Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others too
There is no place in the American electoral process for the
types of voter suppression, intimidation and harassment
systematically engaged in by the Obama campaign, its allies and
supporters," and that means there should be no place in the
American electoral process for Barack Obama.
To this may be added Governor Matt Blunt's allegation of actual
Brownshirt tactics by Barack Obama: the misuse of law enforcement
to deprive people of their civil rights under color of law-and the
wording of Governor Blunt's statement offers us no other possible
interpretation.
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."
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