Should Everyone Have Free Speech, Or Just Some?

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

The German-Jewish poet, Heinrich Heine said, "Where books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too." This was said 100 years before the Third Reich emerged!!

On the 10th of May, 1933, students in universities across Germany began to burn books with "un-German" ideas.

On the 9th of May, 2010, almost exactly 77 years later, President Obama said, "information becomes a distraction, a diversion"

This is the same president that recently signed into law a bill that gives him the right to shutdown the Internet at his discretion. The internet is as much "the press" as defined in the 1st Ammendment as are CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, ABC and all the other radio and TV stations and networks.

TODAY, a bill called the "Disclose Act" is before congress. They will vote on it today. Earlier this year a similar bill was struck down by the Supreme Court as UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Congress knows that the Disclose Act will similarly be declared unconstitutional. But it wont happen until after the November elections. They hope to steal elections by using this act to muzzle the opposition of groups like the TEA Party. Even the Sierra Club, a bastion of the left, calls the Disclose Act "unfair and undemocratic". Yet, today, congress will vote to abridge free speech until after the elections, knowing full well that the Supreme Court will strike down their breach of the Constitution....after the elections, after they are through using it.

As my title suggests, maybe there are those that should not have free speech? Yesterday I listened to Chris Wallace tear down Howard Dean as he tried to defend his statement that FOX News was racist. Dean tried to say that FOX News was racist because he, Howard Dean, had expected FOX News to say something racist that they, eventually, did NOT say. His expectation of this future act was racist, even though it did not happen! Maybe Howard Dean should be put on a "No Speech List" similar to the "No Fly List".......Just for his own protection.

Jim Isbell
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