Posted on 10/11/2008 8:54:09 AM PDT by tomnbeverly
"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors," Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. "I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face." Actually, Obama supporters are doing a lot more than getting into people's faces. They seem determined to shut people up.
That's what Obama supporters, alerted by campaign emails, did when conservative Stanley Kurtz appeared on Milt Rosenberg's WGN radio program in Chicago. Kurtz had been researching Obama's relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers in Chicago Annenberg Challenge papers in the Richard J. Daley Library in Chicago -- papers that were closed off to him for some days, apparently at the behest of Obama supporters.
Obama fans jammed WGN's phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest emails. The message was clear to anyone who would follow Rosenberg's example. We will make trouble for you if you let anyone make the case against The One.
Other Obama supporters have threatened critics with criminal prosecution. In September, St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who made statements against Obama that were "false." I had been under the impression that the Alien and Sedition Acts had gone out of existence in 1801-02. Not so, apparently, in metropolitan St. Louis. Similarly, the Obama campaign called for a criminal investigation of the American Issues Project when it ran ads highlighting Obama's ties to Ayers.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
This is the danger of Obama... It is the same tactic CHAVEZ used in Venezuela. Shut down Opposition.
Imagine if Rush Limbaugh would have incited this.
BTTT!
Bravo for Michael Barone’s bravery in speaking this truth - I can only pray that others will speak the same truth before it is too late...
Pray for Our Republic.
Michael Barone is once again doing the lord’s work.
Obama using his position as a Political candidate for the Presidency to fund and support an organization accused of voter fraud maybe not a crime, but serious lack of judgement.
We simply cannot win if we will not engage.
In this instance, McCain is not just fighting for his own political career, he is the champion for all of us and he has a duty to all of us to fight for our precious First Amendment rights. Why do I detect shades of George Bush here?
The key to this article is who wrote it. Not some nutjob like Corsi (who’s a 9/11 truther) but Mr. Barone. Barone is a highly respected political analyst whose words must be seriously considered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ
This video is powerful enough without anything from Corsi.
We took it from 1000 hits to 120,000 with the counter being stuck for long periods of time.
“I want you to argue with them and get in their face.”
This must be the sort of thing Obama learned at the knee of his Mentor Bill Ayers during his four years of employment for Bill. It’s funny how the past couple of days we keep hearing about angry, vicious McCain rallies when McCain or Palin calls attention to Obama’s Marxist baggage, but here we have Obama telling his supporters to go attack people who might not be voting for him, but I don’t see any journalists utilizing any hand wringing adjectives to describe his angry, vicious call to arms.
After the annointing in January we will see:
1. Increased wealth transfer:
2. Severe criminal penalties against any person who even breathes any criticism against a coalition(Blacks, gays, aliens,Third Worlders, and others) member:
3. The drive to eliminate Christian churches shall intensify:
4. Increased strictures against whites who apply for entrance into college;
5. Increased job discrimination against whites-especially by government employers, private employers will be whipped into line through the witholding or granting of goverment contracts:
6. Actual assaults against whites, and if any redress is sought by the white, judgment will be rendered in favor of the black, gay etc.
7. Lynchings of whites; 10. Talk radio, a potential source of resistance, will be totally changed into a leftist forum;
11. Graft and corruption on a scale never seen before in this country those in government annointed by "HIM"will probably take a "Tithe" from taxpayer funds; 12. In short, it aint gonna be nice "kinda" like Rhodesia, South Africa and Detroit writ large.
The 50-state campus [Mark Steyn]
Anyone wondering what my battle to restore the right to free speech in Canada has to do with America should read Michael Barone on “The Coming Obama Thugocracy”. WGN’s Milt Rosenberg, NR’s Stanley Kurtz and others have already been on the receiving end of the thugocracy. On the air with Milt the other night, I quoted Bob Hope and Bing Crosby:
He gets his shirts straight from Paris
Cigarettes from the Nile
He talks like a highbrow
But he plays Chicago style...
That’s Obama: highbrow enough for Christopher Buckley, Euro-bespoke (not sure where he gets his smokes these days - he’s a bit coy on that), but an old-fashioned Chicago bruiser who’ll order in anyone from Missouri sheriffs to the federal Justice Department if you run a TV ad he finds unhelpful.
An Obama-Pelosi Washington with 60 Senate seats would reintroduce the (Un)Fairness Doctrine, regulate the Internet, and wouldn’t be above oomphing up Canadian-style “human rights” commissions to police speech - especially if he gets to appoint three Supreme Court justices in short order.
I was especially struck by this passage from Michael:
Today’s liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from other quarters. Specifically, from the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that liberals find offensive. The campuses that used to pride themselves as zones of free expression are now the least free part of our society.
Obama supporters who found the campuses congenial and Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress speech that they don’t like and seem utterly oblivious to claims that this violates the letter and spirit of the First Amendment.
Rush will wind up broadcasting from the Turks and Caicos Islands. But only until President Obama has a quiet word with Her Majesty’s Government.
10/11 11:53 AM
Hussein will sign the “hate crimes” legislation right away.
There go our churches.
“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who made statements against Obama that were “false.’”
Obama clearly has no understanding of free speech. An Obama White House would install people on the Supreme Court that would enact speech codes and create totalitarian libel laws as exemplified by these disgraceful St. Louis cronies. Michael Barone is one of the first journalists that seems to be getting it.
Mr. Barone, please report to Guantanimo for re-education.
The Obamafuhrer will establish a liberal fascist police state with death squads and reeducation camps. True patriots will respond accordingly and restore our Constitutional Republic.
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