Stiffling American Voices

This past week something significant was revealed involving free speech in this country. Ever since Senator Obama took the Presidential oath, there has a spate of activity by his administration regarding the internet, free speech, and the Fairness Doctrine as applied to the main stream media.

Numerous liberal congressman have tried to get a vote on reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine to squelch free speech in spite of Obama's denials that he has no such goal. Judical Watch, the government corruption watchdog group, reported in May that they had documents indicating the opposite. As Obama administration come under greater and greater scrutiny, there is more interest and attempts to change the fabric of American free speech and the media's ability to report. Democratic attempts to pass legislation have not been successful thus far, but there are several bills pending currently.

Obama has filled his administration with 44 "appointed" czars bypassing appointment conformation hearings. These czars answer directly to the President. One of the appointees is an FCC diversity czar, Mark Lloyd. Mr. Lloyd is confirmed socialist who publicly supports the likes of Venezuela's Chavez and Cuba's Castro and who co-authored a 2007 report bemoaning the failure of liberal talk radio and the success of conservative talk radio, which discussed the ways to silence the success of conservative talk radio by instituting caps on ownership, stricter licensing, in essence what amounts to fines to help support public broadcasting.

If the American public wanted public broadcasting or liberal talk radio, they wouldn't be failures like Air America. The only way NPR and PBS stay on the air is with millions of taxpayer dollars going to them. NPR and PBS are supposed to be fair in all their broadcasting, offering no opinions in either direction. Supposedly if they do voice an opinion, they must voice the opposing opinion. These money-hogs cannot survive without federal funding because they do not have a large enough audience to bring in the donations they need. Therein lies the success of free enterprise on all levels. Nothing that is liberally based has ever been financially viable on its own in the history of this country. I am tired of seeing my tax dollars spent on sustaining failed programs and enterprises because of rampant graft and corruption. I have better things to do with my hard-earned money that supporting cronyism in the name of what's in the best interest of the public. It is not in my best interest at all, and I reject the implication that I don't know what is in my own good.

Now the internet is under attack by the Obama administration and his internet czar who are trying to get legislation giving Obama the legal right to control internet content at will supposedly under the guise of national security. The only security at question is Obama's re-election, and I suspect he will do anything to stiffle any voice in opposition to his programs or re-election by whatever means he can. The governing parties in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and China control the internet in their respective countries. Seems to me we are getting more communist-like every day.