On April 20th, I blogged about a sick bastard named john chisholm and the reign of terror he was perpetrating in Wisconsin.
Is john chisholm a street thug? A drug kingpin? No and no.
john chisholm is a Wisconsin prosecutor, whose wife is a teacher, and a shop steward in the teacher\’s union.
In that capacity, aided and abetted by a similarly sick bastard judge named barbara kluka, chisholm oversaw a series of home invasions of people who dared support Governor Scott Walker and his union reforms, using the absolutely fraudulent guise that they might have been guilty of campaign misconduct — the kind of thing which, even if true, would be addressed by filing charges and issuing a summons in the light of day.
But that is not what happened.
What happened was that they were rousted in the dead of night, or early in the morning, by swarms of armed police. Their homes were invaded and searched.
Then, when they were sufficiently terrorized in their own homes, they were ordered, under threat of prosecution, not to tell a soul about why this happened. They could not call their lawyer. They could not tell a thing to their family. Or their friends.
This is what used to happen in nazi Germany. It is not what happens in the USA. Not unless you are a protected species — like a pro-union Wisconsin prosecutor and the similarly disposed judge in his back pocket
National Review\’s David French wrote an excellent, and bone-chilling – account of this sickness at the time. You can read it by clicking here, and I beg you to do so. You cannot know the extent of terror visited on these people unless you do.
But now, let\’s fast-forward to today.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has issued its ruling on this throwback to the the third reich. And, happy to say, they saw this for exactly what it was.
A few excerpts from the ruling – which I am pulling from Gabriel Malor\’s article at hotair.com, which you should also read in its entirety. The bold print is mine:
To be clear, this conclusion ends the John Doe investigation because the special prosecutor\’s legal theory is unsupported in either reason or law. Consequently, the investigation is closed. Consistent with our decision and the order entered by Reserve Judge Peterson, we order that the special prosecutor and the district attorneys involved in this investigation must cease all activities related to the investigation, return all property seized in the investigation from any individual or organization, and permanently destroy all copies of information and other materials obtained through the investigation. All Unnamed Movants are relieved of any duty to cooperate further with the investigation.
The special prosecutor has disregarded the vital principle that in our nation and our state political speech is a fundamental right and is afforded the highest level of protection. The special prosecutor\’s theories, rather than “assur[ing] [the] unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people,” Roth, 354 U.S. at 484, instead would assure that such political speech will be investigated with paramilitary-style home invasions conducted in the pre-dawn hours and then prosecuted and punished. In short, the special prosecutor completely ignores the command that, when seeking to regulate issue advocacy groups, such regulation must be done with “narrow specificity.” Barland II, 751 F.3d at 811 (quotations omitted).
Our lengthy discussion of these three cases can be distilled into a few simple, but important, points. It is utterly clear that the special prosecutor has employed theories of law that do not exist in order to investigate citizens who were wholly innocent of any wrongdoing. In other words, the special prosecutor was the instigator of a “perfect storm” of wrongs that was visited upon the innocent Unnamed Movants and those who dared to associate with them. It is fortunate, indeed, for every other citizen of this great State who is interested in the protection of fundamental liberties that the special prosecutor chose as his targets innocent citizens who had both the will and the means to fight the unlimited resources of an unjust prosecution. Further, these brave individuals played a crucial role in presenting this court with an opportunity to re-endorse its commitment to upholding the fundamental right of each and every citizen to engage in lawful political activity and to do so free from the fear of the tyrannical retribution of arbitrary or capricious governmental prosecution. Let one point be clear: our conclusion today ends this unconstitutional John Doe investigation.
That clear enough for you?
Now: I am hoping – if I were a religious man I would be praying – that these sick bastards be removed from office and sued for everything they have. If I had my way they\’d spend years behind bars as well.
And, on a less realistic level, I would love mainstream media to report this as a major story.
Sadly, though, with mainstream media as they currently are, I\’d settle for a brief mention….and probably won\’t see even that.
They are pathetic.
