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Photos: WI protesters call Gov. Walker a dictator, put crosshairs on his face
pajamas media ^ | 2/18/11 | bryan preston

Posted on 02/18/2011 8:17:28 AM PST by Nachum

What is happening in Wisconsin is disturbing. Protesters have jumped on the Egypt bandwagon, claiming that “Cairo has moved to Madison,” which trivializes the real brutality and lack of openness of the Mubarak regime, and claims a moral standing for the unions that they simply have not earned. The issue is that the state faces a $137 million budget shortfall (in the short term, and about $4 billion over the long term), and the government unions have negotiated benefit packages for themselves that are no longer sustainable. Something has to give, but the unions and Democrats are working together to make sure that even though the latter have been voted out of power and the former want to keep feeding at the trough, the only ones who give will be the voters and taxpayers. Both the Demcorats and unions are showing that they are absolutely unwilling to bend. As I noted earlier, the Democrats in the state Senate have now disappeared rather than vote, which also allows the protests to keep spinning up.

The protests may spin right out of control. Here are a couple of screenshots from a video posted today at Foxnews.com. They speak for themselves. And there are more in the video.

(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...


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To: Nachum

Where the hell is the call for “toning it down”

Progressive = Hypocrit


21 posted on 02/18/2011 8:42:24 AM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: Nachum
and the government unions have negotiated benefit packages for themselves that are no longer sustainable.

This could not have been done without the help of politicians trading union support, for these outrageous benefits with the taxpayers money.

22 posted on 02/18/2011 8:46:21 AM PST by super7man
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To: MrB

Thank you for posting that link...I will check it out.


23 posted on 02/18/2011 8:48:24 AM PST by rlmorel (Now I have to change this tagline: "Weakness is provocative." Donald Rumsfeld)
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To: Vaduz

And that is why all democrats (including blue dog, yellow dog, etc.) need to be defeated at the ballot box everywhere.


24 posted on 02/18/2011 8:51:55 AM PST by 2001convSVT (That Beck guy was right about gold, too.)
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To: Nachum
I got accosted by a kool-aid drinking liberal in Boston last year at the Sarah Palin rally while I was carrying this sign:

The difference between my poster and what these people carry is that the reference to pitchforks came from Odingleberry himself.

I detest liberals and liberalism. It is the greater danger to this country than anything else.

25 posted on 02/18/2011 8:53:46 AM PST by rlmorel (Now I have to change this tagline: "Weakness is provocative." Donald Rumsfeld)
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To: Nachum

Those aren’t crosshairs, those are “civility lines”. /sarc

Where is the outrage from the left wing propagand pimps? SarahPac merely put crosshairs on a map, to denote districts that were being targeted. Nobody’s face was ever put in crosshairs. These lefty union thugs put them across the governor’s face.


26 posted on 02/18/2011 9:00:17 AM PST by Above My Pay Grade
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To: Nachum

public insurrection and should be treated as such.


27 posted on 02/18/2011 9:00:19 AM PST by balch3
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To: bigbob
marks formerly known as “crosshairs” are henceforth designated as “marks of civility”

Okay, that made me chuckle. I'll try sowing that suggestion on some of the "black rifle" forums and see if it catches on. :-)

Don't forget to "celebrate diversity"...


28 posted on 02/18/2011 9:03:01 AM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Jim Noble

Excellent mini-essay!


29 posted on 02/18/2011 9:18:47 AM PST by jobim
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To: Nachum
I was just looking through the photo gallery accompanying an article in the Washington ComPost about the protests in Madison.

I found it interesting that the signs with crosshairs over walker and equating him with Hitler were completely missing.

30 posted on 02/18/2011 9:19:33 AM PST by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: Nachum

pray for Gov. Walker’s safety.


31 posted on 02/18/2011 9:27:14 AM PST by Oratam
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To: 2001convSVT

Check


32 posted on 02/19/2011 8:38:30 AM PST by Vaduz
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