Posted by
The New THOMA$ REPORT on Saturday, February 23, 2008 1:42:37 PM
Politicians will do anything, use any
"law" they can find to silence their opposition. As proof, witness the use in
Okalahoma, of a murky law "requiring" petitioners to be Oklahoma
residents when circulating a petition to try and put one in prison for ten years
for helping to circulate a petition to stop these politicians from spending tax
money like "drunken sailors." "National term limits leader and
initiative rights advocate Paul Jacob and two others were indicted in Oklahoma
October 2, 2007, on felony charges of violating the state’s statute requiring
petition circulators to be residents of Oklahoma. 'This indictment is not about
the law, but about politics -- ugly, anti-democratic politics,' said Paul
Jacob, president of the pro-initiative group Citizens in Charge and a senior
fellow at the Sam Adams Alliance, a grassroots political organization.
'Their prosecution is a 100-percent politically-motivated attempt to threaten
and intimidate me, and any other citizen wishing to petition their government.'
"One day, they'll make it a felony to blog about politics or ethics, then
I'll be "in the soup" because I won't shut up. Period (Free Paul
Jacob).