VoteVets spits on the Wisconsin National Guard
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.
“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.”
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?
Dicksmith sez;
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.
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.
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”.
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Call me crazy, but I’m pretty sure heckling sitting State Reps/Senators is something that is unacceptable. If the Guard is there to ensure order in the state and these buffoons are INSIDE the capitol throwing proverbial excitement, that is, NOT order. Protest all you want. That is part of our system, but do it respectfully and OUTSIDE. If, as I’m sure some do, feel threatened than the Governor has every right, indeed the duty to protect the legislature.
of course Vote Vets is so liberal and hating everything to do with the military that this inconsistency only shows how much they truly hate what they once “stood” for.
“The National Guard serves to protect the state from emergencies and natural disasters, as well as deploying overseas when federalized.”
I’d be willing to bet that five years ago, Dicksmith would have been the type of guy who would be bitching about how the National Guard should not be federalized to go to Iraq.
How is rational that peaceful protesting by Unions in Madison is thuggery, but the handful of Tea Party protesters aren’t?
Was President Reagan a union thug when he was President of SAG?
BTW I am a Vote Vet and I am an Army veteran not only in Desert Storm but in Fuertes Caminos in Honduras during the Iran Contra Scandal in the 80’s, and someone who was 11 years old when Kent State only an hour north of my home.
,,,,“100,000-strong organization of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and their supporters”,,,, Really? What is this, one of those things where all you have to do to join is sign in, and if you care too, add 3 or 4 friends names?
Peaceful protesting by unions in Madison? Peaceful? Yeah, right.
“Handful of Tea Party protestors…….” Not peaceful? When? Where?
Nice try D as there has been no violent activity perpatrated by any members of the Tea Party. Same can not be said for SIEU. Having had experience with Unions in the past I can assure you that thier leaders are for the most part THUGS.
As far as KENT STATE is concerned, it was fortunite that it was only 4 killed. The Guard was a whole different organization then, from what it is nowadays. Having spent 14 yrs in it, I know from wence I speak.
Lastly as a retired Ga “Goonsquad” member Dicksmith can take a Flying Intercourse at a rolling breakfast pastry. I’ve helped bury too many of my fellow Guard brethren over the past few years to put up with his SHIT!
I must have missed something because the last reference I heard to the Wisconsin National Guard being called up was to run the state prisons if the guards went out on strike.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/04/new-light-shed-on-kent-state-killings/print/
Just a little extra info on Kent State…