What I heard nearly floored me.
Erwin was talking to Mercure about his crackdown on the First Amendment and on the Solidarity Singers in the Capitol Building.
The radio station has a report on the interview, but sadly did not include the podcast. I believe they intentionally left it off so that people couldn't hear what the commandant had to say, since it was so obviously out of line.
It was painfully easy to see that the whole thing was a staged attempt to get certain Republican talking points through since they weren't about to give attention to President Barack Obama's event at Madison.
During the brief interview, Commandant Erwin told three big whoppers that would have, if heard in Madison, brought out the largest contingent of Solidarity Singers ever on the next day.
The first whopper was that he has the Solidarity Singers under control. He backed this statement up by claiming that there were only about 60 Singers showing up each day at the Capitol.
Now, I might be wrong about this, but if I remember correctly, the Singers were averaging about a third to half that number until he started to trample on Free Speech with his jackboots. Doubling or tripling the number of people that you're trying to squash is not exactly being in control.
The next doozy was he was trying to make the Capitol accessible to everyone in the state. First of all, the only people that have been trying to make the Capitol inaccessible are the Republicans that are passing these unconstitutional administrative codes. There's never been one incident of a Solidarity Singer trying to forbid any other person from entering the Capitol.
But the real kicker, the one that got me to actually yell at my poor old car radio, was when Mercure asked him, in his best concern troll manner, why the Solidarity Singers just won't go ahead and get a permit.
Erwin said that he did not know why they wouldn't get a permit and "really wished" that he did.
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Permits? Permits? We don't need your stinkin' permits! We have the Constitution, dammit! That's all the permit we need!
I also noted that not once did they bring up how Erwin is being called out by a growing number of legislators, threatened to arrest an ACLU observer or almost allowed a woman to die.
The part that makes me sick is knowing that their are some people that actually buy into this crap propaganda that they are shoving down our throats.
But the worst are the brownshirts who not only see anything wrong with this but actually support it and want more of it.
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