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Fifth day of mass arrests at Wisconsin’s capitol building where singers got 23 citations
http://www.bluecheddar.net/?p=34541
My favorite part in our updated version of “This land…” is the one that vows opposition to Scott Walker, that promises we will “never” be pushed out, and says that this “house” is “for you and me”.
That word “never” also appears in Article 1 Section 4 of Wisconsin’s constitution: “The right of the people peaceably to assemble, to consult for the common good, and to petition the government, or any department thereof, shall never be abridged.”
Those words have been recited en masse and featured in signs held by unintimidated singalong participants since March of 2011.
Arrests then began.
What I see from the first floor above when mass arrests take place on the rotunda below are a mass of multiple officers in black uniforms encircling each arrestee no matter how sleight the target’s build. Officers come at least 3 at a time but I’ve seen as many as 8 surrounding 1 person. If you were to slit your eyes and blur them a little, and if you were looking down on this from the 1st or 2nd floor in the capitol, it would look like one of those close-up films of a biological process – the blackness coming into the center of a cell, encircling, then taking away the arrested.
That word “never” also appears in Article 1 Section 4 of Wisconsin’s constitution: “The right of the people peaceably to assemble, to consult for the common good, and to petition the government, or any department thereof, shall never be abridged.”
Those words have been recited en masse and featured in signs held by unintimidated singalong participants since March of 2011.
Arrests then began.
What I see from the first floor above when mass arrests take place on the rotunda below are a mass of multiple officers in black uniforms encircling each arrestee no matter how sleight the target’s build. Officers come at least 3 at a time but I’ve seen as many as 8 surrounding 1 person. If you were to slit your eyes and blur them a little, and if you were looking down on this from the 1st or 2nd floor in the capitol, it would look like one of those close-up films of a biological process – the blackness coming into the center of a cell, encircling, then taking away the arrested.