Posted on 11/01/2009 5:58:06 AM PST by Kaslin
SEATTLE -- Conservatives here, a droll minority, say that under this city's quota system, when a conservative enters the city, one already here is required to leave. They also say Washington is actually two states: There is what you can see from atop this city's Space Needle -- meaning, this liberal city -- and there is everything else, extending to the Oregon, Idaho and Canadian borders.
On Tuesday, Washington residents will vote in a referendum that has national significance because of a controversy about disclosing the names and addresses of those who signed petitions to trigger the referendum. Disclosure threatens the right to privacy, which is under assault by a spreading movement -- call it thuggish liberalism -- that uses intimidation to suppress political participation.
The referendum is on a new state law that some say establishes same-sex marriage. This is a matter about which people differ. What is, however, unambiguously wrong is the attempt by some supporters of the law to force disclosure of the names and addresses of the 138,000 people who signed the petition bringing about the referendum. This can have no other purpose than to make it possible to harass those signers.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Card check in another format.
Yep. ACORN and SEIU have the right to know where to paint the targets. Ought to stimulate another “re-arming” of the populace....
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Coming to a city near you!
The US and the States need to have explicit Constitution protection of personal privacy and public official transparency.
The only thing missing is the advertisement for brown shirts with a red clenched fist or an acorn logo.... /sarc
Yet another reason we have the blessing of the second amendment.
Seattle is acting more like Boston every day.
You’d better think as the state and the state-controlled media want you to think or you will be put on display for public intimidation.
With people and businesses leaving high tax states in droves, you would think that liberal states would be fighting to keep any people regardless of party and any businesses from abandoning their state. When will these political leader morons ever learn. Look at what is happening to Governor Patterson in New York as an example.
IMO, the real problem is that there’s a segment of the population that believes this kind of thing is OK. That’s not just a difference of opinion - that’s a completely different mind set.
With a sign around your neck reading ‘Capitalist Roader’
I live in New York and I have no plans to leave.
That was what they did in California with the anti-gay marriage referendum petition, wasn’t it? It resulted in really ugly attacks by gays on the people involved with the petition, IIRC.
COERCIAN
There’s a new word for you.
As crappy as this state is, Boston...nor any other city in the Commonwealth has any requirement for disclosure of the names and addresses of anyone signing a petition for inclusion of a referendum on a ballot. So far.
It’s a resident of Coercia.
Thuggish liberalism: an oxymoron if you didn’t already know what venal, immature steps the Left will take when they don’t get their way.
I couldn’t resist taking a pot shot at my old home state. I left there in 1976, the same day I graduated from college, and never returned ;-)
I think the author meant coercion
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