Last night a meeting of the Wisconsin legislature's Joint Finance Committee was repeatedly and prolongedly disrupted by so-called "protesters." Naturally, the wing-nut media, which dominates the Milwaukee area, at least, are having a field day with your obstreperous behavior this morning. Remember this: a lot of people have put in a considerable amount of time and effort in opposition to the Fitz Van Walker regime's lawlessness and its dedicated attempts to curtail basic civil rights in this State. You insult those people, and belittle that effort.
Most importantly to this correspondent, some highly principled Democratic State legislators and their attorneys and supporters are challenging the procedure by which the Fitz Van Walker regime attempted to enact the provisions of law at the very core of the ongoing controversies in Wisconsin: the regime's stated goal of stripping the rights of public employees to collectively bargain and negotiate their employment contracts. Thus you make us appear as hypocrites by on the one hand challenging the regime's adherence to procedure and on the other hand making a complete and utter mockery of procedure.
In other words, you're not only not helping, you're aggressively hindering.
So please stop it. Now.
No, we won't! Scott Walker needs to go down like you go down on a virile young man.
ReplyDeleteYet another Kevin Binversie-inspired troll. Thanks for helping out with my case. And thank Binversie for me while yer at it.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't put it past the Republicans to hire provocateurs to do this. Walker said he would consider it and Kapanke's people are on record (so to speak) soliciting fake Dem candidates in their recall. Paid or not, these f*ckers are doing the Republicans' work.
ReplyDeleteEvidently they were despatched by Voces de la Frontera.
ReplyDeleteThanks IT, I sent them a little note.
ReplyDeleteI expect there's going to be lots more.
ReplyDeleteI like civil disobedience. Emphasis on "civil". This group doesn't get that part of the phrase.
ReplyDeleteMight I suggest that you take your own advice and attempt to be more constructive, by perhaps talking to the folks using other tactics and listening to why they think they are necessary (i.e. respect the time that THEY put into organizing as you ask they do). And, you know, maybe even respecting that you may simply have differing positions?
ReplyDeleteIa. You are correct that there are different perspectives. But the only perspective that is likely to change the situation in Wisconsin is that of the average voter in elections to come. Public perception is everything.
ReplyDeletelistening to why ...
ReplyDeleteThey weren't listening to Bob Jauch, they were shouting him down. What was the point of that?
Journal-Sentinel above the fold today.
I generally agree that shouting out your self-centered agenda through pre-written statements at the JFC meeting and making a show of getting carried out isn't the way to go across things. But then when you consider the short-notice, corporate sellout legislation the JFC has pulled past midnight the last 2 days (which conveniently means they don't show up in the Journal Communications papers the next day), maybe there's something to drawing attention to these meetings. I'd rather give these jokers on JFC a nice glare and wag of the finger, and maybe a rendition of the Police's "Every Breath you Take."
ReplyDeleteI think the better way to win support is forceful street protests and rapid-response stunts to grab media attention outside of the meeting room. But given the general media blackout of the protests and the one-sided nature of the J-S and AM 620 and the rest of the Journal Communications empire, maybe being nice isn't the most effective way to get heard.