{"id":52903,"date":"2015-04-21T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52903"},"modified":"2015-04-21T09:28:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:28:24","slug":"open-letter-to-governor-scott-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52903","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Governor Scott Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: \u00a0Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconson and current #1 on my short list for President in 2016
\nFrom: \u00a0Mitch Berg, Irate Peasant
\nRe: \u00a0The Evil In Your State<\/p>\n

Governor Walker,<\/p>\n

As you are aware – since it’s been used against you – your state has a cranny in its law<\/a> that allows prosecutors (inevitably “progressives”) to use the police to simultaneously harass and gag the subjects of their politically-motivated “investigations” (inevitably conservatives and tea-partiers).<\/p>\n

For the family of \u201cRachel\u201d (not her real name), the ordeal began before dawn \u2014 with the same loud, insistent knocking. Still in her pajamas, Rachel answered the door and saw uniformed police, poised to enter her home. When Rachel asked to wake her children herself, the officer insisted on walking into their rooms. The kids woke to an armed officer, standing near their beds. TOP STORY: Ted Cruz Defends His Defense of the Second Amendment The entire family was herded into one room, and there they watched as the police carried off their personal possessions, including items that had nothing to do with the subject of the search warrant \u2014 even her daughter\u2019s computer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And for a \u00a0nice, Stalinist tinge to the whole thing?<\/p>\n

And, yes, there were the warnings. Don\u2019t call your lawyer. Don\u2019t talk to anyone about this. Don\u2019t tell your friends. The kids watched \u2014 alarmed \u2014 as the school bus drove by, with the students inside watching the spectacle of uniformed police surrounding the house, carrying out the family\u2019s belongings. Yet they were told they couldn\u2019t tell anyone at school. They, too, had to remain silent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Governor Walker – if you want to seize the “liberty” high ground from Rand Paul, I urge you to use the full weight of your office against the public officials responsible for these Stalinist atrocities.<\/p>\n

Your state’s “progressive” thugs in suits are doing Orwell proud:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0For dozens of conservatives, the years since Scott Walker\u2019s first election as governor of Wisconsin transformed the state \u2014 known for pro-football championships, good cheese, and a population with a reputation for being unfailingly polite \u2014 into a place where conservatives have faced early-morning raids, multi-year secretive criminal investigations, slanderous and selective leaks to sympathetic media, and intrusive electronic snooping. Yes, Wisconsin…was giving birth to a new progressive idea, the use of law enforcement as a political instrument, as a weapon to attempt to undo election results, shame opponents, and ruin lives.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, the court system is wending its leisurely way toward a decision, surely enough:<\/p>\n

The first ruling, from the Wisconsin supreme court, could halt the investigations for good, in part by declaring that the \u201cmisconduct\u201d being investigated isn\u2019t misconduct at all but the simple exercise of First Amendment rights. The second ruling, from the United States Supreme Court, could grant review on a federal lawsuit brought by Wisconsin political activist Eric O\u2019Keefe and the Wisconsin Club for Growth, the first conservatives to challenge the investigations head-on. If the Court grants review, it could not only halt the investigations but also begin the process of holding accountable those public officials who have so abused their powers.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m going to hope and pray – and maybe find something more tangible to do – that the courts involved haven’t given in to complete madness, and that this whole criminal enterprise is exposed, humiliated and obliterated.<\/p>\n

And so, Governor Walker, I’ll ask you this: \u00a0if the courts rule against the scumbag prosecutors (and if they don’t, I truly despair for the Republic), I’d like to urge you to make examples of these pieces of human garbage. \u00a0Arrest them in no-knock raids early in the morning; haul them out of their houses, in their underwear, in front of news cameras (and if Wisconsin’s chickensh*t liberal major media won’t cover it, give the conservative alt-media a call). \u00a0Have the trials on camera. \u00a0 If they’re found guilty – and they’d best be – then stick them in the most maximum of maximum security.<\/p>\n

Because if there’s anything worse than breaking the law, it’s perverting it. \u00a0And the sooner America’s Brahmins, the Prosecutor class in “progressive” cities, get the message – and the more brutally it’s rammed home until they do – the sooner this country can maybe start achieving some of that “Freedom” and “Liberty” mumbo jumbo.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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