Posted on 04/21/2015 1:11:36 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
John Doe laws dating back to the 19th century in Wisconsin allow DAs to hold secret panels, compel people to give testimony and turn over documents. To take advantage of the loopholes was Prosecutor John Chisholm, a partisan hack who had a vendetta against Scott Walker.
The corruption extends to judges, police officers, lawyers and to at least one newspaper, the Journal Sentinel.
In a September 9, 2014 article, former Milwaukee police officer Michael Lutz, who for several months served as an unpaid special prosecutor in Chisholm’s office, said that Milwaukee County DA John Chisholm, a Democrat, told him in March 2011 about his contempt for Walker.
“He felt it was his personal duty to stop people from being treated like this, to stop Walker from treating people like this,” Lutz told Wisconsin Reporter. It wasn’t only Walker who suffered under the partisan left’s malice, it was anyone surrounding Walker.
Lutz (photo below), who is a retired disabled police officer, went to law school and had been friends with the Chisholms, even giving to Chisholm’s campaign, but he couldn’t live with the way they were going after opponents. He has paid dearly for telling the truth.
Dan Bice (photo below) of the Journal Sentinel went after Lutz, smearing him and falsely accusing him of issuing “death threats,” destroying his reputation and his credibility.
Lutz says his law practice has been ruined because he has been blacklisted. No other attorneys will speak out against Chisholm and his corrupt crew because they too will lose their practices.
The prosecutor, John Chisholm (photo below), is described as “hyper-partisan” in a “hyper-partisan” district, and used the John Doe process against Scott Walker, depriving him and anyone associated with him of their constitutional rights, as Walker began his rise to power and became a potential candidate for governor.
Chisholm’s wife is a teachers’-union shop steward who was distraught over Act 10’s union reforms. She is alleged by Lutz to have spurred Chisholm on as it was his “personal duty to stop him.” When the attempts at stopping the union reforms failed, Chisholm found other fertile ground and a very cooperative Judge Barbara Kluka.
Wisconsin has been using John Doe laws in lieu of the grand jury process since the early 19th century. It gives the prosecutor additional powers, powers that can be used to deprive people of constitutional protections and attack political opponents.
In Wisconsin, the law allows a prosecutor to go to a judge with a “suspicion” and the judge can sign off and let the prosecutor bring in witnesses they can force to testify in secrecy. Federal grand juries operate all the time in Wisconsin but they have rules about secrecy and timelines that John Dow laws do not have.
In the hands of the corrupt prosecutor, there are no First Amendment rights. There is no due process.
National Review attorney David French has been investigating the use of these laws and what he found should terrify people. Political opponents have been subject to SWAT teams and other law enforcement coming to their homes with battering rams and guns drawn. The teams have torn apart homes and never once gave the victim the benefit of their constitutional rights.
Innocent people with the “wrong” political views were subjected to the same treatment drug dealers receive. Then they were warned not to tell anyone, not even family and to not call a lawyer. It kept the communist-like tyranny a secret from the general public.
Supporters of Governor Walker who were newbies to the political process became the subjects of “multi-year secretive criminal investigations, slanderous and selective leaks to sympathetic media, and intrusive electronic snooping.”
It’s not unlike the IRS targeting.
The Progressives in Wisconsin weaponized law enforcement against their political opponents. It was full-blown tyranny.
Lawsuits followed. The entire affair is one of corruption, deceit, misuse of public office and it is thanks to these lawsuits and people like David French and Michael Lutz that the truth be known. Everyone needs to read the French exposé which can be found on this link.
The law was used as it was never intended to expand investigations of a particular case into people in the Walker administration and Walker himself, all of whom had nothing to do with the original case. That is a tactic used by the Obama administration against political opponents and even the AP.
Sheriff Clarke spoke out courageously last year.
Ignore their directives and call attorneys outside the local area. Somewhere an electric chair is waiting for these criminals in blackrobes and ties. This ain’t over.
I’d just shoot the bastards.
I would love to see Ted Cruz as Attorney General. Imagine Cruz going after these prosecutors, gutting the ATF, reforming the FBI and ENFORCING our immigration laws!
Secret police in the dead of night. (By obnoxious, arrogant, adolescent progressives.)
How bout dat!
Just asking.
IMHO
They need to remember...
What goes around comes back around.
My concern also.
The Chief Executive of Wisconsin is silent as the Stormtroopers terrorize people for political purposes.
Sorry, he just lost any chance of me voting for him.
It wasn’t that secret. People in WI knew it was going on. Although we didn’t have the details we knew people’s homes had been raided and who they were and that they were connected to Walker.
It has previously been reported that Chisholm’s wife was involved. Walker certainly knew as much as we did.
I honestly think the left WANTS that to happen. Then they can call in the National Guard to attack all the “cop hating” conservatives.
And note, not one police officer on the raid has said “No more”. Just following orders.
And held up for the entire world to see as an example of tyranny and abuse of power.
Democratic Fascism, Wisconsin style. Or in the alternative, Red Democrats Marxism, KGB style.
After eight years of Obama we need the best choice of candidates who will do what it takes to get things right again. Walker’s not the best choice.
Good post. It’s a shame many freepers have bought the liberal news media lies about Scott Walker and are parroting those lies.
Scott Walker’s actions of passing MANY conservative laws including some against illegal immigrants show who he is a pro-American conservative. Actions, results mean everything. Words mean nothing
Here is just one example of walker taking ACTION against illegal immigrants:
Walker’s 2011 Budget Eliminated A Program That Grants In-State College Tuition To Children Of Undocumented Immigrants.
https://americanbridgepac.org/scott-walker-anti-immigrant-from-policy-to-personnel/
He would be phenomenal.
Well said.
Well, they haven’t been successful yet in silencing Walker! Hope they never do. He’s not necessarily “my” candidate, but he does deserve his voice at the electoral table!
I would vote for him, if nominated, though, whereas I WON’T Jebbie.
Rush is 4 months or more late to this party, but better late than never.
The problem as I see it is that from the Federal level on down to the county of many states there is major corruption. People calling for these dirty communists to be arrested, tried and imprisoned? What good will it do? They (the political operatives) will get exceptionally lenient punishment (which I might add you or I would not get) and be right back at it as soon as the dust settles. They are thick as thieves. The system is corrupt when it comes to the elected. Lamp posts and short ropes are in order to send a message across the entire land.
A legacy of the Clinton Administration and the residue of a failed impeachment, when the Democrat party signaled its full support for unlimited corruption.
Limbaugh is always “late”; he’s too busy dipping his fat toe in the water and checking the direction of the political wind too afraid of bringing heat onto himself. Why so many here are enamored with the guy and his block of commercials, I mean “show” is beyond me. There are far greater minds on this very board that trounce Rush Limbaugh at every turn.
Corruption is all that can come to mind.
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