- Token conservative Pat Buchanan heckled off MSNBC, the TV mouthpiece of unchallenged, uncorrected left-wing orthodoxy.
- In an act of self-righteous political posturing, radio talker Michael Savage is literally banned from visiting the United Kingdom for his popular public views – and the U.S. media, political and cultural establishment issues a collective yawn.
- Rush Limbaugh calls an avowed fornicator who testified publicly before Congress about the financial hardship of paying for contraceptives a “slut,” which she is, according to the dictionary definition, and dozens of national advertisers capitulate to boycott threats.
- The homosexual mafia creates enemies lists of those who take seriously the Bible’s condemnation of their activity as sin, attempting to squelch free and open debate about the propriety of their behavior and their bullying tactics.
- A courageous sheriff from Arizona responds to constituent requests to investigate the authenticity of Barack Obama’s birth certificate and, after months of research, investigation and tests, finds it to be fake. The media collectively prefer a dog-bites-man narrative – that Joe Arpaio is just trying to get publicity in an election year.
I could on and on with examples like this.
But you get the idea.
We are living in an unprecedented time of speech control.
- Arrests for street preaching;
- No-speech zones in front of abortion clinics;
- Speech codes have replaced “academic freedom” on college campuses throughout the country.
It’s not technically illegal to speak out in opposition to the standards of the left’s political correctness – yet. But the cost for doing so is getting higher every day. If you want to exercise the First Amendment, you’d better be able to afford good legal counsel to defend yourself.
Even the institutions and companies created specifically to offer some balance in a media world of conformity are running scared. One is facing prosecution in the United Kingdom and fearing it might spread westward.
There are just some things you can’t talk about in America today. Period. End of story.
Are we better off as a nation than we were when vibrant dialogue and debate was the rule of the day?
Yes, is the answer from the port side of politics. And they want to take this insanity further – much further.
They may have failed at legislating the Orwellian-inspired “fairness doctrine,” but they have successfully implemented it through blacklisting, boycotts, media pile-ons, intimidation, threats and lawsuits.
The stakes are high because their man in the White House is in trouble. They can’t understand why Americans aren’t happy with the fundamental transformation of society he has delivered.
And now there is even evidence the Internal Revenue Service is getting into the act of retribution against those who oppose the anointed one’s command-and-control, Big Government policies. Tea-party organizations across the United States are getting something they never got before – audit notices. I got my first one since I had the audacity to investigate Bill Clinton scandals in an election year. Virtually all my standard deductions were disallowed because the IRS didn’t like my documentation – credit card receipts!
My audit was as predictable as the one I’ll get again next year if Obama is re-elected. This is how the left operates – utilizing the raw power of the state, instilling fear, drowning out voices of opposition.
History shows us that these kinds of tactics, if unchecked and unrepudiated, lead to even worse abuses – including violence. We saw it in the French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, Mao’s reign of terror, Stalin’s purges, Mussolini’s brownshirts and Hitler’s blackshirts.
Inevitably, that is where this mentality and these tactics lead.
I don’t want to go there.
I don’t want America to go there.
And that’s why I stand in solidarity with the targets of this wave of irrational hysteria from the browbeaters.
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