 merrie says: 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 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.") http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-campaign-tries-to-get-nra-ads.html Breaking: Gov. Matt Blunt Releases Statement Condemning Barack Obama's Missouri Goon Squads Missouri top prosecutors announced this week that they will threaten and prosecute critics of Barack Obama. 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 campai... “This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson.....Communtity Organizer, huh? Sounds like they are doing the things they claim only Replublicans do. As an outstate Missourian, I'm not surprised. The city of St. Louis is not far removed from the Chicago of Richard J Daley. They have dead people vote, people are allowed to vote from 2 and 3 different addresses, dogs vote, children vote, etc. ACORN's voting registrations for the coming election have already had 1500 fraudulent ones thrown out for dead or underage people, 4 "temporary workers" are under Federal indictment for felony voter fraud and Jefferson county is a wannabe St. Louis. I'm waiting, but not holding my breath, to see if the St. Louis Post Dispatch (liberal) newspaper picks up the story and if the Fox news station in St. Louis picks it up, so far only the CBS station KMO... I'm familiar with the pervasive, permanent corruption in the "Windy City." I lived there briefly and saw just how "protection business" is conducted like business as usual between the drinking establishments, night-clubs, restaurants, etc and law enforcement officials. The precinct captain would make his monthly visit to collect his "package" visit with the bar owners and chit-chat just with them just like family. The whole thing seemed creepy to me, but it's the "Daley Machine" tradition of slimy politics. |
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