certify their elections are based entirely on whatever the computers report the results to be. Those results, therefore, are either accurate or they are not.

So, the Exit Polls, the mainstream media's account of them, and the results themselves in Wisconsin are either accurate or not. The results tonight, according to the Associated Press with 99%of precincts reporting, show Walker winning his recall election by a full 7 points over Barrett.

Similarly, Walker's Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch is said to have won her recall challenge by 6 points, and three of the four Republican state Senators up for recall reportedly won by either similar or greater margins.http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9332

[Scuba]

4. Another intimidation tactic, this one designed to be less of a photo op for our side.

Thanks for being there and helping to protect our rights.

[Lefta Dissenter]

6. You're welcome, Scuba

And you're SO right about the photo op. It didn't look good when they had 8 cops descend on a female disabled veteran in the rotunda to arrest her for what they thought she did earlier in the day. After the first one, we had citizen journalists at the homes of a few friends, in case they were next to be arrested. I'm guessing there might be a couple of tickets handed out today when people head in to the Capitol.

And yes, the cumulative group of people who participate in the sing alongs probably collected more recall signatures than any other group.

[porphyrian]

9. Corporate monetary donations - protected by First Amendment. Holding signs in public building - not?

What the fuck? I'd expect this from Florida, but not from you guys.

[Scuba]

10. Scott Walker and his henchmen work for the Kochs. Period.

[porphyrian]

11. Ah, now I get it. n/t