Can W. Devin Resides escape the fate of the Oklahoma Three? In a recent piece at National Review Online about a new petition drive in Oklahoma, Stephen Spruiell observes that the state’s “initiative and referendum process is among the most onerous in the United States.” Why? Well—

In re Kathleen’s recent post about the questions Oklahoma State Senator Randy Brogdon is raising about why Attorney General Edmondson chucked

All along we have been arguing that we must stop the kind of tactics being used against political activists in Oklahoma before they take root and spread elsewhere. Well, it looks like we had reason to worry.
A recent article by Seattle political journalist David Brewster suggests that maybe these kind of tactics could be used [...]

OK State Sen. Randy Brogdon again questioned AG Drew Edmondson’s motives surrounding the case of the Oklahoma 3 in a press release yesterday.
Brogdon expressed wonder at why the AG had quietly dismissed the grand jury’s indictment of the Oklahoma 3, while planning to re-issue indictments of the three from his office.
“Amazingly, there was no news [...]

There was a great editorial published in the Washington Examiner Thanksgiving week (also appeared in the Examiner’s Baltimore and San Francisco editions, as well as online at Examiner.com) publicizing the political game-playing by Oklahoma’s Attorney General in the case of the Oklahoma 3.
“If truth-in-advertising laws apply there, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson should change the [...]

The Wall Street Journal compared the political situation in Oklahoma to that in Pakistan. Forbes Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes wondered if Oklahoma had been annexed by North Korea. Now we’re seeing similarities in Russia.
Yesterday, Russian police arrested former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov for organizing a protest against ballot access restrictions that are keeping his “Other [...]

Over at the Liberty on the March blog, Tim Trickey (who describes himself as a ”small-time political consultant here in Oregon who cares very deeply about the health and safety or our country”) offers Paul Jacob a word of thanks for helping to expose the “dirty tactics, institutionalized trickery, and

Dear Friend,
This Thanksgiving, one of the things I’ll be giving thanks for is you. Your interest in my case, your support, it means a great deal to me. Thank you so much.
Without the support of so many patriots across the country, I don’t know how I’d be able to afford to legally defend myself or [...]

The Wall Street Journal today editorialized about the Oklahoma Three, getting the facts right and putting the issue in a fairly wide perspective. Titled “Oklahoma’s Most Wanted” and subtitled “The latest thing in political felonies: a petition drive,” the editorial begins with an arresting paragraph:
A veteran political activist is facing 10 years in prison and [...]

Below is the editorial from the Nov. 26th issue of Forbes magazine, written by Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes.
To view or download the article as a pdf file, CLICK HERE.
You can also view the editorial on the Forbes web site.

The hard-hitting editorial by Steve Forbes is available at the Forbes magazine site. Anyway, here’s a chunk, courtesy of Scott Tillman of the Sam Adams Alliance:
Paul Jacob—president of the pro-initiative group Citizens in Charge and a senior fellow at the Sam Adams Alliance, a grassroots political organization—and colleagues Susan Johnson and Rick Carpenter incurred the [...]

Our friends at The Sam Adams Alliance—we’re one of the allies, it’s part of the pro-freedom conspiracy one so often hears tell of—sent along an advisory about the Tulsa World’s latest unscientific online poll. The question for 11/8/07:

The Sam Adams Alliance–a national organization that networks with local freedom fighters and promotes their efforts–has a bunch of videos over at YouTube. Several feature their senior fellow, Paul Jacob, talking about the criminalization of politics and how our constitutional right to petition the government is being jeopardized. Here’s a snippet of

Paul spent the last several days in Hawaii, where he was the keynote speaker at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii’s fifth annual awards dinner Saturday night.
The group honored Ken Schoolland with their George Washington Award for 2007. Schoolland, a professor at Hawaii Pacific University, is the author of the popular The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: [...]

Those who applaud the indictment of the Oklahoma Three are often astonishingly blithe about the penalty that awaits Paul Jacob, Susan Johnson and Rick Carpenter for promoting a Taxpayer Bill of Rights initiative in Oklahoma.
If Attorney General Drew Edmondson’s fictitious indictment results in conviction, these three good persons could