Dkos: A Plea to the United States and Canada from Fitzwalkerstan

[deminks]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/25/960164/-A-Plea-to-the-United-States-and-Canada-from-Fitzwalkerstan

In any other place on Earth, the actions undertaken by Scott Walker and the Fitzgerald crime family in the past few months would be called a military coup.

Walker has command over the Wisconsin National Guard, and with no provocation of any kind threatened to call them out to attack and intimidate his own people. The state legislature is controlled by one family, two brothers who report directly to the governor, effectively neutering an entire branch of government. Walker gained control of the State Patrol by appointing an unqualified puppet as its chief (another Fitzgerald, no less, who reports to nobody except Walker.) Walker, through his puppet, has co-opted the services of the patrol to form his own bloated private security detail and to illegally and forcefully remove peaceful protestors from public property.

The Capitol building is essentially closed to the people in violation of a court order and in violation of the state's Constitution. Laws are passed in the middle of the night with stealth 17-second votes, and by hastily arranged committees meeting in closed rooms with no public notice.


Today, Walker and the Fitzgeralds either bribed or threatened the bureaucrats of the Legislative Reference Bureau into publishing Walker's illegally passed and unconstitutional union-busting bill. They simply side-stepped the constitutionally elected Secretary of State and declared the bill to be the law, which they would enforce "as required." This despite a court order restraining them from publishing it and a letter from the Secretary of State to the Legislative Reference Bureau not to publish it without further instructions from him and the courts.

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A pretty good recap, and a righteous rant.

:thumbsup:

[rzemanfl]

1. K & R. It seems that Wisconsin has come up with something

entirely new "Nepot-fascism" nepotism and fascism all in the same jackboots.

[iwishiwas]

3. "Checks and balances? There are none."....

Today, Walker and the Fitzgeralds either bribed or threatened the bureaucrats of the Legislative Reference Bureau into publishing Walker's illegally passed and unconstitutional union-busting bill. They simply side-stepped the constitutionally elected Secretary of State and declared the bill to be the law, which they would enforce "as required." This despite a court order restraining them from publishing it and a letter from the Secretary of State to the Legislative Reference Bureau not to publish it without further instructions from him and the courts.

To recap, they control two branches of government and a majority of the Supreme Court, and they simply ignore any judge or any law they disagree with.

Checks and balances? There are none.

Walker's administration, through the Wisconsin GOP, is even harrassing a respected University of Wisconsin professor who dared to publish an article exposing a shadowy political action committee that writes boiler-plate laws introduced by Republican state legislators all across North America.

[Pab Sungenis]

2. Contempt of Court.

Walker might have to administrate the time he has left before recall from a jail cell.

[drm604]

6. Provided there is someone who will physically arrest him.

Apparently the State Patrol is under his control.

[charmay]

4. A friend said to me in jest

that if a majority of republicans are elected in 2012, we won't have to worry about voting ever again because they will ignore the laws and outlaw it. After what this teabagger WI governor and teabagger WI legislature is doing, as well as all of the other teabagger governors, we're not laughing anymore.

[drm604]

5. The way they are behaving is unbelievable and scary as hell.

Does the Federal government have any say when a state government ignores it's own laws?