North Dakota’s Senators signed a historical document: a blatant effort by the US Senate to suppress and influence political speech made by a private citizen, one who holds no public office, directly in contradiction with the First Amendment. Doesn’t that make you proud to be a North Dakotan?

If you don’t live under a rock, you know by now that a front group took two words spoken by Rush Limbaugh on his radio talk show and fabricated them into comments he didn’t say, attempting to smear him and brand him an enemy of US soldiers. He’d previously been talking about Jesse Al-Zaid, aka Jesse Macbeth, who the anti-war left was touting as a veteran who witnessed atrocities. Sadly, Al-Zaid simply washed out of boot camp after 44 days and faked the rest. That’s the strength of the anti-war left’s argument.

Then the Democrats in the US Senate jumped on board. They wrote this letter to the CEO of Clear Channel, asking him to pressure Limbaugh to back down from comments that he never even made. That, my friends, is govermnent suppression of political speech, EXACTLY the kind of thing that the Constitution prohibits. And our North Dakota senators, the dutiful little Democrat puppets that they are, signed right on board. It’s no surprise, considering that at least 90% of their campaign contributions come from outside of North Dakota.

There are two possibilities here:

1: That our beloved Senators were misled and signed the letter without knowing the whole story. If that’s the case, then how can we trust them to sign ANYTHING responsibly, especially legislation? If they’ll sign a letter violating the First Amendment, what else will they sign? Don’t they have staffs that research this kind of stuff? If a guy working in his garage with the radio on can get it, how can they miss it…except willingly? Which leads to the next possibility:

2: That they signed this letter knowingly, preferring to be loyal liberal Democrats rather than do what’s right (or legal). In this case, they have shown their loyalty to a corrupt and morally bankrupt political party rather than the state they claim to represent.

What have our ND Senators done to support the families of soldiers? They’ve dutifully done whatever the leftist Democrat Party has told them to do, so they can keep getting enough out-of-state money to remain big fish in a small pond. They vote right in line with Massachussetts liberals, not North Dakotans…check their voting records and compare them with the most liberal: they match. Then they come back to North Dakota every now and then to claim that they’re bringing home the bacon, while pretending to be North Dakotans on paper so they can be re-elected. In the mean time, the free speech rights of a person who holds no public office had better not get in the way, as their signatures on this historic document prove. North Dakota can do better.

This truck was photographed in Berkeley, apparently on the weekend of October 7th, when the Code Pink (sic) loonies were on the job, apparently the only one they have, defacing public property. Thankfully the police found out about it and kept them from defacing the building again but they had plenty of nice things to say about the US military.

A friend sent me a link to this blog post this morning and pointed out that the truck looked familiar. Of course it does:

This is the same truck, which was parked in front of the federal building on 3rd and Rosser in June.  In comments to my blog post at that time, I was told by Kristin Kitko and others that I was disrespectful and lacked integrity, and that none of the peaceniks would stoop to that level. Really?

This is the license plate from the truck. It matches in both pictures. This truck, the one that was here for the protest with some of the lovely, non-name-calling members of the North Dakota Peace Coalition, took part in referring to United States soldiers as “predators.”

Here’s proof of “namecalling” by the loving peaceniks, courtesy of zombietime.com…

I saw this picture and thought the person holding the sign looked familiar. She could have been the driver of the aforementioned truck, but I’m not 100% sure on that. In any case, I believe calling a person a “predator” and a child killer (read the zombietime post for pics on that) is worse than the “name calling” behavior that Ms. Kitko and others accused me of, as it’s taken to a whole new level. Accusing people of being predators and child killers is a lot different than criticizing their politics.

You can know a lot about somebody by the friends they keep. These are the friends of the North Dakota Peace Coalition. I have NDPC literature on my desk with links to Code Pink on them…certainly one must be able to infer that they support Code Pink’s beliefs and actions. If that’s the case, then that lumps them in with the loonies that call our soldiers “predators” and strips them of what remaining credibility they imagined they had.