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Recently, the Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, let slip the truth about what the Obama administration has planned for this country. Upset that most Americans oppose nationalized healthcare, she said: “We have a lot of re-education to do.”
This is a threat. Sebelius is threatening you.
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Hmmm is this WHY Lagan belives that there needs to be LIMITS on “free speech”?
WAKE UP AMERICA!
Your FREEDOMS are being hijacked right before your eyes!
Hmmm is this WHY Lagan belives that there needs to be LIMITS on “free speech”?
OOOPS it should be Kagan NOT Lagan.
Recall:
Elena Kagan and free speech
May 14th 2010, 13:38 by Lexington
JACOB SULLUM reckons that Elena Kagan is a fickle friend of free speech:
[Her] understanding of First Amendment law, described most fully in a 1996 University of Chicago Law Review article, suggests a tolerance for censorship when it is appropriately disguised by euphemisms. In Kagan’s view, the main goal of First Amendment doctrine is not to maximize freedom or promote robust debate, but to ferret out impermissible motives for speech restrictions.
He explains:
While the government may constitutionally restrict speech based on “neutrally conceived harms,” Kagan says, it may not restrict speech based on “hostility toward ideas.” But as she more or less acknowledges, this distinction ultimately collapses because people are hostile to ideas they consider harmful.
Whether the issue is pornography, bigotry, dog-fight videos or political ads sponsored by corporations, would-be censors always claim the speech they want to outlaw causes harm. Without a theory about what sort of harm (if any) can justify speech restrictions, we are left with the “ad hoc balancing of relative social costs and benefits” that the First Amendment was intended to prevent.
This is discomforting. It is unclear how far Ms Kagan would go in restricting political speech, but the words President Obama used to introduce her this week suggest that she shares his cramped view of the First Amendment.
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2010/05/kagan_and_free_speech
Gee, is it ME or do YOU see a PATTERN HERE?
Call me any name you like if you disagree. I’m a BIG person and I can deal with it.