BREAKING SCANDAL: Missouri Governor Accuses Obama of Conspiring to Violate Civil Rights

Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement

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.”

1 posted on 09/27/2008 4:06:20 PM PDT by Winged Hussar

To: Winged Hussar; Jim Robinson

2 posted on 09/27/2008 4:09:08 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (What's "Price Gouging"? Should government force us to sell to the 15th highest bidder on eBay?)

To: Winged Hussar

After consulting numerous legal documents, and conducting extensive research through lawyer friends, I have the answer. Democrat felon = no prosecution. Period. So, feggedabowdit. Won’t happen. Only repubs get prosecuted.

3 posted on 09/27/2008 4:09:09 PM PDT by Da Coyote

To: Winged Hussar

If McCain/Palin had tried this, Hollis French and his band of Obamanoids would be all over them like white on rice.

4 posted on 09/27/2008 4:09:44 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (November 5th, 2008. The "media" lied, America died.)

To: Winged Hussar

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Best news I’ve heard all day.

MSM will have a hard time keeping this buried.

5 posted on 09/27/2008 4:09:57 PM PDT by diverteach (http://foolishpleasurestudio.com/eyewool/slap_hillary.html)

To: Winged Hussar

these needs to go public as this is not the first time obama and his cult have tried to silence people

also these people who were involved need to be fired they are getting paid to go after criminals paid by the tax payer, they should not use their position to help in a campaign

fed up of obama and his cult trying to silence people and the media cover this up

6 posted on 09/27/2008 4:10:14 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick Ma sham marriage - -end racism end affirmative action)

To: Winged Hussar

Nothing Nobama does shocks me. He is beneath contempt.

7 posted on 09/27/2008 4:10:40 PM PDT by nobama08

To: Winged Hussar

8 posted on 09/27/2008 4:11:12 PM PDT by GOP Poet

“Yo, Barack! We all up in yo face, bro!”

9 posted on 09/27/2008 4:11:59 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Fire mission!)

To: Winged Hussar

this just shows the danger of letting obama into the white house

I have said this before the biggest threat and danger to this country right now is not Iran nor bin laden it is obama

if this man gets in he will damage this country for 50 years

10 posted on 09/27/2008 4:12:36 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick Ma sham marriage - -end racism end affirmative action)

To: Winged Hussar

Do we have a name/s for the campaign operative/s behind the Gestapo tactics, anyone know?

11 posted on 09/27/2008 4:12:52 PM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)

§ 241. Conspiracy against rights

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured— They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

The "going in disguise on the highway" part probably refers to two or more night riders in sheets and hoods threatening Black people--the same constituency whom the Anointed One claims to represent--with repercussions for voting, exercising their right to free speech, and so on. In fact, a related section of the U.S. Code is known as the Ku Klux Klan Act for this exact reason. In addition,

§ 1985. Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights

If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws; or for the purpose of preventing or hindering the constituted authorities of any State or Territory from giving or securing to all persons within such State or Territory the equal protection of the laws; or 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; in any case of conspiracy set forth in this section, if one or more persons engaged therein do, or cause to be done, any act in furtherance of the object of such conspiracy, whereby another is injured in his person or property, or deprived of having and exercising any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States, the party so injured or deprived may have an action for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or deprivation, against any one or more of the conspirators.

Governor Blunt's press release uses the specific words "using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights," "intimidation," and "silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment." We would like any attorneys who read this to weigh in on whether, assuming that Governor Blunt's allegations are proven, this constitutes a violation of the U.S. Code as shown above.

12 posted on 09/27/2008 4:13:40 PM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)

It’s posted on Drudge...Matt is back.

13 posted on 09/27/2008 4:14:03 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)

To: ConservativeMind

14 posted on 09/27/2008 4:14:03 PM PDT by omega4179 (Remember without the media, B.Hussein would not exist.)

To: Winged Hussar

15 posted on 09/27/2008 4:14:13 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")

To: Winged Hussar

16 posted on 09/27/2008 4:14:43 PM PDT by vrwc54

17 posted on 09/27/2008 4:14:45 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (The FReeper Foxhole. America's history, America's soul.)

To: Winged Hussar

I'm not worried, I know all the media alphabets will be right on this one.

/sarc

18 posted on 09/27/2008 4:15:10 PM PDT by workerbee (Sarah Palin's very existence is a threat to the Left.)

To: Winged Hussar

Aw, come on! They're just testing a prototype of the 21st century "Fairness Doctrine."

The Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) recognizes that the original "Fairness Doctrine" permitted a full hour of conservative talk a week. Buckley's PBS program "Firing Line" was way too much. It's not going to happen again.

19 posted on 09/27/2008 4:15:20 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)

To: Winged Hussar

Every RW talk show host in America should be talking about this Monday morning.

20 posted on 09/27/2008 4:16:17 PM PDT by Signalman

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