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iwishiwas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 10:24 AM
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Editorial: Re-Open The Capitol: Return access to pre-protest standard.
It is costing WI taxpayers millions to keep it locked down--day by day.....


http://www.channel3000.com/news/27970563/detail.html

Editorial: Re-Open The Capitol
Return access to pre-protest standard.

By Neil Heinen
Editorial Director


It's time to give back to the citizens of Wisconsin access to their State Capitol building. If there was ever justification for armed officers, metal detectors and wands, following demonstrations against Governor Scott Walker's budget proposal, that justification no longer exists.

The Walker administration apparently feels threatened because the budget dispute remains unresolved. But that's no longer a valid reason to hinder access to the building and to the public officials who work there by citizens with business to conduct or those who simply want to visit. This level of security is bizarrely out of whack with reality.

We'll find out Tuesday if the continued security is in fact in violation of a court order......................
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 10:29 AM
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1. It's become the Fascist Headquarters, barricaded. n/t
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 10:35 AM
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2. The further to the Right one is, the more paranoid one is.
And then there is the fear of 'Blowback' because of mistreatment of your "Subjects".
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 01:07 PM
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3. This is where we're at in the USSA
some podunk blogger has to beg for the citizens' property to be re-opened after the fascist lockdown
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