UPDATED (at bottom) and bumped to top.
This is not strictly about the Tea Party, or the elections. So I'm posting this somewhat reluctantly; if enough people feel it's inappropriate, I'll delete it.
But it IS about our basic freedoms, guaranteed by the Constitution. Specifically, free speech, and how it's being trampled on by unscrupulous people using our system of laws (both legally and illegally) to harass and intimidate Americans.....simply because those Americans are speaking the truth. A truth these unscrupulous people don't want spoken.
The strategy is called "lawfare", and it works. It's a form of terrorism that uses the cracks and loop holes in the legal system. Be warned, because you, or someone you know, might be next.
This link goes to the prominent blog "Patterico", and it describes the harassment he has gone through over the past year, simply because he wrote articles -- based on verifiable facts -- about a convicted bomber (terrorist is better, IMHO) -- named Brett Kimberlin. Patterico is not alone, but this is one of the first complete reports I've read on this.
Read it, and be chilled. We need to be worried about more than Big Government when it comes to protecting our freedoms.
UPDATE: And here are recommended actions, from the Ace of Spades. Contact your Congressional delegation, and ask them to take some (or all) the actions. Contacts to Congressional representatives are on the sidebar to the right.
