Posted on 10/17/2008 9:34:20 PM PDT by Stingray
This story appears in Tuesday's issue of The Lufkin Daily News, 10/6/08. This is totally absurd regardless of what party you choose to support in the Presidential campaign.
On Wednesday the 1st of October I received a call on my cell while in the car with my husband. It was a woman who identified herself as calling from the Obama Campaign. The phone # she called from was 903-798-6020 which lists as "Obama Volunteers of Texarkana " (Texas).
She asked if I was an Obama supporter to which I replied:
"No, I don't support him, your guy is a socialist who voted four times in the State Senate to let little babies die in hospital closets; I think you should find something better to do with your time." I hung up.
Thursday, October 2, I answered the front door to find the Secret Service. Immediately I thought of the call and was furious that apparently you are not allowed to call Obama a Socialist without the Secret Service coming to investigate. Instead, they asked me about the following comment, relayed by the Obama Volunteer of Texarkana who called me, unsolicited on my cell phone:
"I will never support Obama and he will wind up dead on a hospital floor." My husband laughed and told them "No, she called him a socialist but she never said a word about him dying.”I gave them my actual quote. The woman asked insolently “Oh? Well why would she make that up?”I replied that I supposed she wasn't happy about what I said about her candidate and the Agent said, "That's right, you were rude!" The last time I checked being rude wasn't a crime in America .
Luckily the big file they had gathered on me didn't indicate mental instability or a past life of stalking/crime, however they did want to know how I felt about Obama. That was my limit. I told the Agent in no uncertain terms that my thoughts were not pertinent to their investigation, that this was America and the last time I checked I was allowed to think whatever I wanted without being questioned by the Secret Service. In fact, even if I had said what she claimed, that isn't a threat. I told them (again) and my husband verified that the statement reported by Obama's volunteer was a lie. I asked them if there was a tape of the call and they said no. I said, "So on the word of a ticked off Obama supporter you are on my porch with no other evidence and you want to question me about my THOUGHTS!?" They informed me that there was no evidence she was an Obama supporter. Someone calling from his campaign. Are you kidding?
I was not allowed to know the name of my accuser at which point they informed me that it wasn't like I was in a court of law, YET, as if this was a good thing. I recognized this as a veiled threat. I told them I would happily go to court since I did nothing wrong and at least then my accuser would have to face me rather than sending the thought police to my house.
They then said they were trying to do me a favor, that they came to me first before embarrassing you by going to all your neighbors and family. Another threat? I told them to be my guest and talk to whomever they wanted but they weren't going to investigate my thoughts on my porch.
They also informed me that it would be easier if the next time a supporter calls me I just say "Yeah sure count me in, or just hang up" apparently so she won't get her undies in a bundle and give them more useless trips. Yeah right. I said "Look, someone calls me unsolicited on my cell phone to ask me to support their candidate and I can't tell them why I don't?" I said I was sorry they made a wasted trip but if they had a problem with some made up lie they needed to go talk to her about it because it wasn't my fault they had to drive from Houston for nothing.
At one point I went inside and got a notepad to record their badge numbers and they refused to show me their badges. They had done the quick flip when they arrived. I asked for a card and the female Agent refused to give me one stating “You're not going to get a card.” The male Agent gave me a card and told me I could contact Houston with any questions.
The fact that the volunteer lied, the fact that the Secret Service came to my house to question me about my thoughts and feelings and threaten to embarrass me to my neighbors and go to court if I didn't cooperate is not really the tragedy here. Because that girl on the phone doesn't have the pull to send the Secret Service to my home. Someone high in the ranks of a campaign working for a man who may be the next President of the United States of America felt comfortable bringing the force of the Federal Government to bear on a private citizen on nothing but the word of a partisan volunteer.
I want to file a counter complaint that false charges were made, that a false report was given to a peace officer. The Secret Service told me I cannot because they will protect the identity of the complainant. I also want the file they have on me destroyed and I want to know that my phone isn't tapped, et cetera. I am hearing a lot of "Out of my Jurisdiction."
Do I also hear jackboots?
Jessica Hughes Lufkin, Texas
Note: I have contacted several news organizations, Rep Gohmert, Sen Hutchison, the Atty General, Local Police Will keep you updated, pass it along.
Here is the link to the item in the Lufkin paper
http://www.lufkindailynews.com/hp/content/news/stories/2008/10/07/secret_service.html
Beyond what I wrote immediately above, I have nothing else to write. Sometimes words just can't express the depth of moral outrage you can feel about this kind of stuff.
Welcome to Amerika, comrade. The Brownshirts have arrived.
Is that really you? I'd hire a lawyer ASAP and get on Hannity, Rush, or O’ Reilly immediately to protect yourself.
Jessica came on Free Republic the other day, invited by another FReeper, and updated on her story.
This was the thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100115/posts?page=44#44
This was her introduction to FR: (comment #44)
Thank you for your comment. To update everyone following this, I have contacted the FBI who told me they have no jurisdiction, but that unless I take legal action this file and report will follow me the rest of my life. I have also contacted my Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Congressman Louie Gohmert and I am hoping they will at least point me to SOMEONE with authority to bring this case to court. I want the file purged and I want this woman charged. If anyone wants to watch for updates on it I will be posting them at my own blog: Young, Wise and Conservative (ywc.bogtownhall.com)
Jessica Hughes, Lufkin, TX
Nope. Not me. I received this via e-mail from a friend. And for those who may have missed it, here’s another bit of Hussein’s bullying tactics on free speech (apparently this man of Muslim faith and his kool-aid drinking supporters) can’t stand the idea of the First Amendment. Here’s a link you NEED to see...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIenDGSAdPA
I was confused by your post, the but the reality is no less horrifying.
Yep, we are in trouble big time.
See post #3. She was here. :^)
Yes. That is why he MUST NOT win. He MUST NOT even be close. I am afraid he will use Odinga tactics.
I think she handled the situation quite well. Thank you for continuing to post this.
The agents were merely following up on a lead they were ordered to check out by their superiors, and of course they had to ask certain questions and probe a bit to really determine if there was anything to the allegation—I don’t fault them for it. However, Ms. Lufkin was perfectly justified in being rather obstreperous and insistent about her rights and her indignation.
If anything, I certainly would find fault with the sleazoid Obammunists who would call the Secret Service based on either a) imagining Lufkin said something that she didn’t say, or b) lying to the Secret Service about what Lufkin said in order to retaliate and cause trouble for her, waste taxpayers’ money and the agents’ time/important resources, and so forth.
Obama will run America like Kim Jung Il runs North Korea.
Anyone who doesn't believe me needs to wake the h@ll up, and read stories like this one.
I would have said I have frequent thoughts of Borat Obama dieing in some embarrassing and humiliating circumstances..
-AND- would remember both their faces when the inevitable gang gallows is set up on the White House Lawn.. to punish the minions of the Marxist Obama.. like themselves.. And if I am chosen to be the Hangman they would be in serious trouble unless they changed their ways..
Unfortunately the Secret Service can’t afford to let any reported threat slide. Sounds like you got a snarky agent. It doesn’t help to play hard ball with them. You’re not going to win that game.
Secret Service / You
Let me guess who carries more weight with a judge. I don’t like what happened. I hope the offending reporting party gets taken down hard on this. You’ll never know it if they do.
I would probably try to see what you can do about it, but I’m not sure if there really is anything you can do.
It doesn’t seem right that someone could file a false report with the Secret Service and get away with it. If the person is ethnocentric, good luck.
The great thing is that you stood your ground. When you allow them to bully you you give up your rights. When you stand up to them, you retain your power and make them back down.
The problem for him, I think, is that the majority of Americans just aren't as in to him as many Muslim Kenyans were into Odinga.
Obama is flavor of the month, and he is a fraud who can't stand up without a teleprompter. His own handlers will eat him alive if he becomes President.
TE, read this!
And all “Joe the Plummer” did was ask a question. Now he’s the target of vicious left-wing character assassination, and the MSM seems not to have a problem with this. Rather, they report personal facts about the man dug up by Obama’s “smear tacticians” without ever questioning if digging up dirt on a private citizen - who was cast into the spotlight by Obama’s absurd and outrageous (and telling!) statement itself - is ethical, proper, or even legal!
I have to be honest with you, folks: I’m so pissed off at McCain for racing to support this bailout and for running the kind of campaign that wouldn’t get him elected dog catcher in a one-dog town, that I was tempted to sit this election out.
But after reading, hearing and seeing what Hussein has in store for this country - a man who is so clearly anti-American and contemptuous of our Constitution - I’m going to hold my nose and pull the Republican lever, if for no other reason than we must have “Anybody But Obama!”
For what it’s worth, if Obama wins I suspect after a few years we’ll all have big fat FBI files being kept on us.
Guys...
I’m not the subject of this article.
Just wanted to clear that up once and for all.
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