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Breaking: Gov. Matt Blunt Releases Statement Condemning Obama's Missouri Goon Squads
Gateway Pundit — ... of Barack Obama. St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce and St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch are threatening to bring libel charges against those who speak out falsely against Barack Obama. Missouri Governor Matt Blunt released a statement moments ago on the news this week that leading Missouri prosecutors and sheriffs supporting Barack Obama were forming "Truth Squads" to intimidate and threaten his critics. For Immediate Release: Gov. Matt Blunt Statement on Obama ...

Saturday Reading: Chukotka
Ben Smith's Blog — Only 21% of households watched the debate on braodcast, though the cable numbers aren't in yet. There were a number of venial sins of fact in a remarkably deep, fair policy debate. People hear what they are primed to hear -- it's a remarkable illusion -- but Andrew Sullivan walks back the viral rumor of the day. A Greenberg focus group underscores the new Obama-won CW. Nate Silver seeks to explain it. Plouffe tries his hand at raising Palin debate expectations. (Good luck with that.) Ambinder re-parses Kissinger. The Governor of Missouri tries to fuel a backlash against Obama's aggressive ...

Obama Campaign Trying To Use Police Goon Squads To Intimidate Critics In Missouri
Say Anything — Missouri Governor tells Obama to “grow up” in a press release decrying the use of police tactics to silence critics. 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 ...

Missouri governor goes nuclear on Obama for using prosecutors on campaign “truth squad”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Oh, now. Would people really refrain from criticizing Obama just because they fear being, er, sent to prison for it? 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 ...

BREAKING SCANDAL: Missouri Governor Accuses Obama of Conspiring to Violate Civil Rights
Israpundit — by Bill Levinson Please copy, paste, and circulate this press release from the Governor of Missouri. Note the Web domain of the press release, governor.mo.gov. This is not “someone’s blog,” a “rumor,” or a “smear.” It is the official Web site of Missouri’s state government. The Governor of Missouri says openly that Barack Obama conspired to misuse his state’s law enforcement resources to “threaten and intimidate his critics.” We cannot overemphasize the gravity of Governor Blunt’s accusation. While we are not attorneys and cannot give legal advice, “Conspiracy against rights” is a ...

Missouri Governor Accuses Obama of Conspiring to Violate Civil Rights
Stop The ACLU — ... court of public opinion is entitled to render a verdict before Election Day, and the following accusation needs to be either disproven or confirmed to the public’s satisfaction. We therefore encourage our readers to circulate Governor Blunt’s press release, which appears below, as widely as possible. Please copy, paste, and circulate the following press release from the Governor of Missouri. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday, September 27, 2008 Contact: Jessica Robinson, 573-751-0290 Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforceme nt Gov. Blunt ...

Missouri Governor Matt Blunt slams Obama for thuggish anti-free speech tactics
Sister Toldjah — In response to the strong-arm tactics Barry Oh! has asked law enforcement to use in the state of Missouri against his prominent critics, Gov. Matt Blunt issued the following statement: 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 ...

WELL SAID, GOVERNOR BLUNT
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — From this statement by the governor of Missouri: “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 ...

Missouri governor goes nuclear on Obama for using prosecutors on campaign "truth squad"
Hyscience — Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt on the Obama camp's gestapo/stalinist tactics: 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 ...

Breaking - Missouri Gov. Blunt Slams Hussein And His Jackboots - With Videos
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — I told you about this last night. This is NOT an isolated incident. THIS is going on all over the country. TV stations carrying anti-Hussein ads are threatened with their broadcast licenses. Radio stations are harassed when talk shows host people who talk out against Hussein. But as you saw in the videos last night, his camp and thugs can twist and turn the truth whichever way they damn well please. And now he and his legal thugs, the same legion he dumped into Alaska to dig for dirt on Gov. Palin, are employing people in government offices to carry his piss and dirt? Can you even begin to imagine the outcry by the MSM and the democrats in Congress ...

"The Stench of Police State Tactics"
Power Line — ... we haven't seen since the Jefferson administration. Here's the latest: in Missouri, Obama has enlisted his allies in public office, including St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, to threaten criminal prosecution of any Missouri television station that runs ads about Obama that are untrue. Since every politician sincerely believes that all ads run by his opponents are untrue, the field of potential criminal exposure is broad indeed. Today, Missouri's Governor Matt Blunt responded strongly to Obama's attempted flaunting of the Constitution: St. Louis County Circuit ...

Mo. Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement
protein wisdom — No mincing words here : 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 ...

Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... 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.” Read more: http://governor.mo.gov/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=... New round of Rove bag of tricks. ...

Amen
Blue Crab Boulevard — Amen Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt has responded in the only appropriate manner to the Gestapo tactics of the Obama campaign in attempting to use the state to stifle dissent: 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 ...

WIDENING Allegations of Civil Rights Violations by the Obama Campaign
Israpundit — Missouri’s Governor and Hillary Clinton’s campaign both allege what are arguably civil rights violations We reported recently that Missouri’s Governor, Matt Blunt, accused the Obama campaign of conspiracy to misuse his state’s law enforcement resources to “threaten and intimidate his critics.” The text of Governor Blunt’s statement appears below. When we add the Clinton campaign’s allegations of “voter intimidation,” we get a very disturbing picture of which all voters need to be aware. We encourage our readers to copy and circulate the following material in its entirety. We will begin by quoting Governor Blunt’s ...

Missouri Governor Blasts Obama Campaign For Organizing “Truth Squads”
Say Anything — I find this incredible and more than a little frightening. The Obama campaign, in conjuction with several law enforcement agencies in Missouri, have formed what they are calling “Truth Squads” and are theatening the prosecution of anyone who lies or distorts the truth in a political ad. I know the phrase “Stalinist” is thrown around quite a bit and is used whenever someone wants to paint another as a totalitarian monster, but in this case the term applies and applies well. If you think this is an alarmist stretching of the truth of the issue on my part, check out this video in which two high profile Missouri prosecutors gleefully tell us ...

Missouri Law Enforcement Officials Threatening Prosecution of People Who Say False or Misleading Things About Obama?
The Volokh Conspiracy — ... the way the statement appears in context, since it does suggest likely law enforcement targeted on critics of Obama, and perhaps the sheriffs and prosecutors should have spoken up to correct this impression, if they hadn't intended to send it. But I don't know whether they have indeed tried to say something along these lines (among all the other things I don't know, despite having listened to the broadcast and read several posts that criticized the broadcast). The Missouri Governor's press release condemning the statements doesn't add much by way of detail. Now some might ...

OBAMA CAMPAIGN ADOPTS POLICE STATE TACTICS TO SUPPRESS DISSENT
Southern Appeal — The Obama Campaign has recently adopted a truly frightening tactic in Missouri. Obama’s campaign is assembling a group of sympathetic prosecutors and law enforcement agents to “target” anyone they think is lying or misleading the public about Obama and his positions. If this intimidation tactic didn’t smack of fascism by its very nature, the title of this group, The Barack Obama Truth Squad, should dispel any lingering doubts. You can watch a local news report about the group here. ...

Obama goes to war against freedom of speech
Jihad Watch — ... By now a gazillion sites have posted this from the State of Missouri's site, "Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement." What interests me most about it is the eerie parallel between the Obama camp's activity here and the ...

Obama’s Ongoing Threats Against Free Speech
Israpundit — The first glimmer of the kind of strong arm tactics Obama would use came back in 1996 when Obama ran (over his competition) for the State Senate: The day after New Year’s 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city’s South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama’s four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot. Fresh from his work as a civil ...

Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do?
small dead animals — Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do? Police State Politics Just another story you won't see on the CBC. Posted by Kate at September 29, 2008 9:46 AM

Attacking Obama's Missouri ‘Truth Squad’
Political Punch — Conservatives Embarrassed About Palin (No. 3 in a Series) | Main Attacking Obama's Missouri ‘Truth Squad’ September 29, 2008 11:12 AM Republicans -- led by the Governor of Missouri and the Republican National Committee -- are alleging that there is something untoward about the "Truth Squad" the Obama campaign has set up in the "Show Me" State. The problem, these Republicans say, is that these "Truth Squad" members are prosecutors and sheriffs with law enforcement powers, thus creating an atmosphere where Missourians might be afraid of being prosecuted for criticizing Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. There is no evidence, however, that these prosecutors are threatening to use their ...

The neverending struggle
Cold Fury — Did I mention Democrat law-enforcement goon squads working to suppress the truth about Obama and his agenda? Why yes, yes I did — and Missouri’s governor did too: 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 ...

Obama’s Missouri Goon Squad plays the victim
Michelle Malkin — Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement 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 ...

Obamanation, The Police State
Hyscience — Just in case you missed this; from the Missouri Governor's website: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday, September 27, 2008 Contact: Jessica Robinson, 573-751-0290 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 ...

Abuse of law enforcement powers for partisan ends
The Reality-Based Community — ... If you don't read right-wing blogs, you might have missed it, but Republicans tried to make a flap about the fact that the Obama campaign announced a "Missouri Truth Squad" to rebut false charges against Obama, and the "Truth Squad" included some law enforcement officials. Gov. Blunt of Missouri charged, in a semi-hysterical statement released on official stationary , that the goal of the group was to use law enforcement powers to intimidate critics. Blunt referred to "the stench of police state tactics" and likened the effort to the Sedition Acts. Of course, the law ...