You very likely have violated the terms of the oath of the Code of Professional Conduct for Attorneys and possibly some federal laws. You should be reported to the Missouri Bar for Prosecutorial Miscoduct and Abuse of Power for using your position to frighten people with a thinly-veiled threat to bring a lawsuit against those who do not agree with YOUR perception of YOUR candidate. If you said you were going to do it for ALL candidates, that might be different - but you have made it clear - this is in support of only one candidate.

This country was founded on the principle of freedom of speech and you absolutely can not imply, nor infer that you will use your position as an attorney (who happens to be a prosecutor) to bring criminal or civil charges against persons to whom do not agree with your perception/truth of your candidate.

It is telling that our forefathers made the freedom of speech our first amendment to the constitution. You state that, “My sole purpose in participating in this initiative is about getting truthful information to the voters.” But you CAN NOT impose what YOU feel is the truth by using the police and threats of legal action, whether civil or criminal, to frighten people where they feel that they can say nothing. I think you know that it would be very, if not impossible, to move forward with any sort of civil suit given all these public figures - so you are trying to use your position to scare people who do not know the law as well as we do.

People do not know what YOU think might be *THE* truth and you hold yourself out as an attorney, who by the way - “I’m a Prosecutor,” and say legal action will be taken. This in itself is chilling - as I would imagine most people would absolutely abhor the thought of a lawsuit being brought again them, civil or criminal, especially when a lawyer who works as a prosecutor says it (even if you meant civil).

Do the right thing. Do the ethical thing.

Hey I have an idea! How about we get to the real issues instead of these ridiculous Obama=Osama crap. Not to mention some of the most deceitful “ads” if you can even call them ads are boring me and not only upsetting me but honestly making me laugh at what this “great nation” is coming to. Young generations are told to not even think about having social security because of this mess government has created. The baby boom generation is just about to retire in the masses, the “war” is still going on, and now they want to use 700 billion to save corrupt selfish millionaires? Am I missing something? Stop the name calling and get to the real issues. What are you going to do for my generation and how are you going to clean up this mess you are leaving for me and the future generations?

If you’re going to have a truth squad of some kind for commercials, fair enough. But a prosecutor on it? Uncomfortable. Two of them? Totally inappropriate! Totally. And I’m a vigorous Democrat! So there. Truth squad, sure; we need oversight of inaccurate commercials. But in a legal framework of independent voices, not Democratic prosecutors for goodness sake! I guess this may prove my saying, “Not your usual Democrat.” Well meaning, perhaps, and prosecutors are supposed to be good at telling fact from fancy, but not on this kind of committee. First, it does smack of intimidation even if not meant to; and worse, dumb, as they should have known it would lead to this backlash publicity for the other side. And no one listens to partisan truth squads, anyhow, so why take the risk? By the way, McCain’s truth squad in Missouri seems to have had no problem with my Sarah Palin radio commercials on behalf of my candidacy; no surprise to me.

You should be ashamed of your self and should resign. You nothing more then a partisan hack who is using Nazi tactics in this election. Shame on you. You don’t belong in the USA since you must hate this country if you can’t respect the constitution.

“My sole purpose in participating in this initiative is about getting truthful information to the voters.” This is a lie that insults our intelligence. Your sole purpose is to abuse your power to help elect Obama. I noticed that you don’t seem to care if untruthful information about McCain or Palin gets out there. Why is that? I have never in my life see law enforcement officials unethically side with a political campaign like this. Not in the USA, that is.

I saw the video on the web. Perhaps the station misrepresented you. However, I do believe you should not be taking partisan political positions if you are a servant of the court. Will you be going after the Atlantic for suggesting that Palin faked her pregnancy? I grew up in a neighborhood that was populated by survivors of work camps in Poland and France during WWII. Suppression of free speech was one of the first steps of totalitarian regimes whether they be Fascist or Maoist. I really don’t want our country to go down the road of Venezuela or Zibabawe. This is very scary stuff.

Look at all the Republican whiners trying to create a fake controversey because all the polls are tipping dramatically in favor of Obama/Biden. Maybe this will be the “game changer” they keep looking for to save this pathetic farse of a campaign.

It is kind of funny to hear all these torture-happy GOPers get all in snit about constitutional rights. Hilarious.

Hey, goofballs. The First Amendment does not protect false or misleading speech. This is why, for example, the state can prosecute false advertising, fraud and the like. Therefore, if you use the public airwaves to disseminate an ad that is demonstratably false, it is not protected by the first amendment. Admittedly, if you are dealing with a public official the ad has to show a reckless diregard for its falsity, but if that can be shown, then the ad is simply not protected speech.

That said, can any one of you give me any evidence that anyone has been prosecuted by an “truth squad” here in Missouri (or by McCain’s truth squad in NH for that matter) or intmidated in any way from spouting lies. Looks like you guys are managing just fine.

Let me give you an easy example of this whole truth vs. false thing so even your Rush-addled brains can grasp it. Let;s say I were to run an ad saying that McCain is an adulterer who left his crippled first wife for a beer-heiress in order to further his political career. Now that would be a true and well-documented statement and therefore fully-protected by the First Amendment. However, if I were to run an ad saying that Sarah Palin was possessed with evil spirits, that would clearly be false because we all know she had a preacher lay hands on her and exorcise those spirits back in 2005. I mean we all saw that on utube. So that statement would not be protected by the First Amendment.

Well, at least Ed Martin finally got a “real” job with the American Issues Project after he royally screwed up with Blunt’s email gate.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Rush-addled brains? I am familiar with sedges and different types of prairie grasses and have heard of rush as a type of forb in mesic forests. Is that what you are referring to? Is this a disease of ruminants? Maybe like the milk sickness that killed Nancy Lincoln?

Glenn, your language is demeaning and offensive. Shame on you.

Yes, Glenn’s language was highly offensive, which is why the comment was deleted.