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r3volution 3.0
08-23-2014, 06:16 PM
http://www.illinoisherald.com/articles/2014/q3/illinois-gop-sends-armed-thugs-libertarians-homes/


August 22, 2014. Oak Park, IL. (ONN) Illinois Republicans went way too far in their desperate attempt to keep the Illinois Libertarian Party off the November ballot. Imagine your doorbell rings and two giant, threatening thugs with guns tell you you’ve committed a crime by signing the Libertarian Party’s ballot access petition. They then force you against your will to sign a document recanting your original petition signature. It happened across Illinois and it’s a Class 4 felony. Illinois Republicans may go to prison. And they may just lose what was going to be a landslide General Election over it.

I almost can't believe this is true, it's so blatant, but here's another reference in a more mainstream paper.

http://politics.suntimes.com/article/springfield/under-gun-petition-challenges/wed-08202014-801pm


A couple of months after Julieus Hooks signed a political party’s nominating petitions, a man with a gun walked up to Hooks as he left his home in Oak Park. The man said he was a private investigator. He told Hooks the petition that he had signed was fraudulent and asked him to sign something. Hooks hastily agreed to sign the paper. “I did not have time to fully review this document because the man with the gun instructed me to sign it, and I was afraid of him and what he may do to me if I refused,” Hooks says.

William Tell
08-23-2014, 06:25 PM
Nasty, and politically suicidal stuff.

euphemia
08-23-2014, 07:53 PM
Both parties rot from the head.

CPUd
08-23-2014, 08:25 PM
Intimidation is just how they roll. In 2012 they threatened township chairs not to sign off on an alternate slate so they could do this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwqESIkuBlo