Can you believe this? Democrats Rule By Intimidation and Personal Destruction

The John Doe Law:  Revealed: How Partisan Prosecutors Harassed and Intimidated Wisconsin Conservatives
. . . " Read the whole thing (and here's what SWATing is, for those who haven't heard of it).  French's reporting identifies the chief culprit in all of this as hardcore Democrat and Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisolm, who was skewered in this lengthy piece by Stuart Taylor last year.  Taylor quoted a former prosecutor explaining how Chisolm, at the prodding of his wife -- a fanatical Walker opponent -- made bringing down Walker his "personal duty."  Posters depicting the pro-union 'blue fist' emblem hung on the walls of Chisolm's supposedly nonpartisan office.  Milwaukee's top prosecutor became the Democratic Party's top hatchet man, abetted by a rubber-stamp judge (who has since recused herself), and vested with the full powers of the state. " . . .

Wisconsin’s Shame: ‘I Thought It Was a Home Invasion’. 

" 'They came with a battering ram.”

"Cindy Archer, one of the lead architects of Wisconsin’s Act 10 — also called the “Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill,” it limited public-employee benefits and altered collective-bargaining rules for public-employee unions — was jolted awake by yelling, loud pounding at the door, and her dogs’ frantic barking. The entire house — the windows and walls — was shaking.

"She looked outside to see up to a dozen police officers, yelling to open the door. They were carrying a battering ram." . . .
. . . "As if the home invasion, the appropriation of private property, and the verbal abuse weren’t enough, next came ominous warnings.
"Don’t call your lawyer.
"Don’t tell anyone about this raid. Not even your mother, your father, or your closest friends.
The entire neighborhood could see the police around their house, but they had to remain silent. This was not the “right to remain silent” as uttered by every cop on every legal drama on television — the right against self-incrimination. They couldn’t mount a public defense if they wanted — or even offer an explanation to family and friends.
 " 'Yet no one in this family was a “perp.” Instead, like Cindy, they were American citizens guilty of nothing more than exercising their First Amendment rights to support Act 10 and other conservative causes in Wisconsin. Sitting there shocked and terrified, this citizen — who is still too intimidated to speak on the record — kept thinking, “Is this America?' ” . . .

 Rush Limbaugh  . . . "Let me give you the actual title of the story.  "John Doe's Tyranny -- Wisconsin conservatives have been subjected to secretive, baseless investigations." But that subhead doesn't even come close to telling it is reader what he's about to discover.  It's about the John Doe laws in Wisconsin, which we have discussed on occasion on this program.  John Doe means the state can literally investigate anybody without telling them why, and they can deny them lawyers." . . . Emphasis added, TD

. . . "You know, I knew the John Doe laws and I knew they'd been abused and I'd heard this or that. But I did not know until Sunday night just how outrageous the application of the John Doe laws has been. There's a term that has been developed to describe what happens here. It's "lawfare" as in warfare, except this warfare conducted by law enforcement.  "Lawfare."  Walker hasn't talked about it.  I mean, everybody knows what he went through. Everybody knows the attacks on him."

. . . " 'As Scott Walker's first campaign for governor got underway in 2010, the Milwaukee district attorney, John Chisholm, opened the initial John Doe investigation under a proviso of the law that allows officials to keep their targets secret and to compel them to [shut] up." John Chisholm, C-H-I-S-H-O-L-M, the DA, "[a] partisan Democrat whose wife was a shop steward for a teachers union," and she was miffed  that Scott Walker was elected and began to implement his reforms of corrupt union activities in Wisconsin." . . .

 

Kluka

. . . "The judge, without whom this case could not have happened, is Barbara Kluka, K-l-u-k-a, and I'll tell you what she did.  She came along in the second John Doe investigation, and she approved every petition, every subpoena, every search warrant in the whole case in less than one day's work.  She enabled law enforcement to raid these innocent citizens' homes. " . . .
. . . “ 'This is a taxpayer-funded, opposition-research campaign,” one source said. “This is not a question of what conservatives did wrong. It’s a question of one party in this state using prosecutorial powers to conduct a one-sided investigation into conservatives.' ”

John Does come with strict penalties for those who violate the terms of the secret proceedings.

The knock on the door in the dead of night is the stuff of Darkness at Noon, and of the state of Wisconsin. . . . "Wisconsin legislators are considering scaling back the law enabling John Doe investigations to prevent future abuses. The John Doe process might make sense for unraveling a dangerous criminal syndicate; it isn’t appropriate in a tenuous campaign-finance investigation, let alone as a tool of intimidation against people on the wrong side of a political argument."

Legal Insurrection: Wisconsin Dems used battering rams against Scott Walker supporters – literally. . . " It was a full-frontal assault on civil liberties and free speech, as was detailed in Exposed: How Prosecutors targeted Scott Walker and conservatives. It had a profoundly chilling effect on conservative activists, who were afraid to associate with each other or to advance political issues, for fear that they or others would hear the battering ram again at the door."

 THIS IS A PICTURE OF JUDGE BARBARA KLUKA: Make Her Name a Household Word . . . " Empowered by a rubber-stamp judge, partisan investigators ran amok. They subpoenaed and obtained (without the conservative targets’ knowledge) massive amounts of electronic data, including virtually all the targets’ personal e-mails and other electronic messages from outside e-mail vendors and communications companies." . . .

 . . . "Godwin's Law be damned: Barbara Kluka would have thrived as a judge in Nazi Germany. She should be sanctioned and subjected to every criminal charge imaginable. Judges are supposed to uphold the law, not rubberstamp the criminal suppression of political opponents."