WISCONSIN PROGRESSIVE WANT COMMUNISM WITH NO OPPOSITION

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Wisconsin prosecutors aim to shut down conservatives

By Jon Cassidy  /   August 29, 2014            

          

Part 112 of 117 in the series Wisconsin's Secret War

WALKER: In Wisconsin, Democratic cops have used an exotic state law to shut down political speech on the right.

By Jon Cassidy | From The American Spectator

Wisconsin has created a new type of political supervillain by combining the most reprehensible attributes of this nation’s two most infamous ogres of the last century — Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon.
Start with McCarthy’s reckless and unsubstantiated allegations against random names on a list, his endless investigations that produced nothing but press coverage and ruined lives. Then take Nixon’s vindictiveness, his desire to use the mechanisms of state to crush his political enemies, and remove the legal impediments that kept him from doing much about it. Give him laws like Wisconsin’s.
There never would have been any Cubans breaking into the Watergate to take a look at the files of the Democratic National Committee or plant bugs. G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt could have just written subpoenas for whatever they wanted without restriction. When there’s nobody to stop them, it turns out that what they want to look at is everything.
Jon Cassidy is Watchdog.org’s Texas bureau chief. Read the rest of this article at The American Spectator.

Part of 117 in the series Wisconsin's Secret War

1. Sources: Secret probe targeting conservatives is abuse of prosecutorial powers
2. Scary! Phantom prosecutor in Dems’ war on conservatives disappears inside courthouse
3. EXCLUSIVE: Judge in Democrat-led John Doe probe recuses herself
4. Democrats’ ‘intelligence-gathering’ spreads in Wisconsin
5. Democrats tap anti-terror expert to head secret probe of Wisconsin conservatives
6. Sheriff Clarke: John Doe case shows Milwaukee DA is ‘weaponized for political purposes’
7. Clarke: John Doe into conservatives ‘unbridled,’ ‘dangerous’ and ‘tainted’
8. Sources: New judge named in Democrat-led secret probe
9. Vendetta justice? Criticism growing about John Doe prosecutor Bruce Landgraf
10. Will Wisconsin’s own ‘Miserable’ inspector jail conservative activist for speaking out about Dem probe?
11. Conservative targets bring in big guns to Democrat-led John Doe fight
12. ‘Dangerous’ game: Former FEC official blasts Democrats’ secret investigation of conservative groups
13. Center for Media and Democracy: Liberals are morally superior
14. Wisconsin Dems suddenly support political investigations
15. WI Republican attorney general to represent judges in Democrat-led John Doe probe
16. Republicans speak out about silent John Doe targeting conservatives
17. Biggest secret in John Doe may be just how judges and special prosecutors are selected
18. WSJ: John Doe judge deals body blow to secret probe targeting conservatives
19. Vos: Wait until John Doe in ‘rearview mirror’ before revisiting law
20. Lawsuits looming in Wisconsin’s crumbling John Doe probe?
21. Conservative to Democrat prosecutors: Shut down secret political probe or face civil rights lawsuit
22. John Doe target O’Keefe taking on IRS, too
23. Lawmaker: Wisconsin’s John Doe like Christie’s ‘Bridgegate’
24. Target files civil rights lawsuit against Wisconsin’s John Doe prosecutors
25. Disparate treatment: Civil rights lawsuit claims conservative speech trampled
26. Liberal group looking to take Wisconsin’s John Doe national
27. John Doe judge: ‘Results of the John Doe speak for themselves’
28. John Doe special prosecutor appeals judge’s ruling quashing subpoenas
29. John Doe prosecutor pushed for brain-damaged man’s conviction in ATF debacle
30. Conservatives counterpunch John Doe prosecutors’ move to stall injunction
31. Shadowy John Doe investigator invokes federalism in civil rights lawsuit
32. John Doe prosecutors wanted higher-priced lawyers, source says
33. Secret agent Dean Nickel’s defense: ‘Dean Nickel is not responsible’
34. D’oh! John Doe prosecutors claim secrecy protection – after filing secret documents
35. Recusal in John Doe case raises questions of fairness, purpose
36. Absolute immunity makes it tough to prosecute the prosecutors of John Doe
37. Poll suggests Dems’ big ‘secret’ weapon against Walker is backfiring
38. ‘Easy target’: Kelly Rindfleisch breaks silence about John Doe probe
39. SCOTUS ruling on campaign finance shows abuse of John Doe, targets say
40. Nobody will say what John Doe’s shadow man did, but taxpayers are paying his legal bill
41. Judge denies John Doe prosecutors’ move to dismiss civil rights suit
42. Civil rights expert: John Doe law is ‘un-American,’ like something from ‘Nazi Germany’
43. Target: John Doe prosecutors making up campaign law as they go along
44. John Doe, as it is being used, must go, WI senator says
45. John Doe target says prosecutors latest move another delay tactic
46. John Doe prosecutors sound defensive in latest court filings
47. Federal judge denies John Doe prosecutors’ motion to stall civil rights case
48. Media coalition asks judge to open sealed John Doe documents
49. Are John Doe prosecutors sweating out federal judge’s decision?
50. John Doe is dead: Judge stops WI prosecutors’ probe into conservatives
51. This is what the Fourth Amendment looks like?
52. What’s next for now-defunct John Doe probe?
53. Appeals court stalls judge’s order halting John Doe probe
54. Federal judge’s ruling could open up sealed John Doe records
55. Federal judge orders John Doe probe shut down again
56. Lawmakers call for review of GAB’s secret John Doe activities, funds
57. Lawyers, lawyers everywhere and other dispatches from John Doe Land
58. Secret’s out: The world is beginning to learn more about WI’s John Doe
59. Still their little secret? Questions remain on John Doe gag order
60. Appeals Court declares portions of Wisconsin campaign finance law unconstitutional
61. John Doe prosecutors suddenly support opening sealed court records
62. Expert: It’s as if GAB decided ‘Citizens United didn’t exist’
63. John Doe prosecutors voice phony outrage, legal source says
64. GAB still reviewing court ruling declaring WI campaign finance law unconstitutional
65. State Farm still doesn’t want to cover John Doe prosecutor’s legal bills
66. For the Walker-hating left, John Doe is ‘Mission Accomplished’
67. Sources: No urgency in WI Supreme Court on John Doe
68. Would Walker settlement with John Doe prosecutors be a deal with the devil?
69. Contempt questions surround reported John Doe deal talks
70. Walker’s John Doe response raises more questions than answers
71. Sources: Attorney General passes on defending GAB in John Doe cases
72. Attorney to judge: Don’t let John Doe prosecutor ‘moot’ injunction
73. John Doe targets sue Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board
74. Federal judge says his order halting John Doe probe should be clear to prosecutor
75. John Doe special prosecutor’s bill still shrouded in secrecy
76. ‘Are these kind of armed pre-dawn raids standard operating procedure?’
77. John Doe special prosecutor obeys judge’s order
78. ‘Never-ending’ John Doe never ended, WSJ reports
79. Appeals court upholds judge’s order shutting down John Doe probe
80. O’Keefe keeps collecting big wins in John Doe lawsuit
81. John Doe I judge says he’s not responsible for John Doe II
82. Will taxpayers have to pay for frivolity of John Doe prosecutors?
83. John Doe prosecutors jump back into the dark?
84. What about those prosecutors? Questions surround other John Doe DAs
85. Humiliated in court, WI Dems take their anti-conservative John Doe probe to the media
86. Federal judge blasts John Doe prosecutors – again – as he denies records release
87. Right on cue: Document dump fuels anti-Walker donation drive
88. Wall Street Journal points out ‘disgrace’ of mainstream John Doe reporting
89. Expert: John Doe raids raise ‘troubling’ Fourth Amendment questions
90. Kelly Rindfleisch tells conservatives, ‘Don’t back down’
91. Mainstream media forced to walk back Walker ‘criminal scheme’ narrative
92. John Doe prosecutors engaged in premature justification, conservatives say
93. Is John Doe probe a case of a mini NSA in Wisconsin?
94. AG opinion means accountability board’s John Doe secrets are safe — for now
95. Senator asks attorney general to compel GAB to open up its books
96. GAB now playing secrets in state John Doe lawsuit
97. Will John Doe prosecutors launch lengthy probe against Trek Bicycle?
98. John Doe prosecutors engaged in war of words — lots and lots of words
99. Judge denies conservatives’ request to add GAB to civil rights lawsuit
100. Oral arguments set in John Doe prosecutors’ appeal
101. In John Doe Land, the left doesn’t illegally coordinate
102. John Doe document blitz must have broken mainstream media’s heart
103. Senator: Looks like accountability board is hiding something
104. Kelly Rindfleisch appeal to test validity of John Doe digital searches
105. Conservatives in John Doe battle know disclosure comes with a heavy price
106. Appeals court orders release of some John Doe documents
107. Taxpayers on the hook up to $25,000 for GAB’s legal maneuvers
108. Overheated media erroneously bring back Walker ‘criminal scheme’ theme
109. ‘Retaliation’: Docs show state prosecutors launched mini-NSA probe of WI conservatives
110. John Doe prosecutors take desperate, unethical slap
111. Walker ‘smoking gun’ story has tiny glaring flaw
112. Wisconsin prosecutors aim to shut down conservatives
113. Conservatives appeal to common sense in John Doe appeals case
114. Conservatives say ‘incorrect disclosure’ of John Doe docs no ‘tiny error’
115. First Amendment big guns back targets of John Doe probe
116. Was John Doe judge a rubber stamp?
117. $25,000 and counting: WI taxpayers’ bill so far to defend GAB and its ‘monster’

           

Jon Cassidy
Jon Cassidy is the Texas bureau chief for Watchdog.org. He also writes a weekly column on politics for The American Spectator. He was formerly a reporter and editor for The Orange County Register in California and a reporter at The Hill in Washington, D.C. His work has been published by Fox News, Reason, The Federalist, Human Events, and other publications. He is a 2014 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow and a graduate of the University of Southern California. He and his wife Michelle live just outside Houston with their two children.