Posted on 08/08/2008 3:22:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Actually, I don't think the right has played as dirty as this. A Times article by Michael Luo this morning unveils a new netroots enterprise, Accountable America, the unabashed purpose of which is to terrify conservatives from giving campaign money to Republican causes and Republican candidates. It's actually ingenuous.
You get a list of past Republican donors and send each of them one, two, many e-mails with the explicit warning that contributing to conservative campaigns may be dangerous to the donor's health. Or, as Luo puts it, "The warning letter is intended as a first step, alerting donors who might be considering giving to right-wing groups to a variety of potential dangers, including legal trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through their lives." The letter will be in the mail next week.
Perhaps the second move will be to the head of a horse in the bed of the recipients or, better yet, put a bullet in their knee-caps. These people call themselves "liberal" and are called "liberal" by others. But they are really fascists, using terror as a means to close people's minds and checkbooks.
I'd like to learn what my candidate Barack Obama thinks of his friends.
It's actually illegal.
I believe the term was Brown Shirts right before they started locking people away in camps. Lovely, just lovely.
This is when you need a pit bull trial lawyer on your side. They have their uses.
Attempts to intimidate individuals from participating in the presidential campaign can be a violation of federal law. A key federal civil rights law (42 U.S.C. § 1985(3)), popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, may be applicable if “two or more persons conspire to prevent by force, intimidation, or threat, any citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote, from giving his support or advocacy in a legal manner, toward or in favor of the election of any lawfully qualified person as an elector for President or Vice President, or as a Member of Congress of the United States; or to injure any citizen in person or property on account of such support or advocacy.”
This country is racing towards a civil war. This kind of fascism from the so-called liberals MUST be answered.
Who the hell to these creatures think they are?
Judical Watch is already on this. It is absolutely illegal.
It’s not an original idea; just ask Kathleen Willey. When major media refuses to even look into outrages such as this, it creates the environment that permits it.
Our ol'buddy Lar' is probably after that reward so he's going to start by getting them Prosecuted and convicted!
It's a regular hoot!!! (Bwahahahaha~Leftwingtards are so utterly stupid).
Why is this news?
Think of the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, VietNam, North Korea or any Communist country.
Oh, I see. EuroSocialists don’t behave that way. They are our model.
Right!
I would double my contribution if I rec’d one of those letters.
If you look carefully at their website, you will notice that there is not a physical street address listed for the organization. I wonder why?
Tom Matzzie is founder and chairman of Accountable America. Tom has worked in progressive politics for more than a decade—with MoveOn.org, the AFL-CIO, the Campaign for America’s Future and campaigns at the presidential and statewide level. At MoveOn, he created ground-breaking campaigns on corruption and the war in Iraq that set the stage for the 2006 Democratic takeover. The MoveOn 2006 election program successfully targeted for defeat 29 out of 36 Republicans. The Politico wrote that the intensity of Tom’s campaigning, “rattled the entire Republican caucus.” The New York Times Magazine said of his work on Iraq that they are to progressives, “…what the NRA is to the Right.” Tom was named one of the “Forty Under Forty to Watch” by Washingtonian Magazine for his role as a leader in the emerging new politics. In addition to his campaign experience, Tom is an expert in Internet fundraising which will power Accountable America.
http://www.accountableamerica.com/people
Targets aka ‘Persons of Interest’
******
On November 11, 2007, the Washington Post reported that MoveOn’s Tom Matzzie has been hired to run an AAEI spin-off called Campaign to Defend America, “an independent money machine that will rival or eclipse what they created in 2004, when donors poured millions into two key outside-the-party organizations — America Coming Together and the Media Fund.
[M]uch of the anti-war group’s leadership hails from a consulting firm called Hildebrand Tewes Consulting — whose partners Steve Hildebrand and Paul Tewes served as staffers for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
On May 14, 2008, the Washington Post reported that “Tom Matzzie, a leader of the liberal group MoveOn.org, teamed recently with David Brock, once a conservative journalist who is now a liberal media critic, to form Progressive Media USA, pledging to raise $40 million and lead the attack on McCain. The group has yet to air an ad.
Prior to joining MoveOn Tom was Director of Online Organizing for the Kerry-Edwards campaign —
From 2000 to 2004 he was Online Mobilization Director at the AFL-CIO building the union movement’s Internet program
I thought this was a joke. I still have to wonder if it is a hoax. Who are they going to intimidate? Not us. I will contribute more now.
Leftwing progressives need to consider that we on the right are the ones that have fought to keep 2nd Amendment privileges....and the potential need to counter Brown Shirt tactics like these was something we had in mind.
bump
Looks like internet stalking, to me!
Under what theory?
$oro$ and his Liberal cohorts try to intimidate everyone that they disagree with.
Attempts to intimidate individuals from participating in the presidential campaign can be a violation of federal law. A key federal civil rights law (42 U.S.C. § 1985(3)), popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, may be applicable if “two or more persons conspire to prevent by force, intimidation, or threat, any citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote, from giving his support or advocacy in a legal manner, toward or in favor of the election of any lawfully qualified person as an elector for President or Vice President, or as a Member of Congress of the United States; or to injure any citizen in person or property on account of such support or advocacy.”
If those names are used for fund-raising purposes, and preventing a flow of funds to your opponent is a fund-raising purpose, then this is a felony under election law. Believe me. Decades ago I represented a client who was charged under this law.
The proof of illegal use comes when mailings arrive in the mailbox of your "salted" names. Everyone who is required to present accurate names and addresses of donors of more than $200 is also entitled to "salt" the list by putting in a specified number of nonexistent names connected to genuine addresses.
Say that the fake name says John Jones, 123 Main Street, etc. When a piece of mail arrives at that address and sent to that name, it is evidence that whoever mailed it either violated the FEC law himself, or used a list supplier who violated the law.
These Democrat clowns are probably too stupid to realize that they have announced, in advance, their intention to commit felonies under FEC law.
Congressman Billybob
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Tom Matzzie’s failed antiwar media efforts, especially the collapse of Matzzie’s “Fund For America,” a failed financial front group for the radical left.
“We want to stop the Swift Boating before it gets off the ground,” said Mr. Matzzie, who described his effort as “going for the jugular.”
Judd Legum, who was the research director for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, has signed on to play the same role for Accountable America.
Accountable America has singled out some major Republican donors, including Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino mogul, and Mel Sembler, a former ambassador and real estate magnate, both major donors to Freedom’s Watch, a conservative group.
Tom Matzzie & Sara Choate, a field organizer
Tom Matzzie was one of the masterminds of the blunder-prone Kerry campaign, and an activist for the AFL-CIO
Perhaps, but it will be a short one. One side believes in the Second Amendment. The other side doesn't. Poor odds.
September 7th, 2006
Chris Matthews to MoveOn’s Tom Matzzie: “I’ve always wanted to meet you, you’ve got a lot of influence.”
So even though fundrace.org and newsmeat.com are very cool websites to nose around in--how the info in used can get you in hot water.
1) Any group threatening assault and intimidation is in violation of the RICO statutes - if it worked against the mob, it will work against the nutroots;
2) Most conservatives are armed and don't take kindly to threats.
Ernst Rohm and the Sturmabteilung would be proud of these guys. And you know they’re stepping over the line when the New Republic turns on fellow lefties like this.
}:-)4
You forward such e-mails to the FBI. You make a hard copy and take them to the local police. Internet threats and stalking are a crime.
“Under what theory? “
Who is putting up the 100k?
I wonder if BOR knows about this.
Good point. But I don’t think these Soros thugs have to name their donors.
They used Google Earth on VP Cheney, didn’t they?
Find out where these goblins live, and tell the world!
Worthless b@stards!
):^(
I went to the web site and searched for “scratch a liberal find a nazi”, “liberal nazis”, and “you’re a bunch of liberal nazis” about twenty times each. I don’t know if they log their searches, but if they do it could be kind of fun. Too bad I can’t see their reactions.
Good way to fire up the base .
They claim they got their list of 10,000 donors from a conservative outfit that wishes to remain anonymous.
BTTT
“how the progressive left also fights dirty.”
if this is true, these people are absolute scu&bags.
the problem is that they will not show their faces but get people when their back is turned.
they might play their game but there might be those who will not accept their psychotic, adolsescent antics any longer. irresponsible and stupid rhetoric is one thing. threats against a citizen because he does not agree with them is unbridled lawlessness. to say they are fomenters of revolution is an understatement.
but, then again, the big, bad left wing scu&bags who need toilet training will never come into the sunlight and declare themselves. they’ll operate in darkness, subterfuge and hide behind a lawyer; scu&bags one and all.
IMHO
That is very good to hear! I figured it was against the law to try to intimadate people for exercisign their right to support anyone they want for President. Hopefully they will bleed them of all of their money and whoever thought this up will be guilty of a felony that will prevent them from voting ever again!
Now WOW this is from the New Republic? WOW!
Please don’t post personal info again.
AM
Because a hothead like me might show up there with a tire iron and start breaking skulls?
I put that in two places (threads). I'll find the other and hit the abuse button... 2 mins... Sorry.
If anyone wants to write or call these creeps, let me know. I will gladly share the phone/address in a private message.
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