Obama Threatening Critics with Fines and Jail

Federal Review ^ | Saturday, September 27, 2008

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Reports continue to come in that Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign is threatening legal action against his critics.

On Tuesday (September 23), CBS affiliate KMOV reported that Obama had enlisted a number of Missouri law enforcement officials, including local sheriffs and prosecutors, “to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad [against Obama] during the presidential campaign."

The CBS report is the latest of several incidents where the Obama campaign has threatened critics with civil or criminal prosecution. According to World Net Daily, his campaign “also sent ‘threatening’ letters to several news agencies in Pennsylvania and Ohio demanding they stop airing ads exposing Obama's gun stance. In addition, “Obama’s lawyers twice demanded the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute the American Issues Project, its officers, board of directors, and donors,” for running ads critical of Obama’s ties to “unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers.”

Obama himself has also urged tough measures against people who fail to back him, telling a group of supporters in Nevada recently to “argue with and…get in [the] face(s)” of Republican and independent voters.

[pallis]

What if someone runs an ad about Oafama’s effeminate, crack head days, the gay old days, when he wasn’t so uptight? Just kidding, I know he has had to overcome his Omomma, and a rough, racially confusing childhood, and other shortcomings, like his ears.

[jporcus]

Nice idea, Mr. “Liberal”. People disagree with you, just sick the police on them. Another example of Democrats espousing certain ideals, and doing JUST THE OPPOSITE when it doesn’t suit them.

Please keep this up, Obama. It’s good for the people to see beforehand what you will be really like if elected.

[Iron Munro]

His poll numbers are up and the Obamassiah complex is back.
His true arrogant demeanor is starting to ooze out from his phoney flag-pin-wearing-patriot cover.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Every FR member should take a moment to send an email to Governor Blunt praising and thanking him for his statement condemning Obama’s actions that infringe our first amendment rights and threaten our very liberty. Contact him at http://governor.mo.gov/constituentform.htm.

[morkfork]

But you can reply here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iStZAbf47FA&feature=related

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

I think people in Missouri should dare these thugs to arrest them for political speech. Those making the threats will be facing felony charges in a federal courtroom so fast, it’ll make their heads spin.

[quintr]

But I bet they can get your ISP address and find you. :(

So if you listen to Obama’s speeches — that is, for as long as I can stand his squeak measly little voice — I’m most of what he’s saying makes him culpable for arrest in Missouri, Pennsylvania and Ohio because he is making misleading statements.

Most recent, for instance, is that George Bush has gotten us into this hole and McCain was carrying a shovel. And the hole that “Bush got us into” happened to have started back in Carter’s days, was perpetuated by nothing other than Bill Clinton and then bequeathed to Bush.

Anything that Obama says t the contrary is a lie and misleading.

[mdmathis6]

Will Obama’s truth squad now try to go after the governor?

[mdmathis6]

Will Obama’s truth squad now try to go after the governor?

[magooey]

Ask your Proverbs-quoting friends to come up with one supporting Obama killing off babies that survive abortion attempts.
Let’s see them come up with a Proverb for THAT one.

Thou shall not permit an abomination to live?

[dandiegirl]

I saw the ad and it is good, but I don’t recall him talking about the gestapo tactics being used in MO in the debate. Did I miss something?

[ladyvet]

I just changed my tagline.

[patriotspride]

” Too many people are drinking this kool-aid. I honestly don’t get it. A principled American of any political persuasion should be appalled and scared by this increasing trend. But they aren’t...”

That’s because many of them don’t use the net, or so obsessed with seeing this charlatan become President that they don’t care..............

[XR7]

The new 'digital brownshirts'

Where is Al Gore when you need him? Three years ago, the former vice president blasted "digital brownshirts" who "harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the president." He meant the mortal threat to the Republic of bloggers and angry Republican e-mailers. But times change, and the digital legions are greater nowadays on Mr. Gore's side. Thus we don't hear much fretting at all about the Obama Action Wire, which, unlike the brownshirts of yore, is actually managed by Barack Obama's campaign to muzzle critical media.

Here's how it works. A message goes out over Barack Obama's Web site with the names, phone numbers and e-mails of editors and producers foolish enough to host Obama critics. With Mr. Obama's extensive digital following, and his extensive fund-raising and contact lists, shutting up the Democratic nominee's critics with a fraction of Mr. Obama's millions of supporters is relatively simple. The digital legions plug phone lines, crash servers and intimidate the advertisers of these media outlets. This must be another instance of the "new" politics that Mr. Obama frequently talks about.

The latest incident, reported in the Chicago Tribune, "orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago. "The offense: The station hosted National Review's David Freddoso, author of 'The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate,' a fair and rigorous but adversarial examination of Mr. Obama's record. Surely, we can't have any of that.

"The Action Wire serves as a means of arming our supporters with the facts to take on those who spread lies about Barack Obama and respond forcefully with the truth, whether it's an author passing off fiction as biography, a Web site spreading baseless conspiracy theories or a TV station airing an ad that makes demonstrably false claims," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told the Tribune.

How Orwellian. Mr. LaBolt defends the very actions that prevent WGN-AM and others from airing the facts, as though obstructionism is an "airing of facts."

Note to the Obama campaign: Informed observers don't get "the facts" only from a political campaign. They read and listen to the independent media outlets - the same outlets the thin-skinned Mr. Obama is currently trying to quash.

[P.O.E.]

Check out my most recent tagline. Tell you the truth, I like your saying better....

[MOgirl]

Hello,

I would imagine that Drudge understands full well that his work, online, could be yanked and he could be prosecuted, to the full extent of the law, should this be allowed.

Did you catch what the video on KMOV stated: The O is a Christian (very debatable) and that he intends to lower taxes on 95% of the public (very, very, very debatable) as the complete truth.

This is more than frickin scary. I agreed yesterday to work on McCain's phone outreach program here in St. Louis Co. Should I be afraid? If I should, I do not care. Screw this and the brown shirts that wish to shut me up.

I would say more, but I would owe lots to the cuss jar.

MOgirl

[okokie]

You can’t be serious-

[JrsyJack]

Great point. Let’s not forget that Hitler was a legally elected Chancellor of Germany.

Just one thing...when is Kristalnacht?

[bitterdfwrepub]

Those articles on Drudge have now disappeared-—unless my eyesight has gotten bad within the last few minutes.

[BlessedBeGod]

I don’t see them anymore, either.