Residual Forces

This whole flap over the Marriage CDs is being blown out of proportion. The entire argument the liberals (media, bloggers, the DFL Party, and a DFL candidate for Governor Steve Kelley) is that MNGOP has collected information about people with out their knowledge, since there is no privacy disclaimer on the cd.

Here’s the lie. Not one single CD has been sent out. So no one’s information has been collected or transmitted with out a disclaimer.

But the DFL is openly claiming that tens of thousands have been illegally wiretapped. (No BS, that is the claim from the DFL)

REPUBLICAN DOMESTIC SPYING COMES TO MINNESOTA
Statement of Minnesota DFL Chair Brian Melendez

ST. PAUL (3/1/06)–”The extent of the invasion of privacy perpetrated by the Minnesota Republican Party is becoming clearer by the day. In their zeal to spread a divisive, distracting agenda of fear, the Minnesota Republican Party has compromised the personal information of tens of thousands of Minnesotans.

“Columnist Peter Swire has exposed the dangers of this invasion of privacy: ‘Without a privacy policy, the state party can tell your views to anyone at all. If you give the “wrong” answers on abortion or other issues, they can tell your boss, members of your church or anyone else. In fact, these answers could get distributed to campaigns in your town during get-out-the-vote efforts precisely the place where “wrong” answers can be most damaging.’ (For the entire column)

“By not enclosing a privacy policy with their CD-ROM, they have at least shown an unconscionable disrespect for basic privacy concerns, and at worst have broken the law.

“The Republican Party has brought domestic spying home to Minnesota with this intolerable abuse of trust. They have victimized tens of thousands of Minnesotans in a targeted campaign to harvest their personal, private data for political purposes without their consent or knowledge.

“The Republican Party is not focusing on issues that matter to Minnesotans. They have failed to govern. And now, their single-minded focus on divisive issues has led to a violation of personal privacy. Minnesota deserves better than the trickery and poor management that comes with the GOP agenda.”

Blog about it at www.dflers.org

The above is from the official DFL website. (Emphasis mine) And again, no CDs were sent out yet!

There is even more fraudulent charges flowing from the DFL affiliated and promoted website DFLers.org, which is championing the words of a Gubernatorial candidate Steve Kelley.

The CD, supported and mailed to Minnesotans by the Minnesota Republican Party, collects personal data and information from individual computers and sends it back to a central database available to GOP operatives. The CD does not contain a notice or warning to consumers that data is being collected over the Internet.

I repeat, no CDs have been sent out. No information has been collected! So no wrong doing has been done! How much clearer can this be to those on the attack?

Lies and slanderous charges, is that all the DFL has to argue with? Once again, they have to take away their opponent’s message (remember how the DFL and one of their Congressional Candidates said Veterans didn’t have the right to speak in favor of the Iraq war?) in order to win the arguments on the issues.