The following statement is issued by the Rachel Brown for Congress campaign.

April 2, 2010 -- In an exercise of tyranny, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, is attempting to silence Rachel Brown the candidate for U.S. Congress in the state's fourth Congressional District currently held by Barney Frank. According to shopping mall owners in the district, Coakley's office has advised them that they can prevent Brown campaign workers from discussing the Nazi-like policies of President Obama, distributing LaRouche PAC's emblematic picture of President Obama sporting a toothbrush mustache, and promoting the economic policies of Lyndon LaRouche while petitioning to get Brown on the ballot for the September Democratic primary.

This obvious attempt to suppress the free speech rights of Brown and her supporters comes from a politician who was famously defeated in her recent U.S. Senate bid because the voters were disgusted by her close association with President Obama. If these directives to prevent Brown and her supporters from voicing truthful comparisons of Obama's policies to those of the Nazi's were instigated from the White House, or from President Obama personally, it is an expression of the President's Nero-like propensities of which LaRouche has warned, and amounts to the highest, most abusive tyrannical suppression of free speech.

Under Massachusetts law, shopping center owners are required to allow workers for political campaigns to circulate petitions for ballot status on privately owned shopping centers without discrimination. Nevertheless, over the last several days shopping mall owners have informed the Brown campaign that Coakley's office has told them that if they allow Brown campaign workers on their property to petition, as required by law, they can censor Brown campaign workers' speech by telling them what they can and cannot talk about with the voters.

This kind of tyranny has been seen before in Massachusetts and the people revolted. Brown and her supporters have made it clear that neither Coakley, Obama, nor anyone else, will silence them.