[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Open letter from Ralph Nader to Chief Justice Ronald Castille

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

Christina Tobin and her friends are true crusaders for real democracy.

The world needs more people like Christina to help fight the entrenched 
plutocratic oligarchy that runs Amerika and much of the world as we know it.

here's the link to nader's letter.  christina's commentary below.

http://www.freeandequal.org/2011/06/open-letter-from-ralph-nader-to-chief-justice-ronald-castille/

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Open letter from Ralph Nader to Chief Justice Ronald Castille
Date: 	Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:05:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	Christina Tobin <christina at freeandequal.org>
Reply-To: 	christina at freeandequal.org
To: 	ewj at pigs.ag




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Open letter from Ralph Nader to Chief Justice Ronald Castille

In 2004, the Presidential campaign of Ralph Nader submitted signatures 
on a petition, to obtain a line on the ballot in Pennsylvania. It is a 
matter of public record that state employees working for the 
Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus illegally prepared a challenge to 
the Nader-Camejo nomination petitions at taxpayer expense. Many of these 
challenges were based on technicalities like failing to include a ZIP 
code along with a signer's address, failure to put the year in the date, 
or using initials in the name, although the validity of the signature 
itself was not disputed.

What makes this case particularly egregious is that, without any 
precedent whatsoever anywhere in the United States, a court fined the 
Nader campaign $81,102.19 for legal costs. As Nader put it, this 
"threatens candidates with financial ruin if they defend their right to 
run for public office" and has a chilling effect on the exercise of 
First Amendment rights.

You can read the entire letter from Ralph Nader here 
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=jv8dw4cab&et=1106307038462&s=1373&e=001PfZF9b-ncR3aTwY2ODZSD3l2D7VB1gpsABvqC24yc5GCsmcpeSUKQvUt8UJGv7cV310dvB2fzEoLmXOcPKjpQlbn1lxL9dMYhU1KLbVRNv8oMbhO89joz1EP9gKON5zO7ZtNtGtMO0F4gxoJCOHoH3Fd_8kMePHRijcYe2ymqGUseBu8A9sAL6mUEEwkyWeYq8wE74YsHkJe2jb2lW_W1u7MLDBs-gVq>.

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