You can always count on dicksmith and VoteVets to get things exactly wrong. They’ve decided to speak out about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s threat to quell violent protest in the streets of Madison, WI with the National Guard. So dicksmith writes under the title “Vets: Troops are not WI Governor’s Personal Goon Squad”. Even though the NGs are not a goon squad (nice way to describe service members, by the way, dickie), they are the Governor’s personal army to defend the rights of everyone else in Wisconsin who aren’t making a nuisance of themselves.<\/p>\n
“The Guard is to be used in case of true emergencies and disasters, to help the people of Wisconsin, not to bully political opponents. Considering many veterans and Guard members are union members, it’s even more inappropriate to use the Guard in this way. This is a very dangerous line the governor is about to cross.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I think the bullies here are the teachers’ unions and the SEIU who are trying to make a political point in the streets instead of in the halls of the legislature. Since when is thuggish behavior acceptable?<\/p>\n
Dicksmith sez;<\/p>\n
Unquestionably, what the Governor is doing is wrong. The National Guard serves to protect the state from emergencies and natural disasters, as well as deploying overseas when federalized. They are not Governor Walker’s personnel band of political thugs. What he is threatening to do is simply unacceptable. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Unquestionably? Maybe from your hippie\/Leftist POV, but the rest of us, who think rationally, don’t like thugs in the streets bullying the legislature to support a minority opinion. What the governor is threatening to do is remove an unruly element from the streets so people can return to work and children can return to their studies.<\/p>\n
And the implication that the troops in the Wisconsin National Guard would engage in something illegal and morally wrong is mighty despicable and not something that I’d expect from a “100,000-strong organization of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and their supporters”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"