Scott Walker's New Ad Shows 10,000s at Capitol from 2011, Warns "They're Coming"

Scott Walker still
fears Wisconsin
citizens.

Updated - Gov. Scott Walker is back to his 2011 playbook warning Wisconsin citizens are coming to our capitol to protest corruption.

In an online ad, (at top-right), Walker's ad reads:  "They're coming. We need to fight back."

The ad displays an image of the capitol with 10,000s of people petitioning their government after Walker dropped a "bomb" on Wisconsin, rushing through legislation on which he refused to campaign in 2010 because the unpopular measure would have cost him the election.

Since Walker took office, Walker has assumed an unusual posture, appearing afraid of the Wisconsin people, often demonizing families as dangerous.

In 2013, Walker escalated his regime's work against outlawed expression of political dissent, going to the extreme of having the capitol cops warn people could be given disorderly conduct citation for spectating, or watching, other people sing or display an anti-Scott Walker expression.

Walker's regime at the capitol was ruled unconstitutional, and after losing a series of First Amendment cases, Walker's administration agreed to stop pursuing Wisconsin citizens.

"The Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda functions, both literally and symbolically, as a city center and is fully utilized as a public space to which all have claim," noted United States District Court Judge William M. Conley for the Western District of Wisconsin in Michael Kissick vs. Michael Huebsch and David Erwin (Mal Contends), citing Wisconsin's National Historic Landmark Nomination document, among other historical documents in his 2013 preliminary injunction that led to a free speech victory.

In Walker's aborted run for the presidency in 2015, Walker compared protesting Wisconsin citizens to ISIS.

Scott Walker Says Wisconsin People "Tested" Him to Fight ISIS, "Lead" World

Scott Walker

Voters requiring evidence Scott Walker is a lightweight not fit for office at any level in our constitutional republic ought to consider Walker's foreign policy address at the Citadel military college in South Carolina. (Opoien, Capital Times) (New York Times)

Walker again makes the absurd assertion his secretly crafting legislation in 2010-11 on which he had refused to campaign—dropping a "bomb" on Wisconsin public employees to use Walker's phrase—makes Walker imbued with knowledge of battling ISIS, a force created after the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.

"America will not be intimidated. And neither will I. America must be, not only the land of the free, but the home of the brave. An America that is unintimidated. ... Clearly, clearly, we can no longer afford to be passive spectators while the world descends into chaos. With all the challenges we face around the globe today, now is not the time for untested leadership. I have been tested like no other candidate in this race," said Walker.

The Capital Times' Opoien notes: "This wasn't the first time Walker invoked his union battle as a sign of his preparedness to tackle international conflicts. In February, addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference, Walker famously declared, 'If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.'" [YouTube]

Nor is this the first time Walker has asserted a strange and vague notion that America must reassert military strength some where at some time to "lead" again, a reckless notion that drew wide derision after the first Republican debate.

Taking Walker's words at face value what manner does Walker view the American people when he conceives them as a force to be conquered (to use Walker's description again)? Or as analogous in any way to ISIS/ISIL?

Walker's wide-ranging, hawkish foreign policy pronouncements have been panned by foreign policy experts for months. (US News)

Notes Juan Cole on Scott Walker's response to a question about foreign policy in early August:

MEGYN KELLY: Governor Walker, in February you said that we needed to gain partners in the Arab world. Which Arab country not already in the U.S. led coalition has potential to be our greatest partner?

SCOTT WALKER: What about then (ph) [an unintelligible phonetic sound], we need to focus on the ones we have. You look at Egypt, probably the best relationship we’ve had in Israel, at least in my lifetime, incredibly important.

You look at the Saudis — in fact, earlier this year, I met with Saudi leaders, and leaders from the United Arab Emirates, and I asked them what’s the greatest challenge in the world today? Set aside the Iran deal. They said it’s the disengagement of America. We are leading from behind under the Obama-Clinton doctrine — America’s a great country. We need to stand up and start leading again, and we need to have allies, not just in Israel, but throughout the Persian Gulf.”

Writes Cole:

I mean, could the man even find these places on the map? First of all, what in the world does that mean, 'You look at Egypt, probably the best relationship we’ve had in Israel, at least in my lifetime.' Does he think Egypt is in Israel? That 'Israel' means something like 'the Middle East'? If so, no wonder Congress is willing to do whatever Tel Aviv asks. I mean, how can you decline, when the Middle East calls?

As for having allies 'throughout the Persian Gulf,' the US already does. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman are all US allies. Bahrain hosts the HQ of the Fifth Fleet. We have several thousand troops based in Kuwait. Qatar leases us the al-Udaid Air Force Base. Etc., etc. I’m not sure what the Gulf Cooperation Council states in the Gulf want the US to lead them toward, but their current campaign is in Yemen, which, although I am very critical of the Houthi rebels, I don’t think is a good idea. No doubt they would have wanted us to take the lead there. But, do we need another quagmire? But Walker seems weak-minded enough so maybe all sorts of foreign countries can bamboozle him into doing their adventurism for them.

Concludes Cole: "After W., I have a rule that if you flounder around speaking some odd Klingon form of English and don’t seem actually to, like, know anything, you can’t be president."

Or any office as the rural areas of Wisconsin are finding out, now.

Scott Walker's Failed Attempt to Kill the First Amendment

Wisconsin Capitol Police manhandle citizens
opposing Scott Walker, frightening children
and abusing seniors. Photo: Dawn Henken

Let presidential candidate Scott Walker defend his actions against the First Amendment

That a sitting public servant of Wisconsin claims to he "took on" on families who assembled at the state capitol to protest a secret public policy item is revealing of Scott Walker.

Scott Walker has an anti-democratic conception of what America is and should be, a deranged idea of personal liberty, and is a public servant who has apparently never studied the United States Constitution.

"If I can take on 100,000 protesters. I can do the same across the world," said Walker last February (Cillizza, Washington Post) in claiming his qualification to deal with ISIS/ISIL as president.

This is not Scott Walker misspeaking.

Walker destroyed the First Amendment rights of the people to assemble and voice their disapproval because 100,000s of Wisconsinites disagreed with Scott Walker who bragged he dropped a policy "bomb" by surprise.

The judiciary stepped in and stopped Scott Walker cold, who never apologized or expressed regret, instead offering the imbecilic comparison of ISIS to protesting citizens.

Walker's deplorable tactic of halting speech because of its political content veered into the absurd when his administration ordered citizens in 2013 arrested for looking at a protest, seriously; "spectating," Walker's palace guard called the alleged infraction, only to back off after a hail of criticism.

Walker's and his cops at the Capitol became so hostile a federal judge had to intervene and order that Walker's Capitol police stop violating the Constitutional rights of Wisconsin citizens.

"The Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda functions, both literally and symbolically, as a city center and is fully utilized as a public space to which all have claim." - United States District Court Judge William M. Conley in Michael Kissick vs. Michael Huebsch and David Erwin. (Mal Contends)

Walker wants followers, not citizens. And Walker's administration ordered the capitol police to act as lawless thugs in pursuit to shut down disfavored speech. (Capital Times)

Walker's conversion of several dozen civil service jobs into high-paying, politically appointed positions came with Walker's taking on the Wisconsin people: Cronies v. civil liberties.

This should politically disqualify Scott Walker as a serious candidate for public office, and at the least be examined and challenged as recent history.

Think this is hyperbole. Watch this videos, as the capitol police are walking around the rotunda, harassing people for "spectating" and declaring "you could be subject to arrest."

Here is a video of a lone woman, in her young 20s, being harassed by a capitol cop working for the Walker administration for reasons surpassing comprehension.

Scott Walker Loses Another Free Speech Case, Citizens Prevail

Six more citizens won another free speech case against the Scott Walker administration who decided to close off the state Capitol to speech critical of Republicans after Walker infamously began publicly pursuing policies on which Walker refused to campaign.

This case in Dane County Court follows other civil rights victories against Walker's Dept of Administration (DoA) that unilaterally closed the state capitol, and crafted and imposed free speech rules stifling the civil liberties of Wisconsin citizens.

"Dane County Judge Frank Remington awarded plaintiffs Jeremy Ryan, Jenna Pope, Valerie Walasek, Lauri Harty, Anne Hoppe and her mother, Kathleen Hoppe, damages totaling $44,830," yesterday reports Glaze, Wisconsin State Journal.

Virtually all of the 100s of citations issued by Capitol Cops and every case that has reached state and federal court has resulted in wins for citizens against the Walker administration.

 "The Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda functions, both literally and symbolically, as a city center and is fully utilized as a public space to which all have claim," noted United States District Court Judge William M. Conley for the Western District of Wisconsin in Michael Kissick vs. Michael Huebsch and David Erwin (Mal Contends), citing Wisconsin's National Historic Landmark Nomination document, among other historical documents in his 2013 preliminary injunction that led to a free speech victory.

Conley had noted the vital societal purpose of public discourse, and the inherent civil rights citizens retain in the United States Constitution.