Democratic Representative Nick Milroy of South Range in northwestern Wisconsin was trying to retrieve some clothes from his office in the Capitol Thursday night when police tackled him and arrested him for trying to enter the building.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker thinks he has won in his battle to squash the public employee unions and slash public safety net programs.

The problem for him — and the hope for the rest of us — is that he violated open meeting laws, and perhaps a few others. Unless the courts are as corrupted by corporate America as he seems to be, the law can not be upheld.

Video of the meeting shows Rep. Peter Barca, the Assembly Minority Leader, pleading throughout that the meeting was illegal, that he hadn’t even been given a chance to read the law.

But none of this is about law; this is about seizing control of the state and subverting laws for the financial gain of the wealthiest. It’s about getting rid of the middle class because it’s such a bother to these corporate-owned clowns and allowing people like the Koch brothers to control America.

They already control the private sector. We have watched the unions there lose power and the workers’ benefits and real wages fall. Look at the ads on TV about help with crushing debt and “underwater” mortgages, payday lending and car-title loans. These are the equivelent of the company store, where workers couldn’t possibly get out of debt because necessities were more than the workers’ weekly wages.

Studies have shown that it takes from two to three times minimum wage, and sometimes more, to eke out a living in any city in America. Those figures don’t include such things as eating out, cable TV or other entertainment.

This is the real agenda, to take American workers back to the days of the robber-barons of the Industrial Revolution.

Gov. Walker gave away the same amount in tax breaks to the wealthy that he’s demanding back from state workers and poor people in cuts to wages and safety-net programs.

We all need to get behind the workers, do what we can to protest, to fund the reccall elections, to get the word out that this kind of illegal bullying will not be tolerated in our America, because if we don’t, we will have lost the last vestiges of our America to the corporations and their allies.