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‘Workers of the World Unite’: Wisconsin Civil War Monument Defaced in Protest

Much of the dust has settled since the peak of labor protests against Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal in Madison, Wisc. But while most of the protesters have dispersed, the clean-up continues.

In the latest video out of the embattled state capitol, a man struggles to remove graffiti from a memorial statue honoring Hans Christian Heg, a Norwegian-American Civil War soldier who encouraged Wisconsin’s young “Norsemen” to fight and protect “the government of our adopted country.” Leading the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment, Heg declared: “It is our duty as brave and intelligent citizens to extend our hands in defense of the cause of our Country and of our homes.” Heg was wounded and died during the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863.

Wisconsin blogger and law professor Ann Althouse was at the capitol building earlier this week to capture the images and the response of some lingering protesters — one of whom curiously insisted, “That’s why we need better teachers.”

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  • TreadHead
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:23am

    Here’s a quick way to explain the Union/Liberal organizational structure…

    In a union shop the most incompetent moron becomes the Shop Steward to keep him/her out of the way of the productive workers who know what they’re doing.

    Among the Stewards the most self-absorbed blowhard becomes the Union Rep.
    The biggest thugs of all the Reps are given senior leadership roles.

    The greediest thieves in the Union Leadership are promoted to Organizers.

    Finally, from among that shallowest of gene pools, the biggest Communist turd will float to the top…

    and they spend all of their members dues and our taxes to get him elected President!

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  • pajamagram
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:13am

    At the University of Wisconsin you learn to blow up buildings. I wonder if there is a big call for that profession? R.O.T.C. anyone?

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  • Patriot
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:38am

    This is what happens when you tell every single high school freshman that they are a failure unless they get a (expensive) college degree. They then, after buying the sheepskin, think that they deserve to be paid for existing. Not all of them of course, some become productive, the ones that should never have gone to an institute of ‘higher education’ end up as teachers, government drones, or any number of ‘professions’ in which they can collectively delude themselves as to their importance to society. They feel they earned it, not by what they produce for those who pay them, but just because they exist.

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  • Teleologicus
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:34am

    Public servants are not proletarians exploited by greedy capitalists. Public servants work for the public. The public pays their generous salaries and benefits. Over-compensated public servants who pitch temper tantrums and insult the public are biting the hands that feed them. If anybody is being exploited in this scenario it is the taxpayer. One wonders how these “protesters” manage to keep straight faces in this parody of Marxist class warfare. The obvious reason, i.e. that they honestly do not know any better, is frightening.

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  • LoveYah
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:30am

    wow, not a communist slogan? What do workers have to do with it?
    Seriously? That is sad and he is in denial.
    That is why we need better teachers, because people can not recognize the Communist Manifesto when it is staring then in the face
    “Let the ruling class tremble”… the proletariat doesn‘t know what he’s gotten himself into.

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  • kraphtsman
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:20am

    I think a new monument should be erected somewhere near the state capitol (on private property) honoring the noble union protesters in Madison. It should be made of steel-reinforced concrete, at least 11 feet tall, modeled to replicate a toilet, and should have a rusty iron plaque prominently displaying the motto ‘Overpaid, Underworked Public-Employee Union Pigs of the World Unite’

    Then, when the stupid union thugs show up and try to destroy or deface the monument, they can be photographed in the act and the police can be called to enforce the law. And since the phone calls to the authorities will be recorded and witnessed by law-abiding citizens, if any derelict union-sympathizer pig-cops fail to respond or enforce the law (i.e., arrest the trespassers for vandalism, assault, etc…) this can be recorded on video and MULTIMILLION DOLLAR lawsuits can be successfully brought against the union thugs, pig-cops and the city.

    Kind of like baiting a field. But you can bet the stupid Communist lefties in Wisconsin couldn’t resist.

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  • NC
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:52am

    Since there was some discussion at the beginning of the video as to the source of the phrase “workers of the world unite” –

    from wikipedia”The political slogan Workers of the world, unite! (German: “Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt Euch!”, literally “Proletarians of all countries, unite!”), is one of the most famous rallying cries of communism, found in The Communist Manifesto (1848), by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A variation (”Workers of all lands, unite”) is also inscribed on Marx’s tombstone.

    NC (rained here last night, going to go watch the grass grow)

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  • jim
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:49am

    Pathetic unpatriotic union thuggery. The behavior of these unions is getting worse and worse… no respect for their country, their community… all they care about is their greedy little perks that are bankrupting the state government.

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  • Smug
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:35am

    Did you notice how quickly they blamed the teaparty, when anyone with any common sense knows that the union thugs have dominated the area around of the capital for the last month. And if it was a teaparty person why didn’t one of those “Noble Union Thugs” stop them. I‘m so sick of these people they just keep poking and we’re getting real tired of it.

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  • LordHowardHurts
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:07am

    President Obama is a fraud and a socialist. His words and actions seldom meet, but his failure to give the citizens of this country a full account of his past (other than books written by him about himself), when questioned, is prima fascia evidence that he not only has something to hide, but that he is not fit to serve. The issue of him being a Natural Born Citizen, born in Hawaii, or born in Timbuktu, or being our most intelligent President, has nothing to do with his qualifications to serve all the people, all the time, and uphold the Constitution. He has proven through both words and actions that he dislikes this Constitution, and intends to turn this country into a socialist state. We can not wait until the elections of 2012 to remove this “cancer” of a President. He must be removed now, or this divide will further widen, and so many persons will be reliant on the dole from the taxpayers, that the “Producers” of this country will quit, and there will be no base from which to draw the money needed to keep the “show” going. The result will be total socialism, and if you think the chaos associated with the removal of Obama would be too much to deal with, get ready for the life and death struggle as the economy “crashes”, and there is no “light at the end of the tunnel.” Read up on The French Revolution, and get a look into our future.
    Lord Howard Hurts freedomfiles.blogspot.com

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  • American_Alliance_for_the_Support_of_Sarcasm
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:49am

    The TRUTH is as clear as purple ink.

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  • PureFinland
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:29am

    A Lawyer, Teacher…Really? And, yes we do need better teachers – starting now.

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  • Sunnyr
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:28am

    Sickening Slugs! The LEFT are the most vile, destructive people in this country. I am really beginning to loath them!

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  • wash1776
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:36am

    This was so obviously done by the unions that it is ridiculous. The lengths these people will go to is sickening and disgusting just as they are. To deface a Civil War monument is as despicable as the unions are. The unions are nothing but a bunch of selfish evil-doer cry babies. They have become a disgrace to and a boil on this country. They need to be destroyed just as they have destroyed the states with their outrageous demands that the states can no longer keep up with.

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  • Partygirl
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:26am

    Sickening. These people have no respect for themselves, others or our country. They are not doing themselves any favors in the publics minds. They are just turning the public against them. No support for unions.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:13am

    you know, these 2 obama-democrat “protesters” who ran up and were playing with twisting sentences like they were and acting “ignorant”, just make good people like this veterans’ family just want to throw them in a open sewer.

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    • blacksmith
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:35am

      What is the difference between a lawyer and a carp?
      One is a scum sucking bottom feeder and the other is just a fish!

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:08am

    the “protesters” can’t get it across they hate and want to destroy America, period. they have to call TEA Partiers a sexual slur with such HATRED…

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  • Brvnkaerv
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:55am

    The struggle of class against class is a what struggle?.. A what struggle?.. Karl Marx? “A political struggle.” You are correct.

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  • campt1
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:38am

    Not what good working union members do, these are the Socialist , and Marxist side and will ruin good bargaining efforts. Union Rep’s across the country should be ashamed of themselves.

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  • Chilloften
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:35am

    What disgrace. The elites think they can do whatever, whenever and however they want.

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  • BIGPAPAPUMP
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:34am

    Hmm, purple, just like the bus in the back ground. I wonder what these free loaders are going to do when they finally push a little to hard and the silent majority has finally had enough. I guess the fat kid is the enforcer. Pretty scarey.

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  • Fina Biscotti
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:28am

    Defacing a monument is enough reason to not allow union protestors to have access to the Capitol grounds – just on the outer perimeter – in traffic.

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  • Zoli
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:25am

    Hi Glenn, on the program today, 3.23.2011 you suggested that the banks contributed actually caused the financial meltdown by lending money to people who couldn’t possible repay it. In addition to that you were saying that Unions are somehow responsible for our country to be broke.
    If I may be so bold and challenge your handler’s assertion that the downturn was caused by the disadvantaged citizens and the “overpaid” union members.
    I am telling you this with some certainty; the downturn was caused by the leaders of our industries and our political leaders. The conspiracy you are suggesting is wrong it is actually the other way. The pillars of our business communities conspired with politicians to bust the unions.
    I’m not expecting to change your mind; after all you are given your daily talking points just like the rest of the shack jocks. Only thing you need to do is look at the “made in” labels around you.
    Keep in touch
    captainvarga@gmail.com

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  • David Foxfire
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:18am

    Money was spent to put up? How much did that spray paint cost, may I ask? Gotten from the Dollar Store, perhaps?
    And how much was spent on the statue itself?

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    • southerncross
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:20am

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  • walkwithme1966
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:43am

    I believe that defacing any monument that money was spent to put up – no matter what the subject is – is not what we as Americans are about. Workers of the World Unite is not just a communist slogan but one that was used in our country for years as the Union movement was born! http://wp.me/pYLB7-MH

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    • dr_funk
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:13am

      “Workers who are oppressed by the oligarchy…”

      Does this man not understand that socialism in all forms ALWAYS becomes an oligarchy?

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    • colonial10
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:05am

      That was a great view into how we all are as humans. How we misuse language all the time and how we passionately defend things we do not investigate. There is much ignorance repeated throughout this planet that is detrimental to all of us. Great piece of video.

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    • WTH
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:44am

      These demolibersocialcommie pigs trash everything they come in contect with. Remember the One Nation rally in DC and how they trashed the memorial there too. Their message is completely lost by their repulsive actions.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:50am

      Typical progressives, they have no respect for people, others opinion, or the history of this great nation. Their only purpose is to re-write history in their favor and distort facts to promote their Marxist socialist agenda.

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:19am

      I think this video speaks volumes about both sides. Two liberals standing around watching a conservative clean up the mess made by another liberal. Nothing shocking here.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4X2RDvw5E

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    • StonyBurk
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:48am

      We were raised to respect the property of others– and civic property.The subhuman communist dupes who vandalized this public monument ought be sentenced to hard labor in Siberia -because they are so caught up in the Communist cause. If it is found out who did the vandalism –and someone knows who that animal is– that individual ought be mandated by the Court to pay for the cleanup–and for the
      investigation .And a punitive fine as well to discourage such petty vandalism in the future.But I no longer have confidence in our Legal system -especially in the Yankee States.

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:03am

      This just brings out the truth about the union thugs once again. That statue had nothing at all to do with labor or unions or anything like that. That was pure anti-American hatred and thuggery and shows their disdain for all the people of this nation as well as for our freedoms.

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:35am

      Did anyone else notice at 1:07 the PURPLE SEIU bus across the street??? What color was the graffiti??? SEIU PURPLE. Im sure it was just a coincidink.

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