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Recent headlines from my Posterous Blog:
Saturday, 27 September 2008
Criticize Obama, go to jail?
The zealotry surrounding the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama took an ominous turn this past week. At the behest of the Obama campaign Missouri law enforcement will investigate anyone making statements critical of the Illinois senator for evidence they are willfully false or libelous. CBS affiliate Channel 4 TV News in St. Louis reported that prosecutors and sheriffs across their state will enforce "Missouri ethics laws" and conduct criminal investigations of "anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad" against Barack Obama.
The preemption of political speech in this manner is unprecedented. Obama's campaign is blatantly attempting to stifle their political opposition. They've found a group of compliant law enforcement officers who are willing to conduct political witch hunts to prevent dissemination of information which unfavorably portrays their chosen candidate.
Missouri Governor Matt Blunt blasted the formation of Obama's goon squads:
JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.
"St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.
"What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
"This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson's thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.
"Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts -- not a free society."
Obama is engaging in bare knuckle Chicago politics where no dirty trick is off limits and the only thing that matters is winning whatever the cost. My liberal friends will tell me that McCain and Republicans have pulled a few dirty tricks too. Perhaps, but so what? Two wrongs do not make a right. The guy who claims to be all about "change" and purports to refute the old way of doing things turns out to be just another run-of-the-mill sleaze mongering politician.
There, I said it. I criticized the Obamessiah. I hope his storm troopers
have the decency to knock before they come to haul me away.
Posted at 17:07 by Chris Wysocki
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