Barack Hussein Obama Wages War Against Free Speech
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Where are all the free speech absolutists when you need them? Over the
past month, left-wing partisans and Democratic lawyers have waged a
brass-knuckled intimidation campaign against GOP donors, TV and radio
stations, and even an investigative journalist because they have all
dared to question the radical cult of Barack Obama. A chill wind
blows, but where the valiant protectors of political dissent are,
nobody knows.
On Aug. 11, I called the American Civil Liberties Union national
headquarters in New York for comment about the Chicago gangland
tactics of one of these groups - a nonprofit called "Accountable
America" that is spearheaded by a former operative of the Obama-
endorsing MoveOn outfit.
"Accountable America" is trolling campaign finance databases and
targeting conservative donors with "warning" letters in a thuggish
attempt to depress Republican fundraising. (You'll be interested to
know that the official registered agent of Accountable America is
Laurence Gold, a high-powered attorney for the American Federation of
Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which has
testified before the Senate complaining about the use of campaign
finance laws to stifle the speech of union workers - a pet cause of
the ACLU.)
The ACLU press office failed to respond to my initial call. On Aug.
13, I followed up through e-mail:
"I called on Monday requesting a statement from the ACLU about
Accountable America's intimidation campaign against GOP donors. What
is the ACLU's position with regard to such efforts? Waiting for your
statement..."
ACLU press officer Pamela Bradshaw e-mailed back:
"Michelle, My apologies that I cannot be of more assistance, but we
don't have anyone available. Thanks, Pam." My reply: "Pam - Does this
mean you don't have anyone available today, this week, or for the
foreseeable future?"
On Aug. 20, after a week of silence, I forwarded the message again to
the ACLU press office. No response.
So, I won't bother asking the ACLU's opinion of the latest wave of
speech-squelching moves by the Obama campaign. Obama recently demanded
that the Justice Department stop TV stations from airing a documented,
accurate independent ad spotlighting Obama's longtime working
relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill
Ayers.
Obama summoned his followers to bombard stations, many of them owned
by conservative-leaning Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails
to squelch the commercial.
On Tuesday last week, the Obama campaign sent another letter to the
Justice Department demanding investigation and prosecution of American
Issues Project, the group that produced the Ayers ad, as well as
Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, who funded it.
And on Wednesday, Obama exhorted his followers to sabotage the WGN
radio show of veteran Chicago host and University of Chicago Professor
Milt Rosenberg. Why? Because he invited National Review writer Stanley
Kurtz to discuss his investigative findings about Obama's ties to
Ayers and the underwhelming results of their collaboration on a left-
wing educational project sponsored by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
The "Obama Action Wire" supplied Rosenberg's call-in line and talking
points like this:
"Tell WGN that by providing Kurtz with airtime, they are legitimizing
baseless attacks from a smear-merchant and lowering the standards of
political discourse. ... It is absolutely unacceptable that WGN would
give a slimy character assassin like Kurtz time for his divisive,
destructive ranting on our public airwaves."
Behind the glowing, peaceful facade lies Barack "The Silencer" Obama
and his silent enablers on the left. While mainstream journalists
schmoozed with liberal celebrities in Denver, practiced yoga with left-
wing bloggers and received massages at the Google convention tent near
touchy-feely Barackopolis, Team Obama was on an ugly, aggressive
warpath sanctioned by Mr. Civility.
While compassionate Obama prepared to stand before thousands of
worshipers at Invesco Field, purporting to give voice to the
voiceless, his Chicago-schooled campaign machine was working overtime
to muzzle conservative critics.
Welcome to the future: the politics of Hope and Change enforced by the
missionaries of Search and Destroy.
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<kcaj...@yahoo.com> in glistered weave wrote large for all to see:
>Welcome to the future: the politics of Hope and Change enforced by the
>missionaries of Search and Destroy.
All you need do is go back a ways in history and see which other
leaders/politicans promised change -- and what the people got..........
(Check into what Mussolini's "new kind of socialism" was.........he even had
a symbol, a bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade protruding --
the Roman fasces. Oh yeah, he promised change............the people got it
too. It's on Wikipedia....under RSI, I think, but that is just one of the
"change" promisers.........)
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