Email to Oklahoma senator turned over to OSBI for investigation

[Still Sensible]

Source: NewsOK

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation was asked Monday to investigate an email that warned a state senator he would become “the laughing stock of the Senate” unless legislation passed out of his committee.

The co-founder of the Sooner Tea Party admitted in an interview with The Oklahoman that he sent the email to state Sen. Cliff Branan.

“We will expose that man's dirty laundry. We will show people what he is like,” Al Gerhart said. “It is not a threat. I put down there clearly: This is a promise.”

In the March 26 email, Gerhart wrote about House Bill 1412, which would prohibit Oklahoma communities from having anything to do with the United Nations Agenda 21 plan.


Read more: http://newsok.com/email-to-oklahoma-senator-turned-over-to-osbi-for-investigation/article/3778817

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The crazy is soaring to new heights in the Sooner state. Now the Tea Party is basically blackmailing republicans to fend off the evil UN... Nuts'R Us!

[avebury]

1. Hardly news.

Oklahoma State government has been run by fringe nuts for a while now.

[mbperrin]

2. The Tea-nut also wants to make sure the senator has his

"wife under control" later in the article.

So, paranoid, would-be blackmailer, misogynist, can we commit him NOW?

Crazy's running deep, and not only in Oklahoma!

[Aristus]

3. Jesus. No wonder my Dad was in such an all-fire hurry to get out of that fucked up state.

Born in OK City, he joined the Air Force not long after he turned 18. Got the hell out of there...

[freshwest]

4. The anti-UNers have been running on Koch fueled hatred for over half a century, waiting for a spark.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

5. This is the text of HB 1412

Req. No. 6671 Page 1
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 54th Legislature (2013)

HOUSE BILL 1412 By: Kern

AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to property; defining term;
prohibiting adoption of United Nations Agenda
21/Sustainable Development policies that restrict
private property rights without due process;
prohibiting state and political subdivisions from
entering into certain agreements and expending and
receiving funds to implement United Nations Agenda
21/Sustainable Development; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 100 of Title 60, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A. As used in this section, “political subdivisions” means any
state, county, city, town, municipality, district, public local
entity, public-private partnership or any other public entity of the
state, a county, city, town or municipality.

B. The state or any political subdivision of the state shall
not adopt or implement policy recommendations that deliberately or
inadvertently infringe upon or restrict private property rights
without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations
originating in, or traceable to United Nations Agenda 21/Sustainable
Development and any of its subsequent modifications, a resolution
adopted by the United Nations in 1992 at its Conference on
Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and
commonly known as the Earth Summit and reconfirmed in its Rio+20
Conference held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, or any other
international law or ancillary plan of action that contravenes the
Constitution of the United States or the Oklahoma Constitution.

C. Since the United Nations has accredited or enlisted numerous
nongovernmental and intergovernmental organizations to assist in the
implementation of its policies relative to United Nations Agenda
21/Sustainable Development around the world, the state and all
political subdivisions of the state shall not enter into any
agreement, expend any sum of money, receive funds contracting
services or give financial aid to or from any nongovernmental or
intergovernmental organizations accredited or enlisted by the United
Nations.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2013.

No surprise that it was introduced by Sally Kern. I've called her office to tell her what the meaning of "non-binding" is because Agenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. Her assistant was very nice and said she would relay the message to Kern. I know she doesn't care... but I called anyway.

Oklahoma has term limits. For the house, the number is six 2-year terms. She is on number 5 now.

Tough time to be a Democrat in Oklahoma now.

[davidpdx]

6. The Sooner the Tea Party implodes the better

(pun intended)

[Coyotl]

7. Somebody has been drinking too much John Birch tea.

[drm604]

8. It sounds like this guy may be guilty of blackmail under Oklahoma law.

Last edited Tue Apr 2, 2013, 03:48 PM - Edit history (1)

From the OP's link:

Under Oklahoma law, blackmail can involve a written communication that threatens to expose information about someone “which would in any way subject such person to the ridicule or contempt of society.”

Under the law, blackmail occurs if the intent of the communication is “to extort or gain any thing of value from another or to compel another to do an act against his or her will.”