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.
Good grief, Megan, I'm trying to eat!
“Can walker shut off the funding for chisolms office?”
I assume he can’t. Wouldn’t that fall to the Wisconsin legislature?
And if one or more of those swattings resulted in the death of the targeted?
In case you and the others haven’t noticed, the other side stopped pretending to follow the rules some time ago.
This was a targeted, political, assault and battery by law enforcement. Saying “I can’t do anything” only enables them.
Everyone was silenced? They still had mouths didn’t they? Is this tyranny or isn’t is? Do you fight tyranny, as the FREAKING executive of the state, by obeying the tyrant?
What’s wrong with this country is the good guys are following rules as defined by the bad guys. Walker still thinks, even after all this, that Big Government can be defeated within a process they’ve invented. You can like Walker all day long, but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s not the guy to lead us out of tyranny.
I read the article, I was horrified, took it personally, and it informed the position I’ve taken.
Well I did read it and my analysis actually goes further than yours. You say, “this is terrible, and an outrage.” I say, “this is terrible, an outrage, and how could this happen in a state where a ‘conservative’ is the executive?”
Then your retort is, “They were told to be silent by the courts.” Then I say, “This is tyranny. If we obey naked tyranny, especially as the leader of the state, we lose.”
Then you start name calling.
The governor of the state...a victim of an employee of his state. There’s another level of analysis here.
thanks and amen.
I usually assume that they are retarded and don't know any better.
If Jeb Bush had heard about this, he’d come down on the side of Chisholm.
Jeb Bush makes John McCain look like Barry Goldwater.
That’s why there are posts like yours: to point out what others are missing.
Supposed conflict? Excuse me, anyone who defends or minimizes the unconstitutional and tyrannical nature of these tactics is part of the problem. Maybe you should leave your problems with Walker as a candidate outside this thread and face reality. The left is silencing conservatives using the force of law in a manner that goes completely against the constitution and the founding of this nation. I don’t care which candidate this pertains to, it could pertain to Jeb’s supporters and I would still say the same thing! This is a subject we MUST unite on now or we will all be silenced forever.
Yes, I heard Rush give this a lot of outraged attention.He kept referring to the National Review article,which I don’t see the link to, though it’s referenced here.Most astonishing to me is that this whole series of Gestapo raids
seemed to fly under everyone’s radar , and I never heard Scott Walker even mention it.A previous poster makes a good point about that omission.
Yep., i want to know why Walker did nothing as the head of Wisconsin. I was one of the first to ask similar questions
to Houston talk-radio show — as to why Gov Perry was doing nothing about illegal immigration flooding his border !
Remember in the mind of a leftist, the ends justify ANY means so this is not surprising at all.
re: “ I have lost all patience with those idiots. FreeRepublic used to be a great place to come to, but now it’s populated by those dolts who don’t bother to be informed. Here is an incredibly important article and these people are so lazy, they don’t even bother themselves to read it.”
Amen, and Amen, Brother. Walker would be a GREAT president. I love Ted Cruz, too. Either of them would be fine by me and would be proud to vote for them.
These suicidal “conservatives” who refuse to vote for all other candidates except their “guy” are killing our country.
I love how they also dis Rush Limbaugh. Rush keeps me going with his insight and humor. They claim Limbaugh was “late” with this story. I’ve heard him speak to this several times, and, I still haven’t heard anything about this Wisconsin story in the other media yet, so he can’t be all that late. I love any and all conservatives in the media who are out there keeping up the good fight. They all have a place and they reach a segment of the population that others don’t.
We don’t have to agree with every single thing a candidate says or does - they are human beings after all - they can and do make mistakes. Walker faced up to one of the most vicious character assassinations I’ve seen in a long time - and, came out on top. The guy’s doing something right.
I swear that if Jesus Himself was running for office, someone wouldn’t like Him for some reason or other.
Anyway, Dave W, I appreciate your words and thoughts. Keep it up.
Amen...... rave on brother
the sanctimonious self righteous riding their high horses will see to it that Hillary gets elected. Better hillary than a stained candidate regardless of how great a conservative he is.
I asked you hours ago to respond.....
..instead you ride in on the coattails of someone else.
Go back and read my specific post to you, and then answer me!
Chained to Nifong.
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