I'll get right to the news.
Judge David Prosser who now leads challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg by less than half a percent of votes in Wisconsin's judicial race, because, many of us feel, he stole that election, has decided to declare it a "decisive" election, and had his legal team state that any recount would be "frivolous" and a wasted cost to the state.
This according to an online article from care2. Further he stated through his attorney that there would not be any evidence to support a recount because it would not change the outcome. Prosser's attorney added that the campaign would take any needed steps to prevent a recount from moving forward.
When asked several times if he would say on what grounds these decisions were being made, the attorney answered "No". Here's a section of the article that made me fall off my chair.
"Prosser said that the election proved that , "..people realized that judges should be much more than partisan politicians who wear black robes. Judges should be impartial in theory and in fact. They should faithfully apply the law without fear, and without favor." Then, in a moment of utter cognitive dissidence, he cheered on "the advancement of conservative values as the way to address and ameliorate our many problems."
I love the phrase 'cognitive dissidence'. Far worse than that however. It gives me the feeling I'm hearing someone who believes they have an entitlement. And that's scary. Not all those people are narcissists but many of them are and that is a hallmark of the self-absorbed person - entitlement.
From Michigan an unbelievable story - what is going on?
"Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has begun the process of taking over Benton Harbor, Michigan, inserting an Emergency Manager from his own team to take over the operations of the town. " What the.....?! I've included the link to the story below. It's shocking so just sit with it for a few moments after you read it and contemplate what this means to liberty and freedom in our country.
http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/michigan-governor-starts-financial/
The end of the article warns that Gov. Walker, an ideological/political kin of Synder, is apparently drafting similar plans for Wisconsin. These take-overs are, according to the article, being written up by the legal offices of Foley & Lardner, the largest law firm in the state. The author of the article asks a disturbing question at the end - "Are these governors doing away with local government all together?"
It's a damn good question and one we probably should be asking every day now. I don't rescind my post from yesterday, the one on peaceful protest and talking to others, in fact I think it's becoming more important by the day! We must circulate these articles, emails, posts, newspapers, blogs to everyone we can think of and ask them the same question - Do you think these moves by right-wing people are designed to do away with local governments? If we don't ask these questions, where might we find ourselves in the very near future?
On the darkly humorous side of the news, I found this. You have to appreciate that, here in Wisconsin, the senators who left for Illinois and we progressives, took a pounding when they left to protest the budget bill put forward by Walker. They left so a vote on that travesty could not be taken. But, the threats, by the gov himself, the dirty ideas to take the senators' computers, to hold their paychecks and all other manner of nasty behavior did not bring them home. During that time, as you remember, the screeching from the right never stopped. A particular line that was continually in the news when a repub was interviewed was how shameful it was that the senators were so unprofessional that they had left their jobs for which the people had elected them. So, you'll love this.
"However, all five Republicans declined to show up, leaving Franks as chair to deal with the Democratic members of the panel who were all advocating for the repeal. "
Why did they leave?
"Republican Rep. Trent Franks found himself rather lonely at his "Defending Marriage" subcommittee hearing Friday when other Republican members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, which Franks chairs, failed to show up."
We The People - we've got a huge task in front of us. I think the streets will be filled from now on with The People. We've got a lot to talk about, lots of marching and protesting to do, lots of letters to write, phone calls to make, conversations to have. Today I got an email alert regarding Hershey. I sighed. How long has it been that activists have been working to call the Hershey company to some level of accountability? Forever? Now, activists are being called upon to write Hershey and demand that they end their child labor, forced labor and trafficked labor practices as well as to use Fair Trade cocoa for their products. It isn't too much to ask but we've been asking them for more than two decades to be a decent company. By the way, here's the link to what is being asked of Hershey.
http://www.raisethebarhershey.org/our-demands-of-hershey/
I think it will be like that for the foreseeable future. We're going to need to become more and more savy in our protests. As Bill McKibben said in his 350.org speech, "there's no sense in whining about it, it's just physics and chemistry." He was speaking about global climate change altering the Earth's temperature and the massive effort to return our planetary home to 350 ppm of carbon in the atmosphere. But, he wasn't just talking about the physics and chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere, he was talking about the physics and chemistry of money and power and the pollution they are causing The People.
Write to the Governor of Michigan. You can write to him at: http://www.michigan.gov/snyder. Tell him you are outraged at what he is trying to do to The People in his state. Let him know you are watching him and sharing his dark plans with friends across the country. These folks need to know The People are awake and aware and that we understand the physics and the chemistry of money.
Power To All The People!
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