Posted on 10/11/2008 6:53:29 PM PDT by SumProVita
Conservative-friendly media better get ready. Should Barack Obama win the presidency and the Democrats control Congress, as now seems likely, they will launch a full-scale war to drive critics especially on political talk radio right out of legitimate public debate.
Signs of what the new environment will be like for the right are already evident:
When the National Rifle Association recently released television and radio ads in Pennsylvania targeting Obama's history of anti-gun votes, the Obama campaign's general counsel fired off bullying letters to stations that ran the spots, implying that they may have violated public-interest obligations.
When the 527 group, the American Issues Project, came out with a commercial linking Obama to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the campaign (unsuccessfully) complained to the Department of Justice that AIP had broken campaign finance laws, and managed to spook some stations away from the ad.
When two different conservative writers looking into Obama's background appeared on Chicago's WGN-AM Radio, the campaign's "action wire" energized its activists to bombard the station with rage-filled phone calls and e-mails, making the program more difficult to conduct.
(The show, hosted by the eminently reasonable Milt Rosenberg, had on both occasions invited the Obama campaign to send a representative to respond; the campaign preferred to answer with digital brownshirts.)
These crude efforts are only a start.
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As Chuck Heston said "From my cold dead hands!"
We need to find someone actually building the infrastucture.
Sales of short-wave radios will skyrocket. "Radio Free EIB" on your short-wave bands.
Shortwave radio, a generator, and a shotgun.
FR DOES have it’s servers in Canada, right? ‘Course that won’t do any good when they confiscate our computers. Kidding...sort of.
Better get it now, the radio that is.
Shortwave transmitter (correction)
I’m interested in seeing how these maggots are going to TRY to
take our guns away?
When it comes down to brass tacks, who do you want to win? Us or them. I am not about ready to give in to them.
Which is why they'll go after it first or second.
Those four conservative Supreme Court justices had better start tightening up their personal security if Obama wins, and avoid general aviation (light planes) like the plague.
The question has to be asked: The U.S. Military. Unlike any other military in the world. Not subjects too any dictator or his congress...but to the Constitution. Many have served and sacrificed. Many still serve. In all branches. Are they going to allow what they fought for be undone just like that? I'm talking from generals/admirals on down to the ground-pounders. Just lay down their weapons? Just give up to a liberal Marxist dictator and liberal Marxist congress? I have my doubts. They didn't serve, sacrifice blood, sweat and tears only to let it all be for nothing and surrender.
I agree that some sort of civil war would break out with our military on our side.
Neither am I. ;-)
Which Obama's cadres would see as an excellent excuse.
Then they'll just ban radios capable of receiving his broadcasts. I didn't believe I'd see totalitarianism come to America in my lifetime but barring a miracle it's just around the corner.
Just wait for the so called “Fairness” Doctrine. The Democrats would like to decide what you can listen to on the radio. They would like to stop conservative talk radio. Where does this all lead to?
They won't change the rules, they'll just change the game. Like find some way to tax the guns you do own,making it impossible to keep them in a declining economy? or what they did for Katrina, declare martial law due to some made-up emergency and just grab your defense?
Something untraceable, not needing a license, might be a good idea.
Note to self: Slowly back away from the Reynolds Wrap and get to bed. Sigh.
Fine with me. "Every man dies, not every man lives." "They can take my life, but they can never take away my freedom." William Wallace
Ohhhh...I am pretty sure that they will attempt to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine to accomplish the end of conservative talk radio. And then someone needs to take it straight to the Supreme Court before any new justice is appointed.
Problem for them is, they still think that the Bill of Rights is a grant of permission for citizens, when in fact it is a recognition of the obligation of lawmakers. It's for the day they "go after it" that it was written in the first place.
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