The other day Paul Jacob and the other two members of the Oklahoma Three, Rick Carpenter and Susan Johnson, were re-indicted by a politically motivated state attorney general who is as bumbling as he is vindictive, and who has a tendency injurious to his cause of manifesting his true colors whenever he opens his mouth. […]

Thanks to everyone who was able to join us in Oklahoma City yesterday for the re-arraignment of the Oklahoma 3! We had about 30 supporters at the Oklahoma County Courthouse, carrying signs with slogans such as “Free the OK 3,” “What Happened to the Constitution?,” “Protect Our Right to Petition,” “Get a Clue, Drew!” and […]

The blogger Brandon Dutcher of the Dutch, Reformed site takes note of Aaron Ramberg’s letter to the editor in The Oklahoman arguing that the reprobatic attorney general of Oklahoma is “more concerned with trumping up charges against those he disagrees with, as he did with Paul Jacob, Susan Elizabeth Johnson and Richard Merrill Carpenter—better known […]

Over at LegalNewsline.com, Rob Luke reports that citizen-rights activist Paul Jacob “plans to spend the next year highlighting legal threats to the citizens’ initiative movement around the country.” (The main goal of the tour is to explain his case and rally support among bloggers.)
After that, he admits, he could wind up in jail for the […]

Today’s issue of The News Star (Monroe, LA) carries a powerful editorial defending the Oklahoma 3 and exposing the injustice in AG Edmondson’s prosecution, emphasizing the threat to the liberties of all Americans.

If one group of petitioners can be prosecuted on political whim, eventually all petitioners can face some form of prosecutor abuse. Oklahoma’s continuing […]

The Muskogee Phoenix just published a letter in support of the Oklahoma Three to Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, sent to him by Oklahoma Independent Voters, a.k.a. “John Adair of Edmond and 46 other Oklahomans.” It’s brief enough that we feel we can spare you the trouble of clicking on a hyperlink (but if you do […]

The California State Court of Appeals today ruled unconstitutional a state law that makes it illegal to circulate a petition for a city initiative or referendum unless that circulator lives in that jurisdiction.
The decision says that a contrary decision from 1994 which upheld the law is no longer good law, given the 1999 U.S. Supreme […]

The arraignment of the Oklahoma 3, regarding the new indictment issued through Attorney General Edmondson’s office, has been scheduled for Monday, January 28.
Supporters of the Oklahoma 3 have scheduled a noon news conference outside the courthouse, just prior to the 1:30 pm arraignment.
If you live close to Oklahoma City, we hope you will try to […]

“Yes on Term Limits” filed its appeal yesterday in an attempt to invalidate the Oklahoma law requiring petition circulators in Oklahoma to be state residents. This is the law that the Oklahoma 3 are charged with violating.
The appeal was filed with the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, in response to an earlier court […]

We were pleased to read this from the Chicago Daily Observer, under the headline, “Most Underreported Stories of 2007″:

With 2008 being the Chinese Year of the Rat, it seems fitting to gnaw through the Chicken-Wire Curtain built by the Chicago Media and break out stories that have been either ignored or suppressed by the major […]