From the March 25, 2009 Springfield News-Leader

"JEFFERSON CITY — In response to a controversial report profiling political beliefs of militia members, the Missouri House of Representatives has barred the Department of Public Safety from spending any "state or federal funds for political profiling."

On a voice vote, the Republican-controlled House adopted an amendment to the budget bill for Department of Public Safety, forbidding that state agency from funding reports like the Missouri Information Analysis Center's recent Feb. 20 "modern militia movement" report.

The Department of Public Safety has apologized for the militia report, which links fundamentalist Christians, strict followers of the U.S. Constitution and people who oppose taxes, abortion and illegal immigration as possible members of militias.

Earlier today, the Missouri State Highway Patrol retracted the militia report and admitted errors in the way the report was distributed without getting reviewed by top state officials, including DPS Director John Britt.

Rep. Jim Guest, R-King City, introduced the amendment.

Rep. Shane Schoeller, R-Willard, spoke on the House floor in favor the amendment. The northern Greene County representative said he's field numerous calls from constituents in the past week who are outraged by the report and its generalizations.

Schoeller compared the report's profiling of conservative political thought to the tyranny the nation's Founding Fathers fought against.

The authors of the MIAC militia report remain unknown.

“It is our job to hold them accountable,” Schoeller said. "We must be strong, we must take a stand today and we must stand up for the people because that was what we were sent here to do."

The amendment passed on a partisan voice vote, with Republicans voting "yes" and Democrats in the chamber voting "no."

-Chad Livengood • clivengood@news-leader.com

What in the hell is wrong with these crazy Democrats in this state? I consider myself a "Jeffersonian Democrat" but this is unbelievable. Does the "Messiah" Obama have such a spell over them that they dare not disobey him?

Do they realize that Obama only carried 6 counties in Missouri?

Already Governor Jay Nixon is "falling on his own sword" so to speak, refusing to apologize for his role in the Liberty robbing MIAC report, even when his own name appears at the top of the page.

These days "The Guv" looks like a cross between a deer caught in the headlights and a pie-faced idiot.

Clint, Missouri Bushwhacker