Ran across this today, it's a bit dated but still good:
Since the SPLC was listed as a source in the MIAC Missouri Documents, ALIPAC sent a letter of inquiry to the Missouri Governor Jay Nixon on March 20, 2009 asking for more specific sourcing information.
"When many of us read these Missouri Documents we felt that the false connections, pseudo research, and political attacks found in these documents could have been penned by the SPLC and ADL," said William Gheen of ALIPAC. "We were shocked to see credible law enforcement agencies disseminating the same kind of over the top political propaganda distributed by these groups."
Colonel James F. Keathley, Superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol issued a letter of response to ALIPAC and other sources on March 25-26, which states that the Missouri militia documents are being withdrawn, more oversight will be applied to future releases, the Missouri Documents do not meet the high quality standards expected from the MIAC, and that "certain subsets of Missourians will not be singled out inappropriately in these reports for particular associations".
FOX Radio Network is reporting that Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder (R-MO) has asked that Missouri Public Safety Director John Britt be placed on administrative leave. The report also says Kinder has issued a public apology to Presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin.
That action was taken is good, but as was pointed out at the time, the damage had been done before the document was withdrawn; the government of Missouri, basing the charges on biased documents from two political action groups, had slandered and thrown suspicion on a lot of honest people.
As the Gun Rights Examiner column asks, why does someone saying "I support the Constitution" and other such things scare some law enforcement so badly? Badly enough to equate the people saying them with terrorists?
And just what does that say about some of our law enforcement?
3 comments:
I don't pretend to speak for everyone, but, to me, it says some of our law enforcement are chickenshitsonsofbitches.
You may not speak for everyone, Fire, but that sounds good enough for me.
Right on!
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