Rick Jore is being treated unjustly

Editor,

It is my understanding that about two weeks ago, Lake County Sheriff Baron served a writ of execution on Rick Jore's Ronan bank accounts, seizing his money therefrom. The writ was signed by Judge Christopher, and it also orders that Rick's personal and real property be raided next.

Rick ran for the Montana House of Representatives. He broke no law. He brought no legal action against anyone.

When Rick's opponent, Jeanne Windham, got the vote-counting decisions of the local authorities overthrown by taking it eventually to the Supreme Court, they not only struck down the local decisions, but they also had the mean-spirited gall to later require that Rick pay Jean's legal fees.

How can this be allowed to happen in the United States of America?

It was bad enough that Rick had to pay his own legal fees, which were somewhere around $17,000. The Montana Republican Party, a lot of good people around the Ronan area, and even people from all across the country helped him pay that off when they heard of his plight. (He had put his Caterpillar in hock to pay it before other people held fundraisers and got his Caterpillar back.)

When he found out that he was now required to pay Windham's attorney fees besides, he refused to "abuse" the good people that had already helped him once, choosing instead to refuse to obey this, the court's latest order.

I call upon Jeanne Windham, who recently expressed public sadness at how the system caused her to name Rick in the suit, to show real feeling by paying her own legal fees, thereby stopping this tide of injustice.

I call it tide because the effects of such abuses of freedom as this never stop at the boundaries of the area where they occur.

If Mrs. Windham doesn't step up to the plate, I would call upon her attorney, Mike Meloy, to show how much true charity (and a sense of justice) he holds in her heart by forgiving the debt.

I call upon those public officials who are charged with carrying out these unjust orders upon Mr. Jore to protest by quitting their post before carrying them out.

I like to believe that I would have the courage to do such a thing, were I in their proverbial shoes.

We're praying for you, Rick (and for freedom and justice everywhere).

Kurtis Oliverson

Big Arm