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Protesters in Madison not budging
Fox News ^ | 2/27/11

Posted on 02/27/2011 2:37:31 PM PST by Jean S

The protesters agreed to leave peacefully so the capitol building could be cleaned. Later, they organized some seminars on "passive resistance". Now they're pouring in the building and refusing to leave unless they're handcuffed.

Watch live on Fox.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: capitolpolice; cw2; doj; electionsaredead; goonions; goonionthugs; jbvanhollen; madison; obama; palin; police; unions; wisconsinshowdown
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To: fiftymegaton

Reichstag fire


201 posted on 02/27/2011 5:03:31 PM PST by satan (Plumbing new depths of worthlessness on a daily basis.)
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To: Jean S

...so when does this hard work they claim to do ever get done? They’ve been protesting for weeks.

Okay - if they want to sit around and watch us vote them out everywhere GREAT!


202 posted on 02/27/2011 5:04:48 PM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Jean S

Good to read that reply, I worry(from the state of Florida) that the protesters and their ilk may win this battle after all, hope not, but still......keep up the fight Gov Walker and Co. plus Jean S and all the Freepers in Wisconsin!


203 posted on 02/27/2011 5:06:42 PM PST by yield 2 the right ( Space blank until I come up with a nice Tagline.)
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To: SteveH
Hey, did they have bedbugs at Woodstock?

Woodstock followed publication of that murderous fraud, "Silent Spring," but preceded Nixon caving in response to it, creating the EPA and banning DDT. At Woodstock the pesticides still had the bedbugs on the run.

204 posted on 02/27/2011 5:09:03 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Rat fleas carry plague.)
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To: 1raider1
Any show of force by police or guard would play out like Libya on the cable news shows.

It is too late to worry about what some talking heads/reporters will say or think at this point. The Capitol building needs to be cleared and should have been cleared days or weeks ago. If the cops refuse to evict the protesters from the capitol building, then he needs to call up the National Guard and order them to do it. Then he needs to fire the police who refuse to obey his orders.

If the Governor is worried about what the News reporters/anchors will say, think or report, then he needs to surrender to the protesters/agitators.

205 posted on 02/27/2011 5:11:51 PM PST by AmericaOne (Sneaking In is NOT Immigration!!!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

The FBI tried that in the 60’s.


206 posted on 02/27/2011 5:12:21 PM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Well then, the threat of using bedbugs should be that much more effective at Madison, lol.

:-)


207 posted on 02/27/2011 5:15:35 PM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: Jean S
Jean, you are terrible misinformed if you think the police have had many issues during these demonstrations here in Madison.

And yes...I would have expected those who support the Governor of WI and conservative principles (at least one of these should be the Tea Party-ers) to have shown up on a consistent basis.

No such fortitude, sorry to say.

208 posted on 02/27/2011 5:15:57 PM PST by Logic n' Reason ("Don't start coloring until you know where the lines go.")
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To: Jean S

Hot shot cattle prods, bayonets, then entrenching shovels, finally buckshot! They will move!


209 posted on 02/27/2011 5:16:39 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Visit the TOMMY FRANKS MILITARY MUSEUM in HOBART, OK. I did, well worth it!)
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To: yield 2 the right

[Good to read that reply, I worry(from the state of Florida) that the protesters and their ilk may win this battle after all, hope not, but still]

How? There is no money. What’s Walker going to do, do a flip-flop because of a union hissy fit, and raises taxes to close the budget gap? It is either the bill passes or massive lay-offs. Even then, the bill will eventually be passed unless the Democrats deny a quorom until the next election and are then able to retake the Senate. Can the stay even operate past June 30 unless a budget is passed? Are the Rats going to shutdown the state government?

No way the Democrats are going to win one this. Even if they win the PR game, they will still lose.


210 posted on 02/27/2011 5:17:06 PM PST by KansasGirl
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To: Marie Antoinette
I live in Madison...I work for the State....I've been down there....the conservative/republican/rino/teaparty are nowhere in evidence and no where to be found.

Shame....

211 posted on 02/27/2011 5:17:59 PM PST by Logic n' Reason ("Don't start coloring until you know where the lines go.")
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To: AmericaOne
If the cops refuse to evict the protesters from the capitol building, then he needs to call up the National Guard and order them to do it.

Although tempted to agree with you, I think the wiser choice in this particular case is to let the idiots just wear out their welcome until even they realize it's time to go home in humiliation. Let them feel how utterly futile their efforts are and how profoundly unsupported their views are.

That would send a message to every other socialist union scum in the country. You are irrelevant to the American people's prosperity. Get lost.

212 posted on 02/27/2011 5:20:07 PM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: Catsrus
I emphatically and completely disagree. The vast vast majority of folks in the middle of Madison are not "thugs", period.

If no republican/rino/conservative/teapartyer will show their face....what does it tell the nation, the state of WI, and the locals?

"Will no one speak for us?"

213 posted on 02/27/2011 5:20:16 PM PST by Logic n' Reason ("Don't start coloring until you know where the lines go.")
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To: Logic n' Reason
Jean, you are terrible misinformed ...

I live less than 60 minutes from Madison and have been paying very close attention to this issue. Where do you live?

214 posted on 02/27/2011 5:22:04 PM PST by Jean S
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To: KansasGirl

Great points made there!


215 posted on 02/27/2011 5:22:49 PM PST by yield 2 the right ( Space blank until I come up with a nice Tagline.)
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To: Logic n' Reason

Tea Party and their friends have JOBS to tend to. Nobody pays our way unless we work.


216 posted on 02/27/2011 5:23:20 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: mtnwmn
The vast majority of the crowds down in the middle of Madison are breaking no law. They are exercising their constitutional rights...first amendment. They are also making a powerful political statement that is spreading throughout the land; they are also deeply committed to their cause.

There is...in fact....a counter political statement to be made regarding this issue. But there is no one in sight to make it, there are no republican/rino/conservative/teapartyers to be seen or heard.

For shame.

217 posted on 02/27/2011 5:24:30 PM PST by Logic n' Reason ("Don't start coloring until you know where the lines go.")
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To: bgill

Yes ... power and water off. Allow nobody in. Ever. Not ever.

They’ll come out.


218 posted on 02/27/2011 5:25:10 PM PST by Principled (Get the capital back! NRST!)
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To: Principled

One rino has already changed his vote, they are hoping to scare a couple of more to change.


219 posted on 02/27/2011 5:27:01 PM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
A very emotional and unfortunately specious arguement. You infer that either a) all dem/lib/prog/pops are "jobless" and can therefore afford the time to protest what is in their mind a terrible bill; or b) that all republican/rino/conservative/teapartyers are working class folk who all have jobs and therefore cannot spend time supporting either the Governor or his bill due to work.

As I said...emotional and totally specious arguements.

220 posted on 02/27/2011 5:27:47 PM PST by Logic n' Reason ("Don't start coloring until you know where the lines go.")
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