The arrests of peaceful protesters, journalists and even spectators in Madison Wisconsin continue. I remember a time when federal marshals were used to protect our constitutional rights against the abuse of power by local and state officials. Isn’t it time the rule of law was restored in Wisconsin?
I went to the Wisconsin capitol again today to report on the Solidarity Singers, as I’ve done many times before. I was not intending to get arrested. Nor did I want to get arrested. But that’s what happened.
I arrived about fifteen minutes late for the one-hour noon sing along, which has been going on steadily for two and a half years now.
When I arrived, I was told that Madison city council member Mark Clear had already been arrested, while he was singing “This Land Is Your Land.” This seemed to be an escalation, since he was the first currently serving elected official to be rounded up in the more than 200 arrests that Scott Walker’s capitol police have made in the last few weeks. (Former longtime member of the Madison school board, Carol Carstensen, was arrested a couple of weeks ago. She’d never even gotten a speeding ticket before, she told me.)
At Occupy, Moral Mondays and Madison, let our voices be heard!
