1,000+ Madison Protests photos archive.

Keith Wessel - Picture a week. ^ | 2/24/11 | Keith Wessel

[sbMKE]

Photos from the inside of the UW protest at the link above - 1,000 + in chronological order.

[sbMKE]

Dead heads and Phish heads and Dave Matthews fans and burnouts unite in service of the glorious cause.

[McGavin999]

Hope it’s safe. That will make an effective tool in the termination of those who claim to be “sick”.

[relictele]

Did you see the introductory note: “Only when the Tea Party showed up on Feb. 18, did the police appear at all stressed.”

It’s those Tea Party types again. Baiters of police! Enemies of the state! A despicable group whose predilection for wanton violence and baseness of character causes the boys in blue to get their backs up!

What a load of tripe. If there was any stress perhaps it’s because there was an opposing group arriving regardless of who got there first.

[Mygirlsmom]

Only when the Tea Party showed up on Feb. 18, did the police appear at all stressed.”

Not "stressed" so much as uncomfortable, I would wager, because deep in their hearts, they know they are supporting a losing and immoral cause.

[relictele]

It's hard to single any one photo out given that most are mundane, amateurish and/or strictly propaganda material but this one is instructive and illustrative.

Here we have a female. Homely on the best of days with a doughy figure and the inevitable mousy brown hair, since puberty (and perhaps prior to) she has been marginalized in the boys-n-girls clique system that everyone claims to hate but everyone adheres to. She thinks of the protest, the sentiments expressed and the larger issues at hand as nothing more than a fine lark, a day out, a chance to take the self-esteem out for a trot. In the back of her mind, she's hoping to meet someone - anyone - that might be a nice boy (glasses, bad teeth, scraggly beard, smoking habit all OK) and pay a few minutes' attention to her.

Her sign is a combination of naivete, pure unalloyed Marxism and a desperation to include as many buzzwords as possible with a vulgarity included to hammer the point home.

Rich corporations? If all corporations are evil why are we singling out the rich ones? Is it because the poor ones don't hang around long in the meritocracy of the marketplace? Is our anti-Miss America not wearing glasses, a tracksuit, a singlet and (ugh) some slightly visible panties from corporations? Why isn't she wearing handmade/homemade items head to toe?

What exactly are the corporations 'winning?' This is a battle between the state and the public unions. In other words, even when the quarrel is with government those who believe in government as ultimately good and benevolent must direct their wrath at entities who aren't even involved.

As for the [false] emergency - assuming it is an emergency - what's false about it? The governor is executing his official duties, plain and simple. The only 'emergency' is the panic felt by a load of whiners who want collective bargaining but not collective accountability. The 'emergency' is the voluntary, coordinated occupation of the seat of government of ALL the people of a state by a group with an axe to grind.

Yes it's more of the same from these clueless leftists but this one seemed to be a perfect microcosm of what constitutes thought from them.

[CastleMan95]

They all like to trash corporations but where do they think union pension fund $$ are invested? Those same evil corporations are helping to keep their pension funds growing and solvent.

[bert]

She belongs to the Sunday supper club. She and her cronies go out to eat on Sunday. None will admit to not having someone take them out on Friday or Saturday, so they dress up in unused date cloths and commiserate together on Sunday.

Then, they return to their houses they can not afford but bought when mortgages were given away. They don’t turn on many lights and keep the heat low because they have problems with the bills in the winter.

[Nickname]

She puts the “Che” in Cheesehead.

[relictele]

Note that none of the government entities are attempting to escape their financial woes by issuing bonds - probably because they know the bonds would be of junk quality.

In other words, not only is the present day bankrupt but so is the future. Thanks Dems!

[Buckeye McFrog]

there’s enough material in here to keep the ads coming for at least two full election cycles

[zeugma]

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