Breaking - Missouri Gov. Blunt Slams Hussein And His Jackboots - With Videos
I told you about this last night.
This is NOT an isolated incident. THIS is going on all over the country. TV stations carrying anti-Hussein ads are threatened with their broadcast licenses. Radio stations are harassed when talk shows host people who talk out against Hussein. But as you saw in the videos last night, his camp and thugs can twist and turn the truth whichever way they damn well please.
And now he and his legal thugs, the same legion he dumped into Alaska to dig for dirt on Gov. Palin, are employing people in government offices to carry his piss and dirt?
Can you even begin to imagine the outcry by the MSM and the democrats in Congress if Sen. John McCain’s campaign camp did anything remotely resembling this shit?
(From - Office Of Gov. Matt Blunt Missouri)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, September 27, 2008
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.â€Â
Is the Obama campaign sending the law after critics?
September 25, 10:34 PM
by J.D. Tuccille - (Cleveland Examiner)
Have I gone insane, or is KMOV in St. Louis, Missouri, actually reporting that “Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad during the presidential campaign”?
The report goes on to say that “prosecutors and sheriffs from across Missouri are joining something called the Barack Obama truth squad.”
A video of the news broadcast can be found here.
Look, politicians are all about lies. It may be annoying (I find it entertaining), but that’s for their opponents and good-government groups to counter — not law enforcement. That’s especially true since whether or not criticism is “misleading” is open to debate. What’s being said may be simply a different interpretation, a bit of spin — or a better version of the truth than candidates and their friends like.
Even if the officeholders joining the “truth squad” are nominally stepping out of their official roles in order to put on their (political) party hats and play politics, it’s inappropriate. They wield too much power to use it to wag their fingers at people who say un-nice things about political hopefuls. Prosecutors and sheriffs are, after all, normally thought of as people with the clout to put their targets behind bars.
Somebody, please drop me a note to tell me that the station has it all wrong.
By the way, if the report is accurate, it fits all too well with the legal threats the Democratic candidate’s campaign is leveling against TV stations that run NRA ads critical of Barack Obama. John Lott, a noted economist and firearms scholar, has copies of the Obama campaign’s cease-and-desist letters on his Website. He also defends the content of the ads (emphasizing the debatable nature of “misleading.”)
(h/t Gateway Pundit)
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