Scared Spitless

[paft.livejournal.com]

This video offers a handy illustration of the sheer power of public dissent. The Scott Walker administration in Wisconsin is so worried it's now reduced to arresting people for watching the demonstrations going on in the capital.

Yep, folks, here you have it. Conservative "small government" in action. You can be cuffed and marched away now for stopping and looking.

Arresting people for simply stopping and watching a demonstration is a bad thing.

It does not indicate an allegiance to "small government." In fact, it reveals the hypocrisy behind conservative claims about "small government"

And yet, apparently, powerful conservatives see nothing wrong or inconsistent about this.

Anyone here willing to defend Scott Walker's actions?

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Comments

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Please elaborate on your actual point within the next 1 hour, as is the usual requirement (http://talk-politics.livejournal.com/261191.html). Thanks in advance.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

That should do.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

*crickets*

[paft.livejournal.com]

Eyep.

[jerseycajun.livejournal.com]

Wow. You waited a whole two hours before calling it. On a Sunday. With most of the regulars still caught up on the race post a few posts back.

Edit: Closer to five hours, but still. It's Sunday dude. This place is notably quite this late in the weekends anyway. All the attention is still on the other post.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Fuck 'em.

[jerseycajun.livejournal.com]

But I've never even met them.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

liberals have no morals, sir


*that was a joke, people*

[dwer.livejournal.com]

I really appreciate that you've begun to clarify in these cases.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

it seems so necessary these days :)

[dwer.livejournal.com]

In some cases.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

You don't own a thin brush do ya?

Several!

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I am out of 00, will these 0's do?

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

Who is the pork-fed dame in your icon?

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

That's my Aunt Paula

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

She looks too young to be Paula Deen. It must be an older photo.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

wat

P-Deennie's face has been photoshopped so many times Photoshop came out with a Chicken Fried filter for her

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

The only time I saw her face was when she appeared on TV looking like a haggard televangelist to apologize for using the n-word.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

When in line at the grocer, I saw the cover of her magazines had that mug plastered all over it. She looked a like a chubby 55 year old poorly photoshopped to look 39.

The smile and wide eyes was almost demonic

[notmrgarrison.livejournal.com]

And there's the part where it's nothing more than a youtube video.

[404.livejournal.com]

Where are all the liberals and progressives clicking their heels because this in their minds is a confirmation of that they believed to begin with?

[paft.livejournal.com]

Your question doesn't even make any sense.

[404.livejournal.com]

okay

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

I don't even see what's here to discuss. There's just a video, no news story, no context...

[paft.livejournal.com]

So nothing in the video actually happened?

[jerseycajun.livejournal.com]

Anyone here willing to defend Scott Walker's actions?

Did he order them arrested?

If he did, then the answer is "no", I don't agree with this.

And to clarify, I wouldn't agree with this regardless of who made the call.

There you have it, and answer of "No" from a self-professed small government guy, though I would certainly not profess myself as a conservative. Nor liberal or progressive either.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

I'd hope a magistrate would release them immediately (if these folks were arrested, and the magistrate was smart).

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

Atlanta, that small corporate bastion of liberal Democratic common sense (sometimes), while surrounded by a sea of hillbilly conservatives is Capital City. We have gun nuts openly carrying at rallies, pot war protesters, supporters of indicted Rep Lewis and a governor so far right of Walker he should be playing first base instead of pitcher. From..the batters POV...anyway.. YOU KNOW. But we don't get this treatment here in backwater GA. Surprised?

Occupy camped out for a few weeks, before Liberal Mayor Kassim Reed cleared out Woodruff Park. Surprised?

The point? That sometimes, well, OFTEN some liberal types come off extremely rigid and generalizing when it comes to the GOP AND VICE VERSA. I get your point. You are angry. We all are angry. The video is egregious. I'd challenge you to post at least ONE thing you can find positive about a right wing politician, just to show you can. Unfortunately, I'm not sure you are willing or able to recognize the Duopoly that exists in today's politics.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

George W. Bush did a pretty good job on aid to Africa.

Of course, some would have us believe that he wasn't right wing.

Now, wanna get back to the actual topic?

[notmrgarrison.livejournal.com]

Are you channeling Paft?

[dwer.livejournal.com]

Paft is right an awful lot of the time. Does it concern you that I would "channel" Paft?

[404.livejournal.com]

You should let paft do her own homework. Or does it concern you that much that people challenge paft that you have to answer for her?

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

if i share a POV with someone else on a topic, and they are challenged on that topic,it 100% within reason for me to jump in on that topic.

its not channeling paft to agree with her sometimes.

[notmrgarrison.livejournal.com]

But it wasn't about opinion, it was asking if she was capable of something.

[404.livejournal.com]

If I ask a student to give an explanation of the causes of the Civil War, and before said student answers, another student jumps in and starts rattling off reasons, the chance for the original student is ruined, since they can take the easy way out and just parrot what the other student said.

Moreover, it's been more than a day and a half since rick_day asked her, so I doubt she will be forthcoming with anything anyways.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

Now, wanna get back to the actual topic?

No. I've given my opinion. Tyranny is everywhere these days, including the video in the OP.

[paft.livejournal.com]

...an opinion that has very little to do with the actual topic.

Can you cite an example of a prominent American liberal making it illegal to WATCH a demonstration?

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

That is deflecting the argument because you didn't answer my question. Are you capable of researching and citing one good thing (in your subjective eyes) for America that a conservative right winger has done or was in charge of?

[paft.livejournal.com]

I'll take that as a "no."

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

ditto! :D

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

lol

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

Back in the day when small government was truly king, the guy with the camera would have been bludgeoned by the cop. He should consider himself to be fortunate that Federal big government protections kept his skin intact.

As for prosecuting observers, I am reminded of a scene in Voltaire's Candide where an inquisitor ordered a young man to be flogged for listening to a blaspheming philosopher.

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

Not with a borrowed ten-foot pole, OP

[papasha-mueller.livejournal.com]

[telemann.livejournal.com]

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

[flaming-goat.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah, arrest them for not participating. Get more people to get out there and be active. Overrun the streets with protests and let the chips fall as they will.