Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has made it loud and clear that he is in fact a fascist douchebag, but now it's becoming clear that he also has no regrets about issuing illegal orders to arrest the Democrats who fled the state.
Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald was warned by legal representatives of three separate state agencies that ordering state troopers to forcibly return senate democrats to Madison would place his actions in a zone "outside the law", according to the Wisconsin State Journal. The Journal has obtained memos and e-mail from Fitzgerald's office and the office of Sergeant-at-Arms Ted Blazel through a public records request.
Fitzgerald now admits in an interview with the Journal that his efforts to compel the Democrats back to the State House were "a mess" and that when he tried to give a statewide order for law enforcement to arrest the missing lawmakers, “There was no cop in the state that would enforce it.” [...]
Fitzgerald said he continued to try to find ways to bring the missing lawmakers back to the capitol even when he knew that it was a futile endeavor. Nonetheless, he states that he has no regrets about his handling of the situation.
What he tried to do was entirely illegal, or "outside the law," but he "has no regrets" about his handling of the situation. It was only a "mess" because it didn't work.
Got that conservatives? Got that Teabaggers? Your elected officials do not give a crap about the law, or you, yet you continue to support them. What does that say about you?
We tend to lay all of the blame on politicians, but despite having no reservations about issuing illegal orders, scum like Fitzgerald still have loyal supporters. Citizens have responsibilities too and they cannot escape the blame for the actions of those whom they voted for.
By the way -- the effort to recall Republican state senators in Wisconsin is still underway with enough signatures already gathered to recall one senator with five others expected to follow in the near future.