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Augiedog

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Thu Sep 25, 2014, 01:10 PM Sep 2014

Armed right wing (Scot Walker)militia to monitor minority voting and polling in Wisconsin [View all]

The apparent intent is to intimidate minority voters with the implied threat of lethal violence. These alleged poll watchers may need watching themselves. What could possibly go wrong if equally well armed minority poll watchers watch the watchers. Gets kinda Orwellian in short order with the odor of an Animal Farm. If the powers that exist in Wisconsin allow this form of threat to occur, either through inaction or deliberate support, the consequences, and blood, will be on their hands. Even the average republican in Wisconsin will not want to claim being a member of an organization that supports this form of intimidation. Claiming to be powerless to act in these circumstances will be seen as deliberate support by the Governors office. Walkers militia has plans to act in Wisconsin on Election Day, what will the public response be. More immediately and perhaps more importantly, what will the Governors response be?

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