This is who they are, and this is what they do. They use legal threats to shut down events and kill political messages that they don't like, up to and including threatening jail time. But even given all that, you'd think they'd be a more decent than to persecute student journalists with threats of vague legal retribution:

The student journalists Tiffany Wilson and Shelby Holliday (not professionals) are AGGRESSIVE in pursuing voter fraud in Ohio and have uncovered ACTUAL voter fraud... As a result of their journalism, votes already cast for President have had to be withdrawn. So what is the students’ reward for exposing crime? An intimidating letter from the Senator Obama campaign lawyer to one of the students...

From: Rosenberg, Thomas
Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:32 PM
Subject: At least in today’s blog you spelled my last name right
To: tiffany
In other words, I am going to read what you write and watch what you say. Hopefully you will be fair and impartial as you told me you would be.

And then there is this... a blogger on the Daily Kos I am told... investigating the student journalists?

Joe The Plumber's personal family records were accessed by an Obama donor, Barbara West felt the full brunt of Obama's digital brownshirts, whistleblowers faced the threat of federal investigation, and not a few prominent conservatives have faced out and out blackmail.

And then there are times when legal thuggery and digital swarming don't work. For those times, it's probably better to directly firebomb the houses of McCain supporters and attack the people inside GOP campaign offices. What you lose in shadowy intimidation you more than make up for by reminding people that they can be physically harmed. Some property destruction might also be called for: in a nice little tie-in to one of today's other themes, the most recent aspiring Obamabot vandal appears to be a 9-year old boy. I wonder how he got the idea that destroying property is justified if it's in the name of Hope N' Change.

References and previously after the jump...