Don’t miss Cybercast News Service’s great piece detailing the unjust prosecution of the Oklahoma 3. The in-depth article is entitled, “Tax-Control Advocates May Go to Jail in Oklahoma.”

Reporter Peter Winn presents a fair and balanced account of the overwhelming evidence that the “OK 3″ did nothing wrong—and in so doing, shows that AG Drew Edmondson’s prosecution has no rational basis if political motivations are ruled out.

The article begins:

A veteran activist for taxpayer ballot initiatives and two associates could face up to 10 years in prison in Oklahoma for exercising what libertarians say is a basic constitutional right: circulating petitions to get an initiative on the state ballot.

But it’s not only libertarians who get a bit uncomfortable when people’s basic First Amendment rights are being trampled by politicians just because they think they can. The spot Paul Jacob finds himself in has caught the attention—and the outrage— of people across the political spectrum.

The article includes some eloquent statments by several of the OK3’s defenders. Including:

David Dunn, legislative director for the Oklahoma Family Policy Council, called the prosecution “a witch hunt.”"Oklahoma has a long history of citizen initiatives to put things on the ballot before the people,” Dunn told Cybercast News Service. “For whatever reason, our state is trying to prosecute these people simply because some officeholders don’t like the issue that Mr. Jacob was trying to put on the ballot.”

Brandon Dutcher, vice president of the conservative Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, agreed, saying the prosecution appears to have been personally instigated by Edmondson, a Democrat who Dutcher said may have been motivated by his opposition to the now-defunct TABOR initiative.

The article goes on to quote Pat McGuigan, an Oklahoma City journalist who used to work for the conservative Free Congress Foundation and the Heritage Foundation, calling it a “massive overreaction” to require that everyone who circulates a petition is an Oklahoman and then to threaten someone with a prison term.

Read Cybercast News Service’s full article for yourself.