{"id":72832,"date":"2011-03-11T06:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T06:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/11\/this-is-war-du-wisconsin-aux-usa\/"},"modified":"2011-03-11T06:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T06:47:40","slug":"this-is-war-du-wisconsin-aux-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/11\/this-is-war-du-wisconsin-aux-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abThis is war<\/em>\u00bb, du Wisconsin aux USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

La situation \u00e0 Madison et, plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement, dans le Wisconsin, est d\u00e9sormais plus un mod\u00e8le qu’un test ; un mod\u00e8le de ce qui pourrait et devrait arriver dans d’autres Etats de l’Union (Nebraska, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, etc.) soumis aux m\u00eames conditions (un gouverneur r\u00e9publicain, des lois radicales contre les d\u00e9penses et les fonctions publiques, une tr\u00e8s forte mobilisation, radicale et pugnace, contre ces lois), plus qu’un test dont l’issue d\u00e9terminerait et terminerait une bataille locale dans les normes de la loi. La situation pr\u00e9sente en effet le mod\u00e8le de conflit insoluble par des voies de compromis l\u00e9gal, entre une direction \u00e9lue avec une majorit\u00e9 l\u00e9gale, donc l\u00e9galement dans son droit de voter la l\u00e9gislation qu’elle a vot\u00e9e ; et une population qu’on peut juger majoritaire et qui se montre mobilis\u00e9e et pr\u00eate \u00e0 des actions radicales, avec le soutien, volontaire ou forc\u00e9, de structures politiques et syndicales puissantes. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPour les protestataires, l’action du gouverneur Walker faisant voter sa loi \u00e0 partir de dispositions l\u00e9gales ressemblant \u00e0 une manuvre de couloir, malgr\u00e9 l’absence de quorum due \u00e0 l’absence de l’opposition d\u00e9mocrate au S\u00e9nat de l’Etat, s’apparente \u00e0 un coup d’Etat. (On parlera des protestataires plus que des d\u00e9mocrates, le mouvement ayant du mal \u00e0 rester dans les normes d’un parti officiel washingtonien, tant un tel parti est discr\u00e9dit\u00e9.) La r\u00e9ponse est aussit\u00f4t organis\u00e9e sous la forme d’une mobilisation tr\u00e8s intense, qui ressemble plus \u00e0 la pr\u00e9paration d’une nouvelle bataille sur un nouveau terrain, beaucoup plus explosif que ce qui a pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9, qu’\u00e0 un baroud d’honneur.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLes plus mod\u00e9r\u00e9s, dans les structures du parti d\u00e9mocrate, envisagent d’acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer des proc\u00e9dures d’annulation d’\u00e9lections tr\u00e8s contest\u00e9es d’au moins six s\u00e9nateurs r\u00e9publicains de l’Etat (voir Huffington.post<\/em> du 10 mars 2011<\/a>). Un renversement du r\u00e9sultat dans ces \u00e9lections, tr\u00e8s probable dans le climat actuel, changerait l’\u00e9quilibre dans le S\u00e9nat de l’Etat et rendrait l’application de la loi vot\u00e9e quasiment impossible ; on imagine ais\u00e9ment quelles conditions de tension, et quels affrontements, devraient faire na\u00eetre de tels prolongement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’opinion plus g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, plus militante, est celle du projet de gr\u00e8ve g\u00e9n\u00e9rale dans l’Etat du Wisconsin. Peter Rothberg, de The Nation<\/em>, repris par CommonDreams.org<\/em> le 10 mars 2011<\/a>, s’interroge sur la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d’une gr\u00e8ve g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, avec l’id\u00e9e \u00e9vidente que poser la question c’est y r\u00e9pondre, positivement, certes. Cela donne une id\u00e9e du climat, qui est certainement un fait majeur de la situation politique dans le Wisconsin : \u00abIt seems to me that just the very fact that the idea of a general strike is being discussed shows how far our political discourse has come and how deeply Scott Walker and prolonged economic anxiety have radicalized otherwise moderate masses.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPuis suivent quelques pr\u00e9cisions, d\u00e9tails, etc., effectivement significatifs du climat, commen\u00e7ant par la position de l’associations des travailleurs du Wisconsin, avant quelques autres<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThe IWW website is making a strong case for a general strike as the most effective tool to combat Walker’s bill and copycat legislation cropping up in numerous other states.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe South Central Federation of Labor, a federation of 97 labor organizations representing 45,000 workers, has already endorsed the need to prepare for a general strike and David Dayen reports at FDL that the of the protesters, who stormed the Capitol on word of the bill’s passage, echoes that resolution. You could see some kind of near-term labor walkout, at least in Madison and possibly throughout the state.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbJoe Conway, the charismatic president of the Madison firefighters’ union, said recently that the political situation has grown so dire in Wisconsin, he’d support a general strike. We should start walking out tomorrow, the next day. See how long they can last, he told reporters with The Uptake. This is a nation-wide movement to attack all working men and women in Wisconsin and the United States.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSur le Rachel Maddow Show<\/em> de MSNBC, du 10 mars 2011<\/a>, on a pu voir et entendre l’intervention mobilisatrice de Michael Moore, d\u00e9sormais tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9sent<\/a> dans cette bataille. C’est la guerre, proclame-t-il (\u00abThis is War. This is a Class War That’s Been Leveled Against the Working People of This Country Takes on the Banksters, Hails those Fighting Back in Wisconsin and Beyond<\/em>\u00bb).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tJustement, cette intervention de Michael Moore, qualifi\u00e9 lui-m\u00eame dans le texte de \u00abporcine propagandist<\/em>\u00bb, marque l’entame d’un article du Wall Street Journal<\/em> (le WSJ), ce 10 mars 2011<\/a>, prenant comme titre le \u00abThis is War<\/em>\u00bb de Moore. (\u00abThis is war, Michael Moore declared last night on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show. The porcine propagandist referred to the Wisconsin Senate’s 18-1 vote earlier in the evening in favor of legislation, supported by Gov. Scott Walker, that would strip politicians of the power to reward government employee unions for their political support by committing taxpayer money to their members’ extravagant pensions and other fringe benefits.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’article parle, lui aussi, d’un coup d’Etat, mais du fait des protestataires, contre la l\u00e9galit\u00e9 que repr\u00e9sente le gouverneur Walker. Le WSJ est \u00e9videmment \u00e0 100% du c\u00f4t\u00e9 du gouverneur, et il consid\u00e8re comme extr\u00eamement dangereux, justement s’apparentant aux pr\u00e9misses d’un coup d’Etat, l’attitude de divers groupes syndiqu\u00e9s de policiers, ou de la police de Madison en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral dans les diverses manifestations, prenant partie nettement pour les protestataires. Si les gardiens de l’ordre public se rangent du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de ceux qui troublent l’ordre public, c’est une tentative de coup d’Etat et, pour le moins, c’est l’amorce d’une guerre civile<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abAnd yet it is just possible that Moore is on to something. One can imagine a situation in which attacks on the legislative process by government employee unions and Democrats escalate into something resembling civil war. We do not suggest that this is a likely outcome, merely a worst-case scenario but one that is worth thinking about.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe key is the group of government employees on whom we depend to maintain the public order necessary for a republic to function: the police. Many cops are unionized, and although the Wisconsin bill exempts them from the ban on so-called collective bargaining, there are signs, as blogger and legal scholar William Jacobson notes, that some cops have been taking sides in this political dispute and worse, that these guardians of public order are siding with those using lawless tactics to disrupt the legislative process.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIn a Feb. 27 post, Jacobson linked to a video of a cop presumably off-duty but wearing what looks like a police-issue sweater with insignia and, on the back, the words COPS FOR LABOR in big letters who addressed the crowd of protesters inside the Wisconsin Capitol building on February 24, and threatened disobedience to state government <\/em>[] Here is the transcription by a supporter of the police protest of the key passage:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb. . . This is not a budget issue! This is a CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE! . . . Mr. Walker! . . . We know pretty well now who you work for!<\/em> [applause<\/em>] Let me tell you who WE work for!<\/em> [points to self and police emblem<\/em>] We work for all of these people!<\/em> [applause<\/em>] We are not here, Mr. Walker, to do your bidding! We are here to do their bidding! . . . Mr. Walker, this not your House! This is all of our House!…<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIn today’s post, Jacobson quotes from a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report: It was clear Wednesday night, after thousands descended on the Capitol in reaction to the Senate vote . . ., that police were not going to try to stop protesters from entering what was supposed to be a building closed for the night.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIn a later update, citing a blog called Badger 14 (the title a derisive reference to the AWOL Democratic senators), Jacobson adds: The State Police did make an initial effort to keep protesters out last night. But, once most protesters had left the building, several dozen protesters were allowed to sleep in<\/em> [the<\/em>] antechamber of the Assembly overnight, rather than being removed per court order.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbMilwaukee’s WTMJ-AM also reports that the State Department of Justice confirms that it is investigating several death threats against a number of lawmakers. The station quotes an email sent to Republican senators last night that began: Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes [sic] will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBlogress Ann Althouse, herself a Wisconsin government employee, reports that the Capitol protesters entered through the window of a Democratic representative’s office. She relays an on-scene report from her husband, Laurence Meade, on their efforts this morning to disrupt the l\u00e9gislature<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWhere are the police in all this? We do not know. Possibly the sheer size of the mob is making it difficult to restore order. Possibly they are acting in accord with their orders in adopting a relatively nonconfrontational approach, on the theory that it is wise to avoid heavy-handed tactics that might provoke the mob to violence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBut the threat of disobedience issued by that COP FOR LABOR raises a much more troubling possibility: that the police are aiding a political movement that is breaking the law in order to disrupt the legislative process. If that is the case, then what is going on in Madison is not so much anarchy as an attempted coup d’\u00e9tat a challenge to Wisconsin’s republican form of government by those who have been entrusted to safeguard it.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl est difficile de penser que l’action du gouverneur Walker et la vigueur des r\u00e9actions qui ont suivi, engageant autant des associations diverses que des protestataire de base, alors que des batailles l\u00e9gales s’annoncent, que l’on parle activement d’une gr\u00e8ve g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, que la m\u00eame bataille g\u00e9n\u00e9rale se pr\u00e9pare dans d’autres Etats, il est difficile de penser que tout cela puisse d\u00e9boucher sur un apaisement ou un compromis. Les deux partis se sont trop retranch\u00e9s dans des positions radicales et maximalistes ; trop d’int\u00e9r\u00eats contradictoires sont en jeu, trop de groupes incontr\u00f4lables et activistes sont impliqu\u00e9es, trop de situations path\u00e9tiques et de r\u00e9solution furieuse dans la population existent, trop de publicit\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 faite sur cette tension et l’enjeu en cause, pour que cette crise s’apaise d’elle-m\u00eame, selon les proc\u00e9dures l\u00e9gales du Syst\u00e8me qui prot\u00e8gent sa propre stabilit\u00e9, comme c’est l’habitude aux USA. D’ailleurs, on se trouve dans une \u00e8re o\u00f9 les crises ne se r\u00e9solvent pas, et m\u00eame s’encha\u00eenent sans \u00eatre r\u00e9solues Et, plus que jamais<\/strong>, cette affaire de Madison, Wisconsin, avec possibilit\u00e9, sinon probabilit\u00e9, d’extension \u00e0 plus d’une dizaine d’autres Etats de la m\u00eame querelle, nous appara\u00eet comme l’un des tr\u00e8s fermes verrous de l’axe<\/a> Le Caire-Madison, et de la transversale qui diffuse la m\u00eame psychologie<\/a> furieuse et d\u00e9structurante.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSoudain, il appara\u00eet que cette querelle se constitue comme le terrain, le champ de bataille id\u00e9al de la tension g\u00e9n\u00e9rale qui ne cesse de d\u00e9chirer plus cruellement deux camps aux contours mal d\u00e9finies, aux buts mal \u00e9clair\u00e9es, aux caract\u00e8res mal pr\u00e9cis\u00e9es, qui n’ont pour particularit\u00e9 que d’exprimer un antagonisme, une haine int\u00e9rieure aux USA d’une vigueur qui a peu de pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, d’une puissance irrationnelle qui nous semble sans retour possible. (Les jugements n’ont pas manqu\u00e9, de Jimmy Carter \u00e0 Noam Chomsky, pour comparer le climat politique actuel aux USA, \u00e0 celui qui a imm\u00e9diatement pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 la Civil War<\/em>, ou Guerre de S\u00e9cession.) Madison, Wisconsin, repr\u00e9sente ce qu’est cette crise elle-m\u00eame certes, c’est-\u00e0-dire un affrontement entre deux visions fondamentalement diff\u00e9rentes des situations et des relations sociales ; mais il est extr\u00eamement inattendu, et tout autant significatif, que la querelle s’envenime \u00e0 ce point malgr\u00e9 ce qu’on jugeait \u00eatre comme un ciment indestructible, qui est l’am\u00e9ricanisme avec tous ses m\u00e9canismes habiles et insinuants pour \u00e9touffer l’expression populaire ; ce qui conduit \u00e0 penser que la crise de Madison, Wisconsin, c’est l’expression de quelque chose qui est bien plus que la crise de Madison, Wisconsin, que c’est l’expression du constat fondamental de la d\u00e9structuration progressive, de l’\u00e9clatement latent de cet artefact monstrueux de puissance que sont les USA, c’est-\u00e0-dire le cur et le moteur du Syst\u00e8me. Il y a d\u00e9j\u00e0 eu des situations qui ont fait penser \u00e0 cette repr\u00e9sentation dynamique et symbolique de la d\u00e9sunion fondamentale des USA ; aucune n’a r\u00e9uni les conditions, le caract\u00e8re, le climat et surtout la psychologie qui en feraient le perfect storm<\/em> qui atteindrait l’Am\u00e9rique elle-m\u00eame apr\u00e8s que les pratiques de l’am\u00e9ricanisme ait d\u00e9clench\u00e9 cet ouragan dans tant de territoires ext\u00e9rieurs. Alors, l’ouragan relay\u00e9 par Madison, Wisconsin, pourrait faire passer le stade de la d\u00e9structuration progressive \u00e0 celui de la d\u00e9structuration pr\u00e9cipit\u00e9e et explosive<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAlors certes, plus que jamais, Le Caire et Madison, m\u00eame combat. Il y a dans ces \u00e9v\u00e9nements impressionnants de puissance, de rythme et de rapidit\u00e9, nombre de caract\u00e8res pour faire penser qu’est effectivement entam\u00e9 le dernier parcours de la Chute finale du Syst\u00e8me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 11 mars 2011 \u00e0 06H49<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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