Posted on 08/08/2008 3:22:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Actually, I don't think the right has played as dirty as this. A Times article by Michael Luo this morning unveils a new netroots enterprise, Accountable America, the unabashed purpose of which is to terrify conservatives from giving campaign money to Republican causes and Republican candidates. It's actually ingenuous.
You get a list of past Republican donors and send each of them one, two, many e-mails with the explicit warning that contributing to conservative campaigns may be dangerous to the donor's health. Or, as Luo puts it, "The warning letter is intended as a first step, alerting donors who might be considering giving to right-wing groups to a variety of potential dangers, including legal trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through their lives." The letter will be in the mail next week.
Perhaps the second move will be to the head of a horse in the bed of the recipients or, better yet, put a bullet in their knee-caps. These people call themselves "liberal" and are called "liberal" by others. But they are really fascists, using terror as a means to close people's minds and checkbooks.
I'd like to learn what my candidate Barack Obama thinks of his friends.
Under what theory?
$oro$ and his Liberal cohorts try to intimidate everyone that they disagree with.
Attempts to intimidate individuals from participating in the presidential campaign can be a violation of federal law. A key federal civil rights law (42 U.S.C. § 1985(3)), popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, may be applicable if “two or more persons conspire to prevent by force, intimidation, or threat, any citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote, from giving his support or advocacy in a legal manner, toward or in favor of the election of any lawfully qualified person as an elector for President or Vice President, or as a Member of Congress of the United States; or to injure any citizen in person or property on account of such support or advocacy.”
If those names are used for fund-raising purposes, and preventing a flow of funds to your opponent is a fund-raising purpose, then this is a felony under election law. Believe me. Decades ago I represented a client who was charged under this law.
The proof of illegal use comes when mailings arrive in the mailbox of your "salted" names. Everyone who is required to present accurate names and addresses of donors of more than $200 is also entitled to "salt" the list by putting in a specified number of nonexistent names connected to genuine addresses.
Say that the fake name says John Jones, 123 Main Street, etc. When a piece of mail arrives at that address and sent to that name, it is evidence that whoever mailed it either violated the FEC law himself, or used a list supplier who violated the law.
These Democrat clowns are probably too stupid to realize that they have announced, in advance, their intention to commit felonies under FEC law.
Congressman Billybob
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Tom Matzzie’s failed antiwar media efforts, especially the collapse of Matzzie’s “Fund For America,” a failed financial front group for the radical left.
“We want to stop the Swift Boating before it gets off the ground,” said Mr. Matzzie, who described his effort as “going for the jugular.”
Judd Legum, who was the research director for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, has signed on to play the same role for Accountable America.
Accountable America has singled out some major Republican donors, including Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino mogul, and Mel Sembler, a former ambassador and real estate magnate, both major donors to Freedom’s Watch, a conservative group.
Tom Matzzie & Sara Choate, a field organizer
Tom Matzzie was one of the masterminds of the blunder-prone Kerry campaign, and an activist for the AFL-CIO
Perhaps, but it will be a short one. One side believes in the Second Amendment. The other side doesn't. Poor odds.
September 7th, 2006
Chris Matthews to MoveOn’s Tom Matzzie: “I’ve always wanted to meet you, you’ve got a lot of influence.”
So even though fundrace.org and newsmeat.com are very cool websites to nose around in--how the info in used can get you in hot water.
1) Any group threatening assault and intimidation is in violation of the RICO statutes - if it worked against the mob, it will work against the nutroots;
2) Most conservatives are armed and don't take kindly to threats.
Ernst Rohm and the Sturmabteilung would be proud of these guys. And you know they’re stepping over the line when the New Republic turns on fellow lefties like this.
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You forward such e-mails to the FBI. You make a hard copy and take them to the local police. Internet threats and stalking are a crime.
“Under what theory? “
Who is putting up the 100k?
I wonder if BOR knows about this.
Good point. But I don’t think these Soros thugs have to name their donors.
They used Google Earth on VP Cheney, didn’t they?
Find out where these goblins live, and tell the world!
Worthless b@stards!
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