Today Governor Walker has signed his claw-backs of Collective Bargaining Rights for (Some) Wisconsin Public Workers into law.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that removes the collective bargaining rights of most public employees in the state. As a result, Walker withdrew the threat of a massive layoff, which he said would have been needed if the bill on bargaining rights had not been approved.
So this battle has been lost, but the War continues on to the next level and admittedly much of that War is taking place in the media...
Is Walker the Real Victim Here?
As a point of fact, Hitler banned Collective Bargaining Too - so it actually does make sense to point that out because there really is a similarity because he's doing something that is Exactly the same as something Hitler actually did. The same as when one Democratic Rep said that what we're seeing is the "The Repeat of the Big Lie" just like Goebbels, was a completely legitimately point Because it was True.
It would have been unfair to say that Walker is a Genocidal Mass Murdering Racist, but that's not what was claimed.
Is it fair to argue that he has behaved as a Dictator? Yes. He has clearly ignored the will and desires of the Wisconsin people, as have other Republican Governors in recent months.
Morning Joe has several times complained that the fact that these signs in Wisconsin haven't really generated any real media coverage is an example of "Liberal Media Bias" - and that these things should be talked about just as heavily as were signs by the Tea Party.
Excuse me but Scott Walker is not being criticized for being a White Man.
Nobody is saying he's NOT an American. Yes, there may be some criticism of him that is over the top and beyond the pale. There have been Death Threats, which are both unconscionable and inexcusable. There's also a lot of it that is silly like the "Imperial Walker" bit. I will say that most of the Union/Teacher signs are at least Spelled Correctly.
But when you put Watermelon on the White House Lawn, stick Obama in a Pimp Suit or put a Bone Through His Nose and Dress Him Up in White Face like a Fictional Homicidal Maniac Sociapath exactly what Policy Point are you trying to make?
What has Obama ever done that makes him like the Joker?
There's a reason why people criticized the Tea Party signs is because they had No Legitimate Rationale for them. Someone can not possibly be a Muslim and a Radical Black Theology Christian, and a Communist, and a Fascist, and a Corporate Theocrat, and a Socialist, and a Nazi, Kenyan, Indonesian Mau Mau at the Same Time.
The Problem is not just that that the Tea Party Signs and Rhetoric was Over the Top - they were also Blatant Lies.
These are the kinds of Signs the Tea Party displayed and NO you actually didn't see them on the Main Stream Media.
This wasn't from the Media. The criticism came form people like Janeane Garafalo and from the NAACP. In response Fox News ambushed Interviewed Janeane and they attempted to Tar and Feather the NAACP as being "Racist" by releasing a deceptively edited tape of Shirley Sherrod.
Today it turns out that fired NPR Chief Fundraising Ron Schiller was Shirley Sherroded by a deceptively edited tape.
Breitbart’s crew had carefully edited it to make Sherrod sound like a raving racist. Likewise, the firing of NPR executive Ron Schiller and his CEO boss was cheered by the liberal media and got solemn nods from Democrats in Washington. Only Glenn Beck’s reporters at his website, The Blaze, bothered to watch the unedited footage and note that the various bombshells in the video were taken out of context (the opinions of others made to look like the opinions of Schiller, for example) and that Schiller’s pro-Republican statements were (obviously) all cut out of the video released by O’Keefe.
Why would Glenn Beck's The Blaze reveal that many of the sentiments that Ron Schiller was attacked for actually came from his phony-Muslim videographers? Because Ron Schiller is a Life Long Republican. and said so on the Full tape.
Rather than addressing the extremists in their own midst, the Tea Party highlights and exploits them - hence they get different coverage because of it.
It wasn't just random members of the Tea Party rank and file who made these kinds of claims - it was their leaders like Mark Williams.
It Was NOT the case that Tea Partiers Criticized those who had over the top signs or rhetoric - they egged them on and criticized anyone who complained as themselves being Racist and attempting to use "Political Correctness" to "Shut them UP". That's exactly what we heard from Sarah Palin.
This is just random people, because we've heard this type of ridiculousness from Mike Huckabee who claimed "Obama didn't grow up in the America We did" - besides the fact that that is an outright lie. Just as his most recent Lie that the "Death Panels will grow out of the Stimulus".
When the Tea Party came about the Right Wing Media widely promoted their actions and called them "Just a Set of Responsible Real Americans". When the Unions in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana protest the stripping of their Rights because of giveaways to Corporations and Wall Street Fat Cats - Sarah Palin says they're acting like "Thugs." and should tone down the Rhetoric
CNN) – Sarah Palin once again sounded off on the Wisconsin budget debate, calling on union supporters to tone down the rhetoric.
The former Alaska governor told Fox News' Sean Hannity union bosses are "acting like thugs" and it is their responsibility to "turn down the rhetoric and start getting truth out there so that nobody gets hurt."
"They are leading some of their good members down a road that will result in, unfortunately, somebody getting hurt if you believe the death threats that are being received by those who just happen to support amending some collective bargaining privileges of state unions," Palin said Thursday.
They should tone down because of Death Threats? You mean like the dozens of Death Threats that went against Democratic Members of Congress after you placed Gun Sights over them?
Funny she didn't say that after Gabrielle Giffords was shot. She then said "It was B.S. coming from the Lame-Stream Media about us insighting violence".
When David Brock asked Sarah Palin to denounce violent Rhetoric she laughed at him. You wanna talk about "Thugs" Sarah? How about these?
The other day a Moveon.org activist was viciously curb stomped by a Rand Paul campaign volunteer.
NPR received a Bomb Threat in response to the firing of Juan Williams.
In July Byron Williams was arrested in a freeway police shootout, while on his way to stage a violent attack on the ACLU and Tides Foundation after Glenn Beck repeatedly argued they were "Evil".
A Pheonix Man was indicted for threatening to Kill Rep Raul Grijalva over his opposition to SB1070.
Charles Alan Wilson was arrested for threatening to Kill Senator Patty Murray in Washington State.
Members of the Right-Wing Hutaree Militia were arrested an charged for plotting to shoot, ambush and bomb police in order to begin an anti-Government "Civil War".
A man was arrested for phoning threats against Nancy Pelosi.
Phone threats were made against Rep Betsy Markley.
'better hope I don't run into you in a dark alley with a knife, a club or a gun.
Someone cut the propane gas line at Rep Tom Perriello's brothers home, which appeared to be attempted arson.
Death Threats were issued against Rep Bart Stupak for his support of Health Care Reform.
Pictures of a Noose were Faxed Rep. James Clyburn because of his HCR support.
A Brick was thrown through the window of the Democratic Headquaters in Rochester NY.
Another brick was thrown at Rep Louis Slaughter's office, and a phone message threatening a "Sniper'.
A window was shattered at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Office.
A envelope of White Powder was mail to Rep. Anthony Weiners Office with a threatening note about Health Care.
Packets of White Powder were also sent to Keith Olbermann, David Letterman, Jon Stewart and Speaker Pelosi by Free Republic Poster, Ann Coulter & Michelle Malkin acolyte Chad Costanza.
Rep Steve Dreihaus received death threats and had his home address published by a right-wing blogger.
Bricks were thrown through the window of Wichita Country Democratic Office after a "Nationwide Call to vandalize Democratic Offices" was made by the former head of the Alabama Constitutional Militia.
Selfstyled "Christian bin Laden" and Army of God member Justin Moose threatened to Bomb Women's Health Clinics
Arson was committed at The Murfeeboro Tennesee Mosque constuction site.
Scott Reoder shot and killed Dr. George Tiller.
James Adkisson shot 5 and killed 2 "Liberals" at a Knoxville Unitarian Church, because he wanted to murder every person Bernard Goldberg said was "Destroying America".
Michael Enright slashed a cab drivers throat for being Muslim.
Joe Stack flew a plane into the Austin IRS Building
Richard Poplowski killed three police officers in Pittsburgh in a rage over Obama's supposed "anti-gun stance'
James Von Brunn killed security guard at the Holocaust Museum on his way to attack David Axelrod.
James Cummings attempted to build a Radiological Dirty Bomb in Maine to attack President Obama.
Non-Violent Union Protestors are being demonized just like the triumphant protestors in Tahrir Square as being "Manipulated by the Dreaded Muslim Brotherhood".
There is a Link. There is Solidarity. Those who nestle in the cradle of power while coveting more of it - are afraid of you. Maybe they should be.
Now we have our own movement and it's not funded by George Soros or David Koch - it's funded and fueled by the People.
This War is just beginning and Tahrir has shown us the pathway to ultimate Victory. All we have to do is heed it.
Vyan