Wide-eyed optimism, or simple naivete?

[FWiedner]

March 28, 2009


Dear Friend of Liberty,

Although it sometimes seems that freedom is shrinking everywhere we turn, the fact is a powerful grassroots stand can still stop Big Government bureaucrats in their tracks.

That is exactly what happened to the Missouri Highway Patrol this week after being forced by your vocal outrage to retract the incendiary Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) report.

This report identified peaceful, freedom-loving Americans as possible security threats, simply for supporting Ron Paul or opposing tyrannical government.

Faced with an overwhelming public outcry, Missouri officials quickly started backpedaling, removing references to Ron Paul and Campaign for Liberty.

Then, just hours before Dr. Paul’s plane touched down in St. Louis to lead our Celebration of Freedom rally Friday night, the Missouri Highway Patrol officially retracted the entire offending document.

The Missouri Highway Patrol will be performing an investigation into the origin of the report.  Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder has even called for the suspension of the Director of Public Safety until those responsible have been identified.

Click here to read the news report.

It is no surprise that oversight and accountability are in short supply at the MIAC, a Big It is no surprise that oversight and accountability are in short supply at the MIAC, a Big Government “fusion center” combining federal, state and local agencies into an unconstitutional mess of a bureaucracy.   But government disorganization is no excuse for making political profiling and persecution into official policy.

This victory for the grassroots freedom movement, coupled with this weekend’s Campaign for Liberty Regional Conference in St. Louis, marks a great moment for liberty in Missouri and all of America.

This week we saw that politicians still respond to the voices of their constituents.

This week we saw that freedom can triumph over tyranny when we unite to take a stand.

In Liberty,

John Tate
President, Campaign for Liberty

P.S. This week Campaign for Liberty showed that freedom-loving Americans will not be silenced by political persecution.  We successfully fought for the retraction of the MIAC report, and we met in St. Louis to celebrate freedom’s victory over tyranny.

A group of politicians with supporters in the state Chamber of Commerce, got the Lt. Governor to say "Gee, we're sorry" so that supporters of Ron Paul attending a CFL convention would spend money in the state and at local businesses.  I'm not seeing the part where anybody from MIAC participated in the conversation or confessed that any wrong or harm was done.

"This week we saw that politicians still respond to the voices of their constituents."

Is this guy an idiot or what?  What we saw was that supporters of Ron Paul can be suckered into spending their money in a state where they are considered to be nothing more than domestic terrorists because they might support a "third-party" candidate and the U.S. Constitution.

 

[BBF]

Let's see if anybody gets fired.  I doubt it myself. It just shows you that a lot of people yelling at once still get results but you got to be watching all the time. The enemy never sleeps.

[FWiedner]

My point is that I seriously doubt that all the yelling got the result that is being suggested.

Nobody's name was taken off of any law-enforcement watch-list, and no group has been de-listed as a terrorist militia.

All that has happened is that politicians and law-enforcement are going to play the cards much closer to their vest now.  The convesation has been taken out of the papers and will now be hidden behind closed doors.

The conspiracy against the public still exists, and the people involved still have every intention to violate people's rights.

This will ultimately turn out to be a case of "out of sight, out of mind".

 

[LONGTOM]

FWiedner I will agree with you on this.


LONGTOM