What's Next For Wisconsin? More Riots says Jesse Jackson!
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16676)
Boston, Massachusetts
March 11, 2011 5:35am CST
Jesse Jackson, provocateur extraordinaire, says it ain't over yet. Just because the law has been passed and is soon to be enacted, it's not going to change a thing. Jackson said this:
"So they're going to escalate the protests -- you will either have collective bargaining through a vehicle called collective bargaining or you're going to have it through the streets. People here will fight back because they think their cause is moral and they have nowhere else to go."
So, if they don't get their way, they will riot in the streets until... what? Until they topple a duly and freely elected state government? Seriously, is there any other goal?
They have nowhere else to go? How about going to work?
Regardless of what the protesters claim, democracy occurred. The legislature conducted business and voted. They don't like the vote, well that happens often - many times there are groups of people who do not like the way a vote goes.
What do you think the goal is now? Riot until the government is unable to conduct business and cause a situation that is so dangerous that the National Guard must come in? Will there be violence? Even if you support the unions, do you think that rioting in the street if you don't like the law is the right way to go? IS trying to collapse the state government a lawful right? Or is this unlawful?
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
11 Mar 11
More lies from a professional liar.
There is more threat of loss of life and property from any rioting than from the Budget Repair Law.
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
12 Mar 11
The governor should have him arrested for inciting a riot. Or do we have law an order in this country anymore?
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
12 Mar 11
It may vary from state to state, but he has to actually incite a riot to be charged. Saying something that might incite a riot is not enough. Also, there has to be solid evidence that his words incited a riot. If he made a speech, and people in his crowd immediately started rioting, that would be pretty solid evidence. If someone riots a week later, the argument wouldn't hold much water.
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
11 Mar 11
If they had any decency or respect for the democratic process they would do exactly what was done in the last election. They would campaign and vote out the people they disagree with, and elect people that will make the changes they want. Notice that when the democrats had all the power and created this deficit their opponents weren't rioting, damaging the capital building, threatening the lives of elected representatives, or crawling in the windows like monkeys escaped from the zoo. They objected, complained at town halls, and eventually voted the democrats out and the republicans in. Now those republicans are doing EXACTLY what they were elected to do and their lives are being threatened for it by the same people who created this mess.
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
11 Mar 11
In the movie "Young Frankenstein" the Kenneth Mars character whips the villagers into a frenzy over the dangers of "the monster" and intones: "A riot is an ugly thing, and it's about time we had one". I can see Rich Trumka saying this(he's got a history or ordering union violence, that's how he got to be president), or Jesse Jackson or Michael Moore. They are purposely encouraging fear,creating a mob mentality and telling them that these riots are a good thing that must be kept up to protect the village until they kill the monster. The monster, in this case, just happens to be the taxpayers.
I heard that one protest leader was screaming about the locked windows in the Capitol as being a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Apparently disabled people are demanding the right to crawl in and out of windows. They run the risk of looking not only dangerously over-zealous but also quite ridiculous to anyone other than those who are part of their group or rabid union-supporters.
I do have a real concern about violence erupting.
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
11 Mar 11
They're doing what good little sheep do, following their shepherd. They don't want to loose what they've been assured they're entitled to. It isn't about democratic process with them. It's about having their cake, and eat it too.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
11 Mar 11
The goal? I believe they want to push so hard that we are slapped with martial law or gaurd sent in. What else could it be? I mean, conservatives were elected, their doing the job they were elected to do and the liberals are p*ssed and acting like spoiled brats. They've decided it's war, and will destroy and riot and it will all be blamed on conservatives. Divide and conquer.
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
11 Mar 11
What they really want is video of protesters being forcibly removed or the National Guard having to clear the streets. They will then claim they are victims of brutality at the hands of "the system". It's also fearmongering and a scare tactic. I think they've already lost the sympathy of most of America, and if they continue to riot, that support will shrink even more.
Only 12% of the American workforce is unionized and about 30% of public sector employees are unionized. They are the minority, the only way they can win is through fear and intimidation.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
11 Mar 11
And many in the unions are there ONLY because they need the job and have to be union. My sons went through this and hated the intrusion. They weren't judged according to their abilities and passed over by incompitants (whom they had to train).
