Following the uproar around the report by the Statistical Analysis Center of the Missouri State Highway Patrol on “The Modern Mililtia Movement,” the Missouri Dept. of Public Safety has issued an official letter of apology to Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr.
Here is the text of the letter:
STATE OF MISSOURI
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
March 23, 2009
Rep, Ron Paul
203 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Mr. Rob Barr (sic)
900 Circle 75 Parkway, Suite 1280
Atlanta, Georgia 30339
Mr. Chuck Baldwin
6800 Mobile Highway
Pensacola, Florida 32526
Dear Rep. Paul, Mr. Barr and Mr. Baldwin:
As head of the stale agency responsible for oversight of the Missouri information Analysis Center (MIAC), I want to respond to your letter of March 20, 2009, regarding a report by the MIAC on the militia movement. Portions of that report may be easily construed by readers as offensive to supporters of certain political candidates or to those candidates themselves. I regret that those components were ultimately included in the final report issued by the MIAC.
The Missouri Department of Public Safety places the utmost value on the safety and well being of Missouri’s law enforcement officers –a value I am certain we share with you and your supporters. Officers of the law do the most dangerous job of anyone in our society and regularly put themselves in the path of great danger, bodily harm and death in order to protect innocent citizens. As such, it is our regular practice to provide as much information as we can to law enforcement agencies and their officers so they are fully cognizant of any situational hazard which they may encounter.
Unfortunately, in the course of preparing this report, some regrettable information was included in the report on militia groups in Missouri. While the intent of the report was only to identify certain traits that are sometimes shared by members of militia organizations, this report is too easily misinterpreted as suggesting that militia members may be identified by no other indicator than support for a particular candidate or political organization. That is an undesired and unwarranted outcome. Upon review and reflections, it is the judgment of the Department of Public Safety that the report should have made no reference to supporters of Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin or of any other third-party political organization or candidate.
In recognition of the mistaken inclusion of this information by the MIAC in its February 20, 2009, report on the militia movement, I have ordered that the offending report be edited so as to excise all reference to Ron Paul, Bob Barr or Chuck Baldwin and to any third-party political organizations. Additionally, you nay rest assured that the report is not posted on any web site maintained by the State of Missouri.
The Missouri Department of Public Safety regrets any inconvenient or issues caused inadvertently by the unnecessary inclusion of certain components by MIAC in its militia report.
Respectfully,
John M. Britt
Director
Missouri Dept. of Public Safety
I think Obama supporters are more dangerous than 3rd party supporters because they obviously lack critical thinking skills.
Today for instance, a bill was passed that supports MANDATORY UNIVERSAL SERVICE for all Americans 18-25 years of age. That means mandatory military training, mandatory community service, and a 7 million man army that patrols the streets.
That is Facism people.
Rahm Emanuel was in an interview found on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvQKlOawAAc
talking about these facist plans before the election. Did Obama supporters think about this or even research about this before joining the herd? No. Now its too late. The bill is passed.
So lets see here, a civilian army, mandatory service, a nuclear first strike against Iran, more troops to Afghanistan, and huge bailouts. These are words and plans of a mad man.
So I rest my case. War is not peace Obama supporters. Militarizing our youth will not promote peace. Using nuclear weapons is a bad idea. Anyone who talks about using nuclear weapons is certifiably insane. Bailouts are a fancy term for stealing.
Obama represents the banks and wall street. He is a fake. He is not like Lincolon or Kennedy. He is a puppet, just like Bush and Clinton.
Third Parties are the answer, and for that reason they are being targeted. Knowledge is power. Knowlege can be so powerful that others will deem it as dangerous.
Bigger threat is the people who warn against constitutional followers and unlawful IRS goons used to demonstrate fear Gestapo style due to a lack of law on their side. Google Tom Cryer. Joe Banister or Lost Horizon
This report has already done irrepairable damage. The apology, why appearing to regret the report, does not repair the damage done. From a political point of view, the apology and report suit those who are responsible for hurting third parties. First, produce a report that damns smaller groups, then to maintain respect from the public, apologize. This political manuevering is highly effective in the public mind. Unfortunately, unless the public truly sees through the manuevering, more freedoms and rights will be taken away. Our leaders are bent, undeniably culpable, and have lost any remaining integrity. People need to really step up and vote third party if the country is to be saved.
(1) Their is no serious political support for a national draft. Their has been some talk about promoting/offering economic incentives for volunteer/community service.
(2) Their has been some local efforts to require high school students to spend some time — prior to graduation — on some type of chairitable/civic/volunteer/nonprofit type activity.
(3) If a lot of militas members are a member of a certain political party, that should not be hidden away under lock and key. But it should be put into its proper context so as not to reinforce stereotypes or prejudices.
(4) Please support the U.S. Civic Liberty Amendment!
Did they really call it a “stale agency†there in the first paragraph of their letter? Wow.
I believe IPR has exaggerated the claim by calling this an apology. It is an expression of regret. It lacks any tone of contrition, and makes no statement of “sorry†or “apologise†or the like.
It also says, “you nay rest assured†and, nay, I do not rest assured.
It doesn’t satisfy me. I would be satisfied if the authors of the report, individually and severally, were to crawl on their hands and knees over broken glass to the homes of every third party supporter in Missouri amongst those candidates and political groups identified, and beg forgiveness. And then they can go back and clean up the broken glass with their tongues.
Perhaps an expression of apology that actually included some indication of contrition, rather than the typical excuses of tyranny (by which I mean, necessity) and the propaganda jargon, “we were only doing our jobs,†and “it’s a dangerous world we have chosen to enter when enforcing dictatorial mala prohibitum laws which are unconstitutional.â€
It makes no promise not to err in the future, it offers no intention to uphold the clear text of the constitution as far as political freedom of expression, but, instead, seeks to justify its brutishness by excising only a few of the “offending†phrases. I am not taken in.
Necessity is the creed of slaves and the justification of tyrants.
That is, I believe Ballot Access News has exaggerated by calling an expression of regret an apology. Nobody said they are sorry.
They don’t say, “we shouldn’t have said what we said,” they say “we shouldn’t have dropped the names that we dropped.”
He clearly indicates that his belief towards 3rd party supporters isn’t affected by the public’s reaction. He only says that he took a politically-incorrect route of specifically naming people and campaigns.
This is troubling to me.
Why are there so many typos?
Maybe “stale agency” is NOT a typo.
The missed this “terrorist” symbol:
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Brian,
Liberty Penguin? Hmmm. Well, at least it’ll be popular in Pittsburg. http://libertypoint.org/?page_id=64