Politicized Prosecution Run Amok in Wisconsin

Natonal Review Online ^ | April 21, 2015 | Rich Lowry

[Old Sarge]

This is NOT the future. This is the NOW.

Wisconsin was the rollout, the proof-of-concept stage. Now they know they can do it, and get away with it. Weaponized persecution of political opponents under color of law.

Yes, it might be at the Supreme Court level, but remember that the legal industry is populated by Leftist fellow-travelers. They can tie up any complaint in litigation for years, while the stormtroopers keep kicking in doors.

For thus has the Lord said unto me:
“Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”
Isaiah 21:6

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

Wisconsin was the rollout, the proof-of-concept stage. Now they know they can do it, and get away with it. Weaponized persecution of political opponents under color of law.

J.R. Dunn saw this too but he didn't (no one did) imagine how far the left would take it. [and back then, few believed that Obama could win a second term]

July 6, 2011: Democrats Unveil the Weapon of the Future "What do the political battles in Wisconsin and the Spanish Civil War have in common? A disturbing characteristic.

The Spanish Civil War is one of those events that are on the way to becoming forgotten history. The term "civil war" is a bit misleading, since the conflict internationalized itself in short order, with Hitler and Mussolini lining up with the rebels, or "Nationalists", and Stalin backing the "Republicans" (actually a motley gaggle of various left-wing elements). The dictatorships utilized Spain as a proving ground for new tactics and weapons, including the Me-109, fighter-bomber, the Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber, along with Rotte fighter tactics and area bombing raids, such as that carried out against Guernica. The war ended in 1939 with the defeat of the Republicans, even as World War II was looming. The Germans learned quite a lot in Spain that they applied to the Blitzkrieg campaigns against Poland and France. (Uncle Joe might have picked up a few things if he hadn't decided to have most of the officers sent to Spain shot on their return.)

Something similar, though on a much lower key (no massacres or bombing raids yet) has been occurring in Wisconsin over the past few months: a nearly open civil war instigated by the left in order to test an array of new tactics.

Last February, newly-elected governor Scott Walker signed a budget containing minor reforms aimed at the public-employees unions. Union members would be required to pay small amounts into their pension and health-care funds. Collective bargaining was curtailed on this and other matters in order to assure that these reforms would remain permanent.

Wisconsin's civil war started then and there. The Democratic senators fled the state to deprive Walker of a quorum. Shortly afterward, tens of thousands of union members -- many imported from out of state -- laid siege to the capitol. They remained for weeks, engaging in vandalism, menacing state officials, and uttering death threats against anyone voting in favor of the reforms.

.............This is an extraordinary series of events, of a type that we haven't witnessed before. Even more singular is the legacy media's insistence on covering the story (with the exception of the siege of Madison, which got the standard "unions unbound" treatment) as if it were commonplace to the point of boredom. It is no such thing; it is an ideological campaign of a magnitude and breadth that we have not seen in quite some time, if ever.

What all this amounts to is the baptism of fire of what I have taken to calling the "liberal superstructure." This superstructure is the vast constellation of advocacy groups, think tanks, single-issue outfits, unions, and various other flotsam constructed by the left over the past half-century or so. There are literally thousands of these groups, ranging from the ACLU and the Sierra Club with their hundreds of thousands of members to the local "Friends of the People's Venezuela" outfit which amounts to a retired feminism professor and her six cats. These organizations are ubiquitous, universal, and networked to a fare-thee- well. They are also liberalism's last great hope of controlling politics in the United States."......

[BraveMan]

Thank you for bringing this to light.

I think its worth mentioning this has been going on since before 2012 with still no end in sight.

The Wisconsin GAB has been fully on board with this Lawfare as well, also going back to before 2012. Quite literally, millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent by the leftist powers in government over this partisan witch hunt.

Scott Walker has to be the most vetted candidate in the history of this nation. All this effort and yet no dirt to show for all the digging. I wouldn’t want to be in John Chisholm’s shoes on Judgement Day.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I think its worth mentioning this has been going on since before 2012 with still no end in sight.

Yes. And it's important to note that the subpoenas were for everything back to 2009.

[sport]

No, this is the now.

[sport]

Ban all SWAT raids, period. Disband all SWAT reams.

[Old Sarge]

Oh, that is a good read, THANK you - I think I’ll save that one for use.

[sport]

The jackboot lickers tell us that the police will never, if ordered, turn on the American people. They will never, if ordered, round up Americans and put them in concentration camps. They will never, if ordered, go door to door arresting legitimate gun owners and taking their guns. They would never, if ordered, open fire upon American citizens. Therefore, this can't be happening, but is has happened. As the Jews in Germany in the 1930s said, "We [Germany] are a civilized people and Nation, this can't be happening. But it is happening."

[Another Therefore clause] Therefore, we are further along than we thought. And we thought we were a long way down the tract.

[sport]

I would not hold my breath. Nor would I bet the farm that the WI SC or the U.S,SC will come to the rescue.

[sport]

Actually Boston was the proving ground of where the police could go door to door arresting people , under the guise of looking for criminals without public uproar. I understand and know that no one was arrested, but, all they would need to do so was have vans, trucks, and busses to load the subjects of their searches into. They went through all the other procedures, running them out of their homes, hands up, searching them, and sending them down the street.

Not only was there no public outroar, the public supported them and cheered them on. The Officials learned a valuable lesson there. The lesson? When that is to be done for real, just make up criminal group to say that you are searching for. If you observe the causal manner the police, riding on the sides of their armored vehicles, approached the houses, you could tell immediately that they knew that there were no armed individuals in those houses.

[Old Sarge]

Therefore, we are further along than we thought. And we thought we were a long way down the tract.

[Old Sarge]

there are always plenty of willing jackboots available for the midnight raids.

You are more right than you realize.

The engine of tyranny is built, it remains only for the starter to crank.

[null and void]

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

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Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

We're armed so you don't have to be...

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008

They don’t call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps that we deserve) defense. The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.

I think of theem as the NatCCC, or more simply, as the NatCs...

[Darksheare]

No, tarred and feathered, then shot for blatant criminality and conspiracy to violate the guaranteed rights of Americans.

[Georgia Girl 2]

No CWII is the near future. This kind of stuff will culminate in uprisings. People are sick of it.

[tacticalogic]

CWII will be fought between the citizens of the Republic and the subjects of DC.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's still all in litigation BUT the state [taxpayers] has been having to to pay for the defense of the DA and the prosecutor.

March 4, 2015: "MADISON, Wis. — Taxpayers conservatively have spent north of $775,000 defending the prosecutors of a politically charged John Doe investigation driven on a legal theory that even the prosecutors have rejected.

The state, as of Monday, had paid $368,654.60 for the legal defense of Francis Schmitz, the special prosecutor for the multi-county John Doe probe into dozens of conservative organizations and Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign, according to information obtained by Wisconsin Reporter through an open records request................."

[rawcatslyentist]

This is the present!

All they have to do is drop a single cannabis seed on your property! 4th amendment? That's so 1776!

[rawcatslyentist]

" the homosexual movement. It’s not about tolerance."