WI Capitol Police Crackdown on Dissent: What You Wouldn’t Know From Reading Wisconsin’s Newspapers

[Scuba]

Excellent article, detailing the still-open court case, the hard-handed tactics of Walker's henchmen and the misleading and flawed-by-omission reporting of the State's major propaganda outlets, e.g., newspapers.


http://wcmcoop.com/2013/08/28/wi-capitol-police-crackdown-on-dissent-what-you-wouldnt-know-from-reading-wisconsins-newspapers/

On August 5 the Journal Sentinel’s standard language regarding the preliminary injunction was changed, and in the next eight articles the Journal Sentinel includes slight variations of the following sentence to explain the preliminary injunction; “new rules by the [DOA] were partially upheld by a judge allowing police to enforce permitting rules for groups of 20 or more.”

This characterization of the preliminary injunction is misleading on three fronts:

One – they do not acknowledge that the case is still open and the legality of the permitting process is still under question.

Two – the sentence suggests that the judge somehow condoned the DOA’s decision to enforce the permitting policy by declaring an unlawful assembly and arresting participants and observers.
And three – the DOA and Capitol Police were free to enforce their permitting policy before the judge’s ruling, they made a choice to start enforcing the policy by declaring an unlawful assembly and the court did not mandate arresting and citing participants.

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