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The Preservation of Sovereignty and Marriage Act shall be fully effective, based on the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States and the structure of the United States Constitution, against any contrary federal court ruling.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act is mirror language to what they passed in Indiana

So hey, it worked out well for them. Lets copy THAT.

Watch for this coming down the pike:


The National District Attorney's Association hasn't hidden its intention to mobilize its local offices. The association, along with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, announced in November that they planned to partner with state legislators to enact mandatory smartphone decryption bills around the country.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/22/10815054/california-jim-cooper-encryption-district-attorney

This act shall be known and may be cited as the Fiscal Responsibility Moratorium Act.  Unless earlier repealed or revoked by the Legislature, the moratorium shall be in effect for the time period from July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2018.

There are some colorful characters like Sally Kern; who wants to legislate morality, really get under the sheets in your bedroom.  
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Probably without intent or even realizing it, you have just painted one of the scariest pictures in my mind I have ever had....  Worse than all the chain saw/big shark massacres combined!!

Worse than no more Snickers bars or Coca Cola...!!

Sally Kern under anyone's sheets, let alone mine!!

Remember, she's always got a big gun with her.
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WOW!!  Second look, she DOES look like Meth user...geez, what is this state doing to itself??

Ridiculous (and a 80% chance hypocritical) that any legislator would actually stand up and try to defend a felony conviction for oral sex in 2016,

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gay rights activists are celebrating the Republican-led defeat of a bill that would have allowed Oklahoma businesses to discriminate against gay people.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 5-4 on Tuesday against a bill dubbed the "Oklahoma Right of Conscience Act" by Broken Bow Republican Joseph Silk.

The bill would have allowed Oklahomans to refuse to provide goods, services or accommodations to gay people if they were following "sincerely held religious beliefs or conscience ... regarding marriage, lifestyle or behavior."

Two Democrats and three Republicans on the panel voted against the measure.

Troy Stevenson of the gay rights group Freedom Oklahoma praised the members who voted against the bill, but says there still are nearly a dozen more anti-gay measures pending in the Legislature.

The "Bill of Rights" monument bill is moving right though as well.

Oh, and the deficit is up to $1.4 Billion

Idiots doesn't begin to describe these yahoos.

See?  Your post could start or end with "Being the stupid dumbasses they are..."

Why are they messing with Daylight savings time?

How is this the thing to spend time and money on right now?

Everything written about Oklahoma's state government might as well start with "Being the stupid dumbasses they are..."

Why are they messing with Daylight savings time?

And I can't wait for our new Bill of Rights monument. I was just thinking this morning - our schools suck, our medical examiners officer is unaccredited, our Sheriff's department isnt accredited either and our Sheriff is under indictment, we just had a number of TPD officers indicted, our infrastructure is crumbling, the cornerstone of our economy is collapsing and we are flat broke.

Oklahoma must close some state prisons, new DOC interim director says

Related story: State Rep. Pam Peterson hopes to address incarceration rates by increasing felony threshold

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma needs to close some of its prisons, Department of Corrections Interim Director Joe Allbaugh said Wednesday.

On the job for about a month so far, Allbaugh said state prisons have capital needs in excess of $750 million.

“We are going to have to close some facilities, and that is going to cause a lot of pain, particularly with people who don’t believe their facility should be at risk,” Allbaugh said during an interview with the Tulsa World. “I understand that, but either we gain some efficiencies in the system or give me more money to build a prison.”

Some facilities aren’t safe for staff, offenders or administrators, and “it is just a matter of time before we have a serious incident,” Allbaugh said.

Asked which facilities he is considering closing, Allbaugh said: “Well, I don’t know. I am not there yet.”

Allbaugh, the former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, replaced Robert Patton, who announced in December his resignation from his position as corrections director to take a job in Arizona.

During his first weeks on the job, Allbaugh has been visiting prisons.

And he has seen a lot: low morale among underpaid correctional officers; programs that work but don’t have enough support; doors and locks on cells that don’t work but still house offenders; individuals at community centers and halfway houses that are not supervised properly; a draconian paper filing system to keep track of offender histories; holes in fences; and a system at 122 percent of capacity.

He described the bare bones staffing at the correctional officer level as “unnerving.”

“The overriding story is that there is a problem in the Department of Corrections,” Allbaugh said. “And the governor, Legislature and society as a whole have ownership of this problem.”

He points to mandatory sentences that send offenders to prison for long stays.

He supports sentencing reform but said it is not the agency’s “bailiwick.”

“That is not what we do,” he said.

While he said he is not a fan of using private prisons, given the state’s situation, they are a relief valve for the state, he said.

“Right now, (the private prisons) are saving our bacon,” he said.

Private prisons in Sayre and Watonga could be used to help relieve pressure on state prisons, he said.

Allbaugh is originally from Oklahoma. He has been living in Austin, Texas, but has a ranch in the Blackwell area. He has known Gov. Mary Fallin for more than 35 years, and he wanted to return to Oklahoma.

He watched from afar as Oklahoma came under national scrutiny for how it handled executions.

Since then, the agency has made significant changes to ensure that human errors do not put the state under the microscope again, he said.

“I am confident what has happened before will not happen again,” he said.

Allbaugh said he believes in the death penalty and that the day will come when executions resume in Oklahoma.

“We will be ready, and I have confidence in the men and women on the team and the individuals that it will be done right,” he said.

Allbaugh wears boots, slacks, a white shirt embroidered with his initials, a large belt buckle, rings and bracelets.

“That is (for) my youngest nephew,” Allbaugh said when asked about one of the bracelets. “He was killed in Al Anbar Province. I wear it for him.”

Marine Capt. Jeremy Allbaugh, 21, of Harrah was killed in Iraq in July 2007.

Allbaugh, 63, said in response to a question that he is not really a religious person. He used to like to hunt and fish when he had time, he said.

He likes Braum’s ice cream and milk.

“I think I have told people around the world it is the best stuff going on,” Allbaugh said.

He describes himself as a workaholic.

“I thrive on making things happen,” Allbaugh said. “Talk is cheap in my world. Action is everything.”

He said he has the ability to make decisions, enforce them and hold people accountable, including himself.

“Don’t make me the story,” he said. “I want the system to be the story. It is about a broken system that horribly needs attention and needs to be fixed. Everybody in the state has ownership of how it got this bad and how we need to fix it.

“We are all in this together. I don’t have a magic wand, but I do know how to correct things and make things happen.”

At the end of the day, he wants to have made a difference, he said.

Kevin Gross, chairman of the Board of Corrections, said when Allbaugh was appointed interim director in January that the board was hopeful that a permanent hire could be made within eight months.

Regardless of whether Allbaugh is on the job for a few months or years, he hopes that when looking back, people will say, “I am glad he stopped by.”

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/capitol_report/oklahoma-must-close-some-state-prisons-new-doc-interim-director/article_00bf05f5-902c-5dd8-8cb8-6d3d7779ea18.html

And I can't wait for our new Bill of Rights monument. I was just thinking this morning - our schools suck, our medical examiners officer is unaccredited, our Sheriff's department isnt accredited either and our Sheriff is under indictment, we just had a number of TPD officers indicted, our infrastructure is crumbling, the cornerstone of our economy is collapsing and we are flat broke. What we really need is a stone monument as a first step in bringing back the 10 Commandments. That and some god ole' fashioned discrimination bills.

There is always hope! But it is dampened by the attitude that Kansas and Oklahoma are pursuing right now which is to double down on the moral/political crusades while the masses are confused and pliable. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

A few good leaders standing up right now and the prospect of losing their phoney baloney jobs this fall can start the turn around.

There is always hope! But it is dampened by the attitude that Kansas and Oklahoma are pursuing right now which is to double down on the moral/political crusades while the masses are confused and pliable. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

A few good leaders standing up right now and the prospect of losing their phoney baloney jobs this fall can start the turn around.

What's really disheartening to me is the all the Trump, Cruz and crazy anti-Obama stickers that are almost always on garbage cars. The very people that are hurt most by these idiots at the capitol in Oklahoma City are the people so excited to vote them into office.

Sometimes I wonder why I care. I'm not personally impacted by the state melt down really and Fallin's dumb income tax cuts really did save me a little money. I don't need Obamacare. My kids are nearly grown and if needed I can put my son in private school. My daughter goes to college out of state. Tulsa appears to be relatively safe from our energy industry caused earthquakes. What the idiots at the state capitol do really impacts me very little.

Maybe it's time for things to get really bad. For our low information voters to really get hit so they understand that elections DO have consequences. That when politicians use Jebus, Freedums, and Guns!-Guns!-Guns! to get elected, they aren't the voters friend.

Sometimes I wonder why I care. I'm not personally impacted by the state melt down really and Fallin's dumb income tax cuts really did save me a little money. I don't need Obamacare. My kids are nearly grown and if needed I can put my son in private school. My daughter goes to college out of state. Tulsa appears to be relatively safe from our energy industry caused earthquakes. What the idiots at the state capitol do really impacts me very little.

1. A 15 member judicial nominating commission presents three applicants to the governor, who chooses one to be appointed to a given slot.

2. The judicial nominating commission is comprised of:
a) six members appointed by the governor, with no more than 3 from any political party and none may be an attorney
b) six elected by the Oklahoma Bar Association, one from each congressional delegation in 1967
c) one selected by the governor appointees and the Bar Association appointees, who must be a non-attorney (if they cannot agree, to be appointed by the governor)
d) One appointed by the Speak of the House (not an attorney)
e) One appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (not an attorney)

Members serve 6 year terms, and cannot serve consecutive terms. No commissioner is paid. All members may not hold any elected or appointed political office, may not serve in any official capacity in any political party, and may not be nominated to any judicial post.  These restrictions continue for five years after they leave the commission.

Oklahoma House approves school anti-abortion curriculum

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma House has adopted legislation authorizing public schools to teach Oklahoma high school students that life begins at conception.

Without debate, House members on Tuesday voted 64-12 for the measure and sent it to the Senate for a vote. The National Right to Life Committee, the nation's largest anti-abortion organization, says Oklahoma is the first state to introduce such a bill.

The Humanity of the Unborn Child Act requires Oklahoma public high schools to teach students in grades nine through 12 "about the humanity of a child in utero," including details about how a fetus develops at certain stages of pregnancy.

Its author, Republican Rep. Ann Coody of Lawton, says the parents of high school students could opt their children out of the program.

http://www.hastingstribune.com/oklahoma-house-approves-school-anti-abortion-curriculum/article_042b70c2-e6e4-589b-9b82-29c9ec6f192c.html

Let me get this straight:  We can’t find more money for education, but we can pass controversial laws to promote an issue in public schools which seems to fall as much on religious lines as it does scientific interpretation.

This is an example of something which clearly should be taught at home or church, not public schools.  Parents need to be teaching their children a moral code this is not and never should be the role of public schools.

Will the program also teach/provide the means to not become pregnant? 

Will it provide a way for the kids to understand the financial steps and needs during and after pregnancy?

Surely they've provided that as well.

Oklahoma House passes bill cutting 111,000 from Medicaid

OKLAHOMA CITY — Just how grim the state’s budget situation has become was apparent Wednesday morning as the state House of Representatives discussed and ultimately agreed to a bill that would cut 111,000 Oklahomans, most of them women, from Medicaid.

House Bill 2665, by Rep. Doug Cox, R-Grove, instructs the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, which administers the state’s Medicaid program, to request a federal waiver that would allow it to exclude all able-bodied adults younger than 65.

Currently, Cox said, about 111,000 single, non-disabled parents earning less than $9,500 are covered by SoonerCare, Oklahoma’s version of Medicaid. Cox said 77,000 of those are women.

Such a move would save the state an estimated $130 million a year, according to the bill’s fiscal impact statement, but cost $203 million in federal matching funds. Cutting those recipients without the waiver would endanger Oklahoma’s entire Medicaid program and $3 billion a year in federal funds.

Through more than two hours of discussion and debate, Cox said he was not happy about the proposal but that he believed it was the only alternative.

The worse alternatives, he said, could include eliminating prescription drug coverage — a route that would not require a waiver — and lowering reimbursements to the point that health care providers no longer accept Medicaid patients, and the closing of many of the state’s nursing homes.

Democrats countered that the loss of $200 million in federal funding and the higher rates of uncompensated care are likely to close some hospitals, and questioned why Cox’s bill was the first addressing the state’s budget situation to reach the House floor.

They also wanted to know why the Republican-controlled state government had declined a Medicaid expansion offered by the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” a provision that was intended to address such situations.

“I am actually working with some folks to design something,” Cox said.

Cox is among a handful of Republicans who have publicly advocated that Oklahoma adopt a program similar to Arkansas’, in which expanded Medicaid funding is used to privately insure low-income individuals.

Democrats Eric Proctor of Tulsa and Mike Brown of Tahlequah questioned the morality of cutting Medicaid without addressing business incentives.

“The choice is not really about whether we help (one person) or someone else,” Proctor said. “It’s about whether we help CapitolOne or some other corporation or the poorest people in the state.”

The bill passed 65-34, with four Republicans joining all 30 Democrats in opposition. Two members did not vote.

Also Wednesday, the House approved Senate Bill 1570, transferring the Will Rogers Memorial to the Oklahoma Historical Society. The measure passed 85-9, and returned to the Senate.

randy.krehbiel@tulsaworld.com

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/capitol_report/oklahoma-house-passes-bill-cutting-from-medicaid/article_e2bb35ee-f174-5c27-a0c9-5e9021164c8e.html

For 20 years I have observed Dr. Cox taking care of the poor, the elderly and the children of our county. I have watched him incessantly take on his own party about women's rights, education, and the welfare of our state. I am sure there is a method to his proposal, whether it is to force the feds to reject the waiver making our state legislators face reality, force our governor to take another look at Obamacare, or to truly find a work around which would be better for our state. There is no way Dr. Cox will let 77,000 women making less than $10,000/yr go without healthcare. T. E. Riggs, MD

1) Creates the "Public Education on the Humanity of the Unborn Child Fund," which shall be exempt from fiscal year limitations (restricted funds);

2) Funds shall be used to:
A) Educated the public on the Humanity of Child in Utero;
B) Utilizing information from the Health Department and Board of Medicine which complies with the purposes of the act )that is, don't teach the science that doesn't agree);
C) Educate on the gestation of fetuses at 2 week intervals;
D) Provide materials educated the public on Oklahoma's preference for birth and adoption and assistance that is available;

3) Teach the curriculum to 9th Graders

4) Funds from this program may not be used to finance programs or materials on human sexuality.

http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2015-16%20FLR/HFLR/HB2797%20HFLR.PDF

Oklahoma Senate OKs plan to suspend licenses of abortion doctors

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow for the revocation of medical licenses for doctors who perform abortions.

The measure has an exception to save the life of the mother or to preserve her health.

Senate Bill 1552, by Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, passed by a vote of 40-7 and heads to the House for consideration.

Spectators in the gallery broke out in applause following Dahm’s debate in which he said one of government’s core functions is to protect life. They were told they were violating Senate decorum and ceased the display.

Senate Minority Leader John Sparks, D-Norman, was successful in attaching an amendment requiring legal costs to be calculated for defending the measure should there be a court challenge.

A growing number of Oklahoma abortion laws have been challenged and overturned by the courts.

Sparks said the law is unconstitutional in numerous ways, including being an ex post facto law.

“This bill will be reversed,” he said.

Sparks said the measure would not reduce abortions in the state. The only way to reduce abortions is to increase access to health care and education for women, he said.

For 10 years, there has been “grandstanding” with abortion bills, but the abortion rates are constant, Sparks said.

Sen. Ervin Yen, R-Oklahoma City, the only medical doctor in the upper chamber, argued against the bill, but accidentally voted for it.

“The Legislature should not be in the business of stepping between a patient and her doctor,” Yen said.

Sen. Brian Crain, R-Tulsa, cast the only Republican vote against the measure. He said he is anti-abortion, but the bill was drastically amended without sufficient time to evaluate its full meaning.

The Oklahoma State Medical Association in a statement said it opposed the bill because it was an attempt to intimidate physicians and put politics in the middle of the physician-patient relationship.

In unrelated action, the Senate passed Senate Joint Resolution 65, which would let voters decide whether to let the governor appoint the Labor Commissioner with the advice and consent of the Senate. The office is elected by voters statewide.

Barbara Hoberock 405-528-2465

It should be pointed out that for International Women's Day we introduced bills to make Abortion First Degree Murder (punishable by death) and strip Doctors of their medical licenses if they have ever worked for a clinic anywhere that ever provided abortions. There is exactly zero chance any of those would ever hold up to a due process challenge, but it sure make us feel warm and fuzzy and sends a strong message to any women's rights groups on Women's Day.

It should be pointed out that for International Women's Day we introduced bills to make Abortion First Degree Murder (punishable by death) and strip Doctors of their medical licenses if they have ever worked for a clinic anywhere that ever provided abortions. There is exactly zero chance any of those would ever hold up to a due process challenge, but it sure make us feel warm and fuzzy and sends a strong message to any women's rights groups on Women's Day.

Who gets his hair cut like this?

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Who gets his hair cut like this?

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A closeted Oklahoma legislator.

Yeah, read his bio.
http://www.oksenate.gov/Senators/biographies/dahm_bio.aspx

He's unmarried and his "education" is that of a home schooled high school graduate. His work experience is working on missions trips and at bible schools, working for his parents cleaning company and I am not making this up:

"Former Producer, Local Production Company" and currently "self-employed with his own app development company"

he's totally qualified to write laws that pertain to the medical field......

For the love of Christ, what is wrong with the voters in this state?

§ 5. Public money or property - Use for sectarian purposes.

No public money or property shall ever be appropriated, applied, donated, or used, directly or indirectly, for the use, benefit, or support of any sect, church, denomination, or system of religion, or for the use, benefit, or support of any priest, preacher, minister, or other religious teacher or dignitary, or sectarian institution as such.

The Oklahoma House of Representatives is seeking to stifle free speech, and it ought to be ashamed of itself.
Earlier this month, on a 56-26 vote, the House approved House Bill 2250, which would prohibit animal rights charitable organizations from raising money for political purposes. The bill by Rep. Brian Renegar, D-McAlester, also would prohibit the groups, such as the Humane Society USA, from raising money in Oklahoma for any purpose outside the state.
 
It stems from a disputed series of events involving the humane society following the 2013 Moore tornado, but what happened then isn’t important. What’s important is what the Legislature is trying to do, which is just plain wrong.
If it’s not clear why it’s wrong, take out the phrase “animal rights charitable organization” in the bill’s language and insert some cause you support. Imagine if the Legislature tried to ban the National Rifle Association or the Democratic Party from raising money for political purposes. Imagine if the state tried to ban the American Cancer Society or the American Red Cross from raising money in Oklahoma for programs in other states.
It’s ridiculous. It’s wrong. It’s un-American.
Voicing political opinions, even unpopular opinions, is a constitutional right, and raising money is part of that right. There’s no legitimate reason why the state should prevent any charity from raising money to spend anywhere.
HB 2250 is bad legislation, and we hope it never sees the light of day in the state Senate.

Apparently a number of state legislators are unaware of the 1st Amendment:

Tulsa World Editorial: UnAmerican bill targets animal rights groups
FREEDOM!!!

That is the only clause in the Oklahoma Constitution on Separation of Church and State. This helps the House reach several of its goals: directly funding madrasas (religious schools), putting monuments to Christ on government property, and adopting Sharia law. Wait, no, not that last one. That's still bad.

It's like Oklahoma elected the regulars on the Tulsa World comment section.

It shall be unlawful for any person to carry upon or about
his or her person, or in a purse or other container belonging to the
person. . . . any dagger, bowie knife, dirk knife, sword cane,
blackjack, loaded cane, billy, hand chain, metal knuckles, or any
other offensive weapon, whether such weapon be concealed or
unconcealed

One more point on the open carry law...

It is illegal to carry a big knife, brass knuckles, or cats eye... but an assault rifle, that's fine.

It eliminates any need for a permit to open carry

Sounds like it takes us back a few years to when there was no law forbidding open carry.  We seem to forget that having to license and register to open carry was actually not granting a privilege, but rather taking a right.

§ 26. Bearing arms - Carrying weapons.

The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person, or property, or in aid of the civil power, when thereunto legally summoned, shall never be prohibited; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the Legislature from regulating the carrying of weapons.

A. A person shall be permitted to carry loaded and unloaded shotguns, rifles and pistols, open and not concealed [ later amended to include: and without a handgun license as authorized by the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act, Sections 1 through 25 of this act], pursuant to the following conditions:

1. When hunting animals or fowl;

2. During competition in or practicing in a safety or hunter safety class, target shooting, skeet, trap or other recognized sporting events;

3. During participation in or in preparation for a military function of the state military forces to be defined as the Oklahoma Army or Air National Guard, Federal Military Reserve and active military forces;

4. During participation in or in preparation for a recognized police function of either a municipal, county or state government as functioning police officials;

2. The carrying or use of weapons in a manner otherwise permitted by statute or authorized by the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act, Section 1290.1 et seq. of this title; or

In 2003 they added an exception for carrying a firearm in public for the purposes of reenactment (http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeid=449883) --- 13 years ago in Oklahoma you couldn't legally carry a fake musket onto a fake battlefield.

I wonder if this passes, would that mean I could get the state to refund my damn $200 I spent on a 10 year firearm license?

My guess is no.  If it were to pass that way, it would never come to committee.

"After the 2012 elections, the Republican Party held more than two-thirds of the seats in the Oklahoma Senate and the Oklahoma House of Representatives."

36 to 12 in the Senate and 71 to 29 in the house. Not much gets done in the Oklahoma legislature without conservative Republican leadership.

Its not their fault. Its yours. If you voted republican for your state legislature in 2012 and 2014, and to return Fallin, this is your payback. Same thing happening in the Congress. Why blame them? They told you they were the most conservative.

I borrowed money to start a retirement business. I'm becoming very skeptical of opening it here.

Thanks for the citations.

Ha!  The Oklahoma Historical Society was encouraging me to do just that... even have an OHS "volunteer of the year" plaque.  Did the same for the National Parks Service as a "volunteer interpreter."   Then there were all the school programs.  Didnt seem to slow anyone down.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gay rights advocates in Oklahoma are celebrating the demise of more than two dozen bills in the Oklahoma Legislature this year that they say unfairly discriminate against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, community.

Freedom Oklahoma Director Troy Stevenson said Monday that all 27 bills they targeted as discriminating against the constitutional rights of LGBT people failed to advance after a key deadline passed last week.

Stevenson praised gay rights supporters who visited their lawmakers and urged them to vote against the bills. Stevenson also praised "fair-minded" legislators in both parties who opposed the measures.

Broken Bow Republican Sen. Joseph Silk sponsored two bills targeted by the group and says he expects to reintroduce both of his measures again next year.

Gay Rights Advocates Celebrate Demise of Anti-LGBT Bills

http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/gay-rights-advocates-celebrate-demise-anti-lgbt-bills (http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/gay-rights-advocates-celebrate-demise-anti-lgbt-bills)

Joseph Silk is a smile-for-brains

Now, I thought this bill

SB1457 would define the term “motorcycle profiling” to mean the discriminatory use of the fact that a person rides a motorcycle or wears motorcycle-related paraphernalia as a factor in deciding to stop and question, take enforcement action, arrest or search a person or vehicle with or without a legal basis under the U.S. Constitution or Oklahoma Constitution.

...might have been aimed at the habit of routinely referring to motorcyclists as "gang members" but it could just as well address this


Police officer allegedly pepper-sprays passing motorcyclists
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/police-officer-allegedly-pepper-sprays-passing-mot/nqkdz

Police officer allegedly pepper-sprays passing motorcyclists
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/police-officer-allegedly-pepper-sprays-passing-mot/nqkdz/