Tape, the new weapon of mass destruction...

What a crock of shit. The smearing, the demonizing and the attempted setting up of the teachers and other public worker protesters by the Wisconsin state authorities, has been ratcheted up into high gear. Six million dollars of damage from masking tape? Give me a freaking break. Doesn't anyone in the media question these assertions? It obviously sounds like someone went around scattering 22 caliber bullets in places that they would be found. No one appears to have spotted with a weapon. No shots have been fired. No violence has been reported. It seems like they are making an excuse to use force to clear the state house of the protesters. We'll see...

Breaking News from Wisconsin: Contempt, Damages to State Building, Ammo Found

Damages to the Wisconsin statehouse due to the protesters who have been “camping” inside the the building for two weeks…

State officials said Thursday that damage to the marble inside and out the State Capitol would cost an estimated $7.5 million.

Cari Anne Renlund, chief legal counsel for the state Department of Administration, said in Dane County court that estimates of damage to marble includes $6 million to repair damaged marble inside the Capitol, $1 million for damage outside and $500,000 for costs to supervise the damage.

Much of the damage apparently has come from tape used to put up signs and placards at the Capitol.

LIVE AMMUNITION has just been found outside the statehouse in Madison:

University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling said in a Dane County courtroom on Thursday that police this morning found 41rounds of .22-caliber ammunition outside of the State Capitol.

Riseling said 11 rounds were found outside the State St. entrance, 29 rounds near the King St. entrance and one round near the Hamilton St. area.

She testified that, “I don’t like to see live ammunition when I see significant crowds,” she said before Dane County Circuit Judge John Albert. “The presence of that doesn’t thrill me.”

In light of the disclosure, the Department of Administration may ask Albert for an order to conduct a thorough police search and possibly vacate the inside of the Capitol for a search there.

The disclosure came as organized labor continued its legal effort to force the state to provide more access to the Capitol.

Link:
http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/breaking-news-from-wisconsin-contempt-damages-to-state-building-ammo-found/