South Dakotans for T-Shirt Accountability

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More Ballot Initiative fun:
J.A.I.L. will prevent such practices as secret defaults, ignored laws, ignored evidence, sophistry, confiscation of property without due process, involuntary assignment of do nothing probate lawyers that are unneeded, unwanted, and expensive, probate fraud, secret dockets, graft, falsifications of court records, and other abuses.
You know, I’m just an illiterate political hack, but I do have moments of clarity. Sophistry? If I had to look that up, so will most South Dakotans.

According to one of the on-line encyclopedias:
In modern philosophical usage, sophistry is a derogatory term for rhetoric that is designed to appeal to the listener on grounds other than the strict logical validity of the statements being made.
Well, that would be all political hacks on either side of the aisle. I’m not sure if the J.A.I.L.’ers just picked the term because its scary sounding or they pulled the text off of some pre-existing ballot initiative from another state. What I do know is that if you pledge to collect twenty signatures for them, You get a free t-shirt.

WOO WOO! Free t-shirt. Don’t believe me? See the advertisement from one of this week's weekly newspapers below:


Okay, aside from the fact that the advertisement appears to violate campaign laws regarding advertisement disclosures; you know, the little one that says “Paid for by a bunch of t-shirt people against judges,” the ad looks like something advertising a carnival or the local Shrine Circus.

The website is registered to Site It design in Sioux Falls (at least according to Network Solutions), and the ballot initiative has a name on it of William Stegmeier. This might be the same person who is the state coordinator for We The People.

He might be worth a "10 questions with..." just to find out what all this is about. You can also view the Secretary of State's link to the measure here.

Anyway, at this point, I don't think this one is going to make the 2006 ballot. But at least they have T-Shirts and cash prizes.

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