Tag: Paul Soglin
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Two monuments defaced in Madison: one gets big media play, the vandalism to the police memorial, not so much
False flag operation? A reporter from Wisconsin Public Radio reached out Wednesday (9-20-17) to the Blaska Policy Werkes for a statement on the vandalism done to the Voluntarios Internacionales monument in James Madison Park. The reporter noted that just one month earlier, the Werkes had called for the removal of this monument to Communism, for…
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Madison alders feather their own nest but allow police to twist slowly …
The Squire can countenance the name-calling that comes with being a Reagan-Tommy Thompson-Act 10-supporting conservative in The Emerald City. He will suffer the credulous whose answer to every ill is blame white privilege, take away the guns, and demand More Free Stuff. They are easily countered. But insults to his intelligence curdles his cream. So…
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155 years after their capture, imprisonment, and deaths — Mayor Soglin vows no rest for ‘traitors’
No doubt feeling the heat from fair-minded citizens and national ridicule, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin today doubled down on his unilateral decision to purify and sanitize the Confederates Rest section of Forest Hill Cemetery. Soglin this morning (8-21-17) issued a 2,160-word exercise in finger-wagging (Mayor’s Statement Here) to justify ripping away a plaque describing the provenance…
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From Ferguson to Madison: safe streets are a casualty of the War on Cops
The War on Cops is real. The victims of this war are more black men slaughtered on the mean streets of America as police pull back, hunker down, drive on by. It’s called the Ferguson Effect and it is being felt today in Madison, Wisconsin, where bullets are flying and bodies falling at record pace.…
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After the latest homicide, has the worm turned? Is Enough finally ENOUGH!
Congratulations, Madison! On the 2nd day of August, a little more than halfway through the year, we have managed to tie the record number of homicides in a single calendar year (10) with five months left to go! Number 10 being the fatal, point-blank hit job shortly after midnight Wednesday (8-2-17) at a convenience store…