Prosecuting Political Speech

The reason the Constitution's first amendment exists is to protect "political speech." Yet Democrats who would scream to the moon if you tried to prosecute the New York Times for their blatant treason in this war, could care less if a prosecutor in Texas wants to punish those who support Congressman Tom Delay.

The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: " Ronnie Earle, the Travis County, Texas, district attorney, is apparently furious about a television advertisement that accuses him of being politically motivated in winning an indictment of Rep. Tom DeLay, Texas Republican. Mr. Earle's office has responded by notifying the ad's sponsor, the Free Enterprise Fund (FEF), that he plans to subpoena the District-based organization.
The TV ad, which saturated airwaves in Austin, Texas, said: 'A partisan prosecutor with a political agenda can be a dangerous thing,' and compared Mr. Earle to a snarling, vicious dog.
A draft of the subpoena provided to the FEF says the group's executive director must travel to Texas and 'provide the Travis County District Attorney's office with any and all documentation regarding the advertisements that have been produced or paid for by the Free Enterprise Fund, including any and all information regarding media buys by the Free Enterprise Fund for those advertisements that have run in Austin, Texas.'
The Texas subpoena must be cleared by a D.C. court before it can be presented to the FEF.
What Mr. Earle wants, a source with special knowledge of the request tells this column, is a copy of the organization's donor list, so he can find out who paid for the ads.

Wasn't it the NAZIs who took by other means what they could not win by elections?