Scott Walker got punked big time by Buffalo journalist Ian Murphy recently. I’m sure that you have heard about it. Murphy claimed to be one of the right-wing financier Koch brothers (Pronounced “coke”…y’can’t make this stuff up.) and recorded the call.
But…the media has almost universally labelled this labelled this a “prank” call. Dig deeper into it and hear the real deal.
I got yer “prank.”
Right here!!!
Read on for more.
I wonder how the hypnomedia will try to spin the first contemporary U.S. domestic protest shootings. A “prank?” I wouldn’t put it past them. They blew it when Kent State happened, but they were so much less competent at the time. Now? The media is a massive wall of disinfo. Massive and almost seamless. Of the several hundred TV stations that I receive via Direct TV only one (Link TV) gives even a hint of what’s really up here, and it is very small and basically unwatched channel.
So far? Very peaceful.
As Madison Police spokesman Joe DeSpain stated:
This is one of the largest sustained protests we have seen in Madison since the Vietnam War. And to my knowledge there were absolutely no problems.
‘Muricans are so nice. So peaceful! So well-fed!!!
We’ll find out…bet on it. Violence will happen eventually as the protests grow here. If the protesters don’t get unruly enough? Why…that can always be arranged. Governor Scott Walker’s own words show the direction that such action can take.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz sent Gov. Scott Walker a letter Friday, demanding an explanation to comments Walker made during a prank call that the governor thought was with billionaire donor David Koch.
Ian Murphy, a reporter in Buffalo, called Walker pretending to be Koch and recorded the call. In the call, Murphy offers to help by “planting some troublemakers” among the protesters.Walker responded: “We thought about that,” and added, “My only fear would be if there was a ruckus caused, is that that would scare the public into thinking maybe the governor’s got to settle to avoid all these problems.”
Cieslewicz says he was “dumbfounded” when he heard the recording (here andhere). “I have a hard time getting my head around it,” he said. “I’ve got some responsibility to keep people safe in our community. And I’ve been really impressed with how police officers have conducted themselves and how the protestors have conducted themselves.”
On the same day the call was released, Cieslewicz referred to the governor’s comments as “very upsetting.” On Thursday morning, the mayor published a blog post offering a more detailed response, asking, “”Really, Governor, you thought about that? The Governor of Wisconsin actually thought about planting people in the crowds who might turn these peaceful protests into something ugly?”
Now, in a new letter (PDF) released Friday, Cieslewicz asks Walker to explain who made the suggestion, what was his immediate response, if he took any steps in that direction, and why he didn’t reject the suggestion on moral grounds, rather than political ones.
Cieslewicz says Walker doesn’t need to respond to him directly but that “has to respond to the people of Wisconsin. It’s not my place to be a moral inquisitor. But he owes a much bigger explanation to the people.”
He adds that Walker’s response in subsequent press conferences about the call disturb him just as much as the call itself. “He’s really defended this in his press conferences. He actually defended it.”
The mayor said he didn’t know how far he’d push his grievance over the phone call. He said he’d give the governor a few days to respond. “If there is no response, perhaps there’s some government accountability board action that might be taken, I don’t know.”
The fact that this recorded…and widely distributed…conversation has not resulted in front page news from the hypnomedia along with calls for Walker’s resignation or impeachment is evidence enough that the U.S. has already descended so far into the morass of an Abu Ghraib-like “security” system that it will never return.
Without a doubt some gangster security company already has its plans drawn up and stored in a nice office somewhere close to Langley, VA.
Bet on it.
I give it less than a year. Maybe sooner if the Middle Eastern revolts result in a true gas crisis.
Watch.
AG
