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« Very disgusting | Main | Senior citizens taking out CCW permits »

Write your legislator, get a visit from the police

Posted by David Hardy · 19 June 2007 03:16 PM

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.

7 Comments | Leave a comment

BobG | June 19, 2007 5:12 PM | Reply

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.

thomas sundermeier | June 19, 2007 9:29 PM | Reply

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

The Mechanic | June 20, 2007 11:28 AM | Reply

I like it! Lets load up those keystone kops' databases!

Sertorius | June 20, 2007 4:31 PM | Reply

That report of police "visiting" citizens sounded better in the original German.

Windy Wilson | June 21, 2007 9:40 PM | Reply

It translated well into Russian and Japanese, too.

Rob_N | June 22, 2007 3:09 AM | Reply

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 $%#[email protected] threatened the guy's life. The cops take that as seriously as you would expect them to.

King of the Cows | June 22, 2007 5:49 AM | Reply

Rob_N,

According to the ISRA, the police were questioning folks who didn't send threatening faxes.

How on earth do you justify that?

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