Chilling details from Wisconsin’s unconstitutional “John Doe” police raids of conservatives
We’ve written about this story before, but because law enforcement authorities made unconstitutional threats to silence the victims, word from those most closely effected by this tyranny has been difficult to come by.
The National Review has a long-form expose of the blatantly unconstitutional actions taken by opponents of Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin against anyone who dared to support him.
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.
She wasn’t dressed, but she started to run toward the door, her body in full view of the police. Some yelled at her to grab some clothes, others yelled for her to open the door.
“I begged and begged, ‘Please don’t shoot my dogs, please don’t shoot my dogs, just don’t shoot my dogs.’ I couldn’t get them to stop barking, and I couldn’t get them outside quick enough. I saw a gun and barking dogs. I was scared and knew this was a bad mix.”
“I was so afraid,” she says. “I did not know what to do.” She grabbed some clothes, opened the door, and dressed right in front of the police. The dogs were still frantic.
She got the dogs safely out of the house, just as multiple armed agents rushed inside. Some even barged into the bathroom, where her partner was in the shower. The officer or agent in charge demanded that Cindy sit on the couch, but she wanted to get up and get a cup of coffee.
“I told him this was my house and I could do what I wanted.” Wrong thing to say. “This made the agent in charge furious. He towered over me with his finger in my face and yelled like a drill sergeant that I either do it his way or he would handcuff me.”
They wouldn’t let her speak to a lawyer. She looked outside and saw a person who appeared to be a reporter. Someone had tipped him off.
The neighbors started to come outside, curious at the commotion, and all the while the police searched her house, making a mess, and — according to Cindy — leaving her “dead mother’s belongings strewn across the basement floor in a most disrespectful way.”
Then they left, carrying with them only a cellphone and a laptop.
Cindy’s story was repeated dozens of times across Wisconsin, not just to people who worked within the Walker administration but to members of Conservative activist groups like Club for Growth. In all cases, it was the same: police show up; private property is stolen; no arrests; no charges; victims are are barred from speaking to lawyers or the press.
It was a witch hunt from Day 1, with Democrat prosecutors within Wisconsin’s state government on a blind search for any evidence that might be useful in indicting Gov. Scott Walker under criminal charges. At the same time they were banning the victims of these unconstitutional searches from speaking to the press, they were leaking details to the press that would make Walker and local conservative groups look bad. The press obliged and ran numerous stories implying that Walker and his cohorts had acted illegally and corruptly. And what was this supposed illegal and corrupt activity? No one could say for sure, but they knew it had to be something juicy!
They raided Scott Walkers offices. They raided the homes of his administration members. They raided the homes of donors. They raided the homes of Conservative leaders across the state.
I highly encourage you to read the National Review article in its entirety. There are now people in Wisconsin fighting back, taking the case all the way up to the Supreme Court, demanding justice for what was done to these innocent victims of state-sponsored abuse.
As Scott Walker moves closer to a campaign for the Presidency, it’s important to know the maniacal lengths the left will go to stop those who have been deemed the enemy.
