Posted on 03/14/2016 4:04:25 PM PDT by HomerBohn
During her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted that she asked the FBI to examine whether the federal government should take legal action against so-called climate change deniers. Attorney General Lynch is not responding to any criminal acts committed by climate change skeptics. Instead, she is responding to requests from those frustrated that dissenters from the alleged climate change consensuses have successfully blocked attempts to create new government programs to fight climate change.
These climate change censors claim that the argument over climate change is settled and the deniers’ success in blocking congressional action is harming the public. Therefore, the government must disregard the 1st Amendment and silence anyone who dares question the reigning climate change dogma. This argument ignores the many reputable scientists who have questioned the magnitude, effects and role of human action in causing climate change.
If successful, the climate change censors could set a precedent that could silence numerous other views. For example, many people believe the argument over whether we should audit, and then end, the Federal Reserve is settled. Therefore, the deniers of Austrian economics are harming the public by making it more difficult for Congress to restore a free-market monetary policy. So why shouldn’t the government silence Paul Krugman?
The climate change censorship movement is part of a larger effort to silence political speech. Other recent examples include the IRS’s harassment of tea party groups as well as that agency’s (fortunately thwarted) attempt to impose new rules on advocacy organizations that would have limited their ability to criticize a politician’s record in the months before an election.
The IRS and many state legislators and officials are also trying to force public policy groups to hand over the names of their donors. This type of disclosure can make individuals fearful that, if they support a pro-liberty group, they will face retaliation from the government.
Efforts to silence government critics may have increased in recent years; however, the sad fact is the U.S. Government has a long and shameful history of censoring speech. It is not surprising that war and national security have served as convenient excuses to limit political speech. So-called liberal presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt both supported wartime crackdowns on free speech.
Today, many neoconservatives are using the war on terror to justify crackdowns on free speech, increased surveillance of unpopular religious groups like Muslims, and increased government control of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Some critics of U.S. foreign policy have even been forbidden to enter the country.
Many opponents of government restrictions on the 1st Amendment and other rights of Muslims support government actions targeting so-called “right-wing extremists.” These fair-weather civil liberties defenders are the mirror image of conservatives who support restricting the free speech rights of Muslims in the name of national security, yet clam to oppose authoritarian government. Defending speech we do not agree with is necessary to effectively protect the speech we support.
A government that believes it can run our lives, run the economy, and run the world will inevitably come to believe it can, and should, have the power to silence its critics. Eliminating the welfare-warfare state is the key to protecting our free speech, and other liberties, from an authoritarian government.
This one, like her predecessor, is a danger to America, but the Republicrats gave Lynch a big fat pass!
Just think how safe America would be if Obama, Clinton, Lynch, Reid, Pelosi, Wasserman-Schultz, et al. were all imprisoned?
These tyrannical traitors should read a little history of the Spanish Civil War. The 'communist' enemies of Francisco Franco were dealt with harshly.
But Trump’s the fascist dictator though
This is a direct assault on free speech. Lynch should be impeached for it.
She won’t be.
“This one, like her predecessor, is a danger to America, but the Republicrats gave Lynch a big fat pass! “
Republican TRAITORS will rue the day!
Gotta get rid of this b**** She’s frigg’n nuts.
If this woman has no more intellect than to suggest something like taking legal action against people who don’t believe a theory such as global warming, should she not be impeached? She certainly should not be in charge of the United States Justice Department if she has no more understanding of reality than that.
Hey Loretta just hang some Mandella Necklaces.
She favors Al Sharpton.
aperson could practically substitute 10 planks of communism or the Muslim creed and most leftwingers would approve. A demonstration of how far gone America already is.
I noticed that ...
They don’t give up very easy, anything to make it more difficult and extract every tax Dollar they can. The Earth has gone through endless cooling and warming cycles and will continue to do so, either with or without us. The sooner a way is found to get rid of this tribe in DC the better of this country will be, at least for a while anyway as the overall trend still remains downhill, as it happened with just about every nation before us and the Powers to be are working very diligently and doing their best to make sure that we are no exception.
Yeah, you’re right!!!
Cruz should never have given Lynch a thumbs up.
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