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Diversity Czar Threatens Free Speech
IBD Editorials ^
| August 31, 2009
| INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
Posted on 08/31/2009 5:49:36 PM PDT by 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.
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.
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posted on
08/31/2009 5:49:36 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Does he want the war now, or later?
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posted on
08/31/2009 5:50:48 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: bareford101; BerniesFriend; blaveda; Bookwoman; Celeste732; dsc; FrdmLvr; FreedomPoster; ...
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posted on
08/31/2009 5:51:06 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin
Diversity does not apply to speech.
Or thought.
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posted on
08/31/2009 5:52:43 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
To: Kaslin
"the purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance." Chillingly Orwellian statement, ehhhh?
To: Da Coyote
We The People will soon be demanding IMPEACHMENT.
Neuter them in 2010
Vote the rest out in 2012
Clean Out the Dirt
To: Kaslin
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.
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posted on
08/31/2009 5:57:02 PM PDT
by
Uncle Hal
To: Mr_Moonlight
To: Mr_Moonlight
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.
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posted on
08/31/2009 5:58:11 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: ExTexasRedhead
Its kind of cute that you are so hopelessly naive that you think voting will do any good.
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posted on
08/31/2009 5:59:25 PM PDT
by
FightThePower!
(Fight the powers that be!)
To: Da Coyote; Eaker; AK2KX; Ancesthntr; ApesForEvolution; aragorn; archy; backhoe; Badray; ...
"Does he want the war now, or later?" --Da CoyoteCW2 Ping
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posted on
08/31/2009 6:02:48 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: Kaslin
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.
To: muawiyah
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.
To: Travis McGee
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.
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posted on
08/31/2009 6:06:52 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
To: MinorityRepublican
This isnt 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
To: Uncle Hal
Time to stock up on cigarettes, blindfolds, torches, and pitchforks.
Payback is going to be a bitch for these red sons of bitches.
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posted on
08/31/2009 6:09:16 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(Hussein Baraka Mook Kebba)
To: Travis McGee
They just keep pushing, keep trying us. They had this planned and he is the puppet. Who is his puppet master?
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posted on
08/31/2009 6:10:35 PM PDT
by
mojitojoe
(Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
08/31/2009 6:10:38 PM PDT
by
Mojave
(Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
To: CodeToad
I’d sure hate to face the next generations and admit that freedom was extinguished on our watch.
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posted on
08/31/2009 6:10:38 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: Rome2000
Time to stock up on cigarettes, blindfolds, torches, and pitchforks. HAY ... NO SMOKING !!!
Haven't you heard? /sarcasm off
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