Walker's police force now arresting journalists

[xmas74]

I went to the Wisconsin capitol again today to report on the Solidarity Singers, as I’ve done many times before. I was not intending to get arrested. Nor did I want to get arrested. But that’s what happened.

https://www.progressive.org/walker-cop-nabs-me-for-being-a-reporter

What the hell happened to my home state?! Every day it just keeps getting worse.

[winterpark]

1. Would these be the same police who helped him get elected then he took away their

collective bargaining rights? Someone might want to splain that to them

[xmas74]

2. I thought he decided to treat the capital force differently.

Seems like they were the the animals that were MORE equal than others.

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Fascism. Here's a video by activist/journalist Jenna Pope (arrested multiple times) :

[xmas74]

4. Once again, I wish I could rec a single post in a thread.

It's just wrong.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. :) Solidarity with all Wisconsin activists! n/t

[xmas74]

6. Exactly.

There is no reason to have happen what is happening there.

[PowerToThePeople]

13. beautiful.

[malthaussen]

7. "This is getting absurd, guys."

Truer words were never spoken. It's getting hard for me to believe these are American citizens pulling this crap. The police are becoming mindless automata.

-- Mal

[xmas74]

8. It's mind blowing.

I was born and raised during most of my childhood in Wisconsin. I miss it all the time and think about when I can someday finally return. This crap makes me think twice about returning to my home.

[malthaussen]

9. Until police departments start firing cops for frivolous arrests,

they're just gonna keep arresting anybody who pisses them off. This is not the way it is supposed to be in a free country.

-- Mal

[cui bono]

11. The police must have something in their training that tells them they are our bosses

and when we get "insubordinate" they are to put us in our place and teach them who's boss.

I would be very interested in seeing exactly what the training is like. Would be an interesting documentary, having people go through training undercover in various police academies.

[xmas74]

22. I quite working as a dispatcher years ago

because I saw too many frivolous arrests and heard too many disgusting comments. It hasn't got any better since.

[liberalhistorian]

29. Is it just me, or has

Der Walkenfuhrer gotten even worse since the failed recall last summer? Seems to me that that made him even more smug and arrogant and dictatorial than before. I really do NOT understand why Wisconsin did not recall this motherfucker and why they still tolerate him and his dictatorial cabal still being in office.

[socialist_n_TN]

30. We analyzed this pretty good when it was going on.........

It's pretty simple really. Wisconsin, like a lot of places, is a pretty polarized state. The uprising surprised all the politicos on both sides and it was showing signs of becoming more and more militant. There was even talk by a labor organization about a general strike. I believe a vote was taken that authorized the leadership to call one. This step would have been WAY too much for the PTBs of both parties, even though it wasn't ever really a serious threat. So they did what they do, take the anger of the working class and put it into a "safe" channel, i.e. a vote. They then set up the EXACT SAME SCENARIO OF THE 2010 ELECTION! Same candidates, same basic issues. And guess what? Same outcome and I believe by the same percentages.

True it WAS a missed opportunity, but it wasn't a missed opportunity because of a vote. Workers needed to take that next step. It might not have worked, but we saw how well the vote actually worked out. There were some shady things going on with the vote too.

Basically, the owners weren't going to allow any other outcome than what happened within the system. If you REALLY wanted to change things, the workers of Wisconsin needed to attempt to bypass the system and their leadership didn't let that happen either.

Today is the results of those failures.

[HereSince1628]

33. Yes, the 'shove it down their throats' crowd in the capital is emboldened

I think it's really quite sad that we succeeded in forcing the special election, a rather rare achievement in the USA. It just ended up raising then dashing the hopes of a lot of dems outside the state, and raising their fears that such troubles may come to them. Disappointed anxious dems aren't great for morale .

The reality is socially minded people of Wisconsin lost a big battle to the anti-social forces of the anti-urban teahadists. Now their putsch of phalangist/neoFeudal radicalism continues and has yet to run out of mind numbingly shocking practices.

But within the reality there are still people in WI who have never conceded the political war is lost. They resist in their small way, giving those in control of WI government every opportunity to expose the inglorious character of the masters of the new world order they serve.

[Iliyah]

10. This is the new USA.

Let gopers in for an inch and they take a foot and never look back. Change rules and laws to benefit their quest for complete power and control. WI didn't rid him back at the recall election, reap with you sow.

[tblue37]

20. That's exactly what Morsi did after he was elected in Egypt,

and, of course, as everyone knows, that is what Hitler did.

They get into power by way of elections, then dismantle the democratic underpinnings of their society so that they can expand and consolidate their power without effective resistance from the populace.

[SamReynolds]

32. Actually, that's not what Morsi did. But the US media told you he did, so you believed it.

Didn't you?

I don't know that he was a good guy or not, I just know that the situation after his election was intractable because all the judges were still Mubarak appointments. The people were screaming for him to 'create a parliament!', 'create a government!', but he couldn't because the judges stopped him at every attempt to do anything.

So he did the one thing that the media reported: He suspended the power of the judiciary. What your media left out was the part about WHY he did it.

Those judges are Mubarak's judges, but you didn't know that, did you?

[SamReynolds]

40. It's no surprise you'd have nothing to say about that.

It's just easier that way, isn't it?

[xmas74]

23. I'm hoping they will get rid of him with their next election.

I don't think he's all that popular there. Also, lots of questions about voter fraud were raised with the recall election, all in his favor.

[HereSince1628]

34. You have yet to see Walker's new USA, he dreams of the presidency...

Two and a half-years of Walker, and he and his teahadist legislature's repression still have the power to shock.

With the power of the presidency and a supportive Congress the novus ordo seclorum the depths of the perversion of democracy would have no bounds.

[perdita9]

12. May Scott Walker Defund the Police Pension Account!

It's what they deserve.

Arresting people for singing -- unbelievable!

[xmas74]

24. He won't do that.

He needs someone to enforce his crap laws.

[HereSince1628]

35. Of course, it's not -really- about singing

or watching people sing.

It's about people promoting solidarity against the practices of those who govern. Its about publishing stories that expose the resistance to the ALEC puppets and Koch Cronies.

The creeps inside the capitol will tolerate no resistance to their anti-social, anti-democracy orientation.

The justification for this grew out of reaction to scaring the protestors shit out of Glenn Grothman during the protests in 2011 as seen here.

The pogrom against national and state constitutional guarantees at the WI capital is really about creating a one-party state, with politics "uniformly" enforced.

[chuckstevens]

14. They HATE us because of our freedoms!

Didn't we hear that from the right all during the Bush years? When will these stupid, ignorant right-wingers, who profess their love of the constitution, finally get it and stop voting for Koch Brother puppets like Snot Walker?

[xmas74]

25. They don't really care about freedom.

They just want to feel superior to other groups. As long as it doesn't affect them...

[Berlum]

27. George AWOL Bush & the RepubliWankers always spew FALSE eeeevil deceptive project-o-poo

[kentuck]

15. The Constitution is just a damn piece of paper to these people...

the sooner we recognize that, the better.

[valerief]

18. They probably all use Constitution-printed toilet paper when they're out of

fifty-dollar bills.

[xmas74]

26. And it's disgusting.

What happened to this country?

[valerief]

16. Cuz that's what fascists do. nt

[Blaspherian]

17. Why are the police assisting him

when he's gunning for them next?

[Enthusiast]

19. Obviously you are not on the list of approved journalists.

[tblue37]

21. This is what they do in dictatorships--they suppress the free press

under the pretense of law. Reporting has been criminalized by these fascists.

[mick063]

36. I am just waiting for approval to revoke Godwin's law.

I hope I get the ok before it is too late.

[d_r]

28. these days

obstruction = talking back to a cop

[awoke_in_2003]

31. Same thing that happened to my home state...

(Ohio)- pukes are taking over.

[woo me with science]

37. kick

[woo me with science]

38. kick

[NCarolinawoman]

39. This breaks my heart. This is too terrible.

Don't see Ed Schultz anymore. I forget he's on. Seems he would show this. Needs more media attention.

World News and Washington stuff is suffocating other news. Also, all the weather related ongoing tragedies. But this should be news as well!