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.

[Travis McGee]

I don’t think there is a single puppet master, although I could probably make a short list of major players.

The important thing to realize is that the communists have never admitted defeat. They are harder to put down than vampires.

And they got tougher to kill when they quit the Lenin/Stalin overt path and went the clandestine internal route of Gramsci and Alinsky.

[andy58-in-nh]

Does he want the war now, or later?

I am concerned that these Marxists know exactly what they are doing, however improbable it might seem. They have learned (from Saul Alinsky) that if you push a negative hard enough, it will emerge as a positive.

As an example: any serious effort to restrict free speech in the name of "diversity" or "fairness" will undoubtedly result in turmoil, and ultimately in violence, which the Administration will in turn denounce. On cue, organizations from among the Democrats' accredited victim classes will publicly demand the restoration of order and safety - leading to further restrictions on civil liberties, as directed against the "domestic terrorists" the Justice Department earlier warned about.

Prior restraint of free speech will be justified, as it has been elsewhere, in the name of preventing violence. Radio stations and FOX News will be silenced. Web sites will be banned and blocked. And the Left will have achieved nearly complete control of the communications media, as has been their goal.

Pure dystopian fantasy, right? Perhaps, yes. But only because the more likely scenario should push come to shove is the very one you suggest.

[NRA2BFree]

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

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

Forget all of the above. Guns and ammo is what it's going to take!

[dennisw]

 

http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/mtm04/archives/just_media_jury.php

Mark Lloyd

Mark Lloyd is a Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches communications policy and conducts research on the relationship between communications policy and strong democratic communities. Most recently, he served as the Executive Director of the Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, a nonprofit, non-partisan project he co-founded to bring civil rights principles and advocacy to the communications policy debate. Previously, Mr. Lloyd worked as General Counsel to the Benton Foundation, and as a communications attorney at Dow, Lohnes & Albertson in Washington, D.C. representing both commercial and non-commercial companies. He also has nearly twenty years of experience as a print and broadcast journalist, including work as a reporter and producer at NBC and CNN, and is the recipient of several awards including an Emmy and a Cine Golden Eagle. He has served as board member of dozens of national and local organizations, including the Independent Television Service and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. He has also served as a consultant to the Clinton White House, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Institute and the Smithsonian Institution. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.

[swatbuznik]

Does he want the war now, or later?

I want war now!!!

[Noumenon]

“Romanian term limits”

[Rome2000]

They are especially tough to kill when the opposition on our side is led by a bunch of ball less country clubbers afraid to be called Joe McCarthy II.

Bottom line is the man that will lead us out of the woods is the man who picks up where McCarthy led off and making an example of this racist black supremacist sel admitted communist lawyer and fraud Jones is a pefect place to start.

THE SILENCE FROM THE GOP ON THIS IS DEAFENING AND EMBARRASSING.

[nufsed]

No this is a team effort. Weathermen, socialist, social justice warriors, unions, and a few outright communist sprinkled in for old time’s sake.

[EGPWS]

Diversity Czar Threatens Free Speech

Well, just imagine that, a Czar threatening freedom.

Who would have thunk it?

[popdonnelly]

Is there anyone in Obama’s White House who isn’t a radical left-winger? I would fully expect there not to be anyone.

[Chode]

Up...

[EGPWS]

THE SILENCE FROM THE GOP ON THIS IS DEAFENING AND EMBARRASSING.

If I were a GOPative, I would be embarrassed, since I'm a conservative, I tote attitude, directive toward freedom and sovereignty within our nation and most of all a blessed respect for our Constitution!

No embarrassment here.

[stephenjohnbanker]

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

We won’t let that happen.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Is there anyone in Obama’s White House who isn’t a radical left-winger?”

Probably a few, who are stupid to the bone,or just plain whores.

[popdonnelly]

“Who is his puppet master?”

Probably his little cadre of radical friends. Doesn’t really matter, since the main issue is Obama’s intent to turn this country into a large third-World Marxist dictatorship.

[CottShop]

[[The new FCC diversity “czar” says Venezuela is an example we should follow.]]

Here’s a thought- Why don’t we STICK TO our OWN model instead of pining after evil regimes? I know, I know, Silly me- Morality and ocmmon sense are ‘icky American ideals that need to be squashed as quickly as possible’

Yep- let’s all be clones of evil regimes instead of uniquely American moralists

[dbrew2u]

They have been prepared for this war since FDR . We are the ones that need to prepare.

[HoosierHawk]

SJB,

They're all stupid whores.

Hope all is well with you. Haven't seen an update lately. God bless.

[pallis]

No matter, 0 has intellectual appeal to the pseudo intellectuals of the state media, so they will play the game of destroying free, political speech in the name of promoting responsible speech.

[techno]

Senator John McCain on October 13th 2008:

“Senator Obama is decent man, good family man, citizen and you do not have to be scared of him as the President of the United States.”

August 25th, 2009

“I’m sure that he does and I’m sure he respects the Constitution. I’m absolutely convinced of it. President Obama believes in the Constitution, I’m convinced that the president is absolutely sincere in his beliefs.”