Wisconsin - Erwins Campaign of Intimidation: It's Not Working (subtitled: Screw us and we multiply)

[Scuba]

Coverage thanks to Worley Dervish.

Yesterday I went to the Wisconsin State Capitol at noon for the Solidarity Sing Along, as I frequently do. There were a good number of us there, all of them my friends. (If you've been to the Solidarity Sing Along, then you're a friend of mine, to put a little twist on one of my favorite songs.) Lisa and Jason were there, as were Brandon and Bart, along with sixty or so others, all doing pretty much the same thing for an hour: holding signs and singing our lefty liberal bleeding hearts out.

Yesterday afternoon, three hours and twenty minutes after the Sing Along ended, the Capitol police showed up at Lisa and Jason's house and issued them both two citations for obstructing access and holding signs over a railing in the Capitol. About an hour later, Brandon was stopped as he was walking through the Capitol. Apparently, the Capitol Police had paid him a visit at home too, but he wasn't there. How lucky for them that he just happened to be passing through! He was brought downstairs to the Capitol Police Station, where he was issued a citation.

According to Dane101, Tuesday morning the Capitol Police showed up at Bart's workplace to issue him two citations for obstructing access and for holding a sign in the Capitol the previous day.

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Chief Erwin, if you're worried about publicity, you should be. The whole world is watching what happens in the great state of Wisconsin. To get your shiny new job, did you make the mistake of promising your boss that you could rid the Capitol of our daily presence? If that's what you're on about, it's not working. After yesterday's news of four more citations being issued and visits paid to participants' homes, more than 140 showed up to help safeguard free speech in the People's House, more than twice as many as yesterday. As my friends are fond of saying, "Screw us and we multiply."

[socialindependocrat]

1. We are forced to pay taxes to get fined - who's state house is it anyway!

How many states are claiming they are in arears on their highway budget and need extra money from the Feds because they've put up thousands of traffic cameras so they can fine people to get money to put up more traffic cameras?

If the intent is to stop traffic accidents why not put up traffic lights that have a yellow count-down number like they use in the crosswalks?

Another idea: Have the green light go on 2 seconds after the red has come on.
This would mean that cars would not be prompted to start moving until the cars
crossing the intersection were almost all the way through.

Are we trying to save people from injury or are we trying to get more money
to build a larger government?

[hue]

2. Chief Erwin needs to spend some time in solitary confinement to contemplate his actions!! IMO