Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Republicans, Tea Partiers Commit Violence At The Capitol

Well, here's a story you won't ever hear on Faux News or squawk radio.

Former state Senator Dave Zien and two of this thug teahadist buddies went to Madison to advocate for the new gun law.  While at the Capitol, they decided to sully its reverent halls by bringing the first acts of physical aggression and violence since the protests started four months ago:
A participant in the daily, non-violent Solidarity Sing Along at the state Capitol suffered a broken tooth when he was punched in the face by one of two men who were draping a "Don't Tread on Me" flag over the heads of singers, the leader of the sing-along said.

State Department of Administration spokeswoman Carla Vigue said the singer who was punched, Michael J. Dickman of Madison, saw the two men draping the flag over others and came over and grabbed it. Dickman was cited by Capitol Police for disorderly conduct, she said.

Henry C. Rahr of Green Bay was arrested on a tentative charge of battery, and another man holding the flag, Eugene C. German, of Shorewood, Minn., also was cited for disorderly conduct, Vigue said.

Rahr was released from the Dane County Jail after posting $650 on the tentative battery and disorderly conduct charges, according to jail records.
So much for their lies of being for peace or even for the people. They only want two things: money and power. And they are willing to go to any extreme to get either of those things.

But there are a few other things to point out besides the abhorrent and inexcusable behavior of these two-bit thugs.

One thing I haven't seen reported anywhere but at Blue Cheddar is that Zien himself proves to be a horrible role model by being aggressive, verbal abusive and threatening to the solidarity singers.  Why is afraid of singers singing about things like solidarity, mutual support and making one's way through life should be threatening to anyone, but there it is.

Then there is the details of the assault that Rahr committed as written in the first hand witness accounting of the deplorable act of unnecessary violence, via First Draft:
Just as they were draping their flag across my face, a member of the sing along came over, told the men to stop it, and pulled their flag down. instantly, the shorter tea partier grabbed this guy in a headlock and punched him in the mouth which resulted in a broken tooth. The guy who got punched did not initiate any physical force against either of the tea partiers holding the flag, he just was grabbing and trying to pull down their flag, never touching either of the men until he was trying to get himself free from the headlock. Some more sing along people came over and tried to break up the fight. moments later the police came upstairs to assess the situation. Several eyewitnesses including myself gave statements to the police and everyone who was involved in the assault.
It should be also noted that one of the aggressors, Eugene C. German, is from Minnesota. And here Scott Walker was feigning concern about it being the unions who were going to bring in out of state people to cause mayhem. Either Walker has secretly joined the unions or he's just a flaming hypocrite.

I have also heard that German may be a gun dealer, which leads to another question.  If these yahoos are willing to resort to such violence because someone was singing or because someone tried to prevent them from accosting another person, are they really examples of  someone you would want to be in possession of a firearm? Instead of just a simple battery, it could have easily escalated into a bloodbath.

Lastly, I have yet to hear Walker, or either of the Fitzgerald boys, or any other Republican of note to condemn this act of violence. I would take it as to mean that they condone such behavior.  Like we needed yet another reason to recall the lot of them than they think they can now go and suppress free speech through physical intimidation and/or assault.

3 comments:

  1. Perhaps rather than send in troublemakers to give #wiunion a bad name they are just going the intimidation route

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  2. An anonymous commenter left the following comment this afternoon, but it was inadvertently deleted. Here it is in its entirety:

    Zien should have been cited for disorderly behavior too. Zooming around the Rotunda in his wheelchair, making the singers jump back lest he run over their toes! This is apparently OK, however, while silently holding up a copy of the Wisconsin Constitution in the legislative chamber will get you hauled off.

    More reporting on the whole incident at Daily Kos:
    http://tinyurl.com/3npok7r

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  3. Using RICO Act on Republican Party, anyone?

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