http://tinyurl.com/47pge7

Gov Matt Blunt abused his power. He put maligning information about Sen Obama on a state funded website. Blunt is so unpopular in Missouri he is not running for reelection. Must be trying to get a job in the McCain administration. Blunt is a sleaze that has been under investigation for all kinds of things.

Towards your education in the detection of larger patterns and being able to read between the lines, Jeffrey Breinholt at Counterterrorism Blog juxtaposes two scenarios:

1. Lawyers representing the so-called Flying Imams in their lawsuit against US Airways;

2. Cambridge University Press announcing that it was going to destroy all copies of the 2006 book “Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World”, in response to a libel claim filed in England by Khalid bin Mahfouz, a Saudi banker.

Breinholt asks, “Connected? Absolutely. Each story involves people who do not like how information flows these days. Each chose litigation as the means to try to get their way.”

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/08/more_overlooked_history_the_mu.php

Harkening back to Thomas Jefferson’s corruption of the freedom of the press in “People v. Croswell” (without knowing it, because no one seems to knows this), Stanley Kurtz asks today whether “libel charges, or the threat of libel charges, [can] be used to chill free speech?”

“You bet they can. Barack Obama’s latest tactics are all-too-reminiscent of Britain’s libel tourism phenomenon, and of related efforts to use British libel law to censor political speech. In ‘Not Without a Fight,’ I survey the libel tourism phenomenon, link it to the Mark Steyn case [in Canada]. …

“Can it happen here? Thanks to the Obama campaign, it already is happening. And don’t think American libel law, so much less plaintiff-friendly than British libel law, gives us a free pass. At the counterterrorism blog, Jeffrey Breinholt explains how even American libel laws can be used to intimidate and silence speech. …

“If Obama continues to break one free-speech taboo after another, the law will surely follow.

“So continued media silence on Obama’s intimidation tactics threatens not only the fairness of this election, but press freedom itself. Yet to defend the freedom of the right as if it were their own is something our left-leaning press has forgotten how to do.”

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjRkZmUzZWEyMjk2MDJiMWExZDZkZmMxZDc1OGRlMzU=

In a telephone interview with the News-Leader, Donatelli admitted the Democratic prosecutors “haven’t specifically said” they would use their prosecutorial powers on Obama’s behalf.”

http://tinyurl.com/4anoxc

I watched the video. There was no statement from the interviewed individuals to indicate they planned to doing anything in their official capacity of enforcing laws.