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The Obama Watch
Shutting Down Free Speech
It goes hand in hand with the administration’s “democratizing” plans.
Popular speech and political dissent have proved troublesome to President Barack Obama since the very beginning of his term in office. The Obama Administration began waging war on the minority of media outlets that did not worship at his altar immediately after he was sworn in. Just three days into his presidency Obama warned Congressional Republicans against listening to radio host Rush Limbaugh.
In April, Obama responded to a sycophantic question from CBS news anchor Harry Smith by falsely claiming Limbaugh and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck labeled Obama a “Nazi.” Obama responded by identifying as “troublesome” “this kind of vitriol.”
During the intervening 15 months, White House officials attempted to marginalize balanced news outlets such as the Fox News Channel by enlisting the support of the heretofore compliant news media. Fortunately, competing news outlets found the backbone — if only temporarily — to put the kibosh on Obama’s attempts to blacklist FNC from the White House press pool.
These heavy-handed actions, as well as worries about the Obama Administration reinstituting the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” for talk radio are small time when one considers what the government is capable of accomplishing if a handful of current proposals are enacted.
First is the Federal Communication Commission’s National Broadband Plan. There is an overabundance of big government programs contained in the plan for Americans to dislike. These range from having taxpayers fund broadband as a universal service to developing a process by which outside entities — including the government — can monitor how Americans use energy at home, just to name a few.
The NBP also proposes the FCC recapture nearly half of the radio spectrum used by today’s 1,600 broadcast TV stations — involuntarily, if need be — and designate it for broadband services. The FCC identifies the swath of spectrum that is ideal for the latest wireless services as that which falls between 225 MHz and 3.7 GHz.
TV broadcasters occupy only five per cent of that spectrum with other actors — including the government — sitting on much larger chunks of spectrum, some of which lies fallow. Even Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, whose company would likely be the single biggest beneficiary of the National Broadband Plan, found the FCC’s “looming spectrum shortage” claims to not be credible.
“I don’t think the FCC should tinker with this,” Seidenberg told the Council on Foreign Relations in April. “I don’t think we’ll have a spectrum shortage the way [the National Broadband Plan] suggests we will.”
So why target broadcast spectrum?
The answer may lie in remarks made by confidantes to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. First, a few introductions are in order.
Fifteen years ago, Genachowski was senior policy advisor to then-FCC Chairman Reed Hundt. Hundt’s chief of staff at the time was Blair Levin. Now, flash forward. Hundt served as a senior member of the Obama transition team and he is in close communication with Genachowski. Levin chaired the NBP task force that reported to Genachowski. Small world, eh?
Speaking before a Columbia University audience in March, Hundt discussed the intent of the NBP. He informed his audience that the goal to disenfranchise — if not completely end — broadcasting was crafted during his FCC days. “This is a little naughty,” he offered as an example. “We delayed the transition to HDTV [high definition television] and fought a big battle against the whole idea.”
The drive to move news and information away from broadcast and similar platforms to broadband would change the paradigm of how content is created he explained. “[P]eople will be permitted to create audiences that demand content instead of waiting for content to pull them together to shape an audience [emphasis added].” Hundt did not elaborate on his remarks. However, he did admit that the NBP is a stark departure from the current way of delivering news and information.
“It has actually been an essential characteristic of the media in the United States that we have never had a plan [for communications and the media]. And we have felt that was in the nature of our democracy and our capitalism to not have a plan. It’s kind of interesting to think that we now we’re imitating China,” he observed.
Then in December 2009, Genachowski appointed Duke University law Professor Stuart Benjamin to his staff. Benjamin let on that his duties include advising Genachowski on radio spectrum use and First Amendment matters.
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Melvin| 5.3.10 @ 7:32AM
It looks like El Presidente underestimates us. The harder he squeezes us, the faster we slip through his fingers.
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.3.10 @ 9:04AM
WOW!
They certainly have not shut down Sarah's free speech. Check out American Thinker today, they are on fire over there.
Jon B| 5.6.10 @ 8:05PM
Yes, we'd better "Watch what we say" or we might end up as an aging peace activist on a no-fly list. President Obama could even enact illegal wiretaps and lie to the public about it! He may secretly pour through our bank records and emails, and enact policy so we can be arrested and detained for any reason, or no reason at all based on his whim. He might restrict anyone from the press who asks a tough question, and even ban them from Air Force One. Obama could Possibly create an office to create lies to start a war of his choosing while running away from America's enemies allowing them to strengthen and leaving the whole steaming mess for the next President to clean up! Wouldn't that be horrific???!!! But wait! He doesn't have to do any of it because BU$H already has.
No one with a brain could possibly be dumb enough to support a President like that, except you.
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 5.6.10 @ 11:11PM
You are an idiot. "No one with a brain could possibly be dumb enough to support a President like that, except you."
Obama has kept all of GWB's policies; even worse he's using them against us, too! Why don't you complain about that, hypocrite? You Liberals are blind to your own crap--you're truly insane.
What about Obama's Predator drones that are slaughtering innocents in Afghanistan and Pakistan? He even made a joke about the senseless killing. Shame on you for your deceit and hypocrisy--it's what we expect from liberal scumsuckers like you.
Jon B| 5.7.10 @ 1:40PM
Would you kindly attempt to point out any inaccuracies in anything I've said? Or are you just warming up for a stint as the filler of hot air balloons?
Nick| 5.7.10 @ 6:25PM
Pay no attention to Jon B, folks.
He peddles lies and marxist propaganda. Oops! Redundant.
Like the lie that President Reagan gave the Soviets $425 billion.
After 3 days of trying to belittle those of us who called him out on his lie, he finally admitted his fabrication.
Although, he then claimed it was a mistake That it was actually $425 million, but he offered no source. Just his deeply flawed memories.
He also doesn't know that, in America, we refer to it as the Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS), not US SC, or United States' Supreme Court.
What a moron.
Alan Brooks| 5.3.10 @ 7:03PM
But soon an actor or host will able to say f--k and s--t all they want, on TV.
AINT PROGRESS GRAND?
Daphne| 5.3.10 @ 9:56PM
That's the "progress" you stupid Progressives bring, fool.
enemy of the State #666| 5.3.10 @ 7:37AM
The first step is to "shut down Lloyd" by any and all means, period. This clown is nothing but a shrill for the wanna-be king, dipsheet obama. Notice every time the democratic process does not conform to the Representative Republic's tenets, the Constitution, these frauds first and foremost concerns are, confuse the masses? An old trick of an older dog. Nothing new here, except, they are deadly serious about the dissent of those who know they are traitors to this Republic. There are many ways to skin a cat, a dog and a communist/marxist traitor.
Tom Osterman| 5.3.10 @ 7:39AM
It was only a matter of time until a left-wing administration tried to do to the public what the Left has been doing on college campuses, namely try to control speech the way it tries to control everything else. But what else to expect from people who admire the likes of Castro, Mao, Chavez etc.?
Shamus| 5.3.10 @ 7:49AM
Leftists hate freedom. They won't rest until they've made us into the slaves of the state.
old white guy| 5.3.10 @ 4:00PM
the only way to remain free is to kill those who want to enslave you. americans have forgotten this.
Purpleguy| 5.3.10 @ 5:34PM
This from the bunch of right-wingers that supported GW Bush while he suspended habeas corpus (why?), passed the Patriot Act and Warrantless wiretapping (secretly of course)? Sounds like the kettle calling the pot black. All this hysteria is over the goverment's efforts to secure cyberspace, which if you haven't been listening, can provide for the next war - cyberwar. Calm down, and be glad the government is finally awake to the problem and is doing something about it. Your freedoms are not at risk.
Margie| 5.3.10 @ 5:48PM
Look at the little Communist licking the boots of his Master!
Shamus| 5.3.10 @ 5:51PM
I was opposed to the Patriot Act and never a fan of George Bush. The fact is that government power has grown under Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Bush, Carter,Ford and Nixon. Government hates freedom. Government will put you in a cell, break your bones, strap electrodes to your balls, and .ask you to thank it for the pain it inflicts. Through out history, when government gains power, it uses this power to hurt people and to steal from them. There are very few examples of benevolent governments, while there are many examples of governments who steal from their people and kill them. You are a fool if you think your government will help you.
Purpleguy| 5.3.10 @ 11:16PM
Don't stop there ... Government power has grown almost from the very founding of the country. Nowhere in the Constitution is the Alien and Sedition Act in 1800 from John Adams allowed. Nowhere in the Constitution can Thomas Jefferson buy the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. More recently, there was nowhere in the Constitution the ability for FDR to lock up Japanese citizens in WWII. Nowhere in the Constitution could Truman induct steel workers into the Army from the Steel industry in 1948 to end a steel strike. Nowhere in the Constitution is Eisenhower allowed to create the Interstate Highway system. Nowhere in the Constitution was it legal for Reagan to sell arms to Iran in the Iran-Contra fiasco. It goes on and on ....
As the country has grown from 2,000,000 people to 300,000,000 today, the government has grown accordingly to protect the people, provide for common needs and provide the framework for continuing economic growth. I realize y'all are mad at the government for your plight in life - but it is YOUR life and the government is not to blame for your choices.
Take all government away and you are Anarchists... If you want that, fine, move to Somalia and enjoy total freedom. Otherwise, be happy you have a relatively benevolent government - until they start using computer technology to track your every move and thought. That day will come, and I wouldn't want to be on the side of the anti-government group, 'cause you're going down.
Margie| 5.3.10 @ 11:23PM
Spoken like the true piece of Communist trash that you are.
Keep on wasting your breath.
JmsA| 5.4.10 @ 11:59AM
Purpleturd,
I guess you haven't noticed: We have government, and still we have anarchists, at least in Santa Cruz, CA. Funny, it doesn't seem that the government was able to stop or mitigate the damage done by the anarchist rioters in that city. And given the fact that city residents voted by a ratio of nearly 4:1 for Obama, I don't think it could reasonably blame on the Tea Party. Too bad, huh?. So much for the benevolent and efficient government. I'm certain, that their pension funds and high salaries, paid by the taxpayers and aggrieved business owners, are doing just fine.
Further wisdom droppings from the turd: "Otherwise, be happy you have a relatively benevolent government - until they start using computer technology to track your every move and thought. That day will come, and I wouldn't want to be on the side of the anti-government group, 'cause you're going down."
Nice threat, not to mention the fact, that such is already happening--though by your zeal, you obviously not only don't mind it, but would love to see it at full force. 11/02/2010
Sherry| 5.4.10 @ 11:57PM
You piece of communist, marxist, nazi trash. You would be a fine soldier for Hitler. If you dont like the freedom everyone deserves get the hell out of this country and go to some other Communist country where they would welcome you. How do you think you made your comment. Freedom of speach. Why do you think you are here. Because my father, like millions of other dads faught for our freedom. You are a twisted soul. You dont even know your history. Read the Constitution like the bible. Oh sorry, you dont believe in GOD.
Jon B| 5.7.10 @ 1:43PM
Hitler hated the communists. He killed them. Hitler never enacted any of Marx's policies, although he used some of his rhetoric. Same as Bush enacting some of the most anti-Christian policies this country has ever witnessed while claiming to be a Christian.
Wild Bill Alaska| 5.5.10 @ 4:18PM
Purple "progressive".You are suffering from the misguided impression that these measures will be enacted.After the mid term elections there will not be enough democrats left in congress to pass anything,and anything already passed,including oBAMAcare will be repealed.You "social engineers" have had your chance to run things for awhile and guess what?America REJECTS your agenda.If I were you I would make plans to be the ones looking for a place to run,especially after oBAMA gets his walking papers in 2012 and a true American like Sarah Palin gets our republic back on course.
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 5.6.10 @ 1:30AM
Hell Yeah!! Go Sarah!
Chuckie| 5.3.10 @ 6:05PM
Mr. Bush didn't suspend habeas corpus. He didn't pass the Patriot Act. Presidents are the Executive branch of government, not the legislative branch. The Patriot Act was passed by a Democrat dominated congress. Warrant-less wiretaps were allowed only when talking internationally and only when talking to terrorist suspects. Why are leftists incapable of saying anything true?
commonsense247| 5.3.10 @ 6:53PM
Truth is rational and reasonable. Leftists know nothing of either, and cannot therefore be or say anything truthful.
Purpleguy| 5.3.10 @ 11:04PM
Sorry, right wing nut job, but you are wrong. The Patriot Act was passed by the Republican Congress, and to become LAW it had to be signed by the President, ya know, Georgie Boy. In any case, Georgie had to sign it to make it law. And, moreover the President Executes the Laws, and under Dubya, Laws were ignored and unconstitutional laws were implemented.
Interloper| 5.3.10 @ 11:28PM
Name them, moron.
Take back your lie that W suspended habeas corpus.
Dirtbag.
Purpleguy| 5.4.10 @ 2:37PM
Go lookup his 700+ signing statements where he categorically tells his minions what parts of the law to follow and what part to ignore. If you don't do your homework, don't talk out of your ass.
Here's a start written by another Republican, read it and weep Klown :
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20060113.html
Purpleguy| 5.4.10 @ 2:43PM
HE DID suspend it, but kept getting UNCONSTITUTIONAL thrown at the idiot President. Once again, dittoheads don't care about the facts....
This is the short version about Bush's attempts to suspend habeas corpus:
The Department of Justice has taken the position in litigation that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 does not amount to a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed in a 2-1 decision, on February 20, 2007,[9] which the U.S. Supreme Court initially declined to review. The U.S. Supreme Court then reversed its decision to deny review and took up the case in June 2007. In June 2008, the court ruled 5-4 that that the act did suspend habeas and found it unconstitutional.[10]
SoCon| 5.4.10 @ 5:06PM
Habeas corpus was SUSPENDED for enemy combatants, moron. Typical fascist liberal liar.
The Patriot Act was used by GWB to PROTECT American citizens from terrorism; Obama uses the Patriot Act to ATTACK American citizens.
Who is the terrorist now?
Better watch your nasty threats, troll, they may come back and bite you on your traitorous butt.
The numbers are on OUR side.
Purpleguy| 5.5.10 @ 6:07PM
I guess they already have bitten YOU in the butt. You lost in 2006 and again in 2008, and you're deranged if you think you are growing in numbers - you ain't. So, get ready for the New World Order where you WILL comply. The polls are shifting not in your direction. Have a nice day!
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 5.6.10 @ 1:41AM
It'll never happen, a-hole; I promise you.
We'll take you down with us. Oath Keepers will make sure of it.
Got your jack boots on again while goose-stepping around your step-mom's basement, Nazi loser?
You know we're gonna bust your ass in November--admit it, weenie. Even that pile of shit Obey is running for the hills because he knows he'll get smashed in November!! Haha!
Read it and weep, turd. Obama's commie agenda is screwed. Hooray!
Ken Boyer| 5.6.10 @ 8:04AM
Purpleguy, you seem to be sincere in your desire for the government forcing people to comply. Why? I don't want to see anyone forcing you to change your views. However, you are showing your colors here. Please, tell us why you are not packing up and moving to Iran or North Korea. Why would you rather see this country go in their direction?
Jon B| 5.6.10 @ 10:32PM
Habeus Corpus was suspended for American citizens as well. And since anyone (including American citizens) could be arrested and detained with no evidence at all presented, no representation, no charges filed, no speedy trial, no Constitutional rights at all (Except one: The Bush administration blocked ALL US police agencies from accessing the Federal gun background checks records of the detainees choosing NRA campaign $'s over National Security), You're just dead wrong, Con.
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 5.6.10 @ 10:45PM
Did it happen even ONCE, moron? NO, it didn't.
You stupid Marxist morons screamed and cried for nearly eight long years about your rights, and NOT ONCE were they violated. Why don't we hear your cries of indignation now that Obama is channeling ugly little Marxist, Hugo Chavez?
You disgust me, hypocrite
I slept okay with GWB in the White House; not so much now with the little Marxist bastard currently ensconced there.
Jon B| 5.7.10 @ 1:45PM
Bush did arrest and detain American citizens w/o any charges. It did happen, and was reported by the corporate owned MSM print media. Maybe you missed it somehow? But that ignorance would be your choice. It's not my fault you aren't aware of it.
Connie| 5.5.10 @ 12:34AM
Tell me, how does Nerobama's rear taste?
And why is it YOU can't detect the poison in that purple Kool-ade you're guzzling?
No wonder Stalin called your kind "useful idiots."
Interloper| 5.3.10 @ 7:24PM
Purplyguy brown noses the Brown One.
Diogenes| 5.3.10 @ 7:58AM
Are liberals so over wrought with greed and a hunger for power that they overlook what these tools will mean to conservatives if they gain control of the government? One common trait of over educated (usually at public expenses btw) ideologues is the lack of common sense and any ability or desire to ferret out unintended consequences. Think of those 159 new HC commisions, think of conservative government ownership of GM (and all those union employees), think of the powers imbedded in the proposed Wall Street reform. The question isn't if they will be used in unintended ways.....they will
Dan Hirsch| 5.3.10 @ 9:17AM
Diogenes;
You are making a huge assumption - that conservative government would use power the way the current government is: to overstep the Constitutional authorities of the federal government.
What we saw, for the most part, under Reagan and the '94 Congress was a retrenchment (however, slight) of Executive Branch and federal interference in the private sector. Your implicit assumption that conservatives would act like the Democrats you call liberals is more a case of projection than proven past behavior.
Now if you want to talk about what Republicans would do, then we have to look at the Bush presidencies and realize, 'that's what the Tea Parties are talking about.'
Basically, get out of our lives!
Don't tread on me.
Appleby| 5.3.10 @ 9:42AM
The point is not what the Republicans/Conservatives WOULD do or COULD do, but what the Limited Liberals, who see the world if not the universe only through their own kaleidoscopes, BELIEVE they would do if they turned these laws on their opponents.
As the French say, nobody looks under the bed unless he has hidden there himself.
Purpleguy| 5.3.10 @ 5:40PM
You're joking, right? The Bush Administration was some of the worst offenders of the Constitution in modern times. You had total control of Congress and the Presidency and a Supreme Court friendly to Republican ideas - and what did they do? They overreached, overspent, and over deregulated industry and financial concerns. This left the mess for the Democratic Administration to cleanup or fix. And, then y'all bitch and moan because they are fixing and cleaning. Hypocrites unite under the Tea Party banner and let Fox News promote your sad little party! The Big Boys are in charge now. November 2010 will be a big surprise for y'all.
Margie| 5.3.10 @ 5:44PM
Duuuuhhhhh.
Shamus| 5.3.10 @ 5:55PM
Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan and Carter violated the rights of the American people.
Government is a force for evil, and when it gains control it creates piles of bodies and masses of torture victims. It really doesn't matter what kind of good progressive intentions it has has at the start. The finish is pure evil.
Margie| 5.3.10 @ 5:58PM
Purple tool is a tool, nothing but a tool, and strictly a Communist tool. He cares nothing for debate or for reason. I mock him and laugh in his despicable face!
SoCon| 5.3.10 @ 7:27PM
Margie, did you hear about the violent leftist rallies in San Francisco and Santa Cruz?
Violence ALWAYS comes from the Left.
Margie| 5.3.10 @ 9:43PM
SoCon~ I think I heard something about them. Did they kill each other? LOL. They are so out of their minds they don't even understand themselves! I do pity them. I have an entire family of them.. so I know.
Liberals live in Never Never Land, and some dwell in the Land of No Return, but for an intervention by God Himself.
SoCon| 5.3.10 @ 10:04PM
Margie, check out this site: RememberNovember.com. The videos are awesome! It's the Republican Governors' Association site.
Margie| 5.3.10 @ 11:29PM
Thanks SoCon, I will. I could use a bit of encouragement.
If we want to defeat the Communists we have to vote Republican. Remember what el Rushbo said~ There are NO Communists or Marxists in the Republican party.
Why do you think the Left puts out SO much effort constantly bashing them? Just look at every word that comes out of their mouths~ it's always "look how BAD the Republicans are, they're losers, they're no good, they're over." They say it because they KNOW it is the right party to vote for and if everyone votes REPUBLICAN the Communist scum Democrats will be HOUNDED out of office!
You don't like the RINO's people? Then elect conservative Republicans~ but be done with the the third party idea~ it CANNOT work!!!
Jon B| 5.6.10 @ 10:41PM
Margie, you seem to have completely ignored the massive wealth redistribution from tax paying Americans to corporations and the wealthiest Americans that occurred from 1-2001 to 1-2009. (Over $11 trillion redistributed to the top) Why?
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 5.6.10 @ 10:49PM
Stupid braindead liberal: Taxes for the wealthy INCREASED while GWB was president.
Get your head out of your butt.
JimE| 5.3.10 @ 6:55PM
Purpletard, Your hero obama has left all of Bush's policies in place, you are an idiot .
SoCon| 5.3.10 @ 7:03PM
You're right, Jim--and the creep is using them against us!
Purpleguy| 5.3.10 @ 11:20PM
You're right, of course, the shadow government that controls all Presidents is in constant mode of gaining more and more control over all of us. They aren't elected, but they are the most powerful people in the world, and only the United States stands in their way. Power grabbed will not be given back, D or R doesn't matter. It's your fate, so you might as well get used to it.
Margie| 5.3.10 @ 11:33PM
Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I tawt I taw a puddy tat. I did, I did.
Joe Schmuckatelli| 5.4.10 @ 1:49PM
The shadow gummint? Oh no, it's the Jooooooooooooooooooooooos!
SoCon| 5.3.10 @ 7:02PM
Yeah, what are you traitors going to do? Create a crisis so the election is called off? It's the only way you creeps are going to hang on to congress,
and we all know that won't last.
Rahmbo says a good (manufactured) crisis should never go to waste, right?
Radegunda| 5.4.10 @ 2:11AM
They "over deregulated"? Wow, that's really scary. Less government regulation means more oppression ... HOW?
Strange that you're not upset by a government takeover of banks, auto companies, ALL student loans (you can't get one without gov's approval), ALL medical care, and plans to take over news & media, and regulate CO2 output---as long as it's so-called "Democrats" who are perpetrating the power grab.
Tom Osterman| 5.3.10 @ 9:57AM
Liberals and leftists don't think about the kinds of consequences you mention because they intend to get themselves so firmly in power that no one will be able to get them out, much less succeed them. That's how old Joe Stalin died in his bed. The strategy is "Do unto others, but do it first."
AmenBro| 5.3.10 @ 12:19PM
Instructive in this appalling possibility is how CLINTON & BUSH handled the Justice Dept and political appointees. Clinton Fired every damn body. Purged the bureaucracy of Republicanism wherever possible
Bush for whatever reason let retards such as George Tenant CIA Director live to screw the pooch another day. Bush allowed himself to be DOGGED at nearly every step by the APPOINTEE bureaucracy STATE.
OBAMA is putting "snakes in the ground under the woodpile" having LONG & LAT co-ordinates underground in China,,,, vast deep & encompassing.
IT WILL TAKE DECADES TO UNDO THE DAMAGE PEOPLES
old white guy| 5.3.10 @ 4:03PM
bush allowed it because he was and is part of it.
Missy| 5.3.10 @ 6:51PM
Perhaps, but I refuse to believe that GWB is a Marxist. Obama is a threat to our liberty.
Connie| 5.5.10 @ 12:40AM
Ever hear of martial law, Diogenes? I have serious doubts he plans to allow us to ever GET into office again--not without spilled blood. He's sucking up all the air in the room as FAST as he can....
Tenn Slim| 5.3.10 @ 9:02AM
Excellent Article
Spread the word
Semper Fi
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Ken (Old Texican)| 5.3.10 @ 9:30AM
Folks, over a year ago I posted a rather long comment on this subject.
The "PUNCH-LINE" was this: "EVERY 1st and third Saturday mornings at your county courthouse to meet if these communists, (pardon the shorthand), turn off our media or internet."
To put a point on it ladies and gentlemen, come to the meetings with empty hands...empty hands...
Once again, I direct your attention to Oath Keepers web-site. If you go to those courthouse lawn meetings, check signals with the local police or deputies etc. and find out how many of them ARE oath keepers.
(Please read the ten orders they will not obey, then watch the videos on their home-page.)
I might even go this far...go to your county courthouse...on the absolute FOLLOWING Saturday after ANY internet or media interruption.
Be calm, be cool, but be there!
Finally, it might not be a bad idea to send a SHORT fax or letter to your congress critters right the hell now about this. I am.
Deborah D | 5.3.10 @ 11:06AM
Ken -- thanks for that reminder. It's definitely good to know where we should go if there is a news blackout. It wouldn't even have to be done by Obama and sons, it could be a terrorist attack. So, just knowing that is good to know.
I don't put anything past this current administration and this current Congress. They are relentless, and they seem to hate the country we love. Vigilance!!
davelnaf| 5.3.10 @ 10:25AM
In almost every administration there is a tendency to overreach and control for political gain. This impulse usually ends up being shelved after the initial trial balloon is punctured and comes back to earth. And one would think that the unintended consequences of a control-the-airwaves power grab would be particularly alarming to any administration and give it pause for thought. But, apparently, the Control-Freak-in-Chief himself is behind this scheme.
Obama may not be that hostile to the idea of people freely expressing themselves, but when this expression includes criticism of him and his policies he sees it as just another area of American life that needs the heavy hand of Federal intervention. Hopefully, the MSM will find the guts to call Obama out on this and not drink the Kool-Aid that is offered by his disingenuous press secretary in his usual disingenuous remarks. It is a national disgrace for a president of the United States to even attempt something like this and a good example of why Obama was unfit to be president in the first place.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 5.3.10 @ 10:27AM
I hate to be critical but one of the first tenets of journalism is to clear up the issue at hand. After reading this article it is not clear whether Obama is a Nazi or not.
Shamus| 5.3.10 @ 5:57PM
Obama is what you might call a slacker Nazi. He's not as dedicated as someone like Adolf Hitler, but he would follow Hitler's example if it didn't require a lot of effort on his part.
ernie| 5.3.10 @ 10:47AM
Indoctrinated Moron Slave To State Syndrome.
Pi**On Obama
ernie| 5.3.10 @ 11:15AM
The Final Solution:
The Depopulation Of The Non-Producing Citizens
Such As Seniors =ObamaCare
texasgranny| 5.4.10 @ 10:06PM
Ernie, thanks for picking up on the fact that Nobama has no use for Seniors, but I do note that we are priviledged enough to continue to pay taxes to his Royal Hinney.
diogenes| 5.3.10 @ 11:00AM
Dan, I am a conservative. When I observe what I would call BFO (blinding flash of the obvious) such as a headlong rush for powers that disable fundemental aspects of our constitution and what would happen in an administration turnaround, I wonder. Today my concern is politicians, politicians almost all believe in big government, it's why they run (to control others), surgeons believe in surgery, lawyers believe in contracts and tort. Has anyone suffered from an unregulated internet?
Government, whether R's or D's is self serving. The first and only objective is to wash money through DC. We have a great military but at what cost . Has anyone ever calculated the net cost of any government program.
Disintermediation (like health care, or welfare or education) rarely works. States have these issues, states should deal with these isssues. When the federal government steps in, states step back.
I think there is a solution and a fairly simple one. Limit the money the government has to spend. Some debt is a good thing, almost every household in America has used this to great advantage during the last 50 years. But as we all know too much debt is not a good idea. The number one priority is established managable level of debt. The next is predictable level of taxes that we must live within. That doesn't mean the end of spending we just need to find more effective ways of spending. We should continue to help those who cannot help themselves.
We all need to agree on a future vision. If the vision doesn't work for some perhaps there are contries that would suit them better.
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.3.10 @ 1:38PM
Diogenes,
You are an ___hole!
NO REPUBLICAN HAS EVER DONE THIS STUFF!
If you can't get your head straight...you are simply a "pastel" enemy of our beloved republic.
Please get off the fence and get serious. Barbed-wire in your butt-cheeks is no longer possible.
Deborah D | 5.3.10 @ 11:01AM
I read an interesting article over at the American Thinker last week. It was by a "recovered liberal" psychotherapist who likens those liberals under the spell of Obama to Stockholm Syndrome victims. Basically they are captured and in order to survive their ordeal they start to identify with their captors. So, they will stick with "The One" regardless of whether it is good for their country, their economy, their children or themselves.
I say that to say this -- if that is true, how many of the MSM are Obama-Stockholm Syndrome zombies? And if there are a great many of them, will they care that their own freedom of speech is on the line or will the survival instinct finally kick in?
You can read her article here: http://www.americanthinker.com.....ome_1.html
Petronius| 5.3.10 @ 11:08AM
What BO would really like to do is pull the license of every broadcaster who refuses to kiss his cheeks.
He doesn't because even his own judges won't back him on that one.
Pingback| 5.3.10 @ 11:17AM
Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : Shutting Down Free Speech [spectator links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Heatpacker| 5.3.10 @ 11:31AM
America's radical leftists are cowards. They hide in the shadows and secretly plot to undermine our Constitution and destroy our individual rights. They don't have the courage or confidence to openly state their intentions.
The Useful Idiots in the MSM hide the truth about them from the citizenry, believing that they will be exempted from the censorship to come. In truth, their industry will be the first to go if the plans of the radicals meet with success.
We live in dangerous times. The election of Obama has emboldened our internal enemies. I commend Mark Hyman for shining a light on these fascist cockroaches. They loathe exposure.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Many thanks to the American Spectator for guarding the gates.
old white guy| 5.3.10 @ 4:07PM
the left wants to use others, police ,young military and others to subdue you when it becomes necessary. unfortunately you will have to fight your own to remain free. much like the civil war family will have to fight family
Stephanie| 5.3.10 @ 11:42AM
America's radical leftists are cowards. They hide in the shadows and secretly plot to undermine our Constitution and destroy our individual rights. They don't have the courage or confidence to openly state their intentions.
Ahh Heatpacker, some of them do state it openly.That's what frustrates the heck out of me.
It's out there in the open what this commie prez of ours is all about, was during the campaign! And the fool still voted for him. Lord help us.
Anonymous| 5.3.10 @ 11:53AM
Democratic Centralism-- see, there's "democratic" in there somewhere! Left/liberals think they must protect people from harmful freedom and oppressive personal responsibility-- those things are "racist," you know.
JJ| 5.3.10 @ 12:12PM
I'm already ahead of the game here. I'm watching the Obama rise to power video, the inaugural speech dvd and the Soviet Peoples State videos of the 70's. I just want to be on the cutting edge of the future of TV in America. I just ordered the Chairman Mao dvd series.
Pingback| 5.3.10 @ 12:13PM
Shutting down free speech links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Pingback| 5.3.10 @ 12:25PM
Must Know Headlines 5.3.2010 — ExposeTheMedia.com links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
NavyBrat | 5.3.10 @ 12:35PM
"Lloyd also commented that when independent media outlets criticized Chavez's policies, the Venezuelan dictator "began to take very seriously the media in his country." Lloyd's comments came in the middle of Chavez's two-year run of closing down nearly every single privately-owned media outlet in Venezuela, thereby ending all criticism of the government."
Gotta love this. It's amazing not only that history repeats itself, but that it repeats itself almost exactly in this instance. Creepy, to say the least, when you look at the parallels to this:
"It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion."...Joseph Goebbels
"The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this."...Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Eventually, it all leads to the following, which we've already seen begin in Venezuela:
"We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison."...Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Watch your six, folks!
Margie| 5.3.10 @ 5:25PM
"The first task of propaganda is to win people for subsequent organization; the first task of organization is to win men for the continuation of propaganda. The second task of propaganda is the disruption of the existing state of affairs and the permeation of this state of affairs with the new doctrine, while the second task of organization must be the struggle for power, thus to achieve the final success of the doctrine." ~Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf.
Purpleguy| 5.3.10 @ 11:25PM
I couldn't describe the Tea Party agenda any better. Thanks!
Curley| 5.3.10 @ 11:34PM
Goebbels would be so proud of you, Herr Slimeball.
Pig of a propagandist!
Margie| 5.3.10 @ 11:38PM
Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. My name is purple communist and I tote the Communist line. That's all I know how to do. I'm a flamin' idiot. To everything you say, I'll just come back with the Communist lingo no matter what you say. I'm like a bird looking in its mirror in its cute little cage. All I can see is Marx, Lenin, Mao, Hitler and Obama, my idols!! oooweeee!
Purpleguy| 5.4.10 @ 11:26AM
Why don't you go iron a shirt or change the bed linen? This debate is way over your head.
Margie| 5.4.10 @ 11:40AM
LOL. I'm sorry~ you're debating somewhere? Shucks, I must've missed it.
SoCon| 5.4.10 @ 2:08PM
Taking a break from bashing heads and stealing union workers' pensions, PurpleSEIUguy?
Connie| 5.5.10 @ 12:51AM
Gee! All that & sexist, too? Wow! Yer mama must be sooo proud! Wotta wealth of idiocy all in one place, Purplepig!
LOL!
Purpleguy| 5.5.10 @ 9:52PM
Yep, that's me, -ism this and -ism that, whatever you want to blame your sorry little lives on ... but it doesn't change the fact that you are a product of YOUR OWN choices. If you aren't happy with your lot in life, look in the mirror, stop projecting on everyone else, even tho Rush Loudmouth and Glenn "the insane one" Beck tells you who's to blame. It's you and only you that put you in your own unique pickle of a life. But if you want to blame the -isms, or me, or Obama, or Bush or everyone on earth, it is your choice, your free choice and I will defend your right be as nutty as you wanna be - until someone could get hurt. Then you must pull back or be destroyed. And, that's probably another -ism you can blame for your plight - but it won't change your plight, now will it?
Johnno| 5.6.10 @ 1:44AM
You're the one who is going to be smashed in November, loser. Obama's done and so is your crappy commie agenda. The people have spoken!
How's your plight working out for you, stupid?
George S| 5.3.10 @ 12:54PM
If the government was a bar filled with men at three thirty in the morning, the internet would be a good looking woman walking in, sitting down and expecting to be left alone. There are some things that are not in the nature to government and institutions... self-discipline to leave people be is one of them.
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.3.10 @ 3:11PM
Our nation,
Was born in blood. In 1812 it was renewed in the blood of our sons.
In the wars since, it was renewed in the blood of our sons AND daughters.
Sorry, ladies and gentlemen.
Chances are our country must be be-born in blood, once again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Len| 5.3.10 @ 6:00PM
Are you serious? In 1812 we enacted a war of aggression in an attempt to conquer Canada. We were getting our rears handed to us and GB was kind enough to allow us to to save face and not force us to submit to any exacting conditions by treaty.
Purpleguy| 5.3.10 @ 11:27PM
Are you serious? If you are, I sure hope you are first in line to give the blood.
Curley| 5.3.10 @ 11:35PM
Age before beauty, slimeball! You go first.
Give generously!!
Ken ( Old Texican)| 5.3.10 @ 3:20PM
Folks,
President Reagan's funeral hymn...a real US President.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.3.10 @ 3:27PM
Ladies and gentlemen,
One more glimpse of Ronal Reagan's funeral.
The Clintons...
You will not believe it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Shamus| 5.3.10 @ 6:01PM
It's a blessing that Reagan didn't live to see scum like Obama defile his office.
SoCon| 5.3.10 @ 7:29PM
Reagan fought Communists in Hollywood; he would see right through Obama.
Purpleguy| 5.3.10 @ 11:29PM
And, how do you think Reagan would view BushBaby? Would he like his strategery? Would Reagan have invaded Iraq? Reagan was a good foreign policy president, but he was a disaster economically. We're just now trying to recover from his poor "Voodoo Economics" ...
Curley| 5.3.10 @ 11:37PM
Yeah, sure 4 trillion dollar debt moron. 20% unemployment doesn't help you economic disasters, either.
Radegunda| 5.4.10 @ 2:21AM
Reagan only launched about a generation of consistent prosperity and economic growth. It's pretty hilarious that you consider that a "disaster." Maybe you're about 15 and you don't remember the Carteresque stagflation that Reagan pulled us out of. All you have is highly dishonest left-wing propaganda about Reagonomics.
I suppose you think 10% unemployment if "recovery" as long as it's under a "Democrat" regime.
Purpleguy| 5.4.10 @ 11:09AM
No, I'm not 15, and suspect a lot older than you. Volcker pulled us out of the stagflation... what Reagan did was re-design the tax code to close loopholes that had the wealthy chasing unproductive losses to reduce their tax burden. Then the money shifted and was invested into productive work = Jobs. It was not the tax cuts themselves that worked. That is the typical Republican blunder ... tax cuts = jobs; it doesn't. Reagan raised spending at the same time he gave the tax cuts -which created, at that time, the largest deficits the country had ever seen. And, we've been stuck with that idea ever since (xcept when a Democrat comes along). GW Bush repeated the same mistake, but forgot the tax code reform, so result - high deficits. Papa bush actually started a period of boom by raising taxes and Clinton continued it into the longest peacetime boom in our history.
I'm not defending the current spending plans, but you have to at least realize that whoever was President was handed quite a load to fix by the Cheerleader - in - Chief. Thank God it wasn't Grandpa McCain, the "non-Maverick".
SoCon| 5.4.10 @ 2:11PM
Shut up, liar; take back your other lie (among countless others) that W suspended habeas corpus. POS!
Purpleguy| 5.4.10 @ 2:22PM
Bush signed several times to suspend Habeas Corpus - and was reversed every time - not that facts matter to you dittoheads, but read it klown and weep (I know it's long, but if you can't manage it, you can read the last line which is the final word on Bush's intent and actions on suspending Habeas Corpus) :
The November 13, 2001 Presidential Military Order purported to give the President of the United States the power to detain non-citizens suspected of connection to terrorists or terrorism as enemy combatants. As such, that person could be held indefinitely, without charges being filed against him or her, without a court hearing, and without legal counsel. Many legal and constitutional scholars contended that these provisions were in direct opposition to habeas corpus, and the United States Bill of Rights.
In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004), re-confirmed the right of United States citizens to habeas corpus even when declared an enemy combatant. The Court affirmed the basic principle that habeas corpus of a citizen could not be revoked.
In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006), Salim Ahmed Hamdan petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, challenging that the military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay "violate both the UCMJ and the four Geneva Conventions." In a 5-3 ruling the Court rejected Congress's attempts to strip the court of jurisdiction over habeas corpus appeals by detainees at Guantánamo Bay. Though Congress had previously passed the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006 which stated in Section 1005(e), "Procedures for Status Review of Detainees Outside the United States.":
In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004), re-confirmed the right of United States citizens to habeas corpus even when declared an enemy combatant. The Court affirmed the basic principle that habeas corpus of a citizen could not be revoked.
In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006), Salim Ahmed Hamdan petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, challenging that the military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay "violate both the UCMJ and the four Geneva Conventions." In a 5-3 ruling the Court rejected Congress's attempts to strip the court of jurisdiction over habeas corpus appeals by detainees at Guantánamo Bay. Though Congress had previously passed the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006 which stated in Section 1005(e), "Procedures for Status Review of Detainees Outside the United States."
Under the MCA, the law restricted habeas appeals for only those aliens detained as enemy combatants, or awaiting such determination. Left unchanged was the provision that, after such determination is made, it is subject to appeal in U.S. Court, including a review of whether the evidence warrants the determination. If the status was upheld, then their imprisonment was deemed lawful; if not, then the government could change the prisoner's status to something else, at which point the habeas restrictions no longer applied.
Search Wikinews Wikinews has related news: President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006
There is, however, no legal time limit which would force the government to provide a Combatant Status Review Tribunal hearing. Prisoners were, but are no longer, legally prohibited from petitioning any court for any reason before a CSRT hearing takes place.
In January 2007, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee that in his opinion: "There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away." He was challenged by Sen. Arlen Specter who asked him to explain how it is possible to prohibit something from being taken away, without first being granted.[7]
As Robert Parry writes in the Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel:
“ Applying Gonzales’s reasoning, one could argue that the First Amendment doesn’t explicitly say Americans have the right to worship as they choose, speak as they wish or assemble peacefully.
Ironically, Gonzales may be wrong in another way about the lack of specificity in the Constitution’s granting of habeas corpus rights. Many of the legal features attributed to habeas corpus are delineated in a positive way in the Sixth Amendment...[8]
”
The Department of Justice has taken the position in litigation that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 does not amount to a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed in a 2-1 decision, on February 20, 2007,[9] which the U.S. Supreme Court initially declined to review. The U.S. Supreme Court then reversed its decision to deny review and took up the case in June 2007. In June 2008, the court ruled 5-4 that that the act did suspend habeas and found it unconstitutional.[10]
SoCon| 5.4.10 @ 5:09PM
For "ENEMY COMBATANTS" loser.
Cut and paste all you want, you're still a liar.
Purpleguy| 5.4.10 @ 6:13PM
Guess that was too much for your little brain... glad you're no lawyer. If you really gave a shit, you'd go find out for yourself and look at the source documents, not the right wing echo chamber. You have been found lacking, I'm done with your childish wimpers.
SoCon| 5.4.10 @ 6:44PM
Good riddance, loser. It's so easy to beat you, lying piglet.
Go steal some more union pensions--its what you fascists do best.
Connie| 5.5.10 @ 1:14AM
Well, don't let US block your way out. And don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
Whew! Where DID I leave that air freshener?
"Goodness! What a strong smell of sulfur!" ~ Glenda, the Good with of the North (in Oz)
Purpleguy| 5.5.10 @ 9:46PM
Wonderful commentary .. so insightful, so useful. Didn't we leave that kind of talk back in high school? Or is your mentality showing?
Purpleguy| 5.5.10 @ 9:45PM
So am I a fascist or a communist? Anything that isn't you is BAD, is that it? Sorry you lost your union pension (a union is another Progressive idea) , but that's not my fault.
Johnno| 5.6.10 @ 1:48AM
Yeah, we know about Progressive unions, look what the scumbags are doing to Greece. SEIU is crap.
You worthless pieces of human garbage will be beaten back--the American people will prevail.
Jon B| 5.7.10 @ 1:50PM
Bush could declare ANYONE an enemy combatant w/o any proof required, w/o any court review. So dipstick, that means ANYONE could be detained for any reason, or no reason at all, and have the Habeus Corpus rights denied. You're an enemy combatant of the administration feels like saying you are. And it did happen: Innocent Americans were illegally arrested and detained for months this way. Thanks "W" for making the Constitution a joke.
Connie| 5.5.10 @ 1:10AM
Okay...then how'd you like it when KENNEDY lowered taxes which gave us that boom? If he were alive to run today, you idiots would never vote for him.
Jon B| 5.7.10 @ 1:51PM
Kennedy lowered taxes on the top 1% from 91% to 70%, BUT...he eliminated many of the loopholes that existed previously. Reagan lowered this tax to 28% (while raising taxes on the low and middle classes several times) and PRESTO! 11 years later, the National Debt had quadrupled.
Jon B| 5.7.10 @ 1:51PM
Kennedy lowered taxes on the top 1% from 91% to 70%, BUT...he eliminated many of the loopholes that existed previously. Reagan lowered this tax to 28% (while raising taxes on the low and middle classes several times) and PRESTO! 11 years later, the National Debt had quadrupled.
Nick| 5.7.10 @ 6:29PM
Pay no attention to Jon B, folks.
He peddles lies and marxist propaganda. Oops! Redundant.
Like the lie that President Reagan gave the Soviets $425 billion.
After 3 days of trying to belittle those of us who called him out on his lie, he finally admitted his fabrication.
Although, he then claimed it was a mistake That it was actually $425 million, but he offered no source. Just his deeply flawed memories.
He also doesn't know that, in America, we refer to it as the Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS), not US SC, or United States' Supreme Court.
What a moron.
Doctor Right| 5.3.10 @ 4:02PM
These left-wing S.O.B.'s like Genachowski and Benjamin need to be SEVERELY dealt with (politically speaking) if and when we can kick the Liberals out of the Congress and the White House.
By their own words and deeds, they are dedicated to destroying the freedoms of the 1st Amendment simply becuase freedom does NOT serve their purposes. Like all good Left-wingers, they pretend to do it all "for the people".
Well 'We" the people are NOT an abstract principle. We are very real, and we are sick to death of what's being done to our country.
But I'll tell you what else we're sick of. We are sick of the entrenched 5th column in this country that is NEVER called to account for their crimes.
In my humble opinion, the pursuit of the policies described in this article are TREASONOUS. Yes, I said TREASONOUS.
How else would you describe a policy that is intended to destroy the 1st Amendment, and thus alter the political structure of our nation to something very different from what the Founders intended. Those who pursue these policies need to be punished - severely - via prosecutions and jail-time.
China, indeed!
We are NOT Chinese, Mr. Genakowski. And if you and your ilk keep pushing our backs against the wall, you will find that out the hard way.
texasgranny| 5.4.10 @ 10:21PM
Amen, Doc!
Connie| 5.5.10 @ 1:17AM
"Treason" is the term I'VE been using since at least "Wee Willie's Winkie" Clinton was crapping all over the Constitution, the rule of law, the people...in short...AMERICA. It fits more than ever, as time speeds by.
C.K. Amos| 5.3.10 @ 4:31PM
"In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution -- a democratic revolution."
Lloyd probably also looks to Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, Castro, Mao Tse Tung and others of their 20th-century murderous and dictatorial ilk as role models.
Anthony| 5.3.10 @ 4:53PM
Creating new paradigms is a specality of the Left. During the 04 election, we have Dan Rather and the TANG story on Bush, just weeks before the election, to help sway the election.
Rather & Mapes created new journalistic paradigms with the "fake but true" justification for this new form of news reporting. With Rather, it was now up to the defamed to disprove a media hit job. No more 3 sources a la Woodward and Burnstein; much too bothersome, and besides, hit jobs on Conservatives is doing God's work, so it's all ok.
Now we have the FCC back with the "Fairness Dcotrine". This new paradigm says; to hell with the market place, if some lefty malcontents want media time, they will get it, despite audience desire and market demand.
And if you haven't heard, NRO is reporting that the financial reform bill contains language to regulate the INTERNET.
Yep, these Lefties are cute, real cute. When do we stop playing around with these clowns?
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.3.10 @ 5:01PM
Doctor Right,
CK,
God bless. Ya'll are right.
Did you guys read my rather long post above?
I'M JUST GONNA' SAY IT!
There are less than 300 communists, (pardon the shorthand), in our ENTIRE ELECTED GOVERNMENT!
Will 300 true Americans trade their lives... one for one for those bastards?
I shall trade my life for one of them....for my childrens' sake. Don't answer in print, but plan on it if necessary.
Look at the number difference between Demos and Repubs in the "House" of Reps....not that many.
We know that the "useful idiots" are no longer "useful" when their little mocking-bird asses are on the line. They fold up like a cheap umbrella.
If I don't show up here with my stupid, (but effective), prose from day to day, or someone kills me and plays pretend it is me...lock and load, and carry your arms to bed.
Our country is on the precipice....balanced... teetering every day.
Lose me.....you are next.
Please put the above youtube songs in your favorites...and in your hearts.
It looks to me that the communists will kil me soon.
God bless every one of you.
Ken
C.K. Amos| 5.3.10 @ 9:24PM
Yep, read it. Thanks.
I know many of the local, county and state police officers around here. Wouldn't be surprised, though I don't know for sure--but there are a few I will ask--if many of them are Oathkeepers.
By the way, not sure I agree that your posts are over the top. I hear more people talk about the Communists taking over our government.
My response, for what it's worth, is that that's possible only if we let them.
Purpleguy| 5.3.10 @ 11:33PM
Communism is dead or dying in this world. Anyone who thinks ANY Communist could take over this country is an idiot. Didn't we fight that battle in the '50's? This is what is meant by Conservatism? Backward looking, yearning for a past time instead of looking forward to new challenges and progress? Change is hard, but come out of your reactionary shells, the world will move on and leave you behind if you don't keep up.
Curley| 5.3.10 @ 11:39PM
Progressivism is just another word for Communism, deadbeat.
Purpleguy| 5.4.10 @ 2:12PM
Actually, it's not. In the Fox-Rush echo chamber maybe it is, but in the real world, Communism is closer to Fascism and Conservatism, all authoritarian modes of government where the few are powerful, while Progressivism is closer to Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy, where the people actually have more power. But, when you're ready to leave the echo chamber, maybe you'll learn something.
Curley| 5.4.10 @ 5:16PM
Another lie. Communists changed their name to Progressives because Stalin gave them a bad name.
Democrat=Lib/Progressive=Socialist=Commie.
Leftists/Collectivists, all.
You're all the same and you all stink, slimeball.
Purpleguy| 5.4.10 @ 6:18PM
Now what do you suppose Republican = ?
Let's try Conservative = Fascist = Reactionary = Racist = Status Quo = RED = Commie = Tea Bagger = Dwindling population of Troglodytes. You're not all the same, but you DO stink.
Curley| 5.4.10 @ 6:47PM
Thin-skinned little prick--just like your Feltcher in Chief, Obama. POS
Purpleguy| 5.5.10 @ 9:42PM
Is that all the argument you got? Name calling? Go ask Rush Windbag what you should say .. since you have shot your load.
Johnno| 5.6.10 @ 1:52AM
What would you know about that, eunuch?
Teabagging again tonight?
Makes more sense than your braindead spew of DNC talking points, moron.
Connie| 5.5.10 @ 1:22AM
I thought he left! Didn't he snot down his nose & bid us gubbye? He SAID he was leaving, didn't he?
Hmm...where DID I put those rat traps & bugoff spray?
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.3.10 @ 5:47PM
MY POSTS TODAY ARE A LITTLE "OVER THE TOP".
LAST NIGHT THE COMMUNISTS KNOCKED AT MY DOOR AT 3AM.
FORTUNATELY I HAVE THE TEXAS RANGERS ON MY SPEED DIAL.
THANK GOD THERE WAS A TEXAS RANGER IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
...END OF CRISIS...AT LEAST LAST NIGHT.
DO YOU FOLKS HAVE TEXAS RANGERS WATCHING AFTER YOU?
GOD BLESS THE TEXAS RANGERS AND EVERY OTHER OATH KEEPER IN OUR COUNTRY.
I'm still here....writing nonsense...or whatever.
Ken
Deborah D | 5.3.10 @ 6:37PM
Stay safe, our TAS friend. God bless.
Len| 5.3.10 @ 6:24PM
Ok folks the federal government has trained Americans well. How so?
Welllll when legislation such as what is written about here is discussed people start talking about how if the 1st amendment is being violated. In other words people act as if Congress can pass any laws it wants, as long as the prohibitions in the Bill of Rights are not violated.A better way to look at this is not what are the limits of the federal government, but what is it's extent? In other words just what laws can the Congress pass?
The answer to that is that the Congress may only pass laws that are necessary and proper for effecting ONLY those powers delegated, and as there is no grant of power to in any way govern the internet, or broadcast media, then the problem is not where does such "regulation"run up against a limitation such as the first amendment, but from whence does the power flow to enact anything even if it does not violate the first amendment.
Was there ever a time that the Congress was delegated authority concerning communications? NO, NO, and NO. The old lie is that it falls under commerce, but this power was only in relations to making sure that trade was kept regular and that no state would discriminate against the people of another state and thus stop up the flow of trade. Regulate does not carry prohibitive power, nor the ability to dictate to PRIVATE companies the manner in which they conduct their business.
The essence of the federal government or federalism was a government for governments. The federal government was needed to be that agent between the states for peace (insure domestic tranquility), to act on behalf of all of the states so that all would benefit from common intercourse and trade (general welfare). It was also the agent speaking as a nation to other nations for strength in trade and common defense. Most of all this was all so that the people's liberty would be secure and they could prosper through a government strong enough to keep the predators away and thus freely engage in the pursuit of their happiness as they saw fit.
Just Say Nobama!| 5.3.10 @ 8:26PM
Sounds like it's time to take a page from Roman history and come up with a Proscription List.
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A Heartfelt Plea| 5.4.10 @ 2:29AM
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How's that free market working out for you? Looking for a bailout? Failure on every level.
Sign Me Up For your Bailout| 5.4.10 @ 2:32AM
And get this - monthly donors CUT DOWN PAPER COSTS. We will mail you less paper and your charitable dollars will go farther!
Lol, pay more get less. Quite a pitch!
Interloper| 5.4.10 @ 9:15AM
Failure on every level? That would be the Obama Administration.
Jon B| 5.6.10 @ 10:37PM
True, the Obama Admin has had to confront failure at every level: Failed wars, failed National Security polices, failed economy, failed regulation of the banks, failed pollution policies, a gutted FEMA/SEC/FDA/EPA, and more, failed foreign policy stances, failed foreign relations with nearly every country in the world-certainly the people of every country in the world except Israel. I'm sure I'll think of more shortly...
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 5.6.10 @ 10:57PM
Admit it--Obama's already a failure. NerObama fiddled for two weeks while the Gulf strangled in one of his biggest campaign donor's (BP) oil. Too bad he exempted BP from environmental testing: Can you say cronyism and corruption?
Obama's relying on luck instead of competent national security policies. Third time's the charm; I hope the next Americans to be attacked by Islamic terrorists dodge the bullet, too!
Jon B| 5.7.10 @ 1:53PM
I agree that politicians in both aisles are owned lock, stock and barrel by corporations. The HMO favoring Health care bill Congress passed is a prime example of it.
Nick| 5.7.10 @ 8:49PM
Pay no attention to Jon B, folks.
He peddles lies and marxist propaganda. Oops! Redundant.
Like the lie that President Reagan gave the Soviets $425 billion.
After 3 days of trying to belittle those of us who called him out on his lie, he finally admitted his fabrication.
Although, he then claimed it was a mistake That it was actually $425 million, but he offered no source. Just his deeply flawed memories.
He also doesn't know that, in America, we refer to it as the Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS), not US SC, or United States' Supreme Court.
What a moron.
Brian Richard Allen | 5.8.10 @ 5:43AM
Looking to sign up to E Pluribus Unum -- but where? (No mention of the E Pluribus Unum Society on any sign-up site?
Cordially - Brian
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Tenn Slim| 5.4.10 @ 8:36AM
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bt
READ THE "BILL OF RIGHTS" FIRST, then comment.
We are garanteed Freedom of Speech, period.
bt
The inroads to the application of our right, is the question. Today, the Net allows us to pretty much say what we please. Eavesdropping is allowed. Control of CONTENT is by the Site owners. IF, and ONLY IF, the DC Govmnt gets control of the individual sites, will the shut down of CONTENT start. Dont forget, the NET is world wide, Hence the acronymn WWW...
bt
We here in the USA do have a problem in DC. Dissent, in whatever form, is not going to be allowed, period. It is too damaging to the "Movement". Dissent, however, dies hard. One can and should talk, speak out, write, listen, comment and become politically educated, a mark of a healthy society. The Left decries Freedom, uses the term to support their agendas, but DISSENT is verbottom.
bt
Folks, cherish what we have. The FCC is dead set on denying any further inroads into thier agenda.
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Semper Fi
We MUST Prevail
Yosemeti Sam| 5.4.10 @ 9:31AM
Folks - calm down!
November is - in cosmic time - seconds away!
If and when elections are pirated by Leftoids and
their enablers (LBSM PEN1) then go to plan B!
Meanwhile - allow the FBI and security agencies
protect our sixes going forward CONSTITUTIONALLY!
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Wild Bill Alaska| 5.5.10 @ 5:11PM
If the feds were to lock up communications and control what news is disseminated to the general public there is an alternative,HAM (amateur) radio.It is now possible to get a HAM license without having to learn Morse code.The previous requirement that all HAM radio operators be proficient in Morse prevented many from getting their licenses because of the time involved.There are many people in America that have radios capable of tuning in to the HAM bands for reception only.With the current technology available today HAM transceivers can now be mobile,being no larger than a satellite phone.It would be impossible for the feds to monitor,much less restrict access to all public information.Hand held HAM radios can be bought for under $500.00.(and these radios are capable of transmitting around the world with the right linkups).Let people like purple vent all they want about how the feds should control our lives.I for one REJECT him and the agendas of the "social progressives".He is not relevant.Purple is merely a "fart in the wind ",unpleasant to be around,but short lived.Remember,real Americans can and will take back our constitutional republic starting this coming November in the mid terms.Keep the faith.
Yours In Fraternity For The Republic
Wild Bill
Alaska
SARAH PALIN 2012!!| 5.6.10 @ 1:54AM
God bless you Wild Bill, patriots like you are the salvation of the Republic!
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