May Day: The Wisconsin Witch Hunt Goes National
My column today spotlights the latest attempt by the Left to use campaign finance disclosure as a weapon to intimidate and silence political opponents. Both Big Labor and open-borders forces have scheduled their usual May Day protests this weekend, with a special emphasis on Wisconsin and GOP Gov. Scott Walker.
Be careful out there. And be sure to support the businesses (H/T Vicki McKenna) that are supporting fiscal responsibility and standing up to the prog mob.
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The Wisconsin Witch Hunt Goes National
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011
On May 1, left-wing vigilantes will target companies across the country that have committed a mortal sin: sending donations to GOP Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Rest assured, such intolerable acts of political free speech will not go unpunished by tolerant Big Labor activists. They’re calling for both a national boycott of Walker’s corporate donors and a coordinated sticker vandalism campaign on GOP-tainted products.
The Wisconsin Grocers Association is bracing for the anti-Walker witch hunt. Anonymous operatives have circulated sabotage stickers on the Internet and around Wisconsin that single out Angel Soft tissue paper (“Wiping your (expletive) on Wisconsin workers”), Johnsonville Sausage (“These Brats Bust Unions”) and Coors (“Labor Rights Flow Away Like A Mountain Stream”). Earlier this week, a “Stick It To Walker” website boasted photos (now deleted) of vandalized Angel Soft tissue packages at a Super Foodtown grocery store in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Screencap above.)
This destruction of private property is illegal. Not that it matters to anti-Walker protest mobsters, who trampled Wisconsin’s Capitol at an estimated $5 million in security, repair and cleaning costs to taxpayers. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “The identity of the backers of the sticker effort is unknown, although many assume it is being orchestrated by public employee unions. This latest effort follows boycotts organized by members of the Wisconsin State Employees Union AFSCME 24.”
AFSCME 24 is the same union affiliate that recently disseminated intimidation letters throughout southeast Wisconsin, demanding that local businesses support unions by putting up signs in their windows. The letter threatened not just Walker supporters, but any and all businesses that have chosen to sit on the sidelines and stay out of politics altogether: “Failure to do so will leave us no choice but (to) do a public boycott of your business. And sorry, neutral means ‘no’ to those who work for the largest employer in the area and are union members.” Others on Big Labor’s hit list: Kwik Trip, Sargento Foods Inc. and M&I Bank.
Walker, of course, has been at the forefront of government pension and budget reforms. Similar measures are being advanced by Democratic governors and Democrat-run legislatures from Massachusetts to New York to California. But union bosses have yet to sic their goons on individual and corporate donors to Democratic politicians imposing long-overdue benefit and collective bargaining limits for public employee unions.
How convenient, yes? Just as they secured a big fat waiver from the federal health care mandate and tax scheme they lobbied to impose on the rest of America, Big Labor is giving Democratic legislative water-carriers who have been forced to adopt cuts and cost controls a big fat waiver from their organized wrath and vandalism.
Now, a few hundred or thousand ruined grocery store items may not seem to matter much to the average reader, but this little property destruction campaign spotlights a nasty tactic increasingly employed by the left: campaign finance disclosure as a speech-squelching weapon.
We saw it last fall when Democratic operatives targeted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for donating to Obamacare opposition ads.
We saw it in 2008 when a top MoveOn.org alumnus launched attacks on Republican donors with the express purpose of “hoping to create a chilling effect that will dry up contributions.”
We saw it when Obama campaign committee lawyers lobbied the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute a GOP donor for funding campaign ads exposing Obama’s ties to Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.
We saw it during the Proposition 8 traditional marriage battle in California, where gay rights avengers compiled black lists, harassment lists and Google target maps of citizens who contributed to the ballot measure.
We saw it when “progressive” zealots smeared Target Corporation and Chick-fil-A for daring to associate with social conservatives.
And we’re seeing it again this month as the Obama White House readies an executive order that would force federal contractors to disclose all political donations to candidates and independent groups in excess of $5,000 made not just by a corporate entity, but by all of its individual executives, directors and officers.
Former Federal Election Commission official Hans von Spakovsky obtained the sweeping draft executive order, which — surprise, surprise — exempts unions and predominantly left-wing federal grant recipients from the mandate. On Wednesday, GOP senators spelled out the bullying agenda in an open letter objecting to the Obama order: “Political activity would obviously be chilled if prospective contractors have to fear that their livelihood could be threatened if the causes they support are disfavored by the administration.” Join the club.
When disclosure’s a bludgeon, all but Obama’s cronies are nails.
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Related: Wisconsin AFL-CIO Lies About Boycotts
Here’s the boycott list from the anti-Walker mobsters themselves.
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Th closest I can get to a definition of vandalism is here – and it’s a California lawyer. I don’t see how a Post-It note would “deface, damage or destroy the real or personal property belonging to another person.”
It certainly doesn’t damage or destroy a gas pump, and I think you’d have a tough sell trying to convince a jury or judge that it defaces a gas pump, since it does no actual damage to it. In fact it would probably blow away.
Incidentally – I doubt you’ll find a legal definition of vandalism based on “time and effort to remove.”
Agreed. That’s the point. This is the brainchild of some guys in AZ, not the “Tea Party”. Just calling chap on his usual tedious equivalence meme.
Not to mention the “Stick It To Walker” campaign targets private businesses with the clear intent of injuring their business for political ends. Hardly the intent of the post-it folks.
Apples and oranges chap, and no connection to the Tea Party. Sorry.
Aloha,
so you think people have the right to put post it notes on your personal property?
chapoutier, since you think their violations are only petty, I sincerely hope that all your future physicians have the same ethical standards of the physicians who wrote fraudulent sick notes. May all your doctors lie to you about your medical treatment.
Surely you are not equating lying to THE PATIENT with lying to a third party with the patient’s knowlege in order to get a freaking sick day from work.
Because that would be silly. And I am sure you’re smarter than that.
chap, apparently you are stupid to realize that sick notes and medical records are both legal documents.
A physician willing to lie on medical records is exactly the type of physician that YOU deserve.
And you are stupid enough to think that someone who lies to a third party would never think of lying to a patient.
Duh. Winning.
Not to mention chap would whip up a multi million malpractice suit faster than you could say ambulance chaser.
The question of complete veracity in medical practice (or legal for that matter) is valid chap. Issuing a false document carrying the authority of MD credentials is a serious matter, and you know it.
No wonder attorneys have such a bad reputation.
It would be annoying, but a post-it seems sub-vandal to me. Seems too impermanent to be considered defacing. Bad manners though.
hey, just a quick little hit and run (but with MORE substance)
sorry to WOT on y’all
but. son. of. a. bizzatch
Harry Alford, head of the “black” chamber of commerce
“voted for him because he was black”… “worst mistake of my life..”
14:44 – interview w/ Laura Ingrahammer
“Harry Alford, president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, blasted President Obama’s anti-business administration in an explosive interview. Alford, a 2008 Obama supporter, labeled the administration “Marxist” and “fanatical.” “They might as well put on the brown shirts and swastikas,” he said.”
http://www.breitbart.tv/black-chamber-of-commerce-ceo-blasts-marxist-brownshirt-obama/
Really? So if I came to AlohaGuy’s International House of Spam and Poi and started plastering Post-It’s all over, you would consider yourself to have no legal recourse other than a stern look?
Apparently, post-it notes are much more serious to chapoutier than physicians writing fraudulent legal documents.
What is to be gained from lying to the patient? Two entirely different scenarios. That is like saying someone who jaywalks would have no problem doing a hit and run.
Depends on the context. It is a sick note. Again, it is making something technically wrong, but petty, into stabbing puppies.
Never said that, but thanks for playing. Sorry but no consolation prizes this time.
Doing a fake sick note is wrong, but petty. The original context of the whole “petty” discussion was whether or not I would arrest someone for something. I am not going to arrest a doctor for stretching the truth so a guy can get out of work. If he is stretching the truth to defraud an insurance company? Different story.
How did someone so stupid actually pass the bar exam?
If a physician makes a medical error, he can cover it up by lying to the patient, and falsifying the medical record.
Any other questions, Einstein?
A sick note is a legal document that allows an employee to get paid for not working on the condition that said employee is actually sick. A fraudulent sick notes enables the employee to ILLEGALLY get money. Were you absent on the day that they taught ethics in law school?
What do you think that quack would say if his nurse faked a note to get out of surgery (work)?
That is not the context we are talking about. At all. Someone falsifying records to cover their own mistakes, and protect their liability is so far removed from someone giving someone a freaking sick note, probably based on the patient’s own representations, to get out of work that they would need to dial an international code to talk over the phone.
Yes actually. Do you actually type your own posts, or do you have a helper monkey do it for you. I am betting, nay–hoping–, it is the latter, for the sake of your family.
Maybe you missed the part where I said it was wrong. I just don’t think it is an arrestable offense. I’ve only said it twice. Maybe you are like my cat and need to be punished three times before it sinks in.
You are can’t be this dumb. If someone is willing to LIE on a sick note, he will most likely be willing to LIE on a medical record. I feel like I am trying to teach a cat how to play checkers.
I never said the fraudulent doctors should be arrested, now did I?
They should lose their medical license.
Well…in this case it’s a fraudulant document enabling participation in an illegal and irresponsible strike denying students and parents their rights and creating hardship. What are parents who both work (most families) supposed to do with their kids while teachers violate their contracts and the law? I would dearly love to hear you represent one of these clowns in court with your stabbing puppies defense.
Should I respond “I are can so”, or just let the irony speak for itself?
Again, like saying someone who will jaywalk will probably hit and run.
That was what we were talking about. Maybe you should actually read before you post.
It wasn’t a strike. It was a protest. Are those illegal now under Herr Walker?
You are ASSuming. I never implied that doctors should be arrested. My intention was to assess your personal ethical standards. And they seem quite low in my opinion.
By the way, I passed two bar exams.
Yes, I guess I did assume you had actually read the previous posts before chiming in with your own inane opinions. My bad. Next time I will consider you ill informed until you show me otherwise. Won’t hold my breath on that one, though.
chap, perhaps you can give examples of “petty” fraudulent legal documents you have signed as an attorney if you have done so.
Obama’s “birth certificate.”
So Walker is a nazi now?
Typical.
And what kind of attorney spends his free time trolling a website of a person that he most likely does not like?
You’re not doing the law profession any favors. You behavior is disgraceful and unprofessional in my opinion.
Why are you ASSuming I don’t like MM?
Fortunately for me, your opinion in general has proven pretty worthless.
Do you like her? Why or why not?
My goodness. Are we back in 5th grade? Should I check a box and pass the note back to you so you can give it to MM during homeroom?
So you choose to avoid the question.
I chose to mock the questioner. If only he didn’t make it so, so easy.
Sadly, your disgraceful behavior actually makes it easier for me to believe that you are indeed an attorney.
I am childish. I admit it. You on the other hand have a juris doctorate degree. You’re not supposed to be childish.
Disgraceful.
I will refer respondent to interrogatory answer 234, subpart b. Ergo ipso fact res ipsa loquitur.
Like I said, disgraceful.
Thankfully, I am neither on the clock nor billing you for my time. Though perhaps I should.
Disgraceful.
Disgraceful like putting post it notes on other people’s property or disgraceful like putting slightly more adhesive stickers on other people’s property?
Apparently this is a crucial distinction in your world.
I’ve been struggling getting their price tags cleanly removed on purchased merchandise for years … that should count for something.
That sounds like an arrestable offense to me.
It first started when I purchased GE light bulbs.
Arguing with a lawyer is like mud wrestling with a pig: after a while you realize that the pig actually enjoys it.
Nite all.
Why would you mud wrestle a pig in the first place?
On April 30th, 2011 at 1:48 am, chapoutier said:
Because some democrat women call it foreplay
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Kindly bill me based upon what your time is actually worth.
I could use the additional income.
Sorry – I was watching the Merrie Monarch Hula Festival.
A very stern look.
No, there’s probably some legal recourse, but vandalism seems a bit much. Petty mischief.
Oops, that was a doctored Chap quotation…
I’m going to take some post it notes and paste it beside the public union’s warnings. Mine will say:
If you are like most private workers, just a note to let you know that your taxes pay a public sector worker who belongs to a union to…
1. Receive about 4 to 5 weeks more paid vacation time a year than you get.
2. Receive a pension plan that not only probably pays more than yours, but one that they don’t have to contribute as much to as you do.
3. Work a job that, after their probationary period is over, is extremely difficult to fire…. Unlike you.
4. Whose worth is over exaggerated because politicians like to fool you into voting for them by scaring you into thinking that without a public worker’s existence, you won’t survive.
I know it would be a long post it note….
Time to go to the store to pick up some Johnsonville brats and some cold coors lite to wash it down.
I’m disappointed that the communist holiday is on a Sunday this year. I hope that the illegals take Monday off for observance. The day without an illegal is so nice here. Hardly any traffic, no cars with the obnoxious Mexico gas fumes that would never pass California inspection requirements on the highway, no run down 1980′s era vans in the fast lane going 50 in a 65 mph zone down the highway….. Such a great day.
I found something that I forgot about but maybe Chap can explain the difference between what happened to McCain and what was called for in his parental background and what we have with Fearless Leader – which is completely different than what he pushed for:
“Perhaps it’s a good thing that the U.S. Senate didn’t take up a resolution on Barack Obama’s status as a “natural born Citizen” in 2008 – as members did for GOP candidate Sen. John McCain while both were seeking the U.S. presidency.”
“The Democrat might not have qualified under the requirements the Senate, including Obama, a co-sponsor and then-senator, put in the resolution, including the demand that the candidate have “American citizen” parents.” SR 511 to be exact.
Does anyone think the reason Zippy delayed the COLB release is because he would be exposed as a two faced huckster?
My, some folks didn’t play very nicely after I left last night!
Chap, since attaching a sticky (Post-It) note to property belonging to another is vandalism, does that mean I have a case against delivery services who leave such a note on my door when they deliver a package? Or a pizza place that leaves coupons printed on such a note on the door? What about door hangers from businesses advertising their services? Is that vandalism? If so, I have lots of instances of this happening. I better contact my attorney. (Just kidding, of course.)
Come on, Chap, you have to admit that a Post-It note is not going to cause damage, whereas the union stickers may depending on what kind of packaging the stickers have been affixed and if one attempts to remove the stickers. And, as I believe was already pointed out, the sticky note campaign is not an attempt to prevent people from buying gas, whereas the union stickers are most definitely an attempt to get people to not buy the targeted products. Would you actually represent a gas station owner that wanted to sue a person he saw leaving a Post-It with “How’s that Hope & Change working out for you – Nobama 2012″ on his gas pump?
I forget to ask in the prior comment if you did represent a gas station owner against the person leaving such a note on the gas pump, do you believe you would win the case?
O.K. folks…I haven’t read the last 50 posts yet. Sounds like the kids are fighting again. But this is my two cent’s worth.
Trying to argue ethics with Chap is futile. He is a regressive. Enough said on that.
Putting sticky notes on gas pumps is LITTERING. When the sticky note falls off, the paper blows around and becomes LITTER. I don’t like the idea for that reason alone. There HAS to be better ways to get our message out than annoying people with little pieces of paper flying around the countryside.
PS…did anyone check to see where the person who started this whole thing works? Maybe it is 3-M.
Angel Soft TP and Johnsonville brats have just gone on my must-buy shopping list…
What else do the Kochs own?
One more thing…
If those teachers needed a sick note in order to be paid, or not be suspended, then a doctor falsifying a sick note for those teachers is aiding them in committing THEFT. And, it is theft of the taxpayer’s money.
Just in case any of you still want to put a sticky note on a gas pump….how does this sound?
I HOPE you don’t expect any CHANGE back when you pay for this!
Can we put sticky notes on him?
Why not? A little more litter can’t hurt! As long as we put the sticky part over his mouth.
A better campaign may be to go putting home-made page-sized posters on telephone poles and light posts, like for a missing pet or person:
“MISSING since 2008: One Lightly used Constitution. Not House broken, and in poor health. If you see it, please bring it to the attention of the nearest military personnel. Thank you”
Something like that.
Interesting. I wonder if employers who paid sick days for fraudulent notes could sue the physicians for malpractice or fraud?
Chap?
Yoo-hoo! Money opportunity here….
I like that a lot! However, I think it is against the law to post stuff up with nails, etc. I know you can’t put garage sale signs up. You have to make sure they don’t harm anything. So…these would have to be actual campaign-style lawn signs, done professionally. Still, I love the idea!
Napoleon Dynamite: Lucky!
Alternative: get empty water bottles (the 5 gallon ones), ask local stores if you can put them up near the cash registers.
Put signs on them reading:
“Please contribute to pay the ransom for our Constitution. We need your help!
*all proceeds go to NRA” (or other Constitutional legal organization that’s appropriate)
I’m tempted to have signs made up and ask local businesses to put them in their windows…
WE SUPPORT CAPITALISM!
YOU CAN SUPPORT CAPITALISM TOO!
PLEASE COME IN AND BUY SOMETHING!
Awesome, Hiraghm! I think a lot of store owners would love to post a sign like that!
I would guess it’s not as disgusting as mud wrestling a lawyer.
Again.
I was discussing Obama’s birth earlier and came up with some interesting questions…
His father came to the U.S. as a student in 1959. How long was his student visa to last?
Less than a month after his birth, his mother is registered in Seattle as attending Washington. I’ve read that Obama, Sr stayed in Hawaii. If true, that’s very curious.
It appears that Obama’s father spends very little time with him or his mother after his birth.
Did his father graduate from the school he was attending? When?
Is it possible my suggestion was accurate, that he needed an excuse to extend his stay in (or travel from/to) the U.S., and she needed a father to legitimize her baby?
It would explain why he was such an apparent absentee father.
Which creates the question of who his real father is, if all this is true.
If true, it also presents the question of how many radical, disaffected young women during that time period were recruited to marry Marxists so they could enter, remain in, or travel easily into/out of the U.S.?
Except that defrauding was meant to protect the teacher from the consequences of their behavior — in effect lying to the government & the taxpayers.
And now, because of these ‘sick days’, schools are extending their years, which is costing taxpayers tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars.
This wasn’t just about ‘getting out of work’; it was about allowing the partial shutdown of schools to create mass chaos in Wisconsin. Besides – I can tell you right now if my doctor lied to my employer so I could just ‘get out of work’ and my employer found out…I’d still be fired & my doctor would probably get in trouble too.
You can believe it ‘petty’ but it’s actually fraud.
Yeah, guess what? Post-it Notes are designed to be removed without damage, which is why we picked them.
Stickers are designed to stick. I know this simple concept doesn’t escape you, right?
Therefore, Post-it Notes = not vandalism. Stickers = vandalism.
Besides, I bet money that union goons will be watching for people with stickered items in their carts so as to harass & intimidate us.
I’m going after Mass to buy Johnsonville sausages, Coors beer, Angel Soft toilet paper & Sargento cheese.
Come and get me, union goons.
GREAT on ya, EQ01
Who is Ann Barnhart ?
I hope that store security and cameras will catch enough of them and they are charged with product tampering on the same level as if they they were introducing poison into products. Charge might not ultimately stick….but it would cost them a few nights in jail and money for a lawyer.
Just got back from weekend shopping. Bought Johnsonville first at a regular store, then bought a case @ Costco. Good times grilling are ahead, if it would only stop snowing….
Michelle, if you are on… any chance for open blog on the upcoming announcement?
REEAALLLLYYYY no frikkin sh1t… could it be bummers gonna RESIGN or is he just gonna make us an ISLANMIC country via executive order?!?!?!!?
billy the great (supporter of public sector unions that are alledgedly) american has been pimping this for quite awhile
Bin Laden finally gets his virgins? That would actually be good news!
oooohhhhhhhh, and it looks like bipartisan barry’s FELLOW MUSLIM osama bin laden has been killed by …ur…uh… someone..
I’m guessing the Dept. of Jihad and holder is going after the bad guys (who got him)
Will Pakistan retaliate?
boy, trumps gonna hava hard time trumpin THIS one
drone strike, huh,
let’s leave ilovemycontinuouscommunistcreepiness outta this