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"When I arrived, I was told that Madison city council member Mark Clear had already been arrested, while he was singing 'This Land Is Your Land.' This seemed to be an escalation, since he was the first currently serving elected official to be rounded up in the more than 200 arrests that Scott Walker's capitol police have made in the last few weeks. [...]" -- Matthew Rothschild, 2013-08-15 at The Progressive

"When local elected officials and magazine editors are being arrested, real damage is done to the rule of law and to the broad understanding of basic liberties." -- John Nichols, 2013-08-16 blogging at The Nation, referring to the arrest of Mark Clear as mentioned above, and the arrest of Matthew Rothschild a few minutes later