Breaking: Authorities said crews are putting on riot gear at the Capitol - Wisconsin

[Tx4obama]

Just before 6 p.m. Thursday, protesters got through into the Capitol entrance. Police are imploring them to leave or be arrested.

Authorities said crews are putting on riot gear at the Capitol, and it's an evolving situation.

http://www.channel3000.com/news/27072006/detail.html

[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[myrna minx]

2. Sending good vibes. K&R n/t

[dogday]

3. K & R

[RainDog]

4. k&r n/t

[Modern_Matthew]

5. Let them. If this goes to the next level, their support will skyrocket. nt

[MidwestTransplant]

9. I don't think so

[Modern_Matthew]

12. Peaceful protesters being forcibly removed won't win more support? nt

[Hutzpa]

14. Why is that? n/t

[myrna minx]

10. The police have been on the side of the protesters - they don't want to be suiting up.

This is bad no matter what happens.

[Wilms]

6. Kiss a cop! n/t

[SpiralHawk]

7. 'Tis the Dark of the Moon

Beware occult Republicon Black-Ops agents provocateurs...

[steve2470]

8. k&r nt

[malaise]

11. Stay safe Wisconsin DUers

:grouphug:

[snappyturtle]

13. Lawrence O'Donnell just reported that tptb wants to do a security check

on the capitol building because 41 rounds of ammo were found this morning outside of the building!

[socialist_n_TN]

15. I wonder who planted them...........

Was it the hippies or the union thugs? :sarcasm:

[Tx4obama]

18. I saw someone say on Twitter yesterday they saw sharpshooters on the roof....

so if the ammo was planted it was probably by Walker's thugs!

[Tx4obama]

16. Update - unconfirmed

From Twitter

http://twitter.com/ACLUMadison

ACLUMadison: Reporters are saying that numbers of demonstrators in Capitol are around 40.

[cali]

17. Demonstrators suddenly enter Capitol

By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel

March 3, 2011 6:04 p.m. |(123) Comments

Madison -- A group of perhaps one hundred protesters has entered the previously restricted and quiet Capitol and is now chanting, “Our house, our house.”

David Noyce of Madison said that he entered the building with the demonstrators after someone let them in and that a policeman flashed him a thumbs up as he entered. The protesters entered just as Gov. Scott Walker was about to start a news conference in a separate room of the building.

“It’s about time,” Noyce said, when told that a Dane County judge would be issuing an order to open the Capitol.

The protesters have been stopped by phalanx of police on the ground floor of the west wing and prevented from reaching the rotunda and joining the separate group of protesters who have been spending the night in the Capitol.
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http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/117367093.html.

[socialist_n_TN]

19. Folks this shit is SERIOUS............

If they win this, within 3 to 5 years we're back to a fuedal workplace situation. If you're not willing to be arrested over this, you're not committed enough. That's just the way it is.

[Poboy]

20. Live feed from inside the capitol-

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/afl-cio-2010-rally

[Tx4obama]

23. And here's a link to a Live Blog Twitter link

http://twitter.com/ACLUMadison

[Poboy]

29. Thank you.

[RandySF]

21. PINKERTONS!!!!!!!

[Canuckistanian]

22. ...and those would be the "out-state police"

Otherwise known as the Palace Guard, since the local police won't put up with Walker's bullshit.

Right?

[Ignis]

24. Please, please, please let Walker NOT make this Kent State 2.0.

I hope even this Wingnut's not THAT stupid.

I hope.

[Hannah Bell]

25. i don't see any riot gear on the live feed.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/afl-cio-2010-rally

I see a bunch of young people & cops in normal working uniforms. all (protestors & cops) standing peacefully.

[madamesilverspurs]

26. For those of us on dialup

can someone please keep a thread going describing what's on the live feed?

Thanks!

(and I hate that this isn't all over the teevee!)

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[Tx4obama]

27. For me the live feed just died.

The last thing I saw was a young woman talking about 'buying local', kick the corporations in their money bags.
Then the screen froze and then went black.

[Hannah Bell]

28. it's off now, but all it was was a group of protestors (maybe 15-20) sitting

on the floor near the stairs joking around while one of them filmed -- and a group of cops in normal uniforms (maybe 20-25) standing watching them. there didn't appear to be a hostile atmosphere, one of the girls seemed to be talking to one of the cops, etc.

most of the protestors looked like college students. saw one woman that appeared to be middle aged. that's about it.

[Jackpine Radical]

30. If ANY cops suit up in riot gear, it'll be the State Troopers

Not Madison cops, not Dane County Deputies, not cops from outlying regions. The Troopers are the only force under Walker's control.

[Tx4obama]

31. Here's some Wisconsin protest trivia

Excerpt:

Nathan Berken, a staffer for Rep. Mary Williams, said "Scott" toilet paper dispensers at the Capitol were scrawled with derogatory comments.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_e1975d48-45cd-11e0-bcc6-001cc4c03286.html