Obama’s Assault on the First Amendment

article.nationalreview.com ^ | October 1, 2008 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[Publius804]

Obama’s Assault on the First Amendment Stifling political debate with threats of prosecution is not the “rule of law” — it’s tyranny.

By Andrew C. McCarthy

In London last week, a frightful warning was sounded about encroaching tyranny. At an important conference, speaker after impassioned speaker warned of the peril to Western values posed by freedom-devouring sharia — the Islamic legal code. Like all tyrannies, sharia’s first target is speech: Suppress all examination of Muslim radicalism by threats of prosecution and libel actions, and smugly call it “the rule of law.”

But we may already be further gone than the London conferees feared. And without resort to the Islamicization that so startled them. For that, we can thank the campaign of Barack Obama.

I’ll be blunt: Sen. Obama and his supporters despise free expression, the bedrock of American self-determinism and hence American democracy. What’s more, like garden-variety despots, they see law not as a means of ensuring liberty but as a tool to intimidate and quell dissent.

[Brytani]

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[wk4bush2004]

If the Obamanation gets elected, I have no doubt that we will quickly become a socialist police-state.

[bamahead]

The chill wind was bracing. The Taliban could not better rig matters. The Prophet of Change is only to be admired, not questioned.



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[cayuga]

If the Obamanation gets elected, I have no doubt that we will quickly become a socialist police-state.

Not quickly. Not without a real war.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

This is as big a fight as the Bailout. Other than the ‘Burnin’ Down the House’ Video, our best hope for aggressive ads about Ayers and Raines will come from 527s, but not if BO’s goons keep conspiring with ‘lawful’ stumbling blocks to free speech.

[himno hero]

it strikes me odd that Obama and his ilk in the (not so) Great Britain both know the chorus line.....

peculiar,,,, way too peculiar

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Gun rights are being whittled at incrementally. Rebellion would be drips and drabs once free speech is taken away. Our current gun rights do little more than buy us time.

[mojito]

His assault on the First Amendment will go hand-in-hand with his assault on the Second Amendment.

[Publius804]

PRINT THIS OUT, EMAIL IT, PASS IT OUT - this story needs to get out.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

The Justice Department’s job is to prosecute those actively undermining our freedom, not to intimidate citizens in the exercise of that freedom. Consequently, instead of threatening criminal investigations of phantom future civil-rights violations, it should be conducting criminal investigations into whether public officials in St. Louis are abusing their offices to affect a national election.

I won't hold my breath waiting for such criminal investigations. But I hope that rural and suburban Missouri voters are watching their "public servants" carefully.