Forcibly Clearing The Madison State Capitol Would Be Another Huge Scott Walker Mistake

It's one thing to ask people to leave so the building can be cleaned.

It's another thing to then bar the doors and close off also the right to peaceably assemble and exercise free speech in a public place.

Walker has blundered deeply by trying to eliminate collective bargaining rights.

Curtailing First Amendment rights would further establish in the public mind the belief that Walker is authoritarian, arbitrary and disrespectful of peoples' rights.