The Fab Fourteen who left the Dictator's office are the reincarnation of the Lincoln Brigade.
Old Abe jumped out of the second story window to protest the bill that was being forced down the throat of the Senate.

There is an attempt to weaken unions by dividing the goals of the private sector unions and the Federal Employees brought about by Republicans.

The Federal infrastructure needs to be monitored and curbed in their excesses by unions
and regulations. Some of the regulations in Washington are being weakened by Republican corporate business interests. (Like drilling in the Gulf after a disastrous oil spill...by, of all companies, BP, but this is another thread).

Whenever politics is involved, there is always a tendency toward corruption or self-serving politicians and organizations that they represent. The true democratic balance is maintained by unions, constructive regulations and agencies that are not weakened by
corporate oligarchs. This is true of the private as well as public sectors.

A great strike in the 1930's resulted in the passage of the Wagner Act, The New Deal and
the rise of unionism to protect worker's rights. It may be time for a mass wildcat strike -(because of Taft/Hartly, unions can't combine to strike )- and this would change the political landscape in Wisconsin. Perhaps Anonymous would be helpful in effecting this.

What has happened in Egypt and is in the process in the Mid-east has a bearing on what's going on in Wisconsin and Indiana. The U.S. is engaged in political class warfare, the wealthy oligarchs against the working and middle class. It's very much the environment of the 1930's which saw many upheavals, labor disputes, marches and demonstrations and the rise of topical songs.

Wisconsin has shown signs of becoming a police state with representative of State government being ejected from their offices by a "palace guard".

What happens on Monday will be interesting, the people being allowed into the people's house.