Tourists Threatened with Arrest in Madison, Wisconsin

[bfealk]

In Scott Walker's Wisconsin visitors and other onlookers are subject to arrest for merely watching the Solidarity Singers sing their protest songs.

Today, even though an officer was warning visitors that they could be subject to arrest, a spokesperson for the administration told the AP that tourists will not be arrested.

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[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. I'll say this for the cop, he didn't seem thrilled to be stuck telling people this.

[cvoogt]

2. so law enforcement makes the laws too?

Wow, I didn't know that.

[They_Live]

3. What about the cop?

Isn't he an observer too? Maybe he should warn himself before arresting himself.

[MissNostalgia]

7. Hahaha

This comment has me imagining this cop looking into his soft pink compact mirror warning himself and eventually massing his reflection and himself. lol

[Squinch]

4. Arresting tourists is part of Walker's plan to help business and increase jobs.

[bfealk]

14. Walker's job plan

It does keep the cops satisfied, at least some of them. One officer earned $40,000 in overtime last year.

[W T F]

5. Illegal to watch?....under what statute?

[1monster]

6. So, if one is simply admiring the architecture of the rotunda and a sing along is

happening at the same time, one is subject to arrest?

I'd love to see the law suit that emerges from that kind of action.

These guys are facist nuts.

[annm4peace]

8. Have the Vets for Peace made it there yet

the National Vets for Peace convention started in Madison yesterday.

I would think they are going to the Capitol one of these days.

[bfealk]

13. Vets for Peace

They will be at the Capitol in force, today I suspect. Their treasurer got arrested and jailed yesterday.

[annm4peace]

9. What is this law?

is it posted any place?

[amuse bouche]

10. Fascism

seems to be accepted more and more accepted in the country

[malthaussen]

11. My first impression was...

... who did that cop piss off to get stuck with that detail.

My second impression was: may I see the statute, officer?

-- Mal

[hatrack]

12. Yeah, that guy with the oxygen canula, a real threat to public order . . .

Is it Fascism yet?

[annm4peace]

15. Very cool ... I saw that most definitely the Vets for Peace are there.

Day 8 of mass arrests in Wisconsin capitol: 15 arrests, Vets for Peace, more.

http://www.bluecheddar.net/?p=34710


Today, August 7, 2013, the number of singers arrested in the capitol rotunda was 15 [source=WI DOA]. This was the 8th day of mass arrests since July 24th.

Many vets from around the nation are visiting Madison this week for the Veterans For Peace 28th Annual Convention “POWER TO THE PEACEFUL” and a contingent took part in today’s sing.
(Side note: Check out the event. Films, workshops, panels, music, and a Saturday 4PM parade August 7 – 11)

A vet from the Janesville area visited with the intention of videotaping some of the singing from the 1st floor for a piece he’s pulling together for a local cable show back home. He was approached by police and told that if he stayed where he was he risked arrest. He walked away without getting video.

Officers also around the same time warned another visiting man, Mike, that he had to leave when he was standing within 20 feet of Wisconsin Senator Jon Erpenbach who was speaking with another gaggle of press. (So maybe WI legislator Sondy Pope could have gotten away with observing the other day if only the press were present?) Mike asked the police where he could stand in the building without risking arrest and they replied somewhere where he would not be viewing singers.

http://wcmcoop.com/2013/08/07/vietnam-war-veteran-arrested-in-wisconsin-capitol-while-standing-up-for-free-speech/

Vietnam War Veteran Arrested in Wisconsin Capitol While Standing Up for Free Speech
August 7, 2013 by Lady Forward

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