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Environmentalists circulating image of girl carrying Walker’s decapitated head
Wisconsin Daily Independent ^ | August 17, 2015

Posted on 08/16/2015 10:58:44 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

A member of the Facebook page titled Citizens Preserving the Penokee Hills Heritage Park posted a artist depiction of a small girl carrying the severed head of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

The image, has amassed over 160 likes and 170 responses that are mostly positive.

According to the pages mission statement the purpose of their group is to provide an avenue for the distribution of research, education and information pertaining to preserving the Penokee Hills as a national heritage park in Northwestern Wisconsin.

The mission statement continues to say that this is not a forum for angry, violent or confrontational acts against people or property, but a forum focused on protecting the water, the resources and life giving aspects of the environment.

Here are a few highlighted responses that this depiction received from these non angry environmentalists:

-Thought provoking…. Is all I can say….

-While the image might be uncomfortable, let us remember that Walker’s administration has prioritized policies that have been perceived by people in Bad River to be cultural genocide. Is there a *polite* response to attempted genocide? Is there a *proper* and *respectable* manner of redress when those with whom you would discuss your grievances – those who would exterminate your way of life – ignore you?

-What a sense of release lies there. Vindication, survival! It inspires me

-Warrior women rock. The only way they will stand with Scott Walker is if they are holding his head.

-Still can’t get enough of this

The artist who did the piece is Native American artist Jodi Webster. Jodi’s bio claims that her work highlights her Woodlands lineage while also addressing the many adversities encountered by modern Native American people. Jodi is member of the Ho-Chunk Nation as well as the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.

“My intentions in creating works are to enlighten the perceptions of Native people as well as positively promote women and children. By highlighting my own heritage within my work, I hope to make others aware of the distinct cultural beauty represented by each of the various 566 tribal identities. ”

Whether or not painting a girl carrying the severed head of Walker is promoting women or children in a positive way is up for debate, but it certainly sends a clear message that the governor is not well received in the Native American community.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; economy; environmentalism; walker
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1 posted on 08/16/2015 10:58:45 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Is that picture meant to be an argument in favor of deporting the children of illegal aliens?


2 posted on 08/16/2015 11:01:19 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

They were called “Savages” for a reason.


3 posted on 08/16/2015 11:02:19 PM PDT by MaxMax (Obama's fault)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

There are a lot of communities where Walker is not well received.


4 posted on 08/16/2015 11:03:38 PM PDT by Menthops (If you are reading this..... the GOPe hates you!)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Im sure the local teachers and labor unions of Wisconsin are ordering dozens of t shirts with that morbid image silk screened on. They’ll say it’s art, it’s free speech.


5 posted on 08/16/2015 11:06:45 PM PDT by lee martell (The sag)
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To: All
Mother Jones:

Scott Walker is the worst candidate for the environment ".........[Walker's] track record of actively undermining pro-environment programs and policies while supporting the fossil fuel industry is arguably lengthier and more substantive than that of his likely rivals.

"He really has gone after every single piece of environmental protection: Land, air, water—he's left no stone unturned," said Kerry Schumann, executive director of the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters. "It's hard to imagine anyone has done worse."

Here's a rundown of Walker's inglorious history of anti-environmentalism.

Attacking Obama's climate agenda: Walker is a key figure in the GOP's battle against President Barack Obama's flagship climate policy—the proposed Environmental Protection Agency rules that are designed to reduce the carbon footprint of the nation's electricity sector 30 percent by 2030. The rules will likely require states to retrofit or shutter some of their coal-fired power plants. That could be a big deal in Wisconsin, which gets 62 percent of its power from coal.

Walker "has gone after every single piece of environmental protection," says Kerry Schumann of the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters. "It's hard to imagine anyone has done worse."

In a letter to the EPA in December, Walker said the plan would be "a blow to Wisconsin residents and business owners." He cited an analysis from his state's Public Service Commission that predicted household electric bills would skyrocket. They won't, necessarily, since the state has a lot of options—including boosting renewables and energy efficiency—that it could use to meet its EPA carbon target without jeopardizing the power grid. But rather than preparing for the new rules, Walker seems bent on stonewalling them. In January he announced that his new attorney general was already preparing a lawsuit against the EPA, a move that was lauded by the Wisconsin director of the Koch Brothers-backed group Americans for Prosperity. Walker has also signed a pledge, devised by Americans for Prosperity, that he will oppose any legislation relating to climate change—presumably a cap-and-trade plan or a carbon tax—that would result in a "net increase in government revenue."

Indeed, Walker has close ties to Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers who made a fortune in fossil fuels and who for years poured money into groups that cast doubt on the science of climate change. They own paper factories and a network of gasoline supply terminals in Wisconsin, and they have an interest in the state's trove of "frac sand" (more on that below). Koch Industries gave $43,000 to Walker's 2010 election campaign, and just after he took office, the Kochs doubled their lobbying force in Madison. In 2011 and 2012, David Koch and Americans for Prosperity spent $11 million backing Walker's agenda and his successful effort to avoid being recalled.

Turning off clean energy: As much as he apparently supports fossil fuel development, Walker has taken steps to put the brakes on clean energy. Last month, he released a budget proposal that would drain $8.1 million from a leading renewable energy research center in the state. That same budget, however, would pump $250,000 into a study on the potential health impacts of wind turbines. (Wind energy opponents have long suggested that inaudible sound waves from turbines can cause insomnia, anxiety, and other disorders, although independent research has repeatedly found these claims are more connected to NIMBYism than legitimate medical concerns.) Walker's budget would also cut $4 million in state subsidies for municipal recycling programs. That, at least, is an improvement over his first budget as governor, which proposed to eliminate recycling subsidies altogether.

Budgets aren't the only avenue for these attacks: In 2011 Walker introduced legislation backed by the Wisconsin Realtors Association to restrict where wind turbines could built. (That bill was ultimately killed by the Legislature.) And the state's Public Service Commission—which oversees the electric grid and is comprised mainly of Walker appointees—recently launched a campaign to redesign power companies' rates in a way that solar companies say is meant to kneecap their competitive edge. The commission wants to impose a high fixed charge on monthly bills that homeowners would have to pay even if they purchase their own solar panels.

There is, however, one alternative energy source that Walker suddenly seems willing to support. Pandering to corn farmers in Iowa over the weekend, he flip-flopped his stance on biofuels—as governor he was opposed to a federal ethanol mandate, but now, as a likely candidate, he's in favor of it. Backing ethanol may help Walker win support from Iowa caucus-goers, but the climate benefits of biofuels are very much in doubt.

Open to open-pit mining: In 2010, a mining company called Gogebic Taconite LLC began to push hard to establish a large open-pit iron ore mine in the state. Environmentalists vehemently opposed the project, warning that it could damage fragile wetlands and contaminate local air and water with toxic chemicals. But Walker supported it. (In 2012, the company gave $700,000 to the pro-Walker Wisconsin Club for Growth.) In 2013, Walker succeeded in pushing through a bill to relax environmental standards for iron mines that paved the way for the project to be approved once it was reviewed by federal regulators.

Walker's pick to head the state's environment agency was "like putting Lindsay Lohan in charge of a rehab center," one lawmaker said.

Walker also reportedly cultivated an industry-friendly atmosphere at the state's Department of Natural Resources, the agency charged with enforcing environmental standards. One Democratic state representative said Walker's pick to head the DNR, a former Republican state senator who was a vocal critic of environmental regulations, was "like putting Lindsay Lohan in charge of a rehab center." One of the Walker DNR's first moves was to delay phosphorus pollution standards that were opposed by a Koch-owned paper factory.

In the case of the iron mine, it was all for naught: Last month the mining company announced it was putting the project on indefinite hold, blaming "cost-prohibitive" federal regulations.

A blind eye to fracking sand: Wisconsin doesn't have much in the way of shale gas, but it still plays a vital role in the fracking boom. The state is home to a major supply of "frac sand," a superhard, chemically inert type of silica that props open cracks in underground rock formations during the fracking process. Since 2010, the number of sand mines in Wisconsin has grown more than tenfold, despite widespread complaints that the operations are turning idyllic rural communities into industrial wastelands and that the type of dust produced by the mines is linked to a wide range of serious respiratory health hazards. Walker has been a vocal proponent of the industry, touting it as a source of jobs and investment in an otherwise lackluster economy.

Here again, Walker's weakened DNR is an issue. In 2013, the state's independent, nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimated that at least 10 full-time DNR employees would be necessary to ensure proper oversight of the frac sand industry. But the report noted that the agency had chosen to hire just two.

"It's really going, to a large extent, unregulated," said Tom Thoresen, a veteran DNR conservation officer who retired before Walker became governor but still has friends in the agency. (Thoresen currently sits on the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters board.)

Indeed, citations for various environmental infractions from the DNR fell 28 percent under Walker compared to the previous administration, according to the Journal-Sentinel.

"The messaging," added Thoresen, "is to be business-friendly, don't enforce."

6 posted on 08/16/2015 11:07:04 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

People can justify anything. Especially if they are bat-crap crazy! Disgusting


7 posted on 08/16/2015 11:08:13 PM PDT by vpintheak (Man up and bring it politicians!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Environmentalists are anti-human. They place the environment above human life. This murderous depiction of Walker is a prime example of the environmentalists hatred for humanity.


8 posted on 08/16/2015 11:09:51 PM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Environmentalists are anti-human. They place the environment above human life. This murderous depiction of Walker is a prime example of the environmentalists hatred for humanity.


9 posted on 08/16/2015 11:10:29 PM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Was the artist inspired by ISIS, and the way they deal with opposition? Maybe she should be monitored.


10 posted on 08/16/2015 11:10:32 PM PDT by lee martell (The sag)
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To: MaxMax
Mark Twain, one of the most "open-minded" liberals of his day wrote positively of almost every "race" he encountered in his life.

The exception?

Native-Americans.

Don't know what his beef was, but he really seemed to hate them.

11 posted on 08/16/2015 11:11:26 PM PDT by boop (A joke? The hell kind of joke is that? 'Bout as funny as a gutful of pinworms!)
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To: Menthops

“...The lightning-rod quality of Walker’s candidacy also surfaces in more random encounters.

During Walker’s July visit to the Delavan McDonald’s where he worked as a teenager, he was embraced by hometown friends and colleagues while a passing driver shouted at him while driving through the lot, calling him a four-letter word and a homophobe.

Walker supporters on social media have developed their own counterresponse to the protests, mocking them as lame, ineffectual, and politically helpful to the man they are meant to damage.

“Protests only help if they raise a certain set of issues and make a splash,” said Foval of People for the American Way. He said his group aims to “go right up to that line” of being disruptive without crossing it.

“Does this enhance his profile? I could see how some people could see it that way,” Foval said. “But we feel we have moral responsibility to tell the truth about him.”

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/protests-follow-scott-walker-on-campaign-trail-b99557276z1-322012691.html


12 posted on 08/16/2015 11:13:11 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Remember when Sarah Palin terms like ‘crosshairs’ and ‘target’ with regard to certain congressmen? Remember the grief she got? I am sure the media will be equally outraged by this. (okay, I tried to keep a straight face as I typed, I really did).


13 posted on 08/16/2015 11:15:35 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: fhayek

“California Gov. Jerry Brown is not running for president–yet, anyway–but he came under fire from three Republican presidential candidates in Nevada on Saturday, as they slammed him for his policies on California’s drought, and for linking it to climate change....”

http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/08/16/jerry-brown-gop-candidates-slam-over-climate-drought/


14 posted on 08/16/2015 11:29:20 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Leftists & IS behead together!


15 posted on 08/16/2015 11:30:56 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I checked the link.

Malicious defamation.


16 posted on 08/16/2015 11:31:20 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE Support FR - GO MONTHLY - Join CLUB 300 - God bless FR's Donors!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The image, has amassed over 160 likes and 170 responses that are mostly positive.

Adding credibility to the adage that liberalism is indeed a mental disorder.

17 posted on 08/16/2015 11:31:39 PM PDT by South40 (Ted Cruz -- the Conservative's Choice for 2016)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I looked at her FB picture. With that head of hair, her scalp would be very valuable, much more than Walker’s.


18 posted on 08/16/2015 11:48:09 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: onyx

I’m sure if someone did that with Zero or Hillary, the media would be A-OK with it.


19 posted on 08/16/2015 11:49:03 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: South40

it certainly is


20 posted on 08/17/2015 12:01:48 AM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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