Texas, Iowa (Republicans) Threaten to Arrest (UN) Election Observers

[ProfessionalLeftist]

When news broke last week that the United Nations-affiliated Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe was dispatching election observers from 23 nations to the United States, conservative groups went up in arms, claiming that liberal activists had sought international assistance to fight Republican-led voting reform efforts. Soon afterward, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threatening the observers with arrest if they got within 100 feet of a polling place and complaining that OSCE officials had met with a group formerly affiliated with ACORN. Yesterday, Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz, who has made voter fraud a central theme of his time in office, followed suit, saying that there would be "no exception" made for OSCE members to enter polling stations.

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http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/10/texas-iowa-arrest-election-observers

[lunasun]

1. what are they hiding or planning to do??something they do not want others to see?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

2. Their "voting reform efforts" amount to suppressing the vote

via misinformation, intimidation, fraud, disenfranchisement. They've been working on this for years. It's become very blatant. They want people to believe it's all about preventing something that isn't happening anyway. It's presented as a solution to a problem -- that doesn't even exist. And they KNOW it.

What they don't want others to see is their false pretense for doing what they're doing.

[lunasun]

4. and yet they say Obama is right out of Hitler's playbook~~

[HooptieWagon]

3. International Treaty trumps despot state officials.

Give the UN observers US Marshall security. Arrest any state or local officials that attempt to interfere, and charge them with federal crime. If all else fails, send Holder an email saying Texas AG is selling medical marijuana.

[hifiguy]

5. Let 'em try.

They just might find themselves in the dock in the Hague. Treaties trump state law.

[justiceischeap]

6. Thing that always gets me about these "law-lovin', Constitution quotin'" folks

is they don't know much about politics, government or laws.

[OldDem2012]

7. OSCE has diplomatic immunity....let those asses in Texas and Iowa try to arrest them. nt.