Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia by Scott Walker

Written in December 1862 by Private Wright Vinson in Tennessee to his wife, Christiana, in Georgia, these lines go to the heart of why Scott Walker wrote this history of the Fifty-seventh Georgia Infantry, a unit of the famed Mercer’s Brigade.Īll but a few members of the Fifty-seventh lived within a close radius of eighty miles from each other. And we reject coups in whatever form they occur.Darling, I never wanted to gow home as bad in my life as I doo now and if they don’t give mee a furlow I am going any how. The American public may be divided over many things but we stand united behind our democratic process and the rule of law. So are the actions of congressional Republicans who are using the threat of a government shutdown to strong-arm their way in Washington. The People’s Party is growing across America – and the actions of Scott Walker and his Republican colleagues are giving it even greater momentum. Know that we are a nation of laws, and those laws will prevail.

Like the leader of any coup d'etat, he wants to show the public his strong-arm methods are made necessary by adversaries whose behavior can be characterized on the media as even more extreme.īe measured. Walker would like nothing better than disorder to break out in Madison. If most citizens of Wisconsin are now convinced that Walker and his cohorts are extremists willing to go to any lengths for their big-business patrons (including the billionaire Koch brothers), those citizens will recall enough Republican senators to right this wrong.īut it’s critically important at this stage that Walker’s opponents maintain the self-discipline they have shown until this critical point. That’s no surprise to most people who have watched this conflict from the start, but like any coup its ultimate outcome will depend on the public. By severing the financial part of the bill (which couldn’t be passed without absent Democrats) from the part eliminating the collective bargaining rights of public employees (which could be), and then doing the latter, Wisconsin Republicans have made it crystal clear that their goal has had nothing whatever to do with the state budget. Governor Scott Walker and his Wisconsin senate Republicans have laid bare the motives for their coup d'etat.

Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia by Scott Walker