but I see it differently. I see it as deliberate that they chose to fire the first salvo of the final battle of the war on the middle class in Wisconsin, in Madison particularly. If they can crush it there, one of the last places where there is still lots of real progressive support among a broad spectrum of people of all walks of life, they win big time. and there are good reasons they would try it there...
below is a rather dark rant I let loose this am in response to the following email:
subject: Is history repeating itself? Ask the Republicans
“We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike."
- Adolf Hitler, May 2, 1933
again I truly hope I'm wrong...
the answer is of course yes. and its being guided deliberately and with years of planning and design behind it.
that of course sounds like whacko conspiracy theory, that’s part of how this works, and how they can deny its happening, but the facts are there and the signs are obvious.
these are not stupid people. they have studied why past fascist regimes failed and attempted to find ways around the mistakes.
they have poured millions and millions into creating this situation and planning for it.
ask yourself why they did this first in Wisconsin? perhaps the state with the strongest progressive tradition and remaining public unions still somewhat strongly in place at least compared to other states, and in Madison!, perhaps the only place left where there was enough of a “left” to get people out to fight back, or try to. THEY WANTED CONFLICT, THEY WANTED A SHOWDOWN, THEY WANTED PROTESTS AND PEOPLE IN THE STREETS. why would they want that?...pretty obvious...
this is the kick off of the final phase...which will be “redemptive violence”...so far it looks like they misjudged their own capabilities to mobilize the tea party brownshirts to start something...and the protestors have been well-behaved...we’ve heard Walker himself say he had planned to use agents provocateurs to start trouble...meanwhile similar laws pass elsewhere without much notice “keep your eye on this hand”...they won’t “burn the Reichstag” unless they have too, but it is looking like they’re going to have to...this worries me no end.
the standoff situation now in Wis. with small bands of hold out protestors remaining, battles over access to the capital, the senators refusing to return, tempers rising...the issuing of arrest warrants...most news blacked out but Fox Propaganda going off the charts --even for them --on trumped up reports of violence and abuse and outrageousness from the unions and their supporters...on and on.... the perfect set up for the governor to torch his own house and blame it on the “lefties and the union thugs”
then all hell breaks loose...
and they’ve planned for that too. that’s the point of creating this situation in the first place. and it was created. not about budgets and deficits. we know that for a fact. Walker created the deficit with a tax cut for corporations just weeks ago. there were other states with real budget issues they could leverage over the workers, if that was their real goal. They wanted a showdown, and they wanted it there, and they wanted it now.
the only question left is what will the cops and the state troopers and the national guard guys do when Walker orders them to clear out the protestors. if they obey orders, you will see the news blackout in the “main stream” media about Wisconsin suddenly end as lots of really good clear footage of students and union folks getting their heads cracked open get looped endlessly on the ‘telescreen’ as a warning. ‘if it bleeds it leads.’
If I know Madison, that will create an enormous blowback and 100,000s of people will head back to the streets to battle the cops/guard, much more than ‘they’ expect. or maybe that’s why they picked Madison! they’ve (Beck esp.), created this false myth of the specter of a vast strong omnipresent lefty socialist conspiracy set to take over the country any second (which is the real “Big Lie”. this was done again as the' ‘watch what this hand is doing’ illusion to distract) one of the few places they could have got enough people to fill the streets and “prove” the “threat” exists would be Madison. The people of Madison could even prevail for awhile. until we have Kent State on steroids...or Libya.
everyday I hope to find something to tell me I’m wrong...and only find more that tells me I’m right.