In the immortal words of - Ronald Reagan - the person Scott Walker first voted for as a teen - "There you go again".
Walker who, for some reason has been giving column inches in the Rev. Moon's Washington Times, is out with his second column. The first was incomprehensible and things have not gotten much better However what you can gleem from Walker's second column is that he has never had much self awareness.
Recently, Social media giant Facebook, culled from its community a bunch of far right extremists, like hate monger lunatic Alex Jones, Wisconsin Republican Parties own white Supremacist Paul Nehlen, even a crazy WISGOP group Wisconsin Conservative Union(which has caused Dan ODonnell countless faux tears), among many others (even Louis Farrakhan).
One thing that our friends on the right are great at, is playing the part of the poor innocent victim. Yes, there are claims of censorship, but Facebook is a private company and not bound to the first amendment. When the Republicans can not control something/someone it makes them crazy.
Which leads us into Walkers latest attempt at an opinion column. Incredibly titled - Who wants to live in a country that can block free speech. More of his obsession with Venezuela.
History shows us that dictators often seek to deny the people access to information to thwart revolutions. And in Venezuela, the government has historically had a heavy hand on the media.
Radio and television are censored by an organization sympathetic to the government, and most newspapers are owned by supporters of Mr. Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez.
Now, they are turning their efforts to blocking digital to stop dissent. We saw similar attempts in 2011, during the April Spring uprisings. Eight years ago, the government in Egypt shut down all access to the Internet. Now, it is happening again in our hemisphere.
Scott Walker, who controlled the message for 8 years, by when he did make a rare appearance in public, only had the courage for invite only events.
However, nothing showed a heavy hand of the Government and total censorship of free speech as when Scott Walker as Governor, ordered the arrest of anyone who dared sing in the Rotunda of the Capitol.
Here are pics of the Capitol Police arresting Vietnam War Hero Will Williams and then him falling down on the stairs as they take him down to process him. He put his life on the line for our country in Vietnam but was treated like crap by Scott Walker for singing in a public building.
While there are many many many other stories of censorship and desperation in controlling information from the Walker administration, there is one image that sums up the lack of transparency and Unconstitutional actions that defined Scott Walker.
When this picture defines your tenure, you should probably take a good, hard, long look in the mirror before you offer an opinion on censorship anywhere else in the world!
I forget, but wasn't it Walker's DNR that was forbidden to discuss or even use "Climate Change" terminology?
ReplyDeleteHey Li'l Jeffy...Jeffy...Jeffy...Jeffy.
ReplyDeleteSure is quiet 'round here; the silence is deafening, am I right?
Youse did know this hyper-partisan joke-of-a-blog is known as U.S. Route 50, didn't youse?
Guess why...?
The Gotch
"Scott Walker's Clueless Columns"
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No Jeff, you're psychologically projecting your own cluelessness on others.
Your entire blog post is nothing but an attack dog ad hominem. You should be ashamed of yourself for writing this kind of attack dog claptrap.
Quite the contrary, when you see something that's wrong, you speak up. Jeff always did that--that's something to be proud of.
DeleteWhen you see something wrong, you speak up. Jeff always did that--that's something to be proud of.
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