Posted at July 26, 2008 @ 10:10 am by Levy Fitch in Free Speech Blockers
Today, the Wall Street Journal has a great piece by John Fund, describing the evils of BAMN and Dillon’s thugs. Both groups have aggressively used thug like tactics to stop political speech in the initiative process.
Just read the quote from a BAMN director admitting she is against democracy. She believes
your right to free speech ends the moment you disagree with her.
“The key to defeating the initiative is to keep it off the ballot in the first place,” says Donna Stern, Midwest director for the Detroit-based By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). “That’s the only way we’re going to win.”
If this isn’t outrageous enough read what about a BAMN volunteer tells a petition circulator.
“If you give me your signatures, we’ll leave you alone,” says a BAMN volunteer on one tape to someone who’s earning money by circulating several different petition.
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Posted at July 23, 2008 @ 1:02 pm by Levy Fitch in Free Speech Blockers
On the By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) Web site, there’s a description of their tactics in Arizona during the next few days, before the petition is validated August 3:
“In just the past 6 weeks in Arizona, we have been blocking signature gatherers in 110-120 degree weather, exposing the ACRI’s voter fraud, getting circulators and leaders in the petition company to come forward and reveal election violations that they and others have committed around the ACRI. We have also filed a preemptive lawsuit that is a part of our petition challenge.”
Their hope? To invalidate 5 percent of the 330,000 signatures submitted on July 3. (That’s 100,000 more than the required number).
It’s sad, but unsurprising, that BAMN tried to block the very submission of the petition to the Secretary of State, and civil rights petitioners had to make special arrangements to drop off the signatures.
And it’s telling BAMN so effortlessly moves to legal action and invalidation. While the Secretary of State’s office should check for bad signatures, BAMN methods prove they’re going to use any means necessary – and it seems even they might admit those means are shameless, unfair and illegal.
