Update, 3/18/11, Responding to requests from Althouse and Meade about how the handcuffs were put on the doors in the statehouse, Ms. Althouse reports the police now say they put them there.
Photo of Wisconsin State House doors locked by protesters from the inside with handcuffs, from Althouse blog, 3/9/11. photo flickr creative commons
- Almost 100 years to the day from a historic event in the labor movement,
"NEAR CLOSING TIME ON MARCH 25, 1911,
a fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Factory. Within 18 minutes, 146 people were dead as a result of the fire."...photo from Cornell University IRL School
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"Doors leading into the factory workplace appeared
to be locked and that his men had to chop their way through doors to get at the fire."...
Bodies of dead seamstresses who jumped to escape fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, 3/25/1911, photo from The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial.
- "The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire helped to solidify support for workers' unions like the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. "...
More on physical dangers engaged in or not prevented in this event:
3/10/11, "Last night, protesters were able to enter the Capitol through the ground-floor window identified with the name Cory Mason — an Assembly Democrat of Racine." Ann Althouse
"Last night, as Meade arrived at the Wisconsin Capitol, he witnessed protesters entering the open window of the ground floor office just to the left of the stairway to the entrance of the building that aligns with Wisconsin Avenue (the center of the north side of the square). That happens in the first couple minutes of the video I posted last night.
Meade is back at the Capitol this morning and, at my request, sent me a photograph of that window to identify the legislator whose office gave after-hours access to the mob that took over the building last night.
The legislator is Cory Mason, Democrat, Racine. I called his office before posting this, but only got as far as an answering machine. I left a message and will update here if I hear from them.
The state Democratic Party sent out a news release on March 2, 2011 that included a complaint about bolting the windows shut:"....(text of release continues on Althouse blog)
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3/10/11, "Fire Chief Tubbs! Restore rule of law to Wisconsin Capitol" Chieftain, RedState.com poster
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via Althouse blog
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