Posted on 04/28/2009 1:49:34 PM PDT by UnalienablyRight
There are those who hang their First Amendment hats on President Barack Obama's statement that he isn't for reinstating the Censorship Doctrine, also mis-known as the "Fairness" Doctrine. These people are ignoring ever mounting examples of the censorious intent of this Administration on all things information.
They are playing the Ostrich Defense despite the fact that nearly every Obama appointee to anything that has anything to do with regulating anything is a strident Leftist whose first impulse is to loathe the American people exercising the freedoms the Constitution affords them.
Just three days after his November victory, President Obama floated the name of Henry Rivera - a virulent "Fairness" Doctrine proponent - to head his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) transition team. An outcry by we at the MRC and many others caused Obama to move Rivera elsewhere in his transition pantheon a week later.
Now we have Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar." Who has written:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Disgusting - and worse - but not surprising.
They keep pushing, they’re going to get pushed back by the electorate.
And this guy, Sunstein was Obama's pick to be FCC Regulatory Czar? I don't find it suprising but it's nice to get the details.
This guy also said it should be legal for animals to bring lawsuits against humans.
LOL, what a nightmare America finds itself in.
Gee, just like Red China. How appropriately Communist.
I had heard if the Feds try to regulate the internet that we might be able to create an underground net.
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