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Crossposted at Daily Kos
First off, I strongly encourage anyone who is reading this to go check out an article titled RedState trying to jam Coakley phone banks by dkos user pinback for more information on this story.
So, as for the title of this article, my question is, should Erick Erickson of RedState.com go to jail the same way the last Republican hack who pulled this phone bank tampering scam did?
Federal law prohibits making interstate calls “without disclosing the caller’s identity and with the intent to annoy . . . or harass any person at the called number.”
A hat tip to dkos user inland for the RawStory.com link.
More below the fold . . .
For nearly a decade, Allen Raymond stood at the top ranks of Republican Party power.
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Raymond, 39, has just finished serving a three-month sentence for jamming Democratic phone lines in New Hampshire during the 2002 US Senate race. The incident led to one of the biggest political scandals in the state’s history, the convictions of Raymond and two top Republican officials, and a Democratic lawsuit that seeks to determine whether the White House played any role. The race was won by Senator John E. Sununu , the Republican.
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The story of the Sununu election and Republican criminal activity leading up to that election are well known, and people have gone to jail for it. I would have assumed Erick Erickson knew that, being a forrealsy serious blogger as he claims to be.
Nothing says childish whiny pissant like encouraging others to deny their fellow Americans their right to organize politically. Not only is it an extremely shitty thing to do, it is apparently illegal.
Now, I am no legal expert, and it seems there are differences between Allen Raymond and Erick Erickson’s actions, but I am not sure what they are. Therefore, I ask this question to my peers out here on the internet.
Should Erick Erickson go to jail for this if the law was broken?
Next time you want to maybe break Federal Law or encourage others to do so, Erick, maybe you should think twice about hitting that publish button, you twit.
So, help me out if you can. Is this a violation of the law, and if so, how can we nail RedState for this?
Also crossposted at The Progressive Electorate.com
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this is total bullshit, and if RedState and Erik Erickson has broken the law, I want to nail him for it.
http://twitter.com/JesseLaGreca
If I get close enough to this asshole, he’s going down. We’ve never experienced anything like the robo-call deluge in this state. We are BLUE.
My big fear is Diebold scans the paper ballots (thank God we have a trail). Infortunately, the Diebold owner for most of New England is a Red scumbag with a nasty trail of his own.
Erickson’s actual post merely mentions where the phonebanks will take place. If Redstaters want to picket there, that’s their right. you can’t imprison someone based on a paranoid delusional interpretation of another’s intent.