Posted on 09/28/2008 6:59:41 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
For all the entirely false rumors about Mayor Palin banning books from the Wasilla library, the only candidate using agencies of the state to suppress views with which he disagrees remains Barack Obama. In Missouri, the Senator has managed to enlist various county officials to threaten TV stations running "untrue" anti-Obama ads. The Governor, Matt Blunt, responds:
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... Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts - not a free society.
As Stanley Kurtz, Milt Rosenberg and David Freddoso can tell you, this pattern is well established: The Obama campaign's response to uncongenial allegations is not to rebut them but to use its muscle to squash the authors. This is especially true when it comes to attempts to lift the curtain however briefly on the Senator's mysterious past. The New York Times' general line on the Obama candidacy may approximate that of Bagehot on the British monarchy ("we must not let daylight in upon magic"), but the last time I checked that was not yet constitutionally enshrined.
Throughout my travails this last year with Canada's capricious, totalitarian "human rights" commissions, I have expressed my appreciation for America's First Amendment. Free societies do not criminalize opinion. What Obama is doing via pliable Missouri public officials is disgusting - and a revealng portent of what his Administration would do to its [political] enemies.
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of
opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly
repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and
creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
- Harry S. Truman, 33rd US president (1884-1972)
[DV, that is such a great post!
I really like the “O” image in “Blow” there !!! haha!]
Glad you like that little ‘O’!
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I just clicked a button and your Obama logo jumped into the “O”
Almost.....
[I just clicked a button and your Obama logo jumped into the “O”]
Lol. I think you did that on the ‘static’ text one. The one above was the scrolling one.
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Whoops!
You are correcto!
You can ping me any time Mark Steyn is involved. Pictures, please!!!!
** Glad you like that little ‘O’! **
I do! Good work, PL !!!
I think there is a Mark Steyn ping list, but I don’t know who has it.
Thanks Meek!
Exactly correct. Just another part of the Liberal Fascist team.
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