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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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To: Travis McGee

History will refer to McCarthy as a “hero”

Maybe.


41 posted on 08/31/2009 7:29:29 PM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: Travis McGee

So who is doing the knitting for our side?

Just in case we need it. Which, unfortunately, seems not unlikely.

I’m thinking this is a good start:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/


42 posted on 08/31/2009 7:31:54 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: FreedomPoster

Glenn Beck had a gentleman on his show today who said Lloyd comes from the George Soros Center for American Progress.


43 posted on 08/31/2009 7:35:36 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (OBAMANOCARE: No Privacy, No Choice, No Humanity, No Quality, No Health, No Life)
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To: Travis McGee
"I’d sure hate to face the next generations and admit that freedom was extinguished on our watch."


"Daddy, why did you take my freedoms and money away?"

44 posted on 08/31/2009 7:40:23 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Mojave

This crap is going to push America too far!


45 posted on 08/31/2009 7:45:18 PM PDT by Eaker (If you have a problem and If explosives are an option then explosives are THE answer.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
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... 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.
Bring it on, beeotch.
46 posted on 08/31/2009 7:54:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: All; Kaslin

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NEVER FORGET

.

After the Fall of FREEDOM here,
just like the Fall of FREEDOM in Saigon, Vietnam long ago after we shortchanged a crucial Fight for FREEDOM there,

...it can all happen again right here:

http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

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NEVER FORGET

.


47 posted on 08/31/2009 7:59:06 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Travis McGee
And they got tougher to kill when they quit the Lenin/Stalin overt path and went the clandestine internal route of Gramsci and Alinsky.

Which makes how overt this administrating is quite interesting. More people are aware of these mechanisms and strategies now than ever before - by a very large and growing margin.

Literally decades of stealth maneuvering and denial are going up in flames every day.

And they can't ever get that stealth genie back in the bottle.

48 posted on 08/31/2009 8:11:16 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Kaslin
The new FCC diversity "czar" says Venezuela is an example we should follow.

Isn't this literally sedition with treasonous intent?

49 posted on 08/31/2009 8:12:43 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Travis McGee

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

At the very least, some of us will go down fighting, and thus not be privy to any complaints from the “next generation”.


50 posted on 08/31/2009 8:17:46 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: All; Uncle Hal; Alamo-Girl

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NEVER FORGET

.

In his ‘Rules for Radicals’ SAUL ALINSKY openly dedicated his book in print to 3 individuals, for his followers like OBAMA & HILLARY to follow in destroying a Free America.

One of them being SATAN himself.

For,
the Enemy is now within...
and always has been.

As oposed to:

http://www.Freerepublic.com/~aloharonnie/

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NEVER FORGET

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51 posted on 08/31/2009 8:28:59 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: ALOHA RONNIE

Thanks for the ping!


52 posted on 08/31/2009 8:33:17 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Travis McGee
I’d sure hate to face the next generations and admit that freedom was extinguished on our watch.

Yes, I agree with you. However it does not give me a great deal of confidence when supposedly 65-70% or so voters under age 30 voted for 0bozo the commie socialist, and were too stupid to realize the horrors & dangers of socialist-fascist totalitarianism. In fact if you go to college campuses today, the rage is all that socialism-communism-big all encompassing, all powerful government is Great and Wonderful. In fact I had a young person tell me that he was a socialist and that it was far superior to what we had before.

So I think a major part of our battle will be against the next generation and hopefully a good portion of them will have the scales drop from their eyes and will see the light of freedom, liberty & self-reliance.

53 posted on 08/31/2009 8:41:50 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: All; FightThePower!; ExTexasRedhead; Clinton Is Scum; Carl/NewsMax; Rush Limbaugh

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NEVER FORGET

.

We can all VOTE NOW with our USA $$$Bucks$$$:

.

Boycott all HUGO CHAVEZ’ Oil business

1) Union 76 Gasoline stations

2) 7/11 convenience markets who sell HUGO CHAVEZ’s gasoline

3) A KENNEDY Family who still persists in doing Oil business with HUGO CHAVEZ in the Northeast

4) SAUL ALINSKY Followers President of the USA and Secretary of State who are pressuring Honduras BIG TIME to take back it’s former Communist President it properly expelled recently, in accordance with its own Constitution

For,
the Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.

.

NEVER FORGET

.


54 posted on 08/31/2009 8:48:39 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Kaslin

Mark Lloyd had better learn the lesson that true diversity includes diversity of thought.


55 posted on 08/31/2009 8:59:07 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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To: Kaslin

This is NOT an accident.


56 posted on 08/31/2009 9:12:37 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: Kaslin
This is the famous Norman Rockwell painting "Freedom of Speech." It is (of all things) a Town Hall meeting. And it is clear that the democrat party is now opposed to Free Speech. And that same democrat party must be destroyed.


57 posted on 08/31/2009 9:17:14 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: HoosierHawk

I’m doing pretty well, thanks much.


58 posted on 08/31/2009 9:25:31 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Mojave

Mojave, this be The Independent Rage. Thanks for linking me in, dude! Brought my blog (http://independentrage.blogspot.com/) some nice traffic tonight. If there’s anything I can do in return, just let me know. And BTW, I stand behind that post: This Lloyd character is absolutely frightening to me. And I’m just a humble Independent, neither a right-winger or a left-winger, just blowing around in the wind!


59 posted on 08/31/2009 9:44:54 PM PDT by The Independent Rage
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To: Kaslin

60 posted on 08/31/2009 9:50:38 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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