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Write your legislator, get a visit from the police
Illinois State Rifle Association is investigating. Apparently, people who phoned or faxed State Senator Dan Kotowski (D-Park Ridge) on gun bills have been getting interviewed by the state police.
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If the reports are true, it is a hell of an abuse of authority to use the police to intimidate voting citizens; seem to me there are a couple of felonies and federal laws pertaining to this sort of thing.
Posted by: BobG at June 19, 2007 05:12 PM
I think we should all write this guy a letter expressing our concerns about the first and second amendments.
Senator Dan Kotowski (D)
Springfield Office:
Senator 33rd District
M108 State House
Springfield, IL 62706
(217) 782-3875
District Office:
1100 W. Northwest Hwy.
Suite 114
Mt. Prospect, IL 60056
(847) 797-1192
(847) 797-1195 FAX
Posted by: thomas sundermeier at June 19, 2007 09:29 PM
I like it! Lets load up those keystone kops' databases!
Posted by: The Mechanic at June 20, 2007 11:28 AM
That report of police "visiting" citizens sounded better in the original German.
Posted by: Sertorius at June 20, 2007 04:31 PM
It translated well into Russian and Japanese, too.
Posted by: Windy Wilson at June 21, 2007 09:40 PM
The police are investigating because Sen. Kotowski was receiving death threats.
1A has nothing to do with the investigation. Most of the faxes sent to Sen. Kotowski were perfectly normal, rational letters expressing folks' views for or against the legislation.
But a couple of $%#&!@ threatened the guy's life. The cops take that as seriously as you would expect them to.
Posted by: Rob_N at June 22, 2007 03:09 AM
Rob_N,
According to the ISRA, the police were questioning folks who didn't send threatening faxes.
How on earth do you justify that?
Posted by: King of the Cows at June 22, 2007 05:49 AM