If you have ever been to the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, WI., (And I have been there at least 100 + times), you literally can hear 2 people talking if you are on the ground floor and they are on the third floor, while in the Rotunda, in the middle of the building.
The building is made with a lot of marble and so any sound will reverberate throughout the Capitol. Also, all the Capitol is home to both houses of the legislature, the governor's office and the Supreme Court. It also still has, I presume, the Capitol Law Library, where I studied more than a few hours.
So, since the rallies in 2010, there have been a group of whiners/criers/screamers, who on a daily basis, decide that they have to sing inside the rotunda. The singers/crybabies and the state went to court and it was decided by a federal judge that groups of 20 or more needed permits while groups under 20 did not need permits. The singers/crybabies so far have not appealed the judge's decision and the singer's have refused to follow the law and refuse to get permits.
Since the court's decision, the Wisconsin Capitol Police have now arrested the singers the past few days.
From Madison.com: For the second day in a row, police at the state Capitol arrested people gathered in the rotunda without a permit as part of the long-running noontime singalong in protest of Gov. Scott Walker.
Police issued 26 citations Thursday for gathering without a permit, state officials said. Three people also were arrested on tentative charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest or both.
A total of 27 people were cited or arrested on a tentative charge.
The arrest of 22 people Wednesday for staging a protest without a permit prompted many of the hundreds of people who filled the rotunda and lined the balcony above it to attend the Solidarity Singalong on Thursday, as they have at other times over the past two years.
“The Wisconsin Constitution protects free speech in this space,” said Peg Gardner, a children’s minister in Mequon, who attended Thursday’s singalong with daughter Graycie, 21, knowing they were risking arrest.
The clashes this week have been the first since a federal judge ruled this month in a lawsuit over an administration policy requiring groups of four or more in the Capitol to obtain a permit.
In issuing a preliminary injunction, Judge William Conley ruled the administration can’t require a permit for groups of 20 or fewer. But he otherwise kept in place the administration’s policy for larger groups. A trial is scheduled for January.
Larry Dupuis, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, which brought the case before Conley on behalf of an assistant UW-Madison professor, said he could not offer an opinion on whether the singers should seek a permit in light of the ruling.
But he said the court order allows the state to require a permit for groups larger than 20 people, though it does not order police or the DOA to enforce that rule.
“It’s their choice to do that,” Dupuis said.
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Hell, even the attorney that went to court on behalf of the singers don't agree with what the singers/whiners/crybabies are doing.
And not everybody is breaking the law: Marquis said 381 permits have been issued so far this year to a variety of groups. Ten were denied for various reasons, including because a space was already booked.
These singers/crybabies/whiners are breaking the law and Gov. Scott Walker and the Capitol police are simply following the law and making things quieter in the capitol.
These crybabies can sing outside or even in the bathrooms but they decided to cause as many disruptions as possible.
So, kudos to the cops and Walker for doing the right thing and keep arresting these singers/crybabies/screamers liberals, who by they way, happen to hate Scott Walker.
I just hope that the State prosecutes these cases and get convictions. Hopefully, some of these spoiled brats will end up in jail.
WI Capitol Rotunda
http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/capfacts/rotunda_s.html
I call BS on this post. The judge ruled against the State of Wisconsin in its ruling.
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One of Kissick’s attorneys, Larry Dupuis of the A.C.L.U. of Wisconsin, issued a press release condemning the misrepresentation of Judge Conley’s ruling by Secretary Huebsch and the DOA’s media handlers.
“Rather than impose a blanket prohibition on enforcing the existing permitting scheme, however, the court will preliminarily enjoin defendants from (1) distinguishing based on the content of the speech between “rallies” and other events for permitting purposes inside the Capitol and (2) enforcing the permit requirement for gatherings expected to draw 20 or fewer persons inside the Capitol rotunda itself. Of course, nothing in this decision prohibits enforcement of existing laws and regulations that restrict disruptive noise or other disorderly conduct,” wrote Judge Conley granting the injunction against enforcement of the rules as rewritten by the DOA on an “emergency” basis in April, 2013.
What emergency?
And, by the way, these cases are being thrown out of court as fast as they make it to the dockets.
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