Posted on 04/21/2015 12:20:52 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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RUSH: Some truly outrageous things that have gone on in the state of Wisconsin that have happened at the same time as -- and as part of -- the effort to destroy Scott Walker. A similar effort, almost identical effort was made to destroy anybody and everybody who supported him and vote for him or donated money to him.
This effort was conducted by law enforcement!
Think of it this way: What do you think the greatest fear of the innocent is if law enforcement comes calling? Have you ever thought about this? Maybe some of you have experienced it. You are totally innocent. Nevertheless, you are being pursued. What is your greatest fear?
Your greatest fear is the system is gonna totally fail you and that there is nobody to stop an out-of-control cop, nobody to stop an out-of-control prosecutor, nobody to stop a corrupt judge, and that you're gonna be had no matter the fact that you are terribly innocent.
That is a fear a lot of people have, and it was routinely occurring in the state of Wisconsin during the recall efforts of Scott Walker and during the general elections and campaigns of Scott Walker. Now, everybody knows what he went through. Everybody knows what his family went through. What nobody outside the state of Wisconsin knows -- until now, because National Review has uncovered it in great detail with a story by David French.
Nobody knew what just average, ordinary nameless, faceless people who happened to just donate to him or vote for him went through as well. Midnight raids on their homes. Police with battering rams breaking down their front doors at midnight, at one or two in the morning. It was never explained why law enforcement was after them. They were forbidden to tell anybody who was going on. The neighborhood saw it all happen.
The neighborhood, people in the neighborhood wondered, "What in the world did that family do? My God, we got scared to death!" The cops didn't have to explain anything, whatever the prosecutor wanted -- and his name is one I hope you will never forget, as well as the judge involved in this. I hope neither of these names do you ever forget, because they are the essence of liberal Democrat corruption run amok with no limits and no stops whatsoever.
It is frighteningly outrageous. It's the kind of stuff that Hollywood makes movies about that, when you watch, you might fear it, but you would never, ever dream of it really happening. That's why it's in a movie. So I want to try to explain in a little bit more detail what this story is about. But ultimately you're gonna have to read it at National Review.
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RUSH: I've been sitting on the Wisconsin Scott Walker story. I got it Sunday night. They sent me a prepublication copy of it, a PDF file. I started reading it, and I said, "There is no way that I'm gonna be ready to do this justice by Monday," which was yesterday. So I spent a little bit more time on it. So hopefully I'll get to it today with just enough of a summary to intrigue you enough to make you go read it. You've gotta read this. You have to. It's a National Review, and it's by David French.
Let me give you the actual title of the story. "John Doe's Tyranny -- Wisconsin conservatives have been subjected to secretive, baseless investigations." But that subhead doesn't even come close to telling it is reader what he's about to discover. It's about the John Doe laws in Wisconsin, which we have discussed on occasion on this program. John Doe means the state can literally investigate anybody without telling them why, and they can deny them lawyers.
I mean, it's incredible. They could literally set out to destroy you, and the only thing standing in the way of it is the honor system. If you have a corrupt prosecutor (which this story has), and if you have a corrupt judge, (which this story has), and if you have a police department that is also corrupt (this happened in Milwaukee, mostly), then you can pull this off.
There's even a quote from a couple police officers who were forced to participate these midnight raids on innocent people who had not done a thing other than support Scott Walker. That's all they had done, and cop car after cop car, cop after cop, SWAT teams, you name it, show up with battering rams to break into these people's homes! They're kicked out of their homes at midnight, at one o'clock in the morning. They're not allowed to take anything; they're not told why.
They're not allowed to explain to anybody that this has happened besides the neighborhood which can see it. Years after the fact, mothers are reporting their young kids that were at home when this happened are still traumatized. People are reporting today that they get scared and traumatized and panicked when they see a uniformed police officer just walking a beat. They hightail it away.
It is the fear that I think a lot of innocent people experience when law enforcement is pursuing them. I know. I've been there. I know a number of things. Law enforcement's never doubted, other than the civil rights community. The media doesn't doubt them. Law enforcement can leak anything they want about anybody, and the media writes it, and it becomes fact. Even average, ordinary Americans say, "Why would the cops lie? Why?" I mean, they take it on faith.
"Why would a prosecutor lie? Why would a prosecutor say somebody's guilty if they're not? They don't have time to waste on this. There are too many guilty people to go get to waste time on the innocent." The innocent in Wisconsin were guilty because they were conservative. The left in Wisconsin was losing everything. They were losing their union domination and control. Scott Walker was decimating all the systems they had put in place.
They literally lashed out in panic, anger, and you name it to punish people who had voted for Walker, who had raised money for him, who they thought had voted for him. It was the kind of thing that Vladimir Putin does and we all laugh about because that's what we expect in a tyrannical dictatorship like the Soviet Union or Russia. We find out that it can happen here and has happened here, and there was no mechanism to stop it. The prosecutor's name is Chisholm, John Chisholm, and I hope his name is never forgotten.
He has tarnished the reputation of prosecutors all over this country. He belongs right up there with Mike Nifong. Mike Nifong is a piker compared to what happened in this case. Nifong is an amateur compared to what happened here in Wisconsin. There's one puzzling thing about this, to me. There's one puzzling thing about it, and that is Scott Walker doesn't talk about it. Now, until I read the National Review piece...
You know, I knew the John Doe laws and I knew they'd been abused and I'd heard this or that. But I did not know until Sunday night just how outrageous the application of the John Doe laws has been. There's a term that has been developed to describe what happens here. It's "lawfare" as in warfare, except this warfare conducted by law enforcement. "Lawfare." Walker hasn't talked about it. I mean, everybody knows what he went through. Everybody knows the attacks on him.
What nobody outside Wisconsin knows, or very few (they will now) is the same stuff was done to hundreds of people that supported him.
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RUSH: Another piece of information about these Wisconsin raids. And, by the way, they were all innocent. Nobody was guilty of anything. They hadn't done anything. The John Doe law allowed for anonymous prosecution. Law enforcement was simply allowed to target anybody they thought might be guilty of a crime under the terms of this law, and they had to tell nobody, including the accused. This violated the US Constitution in so many ways.
Just think of a battering ram breaking down your house. You live in suburbia, a battering ram breaking down your house at one a.m., and cops, jackbooted or otherwise, come in, steal every telephone and every computer, and you never get them back. And they don't tell you why. You're left to assume it. I mean, that's just one of the things that happened.
It was all done by a bunch of aggrieved, loser at the ballot box liberal Democrats, who thought the state was forever their personal fiefdom. And then Walker had to go and beat them three times, and they just lost it, and in the process became exactly who they are. The one plus in this, if there is a plus, is that the left, in these incidents in Wisconsin, they threw down all the camouflage. They got rid of every mask. They hid behind nothing. Exactly who they are if left unchecked and unopposed, was made obvious.
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Related Links:
National Review: Wisconsin’s Shame: ‘I Thought It Was a Home Invasion’ - David French
Hot Air: “I Thought It Was a Home Invasion” — And It Was
USAToday: Wisconsin's Dirty Prosecutors Pull a Putin
New York Post: Hunting Witches in Wisconsin
Legal Newsline: District Attorney’s Wife Drove Case Against Wis. Gov. Walker, Insider Says
Milwaukee Journal: Nearly 50 DAs Decline to Investigate Chisholm in John Doe
Terrible use of politics against innocents
I agree. I was unaware of this. Man I’d love to see some heads roll (figuratively) over this.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a couple of heads roll.....literally.
John Chisholm should be disbarred AS SHOULD THE JUDGE(S) THAT SIGNED THE WARRANTS.
I hate to go that far because I want the Middle Eastern terrorists to be see for what they are.
I’m right there with you on sentiment.
I’d like to see decades of prison time here. This wreaks of NAZieske type activity.
Huh? What does that mean? In addition to crooked Prosecutor Chisholm, there are an additional 50 crooked DAs who want to cover up his crime?
Yup. That’s the Thug.
This creep was in the Army for God’s Sake as an officer!
Can’t imagine the crimes he committed there.
Other than the immunity that attaches to being part of the thug apparatus known as "the law."
It means they love their illegitimate power and want to keep it in their little clique
The truth about political persecution cannot come out, it would threaten too many Useless Eaters who feed on the taxpayers
He won’t have that smug look when he’s in Federal lockup.
Not cover it up as much as allow themselves the same power. Professional courtesy.
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................."
I would like to ditto the recommendation of the story in NRO by David French. Truly appalling.
Lots of freepers like to take potshots at National Review. But they have some truly excellent reporters and columnists doing yeoman work.
I want an answer as to how they were ordered to be silent or not to speak to an attorney. That needs to be addressed directly. Call a press conference and in front of them explain everything to a lawyer. Let them try to prosecute you for it.
This is very close to the kind of tactics calling for a violent resistance.
If it happened in Mexico for example, I would think the cops and this prosecutor were legitimate targets. It’s utterly despotic to use police power against political opposition. That’s a glowing red line.
He has tarnished the reputation of prosecutors all over this country. He belongs right up there with Mike Nifong… Nifong is a piker... an amateur compared to what happened here in Wisconsin.
It would be a shame if he was pumping gas and got involved in a violent car jacking. It really would. .
They couldn’t kill enough Democrats to satisfy me.Civil War II coming.
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