In Wisconsin, Walker's Mask Is Off

It's taken a while, but events in Wisconsin are finally showing the full brutish, aggressive face of Scott Walker, his administration and his messages:

* Walker's DNR sent a large armed contingent of wardens and local deputies to seize and kill Giggles the fawn at a no-kill shelter near Kenosha, then spent days trying to undo the damage. 

*  The State Fair "Republicans for Wisconsin" activists thought nothing of selling Scott Walker shirts 

and Walker for President 2016 bumper stickers

right along side T-shirts with 'shoot-em-up' messages and graphics.

*  Walker's office had advance word that the GTAC mining operators were bringing in heavily-armed security guards for the mining site near Ashland close to a large, public Ojibwe educational camp set up on public forest land - - and gave the armed outfit a second pass when it didn't move to fine or discipline the outfit for entering Wisconsin without the required licensing.

* Walker's administration department has unleashed the Capitol police to cite, handcuff, and arrest peaceful singing protesters and threaten mere observers with arrest, too - - on public property, mind you - - thus cementing a double-standard of law enforcement when compared to the 'come-on-in' permission to the GTAC guards with assault rifles.

*  A senior transportation department official's ugly anti-immigrant Facebook rant cost him his job - - but his firing was long overdue. Why Walker ever appointed and then promoted him to the #3, $97,0000 perch at WisDOT speaks volumes about who and what Walker wants managing the public's business.

*  And remember, Walker glibly tossed off his dismissive 'everyone's-fine-with'ultrasounds' remark and signed into law physically invasive and medically-unnecessary procedures mandated for women seeking legal abortions.

Walker has managed for a while to rule with the iron hand in the velvet glove.

He got away with bragging on the fake, pranked Koch-brother call that he considered planting provocateurs among peaceful protestors, and had a baseball bat at the ready - - for what, exactly?

And he doesn't publicly show the combative verbal bullying we've seen from Chris Christie, and doesn't project the creepiness of Florida's bullet-headed Gov. Rick Scott,  but the real Walker - - Governor Ultrasound - - the authoritarian Walker, the one whose positions and agencies and appointees operate with full-blown thuggishness - - is finally on full display.

Bambi in a body bag. Elders in handcuffs. GTAC guards with M-4's waived into the Wisconsin woods, willy-nilly.

Not a pretty sight, Bucky, but designed to keep you off balance and intimidated.