Their goal? The permanent destruction of democracy in Wisconsin - and eventually throughout the U.S.

[Scuba]

The Isthmus ran an article about the singers being arrested in the Capitol, and someone who goes by Bill Dunn asked "Why did this never happen in Wisconsin's 165 years of history until Scott Walker became governor?"


Here's the best response ...

http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=40587

From Diane Ayers on 08/06/13 at 6:44 pm
Re Bill Dunn post, your question: "Why did this never happen in Wisconsin's 165 years of history until Scott Walker became governor?"

Because, Bill, this is the first time in Wisconsin history that the core of state government has been illegitmately seized by corporate-owned political fascists, who do not hesitate to suspend civil liberties and distort or defy the constitutional rights guaranteed to this state's citizens.

Their prime directive is to discredit, divide and destroy all those agencies, civic organizations, labor unions,. . even community groups of individual citizens seeking to communicate their views and concerns.

Their goal? The permanent destruction of democracy in Wisconsin - and eventually throughout the U.S. - replacing it with an institutionalized oligarchy that maintains its control by doing away with public education, worker rights, voting rights, etc, -- creating a powerless underclass that will work to serve and fear to challenge their corporate masters -now and for generations to come.

[woo me with science]

1. Real representative democracy poses a problem to banks and corporations.

It is impossible to ensure that wealth and power remain and continue to grow in the same hands over generations when the system is designed to transfer power every few years.

What we witness in our country is their solution to this problem.

By purchasing both parties and the halls of government, they ensure that transfer of power is a myth, merely a facade. By ensuring that corporate interests are ensconced in government no matter which party is in power, they get the equivalent of a hereditary system of kings. Elected office is passed from figurehead to figurehead over the years, but the predatory policies you describe can be enacted without real opposition, and the real wealth and power are funneled over time to the same "family," so to speak.

[awoke_in_2003]

8. Well said. nt

[Dustlawyer]

2. They have hijacked our election process so now we buy our politicians into office with the help

of the corporate controlled media. We need publicly funded elections to get Representative Democracy back. Then let's bust up the banking, media conglomerates, and the MIC!

[msongs]

3. democratically elected by a majority of voters scott walker? dems need to give people something

worth voting for it sounds like

[Hubert Flottz]

4. It's the "New World Order" Poppy Bush was selling 20 years ago.

The same New World Order that the top dogs have been working on since the unions become a player in the world of work.

The "Massa" class wants to rule with the whip again and they don't give a good god damn who they whip to get there. All those "nutty Conspiracy theorists," were never really all wrong, all of the time. The wealthy and powerful are so sure that their "New World Order" is a lock to any remaining messy doors to freedom and democracy, that they openly defy the "Will of the People." They've even thrown our votes in the trash in the past. Now the government can tell when you fart. Those puppets in congress are more about fixing their hair and their offshore bank accounts, than about fixing America. We pay while they play. Scott Walker is a pathetic, flunky, leach. Walker will suck all the remaining life blood out of Wisconsin, but It was Reagan who started the wrecking of organized labor in America.

[Enthusiast]

6. Right on!

[Enthusiast]

5. Kicked and Recommended!

This is great!

[TBF]

7. Wisconsin used to be a progressive state -

it is so sad to see this happen. K&R for the OP.

[Lifelong Protester]

9. Today I wrote to the Governor,

my state senator (one of the heroic 14) and my assemblyman. I told them I was really upset to see the bullying going on in our capitol. When little old ladies in Birkies and 16 year-old kids are being cuffed, arrested, booked, mug shots taken, etc. we have slid TOO FAR down the slope.
I have been in the capitol many times. Believe me, school groups are louder than the singers. Are we to be banned next?

I have also been in the offices of legislators. You can't hear a damn thing coming from the rotunda, so I told them I did not want to hear some crapola about the singing disrupting work. That's a crock.

Thanking the Gov. and assemblyman on work recently done to honor vets, I asked them if perhaps they'd now like to honor the constitution these vets took an oath to uphold (as did the elected officials....)

[CK_John]

10. They got exactly what they voted for, twice. Quit whining.

[Scuba]

14. Did you say the same when Bush was in the Oval Office?

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. k&r

[Scurrilous]

12. K & R

[kentuck]

13. You got it!

And they are very effective at it also.