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Forward is the motto emblazoned on the Wisconsin flag. America and Wisconsin share the belief that *we* are a light to the world, the *we* hold the torch of liberty high, the *we* stride before the huddled masses, *forward* into a future that assures justice, *forward* into a world of limitless opportunity. It is the America that believes in that commitment to *forward* progress that I write this for. Eleanor Roosevelt, the widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was appointed as a delegate to the United Nations by President Harry S Truman. On December 10, 1948 she presented to the world, a gift of liberty drafted from the poetic heart of the America dedicated to *forward* progress; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In her address to the UN General Assembly introducing the declaration she said: "We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Cart

Note from editor: Please revise the following political cartoon. Replace Rail-Road President with Koch Brothers. Put two "pet dogs" next to Rail-Road President/Koch Brothers. Label pet dogs "Cato Institute" and "Americans for Prosperity." Give the "Americans for Prosperity" pet a small monkey on a chain labeled "Tea Party." Raise the amounts to reflect real campaign contributions.

Wisconsin's suicidal drive to consolidate the rule of the corporate oligarchy has moved forward under the command and control the the  lumpenproletariat  leader, Governor and  Principate , Scott Walker. Any act which furthers the decline of workers rights, eliminates the cumbersome instruments of democracy, or moves our economy into dependency on monopolies, trusts, cartels, or oligopolies, is OK with Scott. Any ecological concern about the transformation of the global environment by carbon emissions, make no difference this rainy Wisconsin day in February. As any youthful Tea Party young pioneer knows, the scientists at the Cato Institute (funded through the magnificent benevolence of the Koch Brothers  and Exxon) have disproven the negative effects of  anthropomorphic induced climate change , discredited renewable energy, and shown the economic futility of any form of publicly funded mass transit. The future prosperity of the American nation, or at least its oligarchy, will b