What Wisconsin's governor is really threatening

[XanaDUer]

What Wisconsin's governor is really threatening
When Scott Walker talks of unleashing the National Guard on public employees, he conjures an ugly history

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has declared war on state workers, almost literally.

First, he proposed a state budget that would cut retirement and healthcare for workers like teachers and nurses, and strip away nearly all of their collective bargaining rights. But even more significantly, he announced last Friday that he had alerted the National Guard to be ready for state workers to strike or protest, an unprecedented step in modern times.

This would be the first time in nearly 80 years that the National Guard would be used to break a strike by Wisconsin workers, and the first time in over 40 years that the National Guard would be used against public workers anywhere in the country. The last time was the Memphis sanitation strike in 1968, just before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.

The outrage was immediate across labor message boards, Twitter and Facebook pages. Over the last two days, tens of thousands have protested in front of the capitol building in Madison in defiance of the governor, some even camping overnight.

MORE - http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/18/taylor_wisconsin_national_guard

[leftstreet]

1. This seems so scripted - hopefully it'll backfire on the Predator Class

Not scripted in a tinfoil way, just standard operating procedure

[RKP5637]

2. Maybe he wants to repeat what happened at Kent State, different cause, same idea! n/t