May 22, 2010

First Amendment Could be Removed from Blogs?

This callous disregard for the First Amendment represents a fundamental threat the very fabric of the country and is even more alarming considering the position of Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan with regard to free speech. During the Citizens United vs. FEC case, Kagan's office argued that the government can ban books and political pamphlets. In separate writings, Kagan argued that the government could "disappear" free speech it deemed to be offensive.
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In an audio excerpt of an interview which was posted on the Breitbart.tv website , Sunstein discusses how conservative websites should provide links to liberal websites and vice versa or even how political blogs should be made to include pop ups that show "a quick argument for a competing view".

"The idea would be to have a legal mandate as the last resort….an ultimate weapon designed to encourage people to do better," Sunstein concluded.

"The best would be for this to be done voluntarily," said Sunstein, "But the word voluntary is a little complicated and people sometimes don't do what's best for our society," he added (emphasis mine).

"The idea would be to have a legal mandate as the last resort….an ultimate weapon designed to encourage people to do better," Sunstein concluded.

As we previously reported, in a January 2008 white paper entitled "Conspiracy Theories," the Harvard Professor who is currently President Obama's head of information technology in the White House called for "conspiracy theories," that is any political opinion which didn't concur with the establishment view, to be taxed or even banned outright.

Essentially, Sunstein wants it to be written into law that the government can dictate the very nature of reality to Americans and that their opinions can only be voiced at best when accompanied by mandatory federal propaganda or at worst that Americans can be silenced entirely by federal decree.  Read full at PrisonPlanet