The unfairness doctrine

It didn't take long for the Democrats in Congress to try to consolidate their power with Soviet-style Orwellian newspeak legislation that would subvert the very idea of constitutionally protected free speech in America.

Make no mistake about it, that is exactly what is happening with efforts to bring back the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," S. 1 and other draconian legislation being introduced and debated in Congress.

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Under the guise of "fairness," these attacks seek to limit the very kind of speech America's founders sought to protect – political speech, the lifeblood of a self-governing society.

The goal is not to promote "fairness" – anything but. The goal is to limit the impact and effectiveness of certain voices in the media – and I can prove it to you.

These attacks on the First Amendment are motivated by the power and appeal of media personalities like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and Laura Ingraham on radio, people like Glenn Beck, Neal Cavuto, John Gibson and Lou Dobbs on television and sites like WND on the Internet. Once these power-hungry control freaks are able to emasculate those voices, they understand they have a virtual monopoly on political speech in this country.

In "1984," George Orwell showed how the totalitarian mindset works – making words mean exactly the opposite of their true definitions. Black became white. Peace became war. Truth became lie. Orwell didn't have to imagine a society that operated like that. He based his novel on a real-world example of totalitarianism – the Soviet Union.

When the Soviets talked of freedom of religion, they meant atheism was the official state religion. When they talked about the free press, they meant a press controlled totally by the government.

And there are people in the U.S. government today who think very much like the old Soviets did. Many of them saw little wrong with the Soviet Union when it was around. They apologized for it. They excused its barbarism. They minimized the threat it posed to the U.S. and all free people in the world.

While their buddies in the Politburo may be gone, these American totalitarians are still around – still pushing the same old agenda of state control over everything, from health care to the news media.

They won't settle for having 90 percent control over an institution. It has to be 100 percent. The U.S. news media, for the most part, are already promoting an agenda in lockstep with the American totalitarians. These efforts under way today reflect the desire to consolidate all media power – to ensure that a handful of dissenting voices, alternative voices, independent voices, are squelched.

Where's my proof?

Notice what it is they want to control.

Are these totalitarians trying to control entertainment programming on television? No. Why not? Because it's already under control. Entertainment programming is already promoting their agenda. There's no need for the federal government bureaucrats to involve themselves in this arena because entertainment programming is doing what it is supposed to do – conditioning the American people for control.

The totalitarians have no problem with sadistic and pornographic programming, because it serves their immoral agenda.

What they have a problem with are points of views and news that expose them.

Understand this: Government control is the opposite of freedom. A government-controlled or government-regulated press is no press at all. It is propaganda, mind control, newspeak.

The only way to preserve the First Amendment in this country is to keep the government's mitts off the press – and that means broadcast, cable, Internet, newspapers and radio.

That I even need to explain an idea so rudimentary to American freedom today is disturbing, chilling, alarming.

We need more voices, not fewer. We need more ideas competing for the public's attention, not fewer. We need more viewpoints expressed, not fewer.

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