He has demanded that his followers get in our faces. He has demanded that Television stationsNOT carry opponentss commercials. He has threatened TV States when it looked like they might run ads. Now he is demanding that District Attorney’s and Sheriff’s attack others 1st Amendment rights. Hmmm change you BETTER BELIEVE IN!
Gov. Blunt of Missouri is not impressed.
Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign�s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement
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.�Source: State of Missouri-Governor’s Press Announcements – 2008
Considering our very own wanna be Dear Leader Obama is calling for a “Civilian National Security Force” that is just as strong and just as well funded as our military…hmmm. Anyone getting worried yet? I wonder where that “civilian national security force” will be billeted? Perhaps in the Messiah’s detractors homes?
Perhaps all the while that the left has been calling President Bush Hitler they have merely been projecting their own desires for absolute power. The sort of power that silences opposing voices. Gosh that is change we can believe in! Hat tip to Instapundit and Drudge.
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