Saw on the channel 12 news (from Milwaukee) GOP-supporter "counter-protestors"

[Archae]

Were allowed to stand where the singers used to stand, and the Capitol police left them alone.

Speaks volumes, doesn't it?

[midnight]

1. So it appears that protesting is allowed after all.... I hope this will not be forgotten when these

people are ticketed for protesting with song and tell the jury that they were not allowed to protest but others were... And won't this create legal inequalities? Some protesting protected but not others.... I want to hear the reasoning....

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. Actually,

There were a lot of "us" on the inside of the Rotunda for the Tbag event. We, along with press and curious tourists thinly ringed the first floor of the rotunda. The man who was detained (but later released without being cited) was target by the cops because they mistook him for one of the "regulars." He was holding a sign that said, "Article 1, Section 4," which refers to the part of the Wisconsin State Constitution that describes our freedoms of speech and assembly.

[ewagner]

3. I thought the 'baggers got a permit

to show what good, law-abiding, first amendment* loving citizens the 'baggers are....

*love first amendment only if you're spouting Repub talking points.

[dembotoz]

4. did they sing horst wessel?

[mojowork_n]

5. That's what I wanted to know. Who's singing what kinds of tunes?

Is it all acappella, or can the music be augmented with simple percussion, or maybe harmonicas?

If the answer to that last one is YES, please print up and distribute the lyrics to Midnight Oil's
Blue Sky Mine:

"Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground."

is a great line, and the mouth harp part is a hammering, howling, to-the-barricades jeremiad set to blues.

....and yeah, I was also wondering if the T-Bag Brigade/Battalion is musically "standing with Walker."

http://wonkette.com/461004/man-writes-spectacularly-bad-song-stand-with-governor-walker