Walker Keeps Grabbing Power in Wisconsin #p2 #tcot

"Scott Walker is usurping legislative powers, while his police are normalizing the handcuffing of peaceful people."

from http://www.progressive.org/scott_walker_power_grab.html

"Today we are living under a constant, low-intensity siege by the organized rightwing from within Wisconsin, which is supported by the out-of-state interests of billionaires who have hijacked our political system. We are suffering the cumulative effects of traumatic stress, which are subtle, powerful, and perverse. Every day people are being arrested for reminding lawmakers that they have the constitutional right to petition their government for redress of their grievances.

This video taken on Monday gives you an eerie sense of the constant police presence in government spaces, as well as the normalization of handcuffing and arresting calm, non-disruptive, peaceful people. The committee proceedings happening during the arrest continue without a hitch or even the slightest acknowledgement that anything unusual is taking place.

This particular hearing was convened by Rep. Steve Nass to hear testimony from the Center for Equal Opportunity, a Virgina-based rightwing think tank that produces reports about "reverse racism" in college admissions. In response to the intense grilling by Democrats Mark Pocan, Barbara Toles and Terese Berceau, CEO President Roger Clegg actually told the committee that there were too many students of color at UW-Madison – a patently ridiculous claim to anyone who has spent any time here at all."