[Rhodes22-list] political - the incredible shrinking sarah palin

Sat Sep 27 20:33:10 EDT 2008

Herb,

Say it ain't so, suppress other's views?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ2DXN3aOSo

The Governor of Missouri came out with a statement today (see below).

And here's more-

http://www.examiner.com/x-536-Civil-Liberties-Examiner~y2008m9d25-Is-the-Obama-campaign-sending-the-law-after-critics

It's OK if Pete wants to question Palin's experience, that's fair
game.  If some pundits want to change their mind, nothing wrong with
that.  Chilling free speech?  Bye, Bye, American Pie!

Brad

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Gov. Matt 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 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
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 by this
anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads
about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism 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."

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
> Brad,
>
> That can't be correct. There are internet sites that say she DID ban
> books. Check with Pete, I'm sure he's got some links to them!!
>
> Too many people want freedoms for their views, and supression of every
> one else's.
>
> Brad Haslett wrote:
>> Herb,
>>
>> Speaking of Sarah Palin, how many books were banned in Wasilla?  Zip,
>> zero, nada!  Never happened.  The MSM has attacked this woman and her
>> family viciously and they keep coming up empty. Now here's how you ban
>> books (see below).  Notice the American publisher really showed some
>> stones. That's how you ban books, boys and girls.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> ----------------------------
>>
>> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4837994.ece
>>
>> >From The Sunday Times
>> September 28, 2008
>> Muslim gang firebombs publisher of Allah novel, Martin Rynja
>> David Leppard
>>
>> Scotland Yard's counter-terrorist command yesterday foiled an alleged
>> plot by Islamic extremists to kill the publisher of a forthcoming
>> novel featuring sexual encounters between the Prophet Muhammad and his
>> child bride.
>>
>> Early yesterday armed undercover officers arrested three men after a
>> petrol bomb was pushed through the door of the north London home of
>> the book's publisher.
>>
>> The Metropolitan police said the target of the assassination plot, the
>> Dutch publisher Martin Rynja, had not been injured.
>>
>> The suspected terror gang was being followed by undercover police and
>> the fire was quickly put out after the fire brigade smashed down the
>> front door.
>>
>> The foiled terrorist attack recalled the death threats and uproar 20
>> years ago following the publication of Salman Rushdie's Satanic
>> Verses, and the worldwide protests that followed the publication in a
>> Danish newspaper in 2005 of cartoons deemed offensive to Islam, in
>> which more than 100 people died.
>>
>> Security officials believe Rynja was targeted for assassination
>> because his firm, Gibson Square, is preparing to publish a romantic
>> novel about Aisha, child bride of the Prophet Muhammad. The Jewel of
>> Medina, by the first-time American author Sherry Jones, describes an
>> imaginary sex scene between the prophet and his 14-year-old wife.
>>
>> It was withdrawn from publication in America last month after its
>> publisher there, Random House, said it feared a violent reaction by "a
>> small radical segment" of Muslims. It said "credible and unrelated
>> sources" had warned that the book could incite violence.
>>
>> Random House reacted after Islamic scholars objected to its contents,
>> saying it treated the wife of the Prophet as a sex object. One of
>> them, Denise Spellberg, of the University of Texas at Austin,
>> described the novel as "soft-core pornography", referring to a scene
>> in which Muhammad consummates his marriage to Aisha. She called it "a
>> declaration of war" and a "national security issue".
>>
>> At the time, her warnings were dismissed by the author. "Anyone who
>> reads the book will not be offended," said Jones. "I wrote the book
>> with the utmost respect for Islam." However, Jones admitted receiving
>> death threats after the book was withdrawn.
>>
>> It was soon after this that the Met appears to have received a tip-off
>> that the British publisher who had subsequently agreed to print it
>> could be the target of an attack.
>>
>> A Met spokesman said three men had been arrested in "a preplanned
>> intelligence-led operation" at about 2.25am on Saturday.
>>
>> Two of the suspects were arrested in the street outside Rynja's
>> four-storey townhouse in Lonsdale Square, Islington, while the third
>> was stopped by officers in an armed vehicle near Angel Tube station.
>>
>> They were being questioned yesterday on suspicion of the commission,
>> preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, a spokesman said.
>>
>> Rynja, 44, could not be contacted yesterday. He is believed to be
>> under police guard.
>>
>> Yesterday, Natasha Kern, Jones's agent, said she was shocked to learn
>> of the attack. She said the book had been misinterpreted by its
>> critics and did not contain sex scenes, as had been alleged.
>>
>> "I honestly believe that if people read the book they will see it is
>> not disrespectful of Muhammad, and moderate Muslims will not be
>> offended. I don't want anyone to risk their lives but we could never
>> imagine that there would be some madmen who would do something like
>> this. I'm so sad about this act of terrorism. Moderate Muslims will
>> suffer because of a few radicals."
>>
>> Kern said it was too early for her to comment on whether the book
>> should be withdrawn. "That's up to Martin, and I still need to absorb
>> the fact that he was at risk. I'm just so glad he has not been hurt."
>>
>> Residents said they saw armed police break down the door of Rynja's
>> house, helped by firefighters.
>>
>> Francesca Liebowitz, 16, a neighbour, said: "The police couldn't get
>> the door open so the fire brigade battered it down."
>>
>> Another neighbour, who declined to be named, said: "I was woken at
>> about 3am and I looked out the window and I saw several unmarked cars
>> with what I now think were police officers in them. These officers
>> came out of the cars and there was huge screaming and shouting. Some
>> of the police officers were carrying sub-machineguns.
>>
>> "I then saw a small fire at the bottom of the door at the house. I
>> heard the police officers shout and scream and try to get neighbours
>> out of the house."
>>
>> The Jewel of Medina is due to be published next month.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Pete, you keep tossing this up here like you think some folks on here
>>> has decided on Palin because of what someone else decided. I don't think
>>> that's the case, for the most part.
>>>
>>> petelargo wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kathleen Parker a republican conservative supporter of sarah palin now says
>>>> "thanks, but no thanks."
>>>>
>>>> Kathleen Parker: Time to admit it: Sarah Palin is in a league just her own
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/1266865.html
>>>>
>>>>
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