Friday, August 8, 2008

Chilling Effect

So a group are sending threatening letters to people that donate to political causes they disagree with.

As the group says "The warning letter is intended as a first step," and they list other threats.

Their intent is clearly a chilling effect to cutoff funding to political rivals.

What would you make of the group trying to do this?

I purposefully left off the political affiliations here, because... does it matter?

Are you the kind of person that thinks that certain tactics are okay for your side to do but beyond the pale for the other guys?

The fine folks at Ace have a few thoughts on this.
Far from scaring conservatives, this one is likely to energize them. If you have enough money to be one of the largest donors to the GOP or conservative causes, you've probably had to deal with a lot tougher people than these wannabe Brown Shirts over the course of your life. I'm sure this 'warning letter' will be showing up in the solicitation letter of every conservative group by the end of next month. It might even get some lukewarm conservatives on the McCain bandwagon. Thanks guys!


It's like these guys are trying to rally the Right around McCain.

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