I've seen other articles showing Internet censorship is on the agenda too and Henry Waxman is in the thick of it.
Posted on 04/30/2009 2:26:22 PM PDT by ReformationFan
Obama's war on free speech Exclusive: Joseph Farah predicts actions that would tighten state control on media
Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are intent on nationalizing media in the U.S. much the same way they nationalized the U.S. auto industry and the nation's banking and financial institutions.
This isn't the so-called "Fairness Doctrine."
It's much worse.
Here's what you can expect in the coming weeks and months:
a new appointment to the position of chairman of the Federal Communications Commission who will implement a plan to create "community advisory boards" of community activists to monitor the content of talk-radio programs, threatening stations that carry dissenting content with broadcast license challenges;
billions of additional dollars to be invested in so-called "public broadcasting" – those entities already funded and controlled by government;
bailouts of failing newspapers perceived as essential propaganda tools for the party. It's a program worthy of the old Soviet Union – where the old joke noted there was no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia.
But this is no joking matter. The First Amendment is at stake.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
This is already NOT the America the founders envisioned,
and it’s fixing to get a whole lot worse.
The Øbamanistas understand the First and Second Amendments, implicitly. What they understand the most, is that those Rights stand in their path to totalitarian rule. As such, they also understand that those amendments must be subverted, any way possible. That's what they are doing. No surprises here.
I’ve heard a big part of their plan would be for more local programming on radio stations.
If you think about the major talk radio stations in your area, I bet most of them have few local talk shows, but mostly broadcast national shows, such as Rush, Hannity, Lars Larson, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, etc. I’ve heard that they want to have more local programming on radio stations, which would in effect squeeze out some of the national shows. The line-ups of talk stations in my area consists of national shows all day long, except for morning drive, when a couple stations have a local talk show.
My question is — how did the fairness doctrine work back in the old days? I know that Rush was the first big nationally syndicated talker, and he went national in 1988, a year after the old fairness doctrine was repealed. But there were talk shows before that. Did they avoid politics and opinions back then?
I am a somewhat overweight sixty year old, who has already had open-heart surgery.
If this happens...I will take to the streets.
Right, without free speech, there is no true dissent. Without dissent, Obama has total control.
Free speech rights have been extinct for some time because we have ceded their definition to an illegitimate Supreme Court. The vast majority of Americans are content to sit like zombies in front of the Obama perpetual propaganda machine. There is no saving them. Those of us who prefer freedom and truth need to take immediate steps to begin construction of an “underground” network of satellite transmission of radio and a parallel internet that bypasses all government controls. This Freedom Project needs some wealthy benefactors. We need our own George Soros, so to speak. One of the easy first steps that any freedom-fighter must take is to install encryption and proxy software to prevent the Napolitano Gestapo and your internet service provider from monitoring your internet communications.
If this happens...I will take to the streets.
I’ll be right behind you!
My pitchfork is ready!
Bring it on Baby!
Obama will do more to unite conservatives, libertarians and the center-right than anyone since Ronald Reagan.
Now that I think of it, it’s probably good that McCain was not elected.
Bring it on Baby!
Obama will do more to unite conservatives, libertarians and the center-right than anyone since Ronald Reagan.
Now that I think of it, it’s probably good that McCain was not elected.
Obama’s war on free speech
American Patriot’s War on his damn Teleprompter!
I've seen other articles showing Internet censorship is on the agenda too and Henry Waxman is in the thick of it.
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