The Wisconsin governor, that is. He sent the police in yesterday to evict the protesters. Instead, the police joined them. The video is two minutes of distilled awesome.
Well, one of the things is, this particular police union was apparently exempted from the collective-bargaining revision Walker's trying to shove down the other public unions' throats. They aren't affected by this. I guess he thought they'd be much more willing to remove the protesters, given that they themselves weren't at risk. But they saw themselves in that crowd, and... hey. :)
This entire budget debacle/walkout/protest is movie material. I'm serious - I expect a TV movie in a few years, at the very least, if not an actual Hollywood movie. (Maybe starring Edward James Olmos? This is totally up his alley.)
You might very well think that I might have startled three cats and a miniature pinscher off of the couch in my shout of glee at this post.
I could not possibly comment.
Further, Mr. Walker, seriously? After the prank Koch call, you actually expected cops to break up a bunch of people lawfully exercising their first amendment rights when you admitted on the whole internet that you'd contemplated putting policemen in danger just to score political points? Where do you think you are, Tunisia Egypt Libya Syria?
Looks like the cops, thankfully, Get It...and the cop with the bullhorn is *precisely* correct, oaths of office in this country are not oaths of fealty to any one individual, but to uphold the Constitution, and to protect and serve We The People.
And I think We the People are finally starting to Get It, that we cannot depend upon anyone else to Save The World, that we - ourselves - must *be* the change we wish to see.
...oaths of office in this country are not oaths of fealty to any one individual, but to uphold the Constitution, and to protect and serve We The People.
Damn right. As one of my associates is fond of remarking, "Laws, dammit, not Men."
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I could not possibly comment.
Further, Mr. Walker, seriously? After the prank Koch call, you actually expected cops to break up a bunch of people lawfully exercising their first amendment rights when you admitted on the whole internet that you'd contemplated putting policemen in danger just to score political points? Where do you think you are, Tunisia Egypt Libya Syria?
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And I think We the People are finally starting to Get It, that we cannot depend upon anyone else to Save The World, that we - ourselves - must *be* the change we wish to see.
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Damn right.
As one of my associates is fond of remarking, "Laws, dammit, not Men."
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