“No one should ever endure what my family endured.”
Someone was pounding at her front door. It was early in the morning — very early — and it was the kind of heavy pounding that meant someone was either fleeing from — or bringing — trouble.
“It was so hard. I’d never heard anything like it. I thought someone was dying outside.”
She ran to the door, opened it, and then chaos. “People came pouring in. For a second I thought it was a home invasion. It was terrifying. They were yelling and running, into every room in the house. One of the men was in my face, yelling at me over and over and over.”
It was indeed a home invasion, but the people who were pouring in were Wisconsin law-enforcement officers. Armed, uniformed police swarmed into the house. Plainclothes investigators cornered her and her newly awakened family. Soon, state officials were seizing the family’s personal property, including each person’s computer and smartphone, filled with the most intimate family information.
[…]
As if the home invasion, the appropriation of private property, and the verbal abuse weren’t enough, next came ominous warnings.
Don’t call your lawyer.
Don’t tell anyone about this raid. Not even your mother, your father, or your closest friends. […]
Yes, Wisconsin, the cradle of the progressive movement and home of the “Wisconsin idea” — the marriage of state governments and state universities to govern through technocratic reform — was giving birth to a new progressive idea, the use of law enforcement as a political instrument, as a weapon to attempt to undo election results, shame opponents, and ruin lives.
Most Americans have never heard of these raids, or of the lengthy criminal investigations of Wisconsin conservatives. For good reason. Bound by comprehensive secrecy orders, conservatives were left to suffer in silence as leaks ruined their reputations, as neighbors, looking through windows and dismayed at the massive police presence, the lights shining down on targets’ homes, wondered, no doubt, What on earth did that family do? This was the on-the-ground reality of the so-called John Doe investigations, expansive and secret criminal proceedings that directly targeted Wisconsin residents because of their relationship to Scott Walker, their support for Act 10, and their advocacy of conservative reform.
Please read the whole rage-inducing, stomach-churning article.
There is not enough tar-and-feathers available to adequately take care of the Democrats behind this “process as punishment” legal terrorism used against families for the crime of committing Speaking While Conservative.
h/t Jeff
If can do something, it is OK to do it.
Does Wisconsin law have provisions for impeaching judges and prosecutors?
I sorta want to ask the naive (y’know, ignorant) question what’s the deal with Wisconsin?
The birthplace of the Republican Party.
The birthplace of the Progressive Party.
One of the primary focal points of the communist nutters of the late ’60s and the 70s.
The current home of a crazy-fuck professoriate.
And now this home-grown fascism.
It’s quite a record. Is it connected to the Chermans? The growth of its University system (also connected to the Chermans)? Or is this record merely anecdotal and not at all a web of association? Accident? Or rationally necessary?
Other than the beheadings, really what’s the difference between what Islamists do to Christians and Progressives do to conservatives?
dey be proggslims
These are dangerous times for lovers of Freedom and Ordered Liberty.
They should be dangerous times for Despots.
OUTLAW…
https://thecampofthesaints.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/outlaw-flag-107h-master.jpg
My Outlaw flag would feature an American bison and the words, “Don’t tread on me, and I won’t tread on you.”
Don’t call a lawyer?
That don’t sound right…
McGehee: Buffalo also can lay a pretty mean dose of fertilizer on top of miscreants. After they trample them.
I chose the tea plant for obvious reasons.
You forgot, Joseph “Joe” McCarthy Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin 1947-1957
Well yes I left him out though I wouldn’t say I forgot him. But does his inclusion change the gisted history materially or sufficiently to moot the question? Or does his mention answer it somehow.?
>I sorta want to ask the naive (y’know, ignorant) question what’s the deal with Wisconsin?<
they put the state's college in the same town as the state government. for contrast state college pa is in the middle of a large buffer zone.
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they put the state’s college in the same town as the state government. for contrast state college pa is in the middle of a large buffer zone.
I think sdferr might be on to something with all the krauts haunting the Big Woods.
Not that that absolves the filthy scandis.
(Oh yes Wisconsin does too have its filthy scandi refuse)
On the other hand,
Germano-Prussophile Theodore Roosevelt was Dutch. So it’s not like you actually have to be Cherman to have a hard-on for Cherman efficiency.>So it’s not like you actually have to be Cherman to have a hard-on for Cherman efficiency.<
Roosevelt Elementary School – Bismarck Public Schools
>On November 17, 1881, German Kaiser Wilhelm I issued an imperial decree stating that “those who are disabled from work by age and invalidity have a well-grounded claim to care from the state.” The driving force behind this pronouncement was Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who had unified Germany, unleashed victorious wars against Austria and France and was now intent on creating the world’s first broadly available pension system.
Throughout the 1880s, Bismarck pushed for the creation of government social programs. The German pension system, financed by mandatory contributions from employers and employees, was enacted in 1889. When critics contended that such measures were socialistic, Bismarck replied insouciantly: “Call it socialism or whatever you like. It is the same to me.”<
link
Newrouter is pretty close. I lived in Madison for 12 years and called it “a hick town of 2,000 with delusions of cityhood’. It has a racist ‘flavor’ that makes Chicago look polite in comparison. I believe the issue IS that the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a good 2-Iron from the Capital Building. Population is about 250k when school is in session, under 200k when it is not. The University has a strong influence politically as many students vote in local elections. While much of Wisconsin is rural and borders on Conservative, the cities, like most everywhere else are strongly liberal. There is also little to rein in the stronger leftist drives.
The ‘anonymous’ investigations have been getting more and more politicized and that is the reason the cases are getting to the Supreme Court. The worst examples do result in horrible damage to people and the ‘corrective’ action is often ignored by the press. People only see the accusations but not the statements retracting the false attacks.
I was careful of some of my comments in mixed company (most leftists) because I didn’t want a visit to Victoria’s office for ….polite questions. I think that we worked in the Federal Court daily kept some of the stuff from swirling around us, but the average person I knew there SUPPORTED the campaign…er investigations.
And realize that some people are cheering this on:
Huffington Post: Walker’s Dark Money Allies Orchestrate Coup of the Courts
note that 2010-2014 gov. kasich in oh failed (state gov’t state university) and gov. walker in wi win(state gov’t state university)
last night i watched 3 days of the condor
link
the nyt was the vehicle for the “truth” at the end.
heh, last night I watched Tora Tora Tora! — in the end the Japanese attacked.
i like how at the end doubt is sown in 3 days of the condor of whether the nyt would launch an attack on the “ruining class”. hi john effin’ kerry
but my favorite thing is finding out sumthing and being the redford guy. outlaw!
>in the end the Japanese attacked.<
whatever. the redford character is like the wisc peeps.
I make a point of watching Tora(3) every 7th of Dec.
Sometimes I watch the relevant portion of Pearl Harbor too.
And then I think upon 9/11.
On 9/11 I watch the last half hour of Zero Dark Thirty
Returning to the theme of these Wisconsin travesties, we can add to that list other similar attacks such as the persecution of Scooter Libby and others by Patrick Fitzgerald, the persecution of former Rep. Tom Delay by Ronnie Earle (and before Delay, if I remember right, Kay Bailey Hutchinson), and now others by Earle’s same office occupied by fresh fascists who are going after former Gov. Perry, as well as the IRS campaign conducted by Lois Lerner. There may well be other examples I’m forgetting here.
>On 9/11 I watch the last half hour of Zero Dark Thirty<
watch condor @1975 nice views of what was destroyed by islam.
#isisisislam
The most relevant example is the lawfare waged by the Optimates against Julius Caesar.
How’d that work out for the Republic?
Was it not already a dead Republic, for which any working out as such would have been impossible?
I’ve never seen # Days and I hesitate to do so, since my impression of the movie is that it belongs to the genre “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
On the other hand, the Age of Obama is doing a bang up job of subverting that particular meme.
As anyone who’s seen State of the Union, The Last Hurrah, or Keeper of the Flame
(Okay, so I like Tracy and Hepburn; I like Bogey and Bacall too, haterz)
Yes. Lawfare was merely the stench of the corpse rotting.
So. What does that say about the state of the United States of America in 2015?
heh . . . how’s about?: kill them all.
I’m trying to remember what it was that Franklin had to say about a people being fit only for the rule of a despot.
I’m sure Mark Levin quoted it.
But yeah, it’s coming. Somebody is going to push back, and the victimized are going to enjoy seeing the victimizers on the recieving end. But in the end we all lose.
Personally? I find myself retreating more and more into theology.
[…] Fascism in Wisconsin: David French at National Review and Protein Wisdom Democrat John Chisholm accused of abusing the power of his office to target Wisconsin […]
Lois Lernerized Liberal Lawfare.
More lawfare.
Heh, that latter link, geoffb, perfectly represents the thinking of the Framers who put the government of the District strictly in the hands of the Congress. They damned well knew that local control would eventually seek to use their local powers to interfere with the conduct of the national Representatives and in so doing, do harm to the nation as a whole. Hating on statehood for the District has been motivated by just such considerations. Human nature, it seems, was a specialty of study for the Framers.
Alaska Dems had their fun as well.
yes, against Sarah Palin I assume you mean . . . but also not least in the unlawful persecution of Sen. Stevens by the DoJ which in the end was severely rebuked by a court.
Ernst, I think that was.a Madison quote, roughly: our constitution was made for a religious and virtuous people, being inadiquite for any other…
I hate commenting from my phone!
I seem to recall it as attributed to John Adams, not Madison. But dunno.
Adams, I too believe.
grumble grumble grumble You bastards just wanted to make me go dig for my copy of Ameritopia
Like I’ve said before, if we’re lucky, we get a Sulla.
The quote to which LBascom refers, however, I’ve seen attributed to Adams. Clearly there were many great minds with very similar thoughts.
And Adams would have caned anyone who accused him of being a mere Deist.
Wikipedia has it correct:
While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned us by Providence. But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation, while it is practising iniquity and extravagance, and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candour, frankness, and sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world. Because we have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Oaths in this country are as yet universally considered as sacred obligations. That which you have taken, and so solemnly repeated on that venerable ground, is an ample pledge of your sincerity and devotion to your country and its government.
-Letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, 11 October 1798, in Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull (New York, 1848), pp 265-6. There are some differences in the version that appeared in The Works of John Adams (Boston, 1854), vol. 9, pp. 228-9, most notably the words “or gallantry” instead of “and licentiousness”.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Adams
PS: I have his Works in digital form, so I can get a copy of the full letter, if anyone would like to possess it.
Like I have said numerous times, Obama and his kind have discovered we are on the honor system and have no honor.
So I guess we’re all more or less agreed that we are become or becoming an immoral and irreligious people fit only for despotism?
Americans might be highly religious, even as much as they’ve always been — it’s just that the religion they practice (and don’t directly name) has changed from a weak protestantism to a weak progressivism/scientism. But these are very large speculations, whether Americans are less religious or more religious, less moral or immoral or on margin slightly more moral, etc. Measuring this sort of thing looks nearly impossible.
Some Americans practice progressivism. The others have been overdoing the “turn the other cheek” thing — but I think not for much longer.
That last half-hour of Levin was a doozy. He’s slowly getting around to conclusions I reached many months to a year ago. And I can tell him, it only gets weirder from there.
For a laugh to bend the day: President Obama sending “Direct Messages” to Iran
> President Obama sending “Direct Messages” to Iran<
a valjar mind meld?
They’re friends on Facebook.
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