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 drama demonstrates America’s most vicious and divisive political trend in the last two decades: the criminalization of political differences.

My favorite part of the editorial is the ending, which invites readers to attend next Monday’s re-arraignment and adds:

You don’t need to be a permanent Oklahoma citizen to do that. Not yet.

Given the political climate, who’d want to be?

Read the full editorial.