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Friday, June 12, 2009
Kahre’s Prosecutors Are Going Nutso
by Jacob G. Hornberger
I have a hunch that things are not going well for the prosecution in the case of U.S. vs. Robert Kahre, which I blogged about last week. The reason that I say that is that it would seem the most likely explanation for the Las Vegas U.S. Attorney’s office going what can only be described as nutso.
You’re not going to believe what those federal prosecutors have done. I’ll guarantee it: You’re just not going to believe it because it just so happens to be one of most bizarre instances of federal prosecutorial abuse you’ll ever hear about.
Here’s what’s going on.
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So, guess what they did. Again, you’re not going to believe this. According to an article by Thomas Mitchell, the editor of the paper, the feds have served the paper with a grand-jury subpoena demanding the production of the “name, date of birth, physical address, gender, ZIP code, password prompts, security questions, telephone numbers and other identifiers … the IP address†of the people who posted those comments.
Like I say, nutso! Have these people never heard of freedom of speech and the First Amendment? Can somebody get word to them that this is not the Soviet Union or Burma?
But maybe I’m being a bit hasty here. Maybe those federal prosecutors have secret information that I’m not privy to. Maybe those critics are … terrorists! Yikes!
After all, don’t forget that one of al-Qaeda’s expressed aims is to make the U.S. government spend its way into bankruptcy. Well, maybe those critics are acting on behalf of al-Qaeda in exposing how the U.S. government is, in fact, spending our nation into bankruptcy.
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