Here’s the Friday open comments post.
Tea Party groups commonly use the Gadsden Flag at their rallies; for union protesters, what would be a suitable flag or symbol? Alternatively, should they avoid any symbol?
The use of pseudonyms and anonymous postings is, of course, fine. Although the comments template has a space for a name, email address, and website, those who want to leave a field blank can do so. Comments will be moderated, against profanity or trolls.
Otherwise, have at it.
I’ll keep the post open through Sunday afternoon.
an American flag is good for any protest group
Unions are robbing this country blind There’s absolutely nothing left for them to beg borrow steel from people its just piracy. they should fly a pirate flag
The liberty and union flag looks pretty good to me
An American flag, or the flag of the State of WI. Or a flag fashioned after a poster I obtained at last Saturday’s rally at the State Capitol: the State of Wisconsin with an emboldened “14” in the center. (A personal note to blogger Robbed: obviously you did not learn your lessons in English class. Next time, please use Spellchecker and/or correct your syntax, punctuation, and spelling before submittting. Thank You.)
How can people be robbed during a negotiation? They only get robbed when there is no chance to negotiate. They only lose their chance to negotiate if their governor takes away their rights. They only have a governor who takes away their rights if they live in Wisconsin.
There’s a lot of truth in Reagan’s expression that it takes two to tango. Government officials are not forced to sign any particular deal with a union; if they give away too much, the fault lies in government. There’s considerable blame-shifting in an administration that manages poorly and improvidently, and then cries out that it was somehow mugged.
Officials who make bad deals deserve no sympathy, and are entitled even less to impose restrictions that deprive workers of rights of association. Taking away rights from workers only increases the relative power of the state, to the detriment of individual liberty.
Not merely state workers, but thousands of city and county workers across Wisconsin have felt a diminuition of their association rights, imposed on them from an administration that dared not campaign on the very restrictions it rushes to enact, in disregard of our settled laws of procedure and open government.
If there should be a theft in this, then it is to be found in the loss of rights long recognized.