JOHN DOE INVESTIGATIONS: Did Prosecutors in Wisconsin Abuse the Law in an Attempt to Prevent Conservative Participation in Election Issues Advocacy? Hmmmmmmmm?

Posted by Tina
According to George Will they did! The judge that let them have it thought there was strong evidence that prosecutors engaged in frivolous partisan prosecutorial shenanigans to keep right wing advocacy groups busy answering legal charges so they wouldn’t be able to spend time and money on election issues. George Will:

Wisconsin’s sordid episode began, appropriately, with a sound of tyranny — fists pounding on the doors of private citizens in pre-dawn raids. While sheriff’s deputies used floodlights to illuminate the citizens’ homes, armed raiders seized documents, computers, cellphones and other devices.

As a director of Wisconsin Club for Growth, which advocates limited government, O’Keefe had participated in his state’s 2012 debate surrounding attempts by Democrats and state and national government-employee unions to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R) and some state senators. The recalls were intended as punishment for legislation limiting the unions’ collective bargaining rights.

Walker prevailed. The Democratic prosecutors, however, seeking to cripple his 2014 reelection campaign and to damage him as a potential 2016 presidential aspirant, have resorted to a sinister Wisconsin process called a “John Doe investigation.” It has focused on the activities of O’Keefe and 28 other conservative individuals or organizations .

In such investigations, prosecutors can promiscuously issue subpoenas and conduct searches. The identities of the targets are kept secret, and the targets are silenced by gag orders, thereby preventing public discussion of the process. Thus John Doe investigations are effective government instruments of disruption and intimidation.

If I read the article correctly Will indicates that we know about this sham only because of the integrity of U.S. District Judge Rudolph T. Randa, a judge who found “that the John Doe investigation had no reasonable expectation of obtaining a conviction”. In his ruling he quoted the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision: The First Amendment is “premised on mistrust of governmental power.” And he noted that “the danger always exists that the high purpose of campaign regulation and its enforcement may conceal self-interest.”

There is no question that radical activists progressives (Democrats) have embedded in every corner, hovel, and niche of our society and are willing to do just about anything to gain and keep power for their extremist cause. People placed in positions of power should not be political operatives; clearly that is exactly what has been going on and I doubt that Wisconsin is the only place this has happened.

Democrats who love America and respect the rule of law should be thinking about leaving the Democrat Party. Their party leaders left America, and American values long ago. A society cannot last long if it allows this type of tyranny to continue in our legal system. It doesn’t help that a man like Eric Holder serves at the apex of our legal system; his example has been deplorable.