Diversity Czar Threatens Free Speech

IBD Editorials ^ | August 31, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

1st Amendment: Mark Lloyd, a disciple of Saul Alinsky and fan of Hugo Chavez, wants to destroy talk radio and says free speech is a distraction. The new FCC diversity "czar" says Venezuela is an example we should follow.

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When Mark Lloyd was appointed July 29 as the chief diversity officer at the Federal Communications Commission, a nation focused on ObamaCare and a deteriorating economy took little notice. But as angry constituents flood town hall meetings and call in to talk radio, a man dedicated to silencing them sits at the right hand of the president.

They share a common hero — Saul Alinsky — who wrote the community organizer's bible, "Rules for Radicals." It speaks of confrontation or, as candidate Obama put it, of "getting in their faces" as a way to obtain power, not from the people or for the people, but over the people.

Lloyd has written that we make too much of the constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of speech and the press — for "the purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance."

We thought we were democratically governed. We thought we could vote as we choose after a vigorous and open debate. Once the major networks served as information gatekeepers controlling what we saw and heard. Now talk radio, the Internet and cable news have enhanced democracy by promoting the free flow of information and discourse. Lloyd wants to stop all that.

[Da Coyote]

Does he want the war now, or later?

[Kaslin]

[sionnsar]

Diversity does not apply to speech.

Or thought.

[Mr_Moonlight]

"the purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance."

Chillingly Orwellian statement, ehhhh?

[ExTexasRedhead]

We The People will soon be demanding IMPEACHMENT.

Neuter them in 2010
Vote the rest out in 2012
Clean Out the Dirt

[Uncle Hal]

This administration is really dangerous. It appears people are starting to catch on that they are far to the left. The MSM will not sound the alarm. We will have to do it through the Internet, talk radio and word of mouth.

[MinorityRepublican]

This isn’t a joke?

[muawiyah]

Funny, I always thought free speech was free speech and now there's this fascist pig telling me "it's warped".

Naw, it's still free speech, and he's still a fascist pig, and he should go off himself to save the people the trouble.

[FightThePower!]

Its kind of cute that you are so hopelessly naive that you think voting will do any good.

[Travis McGee]

"Does he want the war now, or later?" --Da Coyote

CW2 Ping

[Constitutional Patriot]

These idiots can always be counted upon to overplay their hand...they act as if they already have us in their concentration camps.

Man...are they in for a suprise.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Funny, I always thought free speech was free speech

As well as how CFR was designed to 'open up the political process' by banning political free speech just before an election.

[CodeToad]

Now’s fine. Might as well do it while we’re still young and save our children the hassle. Besides, this is our fight, not theirs.

[Mr_Moonlight]

This isn’t a joke?

Well, I've checked the keywords and so far none of them say "humor" or "satire", so guessing that this is NOT a joke, and that Lloyd's quote is an actual one made by him

[Rome2000]

Time to stock up on cigarettes, blindfolds, torches, and pitchforks.

Payback is going to be a bitch for these red sons of bitches.

[mojitojoe]

They just keep pushing, keep trying us. They had this planned and he is the puppet. Who is his puppet master?

[Mojave]

http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2009/08/ive-seen-tonight-perhaps-most.html

[Travis McGee]

I’d sure hate to face the next generations and admit that freedom was extinguished on our watch.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Time to stock up on cigarettes, blindfolds, torches, and pitchforks.

HAY ... NO SMOKING !!!

Haven't you heard? /sarcasm off