Posted by
Patrick S. Adams on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:18:33 PM
"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." --
Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804.
These are dangerous times. When the president of the United States refuses to appear on Fox News and his propaganda minister and
master of misinformation, David Axelrod, spearheads a campaign to tell Americans that Fox News Channel is not a real news organization, it's time to pay close attention folks. I'm talking Venezuela and China close here folks. Do not put it past the Obama administration to do whatever it is allowed to do to stifle dissent and limit freedom of the press.
Radicals have been trying to infiltrate our constitutional system of government since the 1960's. Now that they have gotten inside, they no longer have use for the constitutional means by which they got there. If you watch the actions of the Obama administration, you will notice that they do not consult constitutional law but instead act with the philosophy "it is better to ask forgiveness than it is to seek permission."
Unchecked, these radicals will ignore, usurp or override the U.S. Constitution at every point where it interferes with their agenda. Barack Obama himself once called the Constitution "an imperfect document."
The appointment of czars, the back room dealings in the health care reform and cap and trade legislative process, the refusal to post bills before Congress for the public to read and the takeover of the private sector are occuring right under our noses. Obama successfully secured every press organization in America with the exception of Fox News and talk radio. With that kind of a strong hold, you are seeing a White House press room filled with lackeys and toadies who work for organizations whose anchors get thrills up their legs whenever Obama speaks or whose corporate ownership stands to make a killing in the trading of carbon credits.
Yet, that isn't enough.
Fox News remains independent of White House control and the president doesn't like it. Take notice that the president doesn't engage with Fox News or appear on its news programs. No one is asking the president to go on Hannity, but if you're that scared of Chris Wallace, there's a problem. Fact checking is a dangerous thing for an Obama White House.
The president, who can't seem to make a decision about protecting our nation and our troops from the Taliban and al Queda in Afghanistan, hesitates not to try to shut up the only news organization that has been successful in its investigations into the administration's actions. There is no intellectually arguable way in the arena of ideas to explain why its okay to have an avowed communist like Van Jones in the administration, nor is there any way to rebut scathing footage of the consistency of script being followed by ACORN workers in all the offices that were portrayed in the Giles & O'Keefe videos.
Desperate people do desperate things. ACORN was suppossed to keep control over communities for Obama. Busted. Establishing green jobs for the purpose of laying the foundation for a socialist state. Busted. Death panels and a non-deficit neutral public option in health care reform. Busted. How dare Fox News expose ACORN, force Van Jones from his job and scrutinize health care reform legislation (they even agreed with that crazy lady from Alaska)!
"Obama aides are using their powerful White House platform, combined with techniques honed in the 2008 campaign, to cast some of the most powerful adversaries as out of the mainstream and their criticism as unworthy of serious discussion," according to
Politico.com.
It's bad enough that the mouthpieces of the Obama administration, otherwise known as ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN aren't phased by any government attempts to stifle freedom of the press. It's even worse when they are complicit in it. The profit motive of having the number one news network removed from status trumps our fundamental constitutional rights? If anything, those networks mentioned above should shut down voluntarily and go home crying, tail between legs, wrought with guilt over their abandonment and their spitting in the face of an honor afforded to them by the Founders of the American constitutional democracy that they now so despise.
Until the American people wake up and realize that not only does the media lie to us, it is involved in a deeply incestuous relationship with enemy number one to freedom of the press in America, the White House. The White House should be seen as the enemy to all free thinking people who adhere to the notions in this great republic's founding documents and the knowledge that in order for us to remain free, we must have the ability to use the spoken and written word to question our elected leaders (they who work for us and who are paid by our taxpayer dollar).
Americans better not become complacent in the theory that since we have a Constitution, it will all take care of itself. The Constitution must constantly be defended. Freedom's defense is a charge which must be taken up by every generation. Wolves get into the hen house when noone pays attention. Action is required to stop them.
In this case, the action item is for all Americans to stand up to the adminstration and support a free internet, a free press and free speech. Attorneys should file lawsuits immediately to prevent the administration from stifling free press rights. Bloggers and writers of all political persuasions should put their differences aside and fight for the one thing that allows them to share those differences peacefully! The time to act is now. For there will never be another chance to protect the great right of freedom of the press once it's taken away.
It's time for ordinary Americans to take to the blogosphere and social media. It's time for our professional writers and pundits to stand up and be firm in their columns and their media interviews that there will be zero tolerance of anything the government does to stifle the free press. Forget about those who would side with those who would muzzle the press. A point of view that accepts the repression of the free press only endangers itself to being repressed.
Trust me. The White House is trying to stifle dissent that it cannot otherwise disarm with reason. Americans need to remember how serious this situation is, and who is responsible for it, the next time they step into the voting booth.