Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The coming Obama police state?

On the heels of this story that an Ohio state agency checked Joe the Plumber's driver license and tax records after he was mentioned repeatedly in the October 15th Presidential debate, we now have a follow up tale alleging that the director of a second agency in Ohio may have taken it upon heself to launch a totally not politically motivated, AT ALL, search through Joe's Child support records.

As that second article points out, Joe's various state records may have been, 100% fairly and not for political reasons of any kind, checked as many as four times in the days after the convention.

All the guy did was ask a question.

And people wonder why militia compounds seem to flourish during Demcoratic adminsitrations.

UPDATES: The Woman who runs the family agency that looked into Joe's child-support history contributed the maximum to Obama. Also, the Toledo Police Clerk who performed the previous "not at all politically motivated" search of Joe's records is being charged with a crime. And the Mayor ot Toledo is admitting that the clerk performed the search at the request of a member of the media.

I guess the upside is no one is going to get away with it, but sheesh!

UPDATE 2: Background checks on Joe more extensive than initially reported. I a shocked... SHOCKED!!!

3 comments:

Alexander M.F. Hamilton said...

I like the explanation given by the state official: when someone is put into the spotlight, we run a check on them.

Uhh, why?

George M.F. Washington said...

Yeah isn't that amazing?

Keep your mouth shut if you don't want a government probe up your ass.

Incredible.

Thomas M.F. Jefferson said...

It's funny how Democrats are all for freedom of speech unless it's not for them. And I thought Obama said speaking out on issues that are important was a form of patriotism, even more so than wearing a flag pin lapel. Although, I notice he's been wearing the flag pin lapel lately. Anything to get elected I suppose.