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Lest one think that the many comments from opponents of these measures spring from informed criticism, the Taxpayer Defense Project of Oregon Freedomworks is sending e-mail to people, urging them to attend this program. This is an attempt to "stack the deck" on the program with opponents of the Measures. It even provides them with an almost scripted argument against the Measures.

Freedomworks is the Tea Party lobbying group headed by Dick Armey. Armey is reported to have received $250,000 per year in 2008 from this organization for 18 hours per week of work. Matt Kibbe, the CEO of Fredomworks, is reported to have received $121,417 in 2008 for working 17 hours per week for Freedomworks.

The canard that this is a "grass roots" organization is laughable. OPB will find its "Think Out Loud" broadcast studio filled with "know nothings" from the Tea Party movement.

http://enews.taxpayerdefenseproject.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100052920.60082.273&gen=1

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A certain perpetrator of child rape in Missouri and California was in 1974 committed to the Atascadero State Hospital, California?s facility for the criminally insane. Twice previously he had served time in a state hospital and prison in Missouri sex offenses against children. Before his commitment to Atascadero, he was suspected of child molestation and killing in Illinois. At Atascadero, a psychologist reported that this perpetrator was ?a chronic, habitual child molester whose patterns are almost impossible to change.? Despite this horrific record, the perpetrator was released from custody as no longer posing a danger. Mental health experts opined that any risk was acceptable.

Six weeks after his release from California?s facility, the perpetrator kidnapped a 24-month old little girl, Amy Sue Seitz. He raped her. He tortured her by ripping her nipples from her living body using vise grips, a type of pliers capable of 2,000 pounds of pressure. Amy Sue Seitz had massive brain hemorrhages, extensive skull fractures, and had been punched in the face. These injuries did not kill her. The cause of death was manual strangulation. Before his apprehension for Amy Sue Seitz? kidnap and murder, the perpetrator was arrested and convicted of two child molestations which also occurred after his release from Atascadero as ?cured.?

The perpetrator had been able to convince his keepers and mental health professionals that he was not a significant danger to the community. The antisocial personality is like a chameleon, able to present to society any facet which society wants to see and capable of immense cunning and manipulation. Even after the perpetrator mentioned above had been convicted of this heinous murder and sentenced to death, well-meaning and na�ve people sent him, on Death Row, photographs of their minor children so that he could make paintings of the children.

I don?t know Gilmore, but I know about this type of criminal. Gilmore is 48 years old. The perpetrator mentioned above was 43 years old. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Remember Amy Sue Seitz.

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