Obama Camp: Prosecute Donors To Group Criticizing Obama

The Obama camp, really, really, don’t want the American people to know about his close friendship with William Ayers, a radical domestic terrorist that is proud of of his bombings including an attempt on the Pentagon. They have intimidated television stations not to play the ad, they have cried to the DOJ over the creators of the ad, and now they are trying to prosecute the donors that paid for the ad.

Obama general counsel Bob Bauer today sent a second, sharper letter to the Justice Department, directly attacking the Dallas billionaire funding a harsh attack ad, Harold Simmons.

“We reiterate our request that the Department of Justice fulfill its commitment to take prompt action to investigate and to prosecute the American issues Project, and we further request that the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute Howard (sic) Simmons for a knowing and willful violation of the individual aggregate contribution limits,” he wrote.

He called the group’s activities “patently illegal.”

Bauer made the case that Simmons’ group [is not] fulfilling its [...] nonprofit charter because it hasn’t spent any money on anything other than attacking Obama. Simmons’ spokesman, Christian Pinkston, told me yesterday that plans to, and dismissed the complaints as an effort to lawyer away charges the campaign can’t rebut.

Where is the ACLU? These kind of tactics have been seen before, by such leaders as Stalin, Castro, and Chavez. I’m sure they are all models for this behavior. I should be careful though, or I might get sued by the Obama camp. Bloggers will probably be next!

AIP Responds to Second DOJ Letter from

Obama Campaign Demanding Donor Prosecution

Washington, DC – August 26, 2008 – The Barack Obama campaign has now sent a second letter to the Department of Justice calling for the prosecution of one of American Issues Project’s donors for his role in funding a political advertisement in full compliance with all election laws.

“Having failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama’s campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech,” said Ed Martin, American Issues Project’s president. “These over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only difference being that those guys generally had to wait until they were in power to throw people who disagreed with them into jail.”

In addition to two letters sent to the Department of Justice asking the government to investigate American Issues Project, its officers, board of directors, and donors, the Obama campaign has been contacting stations running American Issues Project’s ad in an unsuccessful attempt to compel them to pull the spot. With no success on either front, the campaign has also begun running its own ad in response. Notably, this ad fails to dispute a single fact in the American Issues Project’s initial ad.

American Issues Project is a 501(c)4 organization, similar in structure to NARAL and the League of Conservation Voters, two liberal organizations that have claimed status as “qualified nonprofit corporations” for two decades. In accordance with federal law, American Issues Project only solicits and accepts contributions from individuals and not from any business corporation. The FEC also sets out specific regulations for the activities of a qualified nonprofit corporation, which American Issues Project follows.

The American Issues Project’s ad began airing Thursday, August 21, and will continue through the Democratic Convention. An electronic version of the ad and full documentation of all statements made are available at American Issues Project’s website: www.americanissuesproject.org.

Way to keep people discussing this Obama. If you keep it up, it will backfire, and the media’s hand will be forced to talk about this.

Michelle Malkin has much more, and highlights on the hypocrisy involved in this.

Uh Oh! The truth’s gonna come out one way or another Obama!

The University of Illinois at Chicago has released hundreds of documents Tuesday that could shed light on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s links to onetime 1960s radical Bill Ayers.

Supporters of John McCain are eager to find anti-Obama material, and eager to eyeball the documents.

“There appear to be more than 50,000 documents, 128 boxes and 946 files,” said Mark Rosati, Associate Chancellor for Public Affairs at UIC. “It comes out to 70 linear feet.”

The logs of meetings and internal memos have sat in special collections at UIC for six years.

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