On top of being called “Hobbits“, “Terrorists” and “Extremists” by our nation’s leaders including the Vice President; Commissioning the DHS to draft an Assessment that classifies them as “Domestic Terrorists“; enacting a national strategy to ‘counter violent extremists’ – Conservative Americans and TEA Party members have yet another effort being suggested by our nation’s leaders to deal with them: Silence their freedom of speech.
This is where it begins folks – the full-on efforts by the Ruling Class and our political leaders to not only criminalize you – but silence you. First by the same methods Hitler initially used; via shunning and boycott which is never enough for tyrants who will historically ALWAYS resort to using thugs to physically bully and intimidate them into silence, before the State purges the threat they declare upon their political enemies.
It is now a wide use tactic of the Left in this nation, when confronted with the truth – to state that your concerns or questions are “not legitimate”. This gives them cover with the aid of complicit media to dodge any accountability or public scorn. Soon however, that becomes unnecessary as raw contemptuous arrogance replaces any need to attempt a deflection such as when Nancy Pelosi was asked what authority the Constitution gives them to mandate the American people must buy health insurance – whereupon she replied “Are you serious?” followed by contempt in refusing to answer the question and declaring “That’s not a serious question”.
From there historically, it moves to the demonization of the opposition as ‘terrorists’ that we witnessed last week, which will be followed by efforts to mandate that any and all concerns by the opposition to the ruling class be ignored and discarded. When the opposition to the ruling class resort to their own efforts and assymetric solutions towards their cause and message getting out – the ruling class will simply make those efforts illegal and penalize anyone giving aid and comfort to those opposed to them.
Warner Todd Huston lays it all out, as former Presidential candidate and Senator John Kerry states that Conservative views are not “real”, “legitimate” or “factual” and suggests that the news media not cover the opposition viewpoints to this regime now in power.
As Mr. Hudson rightly notes – this is just the latest evidence that the Ruling Class intends to quash free political speech of Conservatives.
Want Proof of How Democrats Would Shut You Up, Tea Partiers?
On MSNBC, John Kerry told us that Tea Party ideas are not “real” ideas, not “factual,” and thinks that the media should stop reporting on anything that smacks of ideas or news coming from Tea Partiers. If this isn’t proof of how Democrats and leftists would use the power of government to quash free political speech, what is?
Not long ago, several Democrats tried to once again raise the ugly head of the defunct Fairness Doctrine that was killed during the Reagan administration in order to limit the free political speech of conservatives. In those dark days when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House of Representatives, several Republicans talked about forever outlawing the anti-free speech rule. Democrats at the time spoke up in favor of the Fairness Doctrine and countered that they wanted to bring it back.
Fortunately, the Fairness Doctrine has not come back. But this un-American policy idea has been talked about by leftists every few years since it was torpedoed by Reagan in 1987. They would love to bring it back. And despite what they claim, the left would use a new Fairness Doctrine to squelch the free political speech of those on the right.
Video at link.
SEN. JOHN KERRY: And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.
It doesn’t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, who isn’t?
You see? You Tea Partiers are not “legitimate.” You are not “real,” not “serious.” Why, your ideas are so “absurd” that he thinks the Old Media should stop reporting on any politician or activist that spouts those “absurd notions.”
The media, Kerry said, “has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance.” This means he thinks any ideas that don’t toe the far left, liberal Democrat ideological line should be excluded from reportage, eliminated from the public debate.
Now, imagine what he’d do if he had the power of a renewed Fairness Doctrine under his control? Imagine if he had the power of law behind his claims.
If John Kerry and his comrades on the far left had their way, they’d use the force of law to shut you up, Tea Partiers. The left would not use the Fairness Doctrine for anything “fair.” They’d use it as a but another Alien and Sedition Act to shut down the access to the public square now enjoyed by conservative ideas.
Talk radio, cable TV, newspapers, magazines, the Internet all would be targeted for Kremlin-like control of their contents by Washington D.C. if the left had its way.
In fact, speaking of the Internet, there is a new stealth Fairness Doctrine in the works. It’s called Net Neutrality, just another way for the left to impose state control of the news.
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