"The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. You got that? - Tony Montana, Scarface
"Support DeHammer"
Posted on 12/16/2005 12:59:59 PM PST by flattorney
HAHAHA. What a girly man.
YOu mean like dump your garbbage or dog pooh on his lawn?
Wish he were my neighbor.
They shamelessly insist on no rules for themselves while demanding the other side be hogtied.
Seems to me that this should give DeLay's effort to get Grand Jurors to testify some boost. One of the grand jurors said he voted to charge DeLay because he didn't like the commercials they ran.
Let's hope he actually only ALMOST jumps the shark.
Jeez, Ronnie! Did you ever hear of the First Amendment? Or is it the Dem version: Free Speech as long as it agrees with the moonbat wing of the Democrat Party. If it goes against the Democratic Party you will be sued and charged with hate speech. Too bad Bob Bullock (R.I.P) is dead, I would pay to see Bob kick your a$$!
I want to rename him Ronnie "The Nail" Earle for his fine work in the Tom "The Hammer" Delay indictments. Sarc/
But you didn't give it the proper context:
Frank Lopez: Tony, don't kill me, please!
Tony Montana: I ain't gonna kill you.
Frank Lopez: Oh Christ, thank you! Thank you!
[Tony looks at Manny]
Tony Montana: Manolo, shoot that piece of shit!
## Second Article - Same Source ##
Free Enterprise Fund: 'Ronnie Earle Declares War on 1st Amendment'
by Robert B. Bluey, Human Events
Dec 16, 2005
The Free Enterprise Fund, the new target of Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, attacked the overzealous prosecutor Friday for trying to squelch free speech by subpoenaing two staffers who work for the conservative free-market organization.
Ads by the Free Enterprise Fund attacked Earle for his indictment of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R.-Tex.). Now, Earle is firing back. The draft subpoena asks that the group provide documents related to the ad buys. Earle suggests they could affect the outcome of his case against DeLay.
“These subpoenas are utterly unnecessary and manifestly calculated to punish advocacy protected by the 1st Amendment,” said Ted Olson, the former U.S. solicitor general who is representing the Free Enterprise Fund. “The information ostensibly sought by these subpoenas concerning when and where television messages were broadcast could readily be obtained without burdening and harassing those who would dare to challenge the methods and motives of this prosecutor. This is intimidation, plain and simple.”
Earlier Friday, Robert Novak, writing exclusively for HUMAN EVENTS, broke the story about the subpoenas targeting Free Enterprise Fund Executive Director O’Brien Murray and Communications Director Todd Schorle.
Mallory Factor, chairman of the Free Enterprise Fund, said, “We are confident that we will prevail in this case, but regret that Ronnie Earle is continuing to blaze his own rogue trail of legal overreaching.”
The subpoena requires Murray and Schorle to testify in Texas at DeLay's change of venue hearing on Dec. 27 -- the Tuesday after Christmas -- about “any and all documentation regarding the advertisements that have been produced or paid for by the Free Enterprise Fund, including any and all information regarding media buys by the Free Enterprise Fund for those advertisements that have run in Austin, Texas, and that may affect whether Thomas Dale DeLay may receive a fair trial in Travis County, Texas."
Mr. Bluey is editor of Human Events Online.
Posted by TAB
Time to prosecute this political hack for malfeasance.
Beat the criminal indictments first, then destroy Earle & Friends, is the order of business for Tom DeLay. - TAB
Not being an attorney, I am not sure, but I do not think some punk of a D.A. from Austin can have a subpoena honored in a non-Texas jurisdiction, unless he is a Federal prosecutor on a Federal beef which this is not.
This guy needs to be stopped. He's just psycho.
This whole thing has been so bizarre. Earle shopping the grand juries, obtaining an incorrect indictment and going back at the last second to get a new grand jury to issue another indictment, having a film crew follow him around... Won't somebody stop this embarassing miscarriage of justice? Won't somebody please get Earle thrown out of office and disbarred?
Hell, I'm tempted to write them a check and mail a photocopy of it to Ronnie myself!
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