The John Doe is Over, But For the Prosecutors it's Just Beginning
Published: 7:26 AM July 16, 2015
By Collin Roth
rightwisconsin.com
| It’s over.
The black cloud of investigation no longer hangs over the conservative movement in Wisconsin. The raids, the gag orders, the accusations; they were all unjust. No crime and no charges.
For over two years, the targets of John Doe II have had their First and Fourth Amendment rights violated as Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, John Doe Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz, and the Government Accountability Board pored over their private documents and emails in hopes of concocting a wild and bogus theory of illegal coordination.
For the targets; their careers have been placed on hold, their organizations have been sidelined, and their personal and professional reputations have been maligned - all in service of an investigation that never once had any real merit.
What began with pre-dawn raids in middle class neighborhoods ended at the Wisconsin Supreme Court with complete vindication for the targets.
Justice prevailed. But justice isn’t satisfied.
In America, you don’t get to do what John Chisholm did. You don’t get to start a fishing expedition, raid homes, terrorize families, seize documents, and slap a gag order on the targets only to wipe your hands two years later and chalk it up to a misunderstanding. And you don’t get to do it because you disagree with someone’s politics.
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The John Doe is over. But the story is just beginning. The targets are now free to speak. And speak they will because speak they must. This simply cannot happen again. And until the full story is told, until the culprits are held accountable, and until the news media in this state understands that the real story was not allegations of campaign finance violations but prosecutorial abuse; this story continues.
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This is a good day for Wisconsin. This is a good day for freedom. |
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