In a new post at OutsideLansing.com, Chetly Zarko discusses the reasons why Ward Connerly’s Oklahoma Civil Rights Initiative failed to make it to Oklahoma’s November ballot. He blames the same forces that are trying to put Paul Jacob and the other members of the Oklahoma 3 in prison.

Zarko writes:

Don’t go into a gun fight with knives is an old piece of wisdom. Perhaps it was invented in the old West or even Oklahoma…

The biggest reason this drive failed is that Ward walked into a thermonuclear weapon fight in Oklahoma, where a fascist dictator of an Attorney General named Drew Edmondson (Democrat) had created a chilling environment in October 2007 by arresting three petition coordinators from a 2005 effort and charging them the ever-so-flexible “conspiracy to defraud the state” charge, a 10 year felony. They’re known as the Oklahoma 3 now, while their trial proceeds, and include well-known libertarian petition circulator Paul Jacob (most known for engineering a number of Term Limits drives in the 1990s)….

But it also means Connerly’s group faced an uphill battle, and no doubt that they thought they had brought some guns to the fight but realized that in Oklahoma you need really big guns in the fight against the bureaucracy controlled by a nepotistic “old boys” club (most of organs of state government are blue, despite the “redness” of its presidential votes) that dates back to the era old south (when the Democrats were the true racists of Jim Crow).

All the more reason to keep battling these forces. It’s time their reign ended.