Wis. GOP sends state troopers after Democrat

[Bozita]

Source: AP

Wis. GOP sends state troopers after Democrat
The Associated Press
Posted: 02/18/2011 07:56:46 AM PST
Updated: 02/18/2011 07:56:46 AM PST

MADISON, Wis.—Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate have asked the governor to send state troopers after Democratic leader Mark Miller.

Senate Democrats are boycotting a Senate vote on a bill that would strip public sector workers of their collective bargaining rights. They have been missing from the Capitol for a day and a half.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says he has asked Gov. Scott Walker to send two state troopers to Miller's home in Monona. He says he believes the troopers are en route.

The Wisconsin Constitution prohibits police from arresting legislators while they're in session. Fitzgerald says he just wants to send a message to Miller—if he's even home—that he must bring his caucus back to Madison.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17422609?nclick_check=1

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[opihimoimoi]

1. Draconian measures hardly ever works...the GOPers not unnerstan this???

[RKP5637]

4. They always want force, police tactics and authoritarianism. That's all they know. When is the

last time anyone heard a republican with intelligent solutions.

[opihimoimoi]

11. Gen Eisenhower in the 1950's

[RKP5637]

12. Yep, Ike, that was the last time too IMO. n/t

[opihimoimoi]

24. His WP Background paid off....Patriotic to the bone

[Bozita]

16. Ike made decisions based on facts. Today's GOPers act on beliefs.

They never even mention Ike. It's like he never existed.

[opihimoimoi]

23. Tis a Tad Sad to see delusion prevail to this present point

Come... we do a Chonga Joint

[No Elephants]

31. Like expanding Exec. Privilege to protect members of his admin. from McCarthy, while allowing Joe

and his puppetmaster, J. Edgar Hoover, to trample the rights of everyone else?

Like dragging his heels as long as he could on using marshalls to enforce the Brown v. Bd. of Ed shool desegregation decision?

Like deriding academics and intelletuals?

Like living his entire life serving the MIC, then warning us against it on his way OUT of 8 years in office?

Like his belief that whatever was good for General Motors was good for America?

Like choosing Nixon as his VP?

Like adding "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, as The Family cult asked?

Sorry, I just don't get a rosy view of Ike.

[JackintheGreen]

13. They worked in Egypt for 30 years

And Iran. And Indonesia. The Philippines.

Sure they don't work in the long duree, but you cannot date this behavior from Reagan. We got 20 more years of this before everybody wakes up.

[opihimoimoi]

25. I will be the first to admit many long term periods of negative peaks of power...

ie all Civilizations built on domination, exploitation, subjugation....some for a few years, others for centuries...

Recently , Its getting harder and harder for unfair systems to work....many Peoples are beginning to see a FREEDOM BREAKOUT on a Global Scale .....their drool cups runneth over

[marasinghe]

27. i tend to agree with you. this is the yin side of the globalization demon.

in my muddled language: probability & frequency of events increasing in proportion to the number of processors available within a closed environment. i.e.: more humans on Earth = more brains thinking; more people on the planet falling into the exploited classes; data spreading @ the speed of electricity; and social cycles which were counted in decades, or centuries, now speeding up to years, or even months. all to the good. things look to be moving towards a 60's beat again; or an approximation thereof.

[opihimoimoi]

28. The GOPers are so arrogant...they doom themselves

[jkappy]

26. They Work buit Maybe Not in Wisconsin!!

[opihimoimoi]

29. Gov Walker is a Drama Bully...bad....bad for the STATE

[RKP5637]

2. What are they going to do, put a gun at his head and hold his family hostage. This

sounds like how a police state operates to me. Next, is Walker going to send the guard over the border to capture the dems in a military raid.

[Botany]

3. good luck w/ this Walker

1) The are safe in the people's republic of Rockford, IL

b) Those state police are union members.

[Barack_America]

6. Police unions are conveniently exempt from the bill.

The question is whether troopers are willing to sell out other union members.

[Bozita]

7. Methinks the membership understands they are next.

[Botany]

8. So far the fire fighters and the police have stood up w/ the people ...

.... I don't know about the State Police's response.

[Bozita]

9. The newly appointed head of the state police is the father of the GOP leaders...

... of the state senate and state assembly (house).

Rachel exposed this last night.

[Botany]

14. He is just the top cop for the State patrol but i think it comes down ...

... to the rank and file troopers. I would be very doubtful that many of them
would be willing to go out and arrest Democratic State Senators so they can be
brought back to vote for a wildly unpopular bill.

Just my thoughts.

[Barack_America]

22. Troopergate Part Deux!!

Fascism is as fascism does.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. Tough shit, GOPer!

Solidarity! :applause:

[mn9driver]

10. Prior censorship in effect on our local paper's website

It's become obvious that the class war is heating up. The Star trib is only allowing comments they select as "appropriate" to appear on their website regarding this blatant attack on working people. Not surprisingly, anything factual that supports collective bargaining rights is not being allowed.

They are taking control.

[RKP5637]

15. Yep, it's all part of the plan to take ultimate control of the entire US as many

Americans sleep thinking that with their pennies they are part of the real wealth and power of the US, that somehow these people are their buddies. More willful stupidity.

[JohnnyRingo]

17. I recall this happening in Texas about 8 or 10 years ago.

The Democrats fled the state, most to Oklahoma I believe, to avoid a vote for something the state Republicans were pushing. I don't remember how that was resolved.

On edit, I found a link. They went to NM to stop Tom DeLay from hacking up districts:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/18/texas-dems-to-wisconsin-lawmakers-conjugal-visits_n_825033.html

[CBHagman]

32. First thing I thought of too.

And on a happier note, DeLay was subsequently convicted of conspiracy and of money laundering.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7308000.html

Eight years after former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay helped engineer a Republican takeover of the Texas House and state congressional delegation, a Travis County jury Wednesday convicted him of felony money laundering in the 2002 elections.

DeLay, of Sugar Land, was convicted in a scheme to funnel corporate donations to seven Texas House candidates through a money swap with the Republican National Committee. Corporate money cannot legally be donated to candidates in Texas.

[Drale]

18. I better not find out that they entered my state

because I will be very angry if thats the case.

[SoapBox]

19. Recall, Recall, Recall...start the paperwork now to get rid of RushThugs/T.HaterBaggers.

Come on Wisconsin, do it!

[SomeGuyInEagan]

30. I understand it cannot happen for year ... but I'll donate money to the effort.

Just let me know where to send it.

[Blacksheep214]

20. Who would have thought

that we would be wondering if law enforcement and the National Guard willl stand with the people or relive Kent State.

Anyone have an idea which way the guard would go?

May I suggest pitchforks and torches to set the mood even further?

I wonder if al Jazeera is covering the American uprisings and if it's playing in the Arab world.

Solidarity indeed!

[guitar man]

21. Oh boy, where to begin

No alleged criminal activity, no warrant issued, no due process, out of jurisdiction...what else is wrong here?

If I was Mark Miller I'd arm myself and treat them as I would any other armed thugs entering my property :grr:

[DU GrovelBot]

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