Walker Welding Capitol Windows NOW to Keep Workers from Passing Food to Those Inside

As we speak, Gov. Scott Walker & the Senate R’s are literally having the windows of the capital welded shut to keep people from passing food into the building to the people inside.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/02/28/walker-welding-capitol-windows-now-to-keep-workers-from-passing-food-to-those-inside/

What would the charge be? Attempted mass murder?

Unless of course they have the choice to leave the building.

He's completely bonkers.

:crazy:

That is just terribly wrong.

And it looks like an act of desperation...welding the windows shut, I mean.

Heard this within the last hour or so when I was driving to the grocery.

Not to mention the cost?

A hunger strike is entered willingly. Make sure you understand the distinction. This is WALKER endangering the health of peaceful protesters.

You would completely confuse the issue. People would have trouble distinguishing the two forms of starvation and the press would deliberately make it worse.

It would end up with millions of people convinced the protesters decided to starve as a last ditch effort to make their point.

I hope it is not union workers doing the welding.
For that matter why would any worker do something for Walker?
Must be his toadies doing the welding, so probably a lousy job.

...open.

How many people are outside at the Capitol?

"Our attorneys are collecting affidavits from the people who witnessed this, along with people who have been illegally denied access to a public, government, building.

"We will be filing for a TRO to open the Capitol."

This bastard would be happy to kill you. But he does worry about the PR.

This will never fly with the public.

I'm furiouus over the lack of coverage.

I agree with the people above, that should be a violation of fire regulations.

For real?

it is. This guy may have a few mental issues.

Big trouble.

or something of a less catastrophic nature. I was misinterpreting "no answer" replies from my nameserver to mean it couldn't contact any root dns server. Brainfart. Maybe the aflcio site has the same provider.
#dig democraticunderground.com

; <<>> DiG 9.6.2-P3 <<>> democraticunderground.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

But other domains resolve just fine.

I know that you can point a subdomain at a different IP address. Can you point it at different nameservers?

Who wrote it? Did the person who wrote this witness it?

It sounds a little far-fetched to me, to be frank.

I want some independent confirmation. Lots of crap gets posted. Not all of it's even true. I hate seeing stuff that isn't correct get spread all over the Internet. It never gets corrected.

This just has the smell of bullshit on it, in my opinion.

Damn...now that it's on FDL, it'll spread like wildfire, whether it's accurate or not. Probably will be posted 20 times just on DU.

I wish people would wait for confirmation on stories like this one. Blogs are not news sources.

Surely you're aware of the many stories that have proven to be inaccurate that have been posted on DU. I'm just someone who wants confirmation of stories, particularly those that make little sense.

But, I guess it's good that you're concerned about my concern. :shrug:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x530059

I was right. Where's the snark now?

I always want to see independent confirmation before I can take them seriously.

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#wiunion I confirm that the bathroom windows have indeed been "sealed". See the picture for an image. http://yfrog.com/gyntrirj

http://yfrog.com/gyntrirj

Aren't there enough firemen there to write this ass a citation?

This can't be allowed under any circumstances.

Although that does seem an odd way to fix a window that doesn't seem to have been "fixed" that way before. However, if it is only one window and all the others are fine, then the story is over.

American Experience series.

Very timely.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/15/us/meat-plant-owner-pleads-guilty-in-a-blaze-that-killed-25-people.html

Meat-Plant Owner Pleads Guilty In a Blaze That Killed 25 People
Published: September 15, 1992

ROCKINGHAM, N.C., Sept. 14 — The owner of a chicken processing plant where 25 people died in a fire last year pleaded guilty today and was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison.

In a surprise plea agreement, the owner of Imperial Food Products Inc., Emmett J. Roe, admitted 25 counts of involuntary manslaughter. As part of the agreement, the state dropped charges against two managers at the plant, James N. Hair and Brad M. Roe, the owner's son.

The agreement averted a criminal trial in one of the nation's worst industrial accidents.

Twenty-four workers at the plant, which cooked chicken for fast-food chains, and a delivery man died Sept. 3, 1991, after hydraulic fluid from a conveyor belt under repair sprayed over a gas-fired chicken fryer at the company's plant in Hamlet, N.C. A fireball filled the plant with dense, toxic smoke. Fifty-six workers were injured, and more than 150 others were left without jobs because the plant closed. No Sprinklers or Alarm

State officials have said that the plant, the leading employer in Hamlet, 60 miles southwest of Fayetteville, had no fire alarm or sprinkler system and that its exits were unmarked and doors were locked when the fire occurred. North Carolina's occupational-safety agency said a shortage of inspectors and inadequate resources had prevented the state from inspecting Imperial Food in the 11 years the company has operated.

After the fire, the state fined the company, whose headquarters is in Cummings, Ga., $808,150, the largest such fine the state had ever levied.

more...

What next?

This is seriously nuts.

Just managed to get through to site.

Here's full text:


Walker Welding Capitol Windows NOW to Keep Workers from Passing Food to Those Inside

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/02/28/walker-welding-capitol-windows-now-to-keep-workers-from-passing-food-to-those-inside/

by Tula Connell, Feb 28, 2011

This from AFL-CIO Political Communications Director Eddie Vale who’s on the ground in Madison, Wis.

As we speak, Gov. Scott Walker & the Senate R’s are literally having the windows of the capital welded shut to keep people from passing food into the building to the people inside.

Our attorneys are collecting affidavits from the people who witnessed this, along with people who have been illegally denied access to a public, government, building.

We will be filing for a TRO to open the Capitol.

It is a sad for democracy when Governor Walker and his R Senate allies are locking the people of Wisconsin out of their own state capitol.

I still suspect that it's incorrect. We'll see.

matt_t1 Matt T by EVictoriaF
latest rumor: not welding. But, are bolting windows and then removing tops of the bolts. Effectively making impossible to open. #WIunion

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That it is being done to keep people from giving food to others inside is a rumor, however.

http://news.firedoglake.com/

UPDATE on this: I’m hearing that a window latch simply needed repair, and that a women’s room latch was always screwed shut. So this may not be quite so nefarious.

have no independent confirmation. It's too late now to correct the story, which will appear on hundreds of blogs and websites over the next week. It makes my point that blogs are not news sources. Anything posted on a blog needs to be researched to check for independent confirmation. Otherwise, we end up posting a bunch of crap that isn't true, and that helps nobody.

as needed.

And they're putting it directly under the now-crossed out text of the original post, unlike say the NYT did with their anti-union piece.

They now have another update at http://news.firedoglake.com/
UPDATE to the UPDATE: Not being there right now, I don’t know what to believe. But you should check out Eric Ming’s pics.



The name links to a blog that has pictures of the windows with bolts with the tops taken off. This looks to me likely where this originated and I give FDL credit for tracking it down and updating.

DU was from some AFL/CIO blog, which is where the FDL writer found the story, too. All unconfirmed, and in error. The story is on dozens of websites already, without the correction, and will soon be on hundreds. Moving on stories before they are confirmed is a serious mistake.

FDL made a correction, and good for them for doing so. Sadly, many other sites will not correct the misinformation, which will be circulating for weeks. We'll probably even see the uncorrected story again here on DU more than once.

Blogs are not News, unless confirmed.

the correction next to the original piece demonstrates good reporting.
All "News" sources have run stories that have errors.

In this case a blog followed up on, verified and corrected a story and has since updated with more info, more rapidly and with better placement than many News sources do.


Again, the recent NYT story is a good example of a high-profile "News" source running a story on the front page, then printing the correction in mid-paper.

http://foknewschannel.com/new-york-times-punkd-by-anti-union-plant/

If this is correct, shouldn't the local Fire Dept be notified of what appears to be a fire-hazard in the making?

So what? I posted a story with a link...the original link, I might add. I didn't say it was true, and actually neither did the AFL-CIO. they said they were investigating. What everyone else did with it does not negate the validity of the original story. Man, did you really have to post 15 times to tell everyone how much more superior you think you are? JEEZ.

http://yfrog.com/gyntrirj

#wiunion I confirm that the bathroom windows have indeed been "sealed". See the picture for an image.
posted by @mad_city_mom from Twitter for iPhone 8 hours 52 mins ago

Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald is trying to increase the pressure on 14 Senate Democrats who skipped town on Feb. 17 to avoid passage of a bill taking away collective bargaining rights.

Fitzgerald is proposing that he, instead of the Democratic senators, be given the authority to review and approve timesheets for those who work for the Democrats.

He would also deactivate copy machine access codes for the missing senators' offices.

http://www.wfrv.com/news/local/Pressure-increasing-for-missing-Senate-Democrats--117086853.html

placing citizens in danger. Perhaps charges will be brought against Walker before the World Court should any harm come to the people in the Capitol Building or elsewhere because of his actions.

wtf - isn't that a fire hazard, too?

#wiunion I confirm that the bathroom windows have indeed been "sealed". See the picture for an image.
posted by @mad_city_mom from Twitter for iPhone 8 hours 52 mins ago

http://yfrog.com/gyntrirj