Yes, we ban (more on the Obama effort to jail critics)

National Review ^ | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | [Mark Steyn]

[Behind Liberal Lines]

For all the entirely false rumors about Mayor Palin banning books from the Wasilla library, the only candidate using agencies of the state to suppress views with which he disagrees remains Barack Obama. In Missouri, the Senator has managed to enlist various county officials to threaten TV stations running "untrue" anti-Obama ads. The Governor, Matt Blunt, responds:

St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment... Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts - not a free society.

As Stanley Kurtz, Milt Rosenberg and David Freddoso can tell you, this pattern is well established: The Obama campaign's response to uncongenial allegations is not to rebut them but to use its muscle to squash the authors. This is especially true when it comes to attempts to lift the curtain however briefly on the Senator's mysterious past. The New York Times' general line on the Obama candidacy may approximate that of Bagehot on the British monarchy ("we must not let daylight in upon magic"), but the last time I checked that was not yet constitutionally enshrined.

Throughout my travails this last year with Canada's capricious, totalitarian "human rights" commissions, I have expressed my appreciation for America's First Amendment. Free societies do not criminalize opinion. What Obama is doing via pliable Missouri public officials is disgusting - and a revealng portent of what his Administration would do to its [political] enemies.

[AndyJackson]

We are talking about criminal action here!

We are talking about public officials under color of law attempting to intimidate free citizens from speaking their minds, undermining freedom of the press and freedom of speach. This is a violation of civil and criminal clauses of the Civil Rights acts, subjecting to the perps who signed up for this to lawsuits and lawsuits for conspiracy. They have done this to all americans.

[CHEE]

If i knew how to spell DICKTATER I would post a reply. Perhaps some Freeper with more intellgents than I will step up to the bar. I know how bashful all of you are about stating your opinions.

[MeekOneGOP]

Excerpt from the article:

For all the entirely false rumors about Mayor Palin banning books from the Wasilla library, the only candidate using agencies of the state to suppress views with which he disagrees remains Barack Obama. In Missouri, the Senator has managed to enlist various county officials to threaten TV stations running "untrue" anti-Obama ads. The Governor, Matt Blunt, responds:

St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment... Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts - not a free society.

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So where is that "Party like it's 1938" photo now ????

[Let's Roll]

I'm sure you're right, but I infer from your response that I wasn't as clear as I should have been.

Let me try again for other readers:

The bad guys are threatening the tv/radio stations with criminal action, not lawsuits for libel, for running ads that The One deems critical of him.

[Anti-Bubba182]

That is a good idea, but this is the kind of thing that shows up on Conservative talk. MSM does not mind censorship as long as it is applied to the right side.

[Clint Williams]

Free societies do not criminalize opinion.

Beyond the rhetoric, what makes him think we live in a free society? We've been very busy giving up our rights for illusory safety.

[SandRat]

Banned in Missouri

[AndyJackson]

We got it. The threats by public officials under color of authority are per se actionable, are per se criminal, and the idiots need suing and hounding out of office. I cannot believe that after Nifong, and what happened to him, any district attorney or prosecutor would have the temerity to engage in conspiracy to violate civil rights in such a patently manifest manner. It is an open invitation for a lawsuit, and the discovery on the conspiracy aspect could reach deep and wide.

[KansasGirl]

The media will not report this because of political correctness. They are afraid of being called racist.

[Let's Roll]

I think they think that by the time that all plays out, The One will have been coronated. They only have to intimidate temporarily.

Since timing means everything here, aren’t there some kind of restraining orders that can be invoked to stop the intimidation as soon as it is employed? That’s what the tv/radio stations need to be prepared to do.

[MeekOneGOP]

Obama’s minister, Jeremiah Wright:

Jeremiah Wright - God Dam* America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH5ixmT83JE

A short clip, 16 seconds.

Countdown to Obama gets that BANNED !!!!

[Daffynition]

True. But Brit is the only person I know of who actually answers his own emails. We’ll see ... one has to at least try.

[o_zarkman44]

Obama Democrats are nothing but facist pigs. (with lip gloss)

[o_zarkman44]

The news media, at best, can only copy press releases from Obama. They have written nothing much of real substance for years. So the mainstream media would have no problem writing the party line like good commies.

[Lent]

Does the mainstream media think they will be immune from this kind of Fascist police state censorship if Obama becomes president and starts using the full power of the Executive Branch to squelch dissent from his po

Why should the MSM be concerned with immunity when they are complicit in his pogrom? In fact, they will be rewarded for a job well done if/when this neo-fascist gets into power.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[sportutegrl]

The MSM welcomes their new gestapo Overlords.

[BuffaloJack]

If Obama actually gets into the White House, there will be re-education facilities setup in America. They will be patterned after the gulags of Stalin, because Obama =Stalin Jr.

[PhilDragoo]

[SkoalBandit]

Looks like Obama is learning from Bush!