The scariest thing you will hear from Obamunists is the glassy-eyed
assertion that their messiah will "unite us." How is the guy with the
most extreme left-wing record in the entire Senate going to unite us,
when 99% of the public has a less radical point of view? Two words:
brute force. Michael Barone offers a few examples of how this is
already becoming apparent:
[Obamunists] seem determined to shut people up.
That's what Obama supporters, alerted by campaign emails, did when
conservative Stanley Kurtz appeared on Milt Rosenberg's WGN radio
program in Chicago. Kurtz had been researching Obama's relationship
with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers in
Chicago Annenberg Challenge papers in the Richard J. Daley Library in
Chicago — papers that were closed off to him for some days, apparently
at the behest of Obama supporters.
Obama fans jammed WGN's phone lines and sent in hundreds of
protest emails. The message was clear to anyone who would follow
Rosenberg's example. We will make trouble for you if you let anyone
make the case against The One.
Other Obama supporters have threatened critics with criminal
prosecution. In September, St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob
McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned
citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against
anyone who made statements against Obama that were "false." I had been
under the impression that the Alien and Sedition Acts had gone out of
existence in 1801-02. Not so, apparently, in metropolitan St. Louis.
Similarly, the Obama campaign called for a criminal investigation of
the American Issues Project when it ran ads highlighting Obama's ties
to Ayers.
It's gotten this bad without him even having been elected. Imagine
Obama in office, backed up by a solid Democrat majority under the
alarmingly irresponsible leadership of Pelosi and Reid. First will
come a resurrected Fairness Doctrine, to shut off talk radio. Then
they will go after the Internet, so enjoy Moonbattery while you can.
After the Internet has been reduced to PBS Online, don't be surprised
if they start on your mail.
Obama can count on help not only from Congress, but from the media
that has been instrumental in passing him off as a legitimate
candidate. Corporate ownership is no guarantee of freedom:
Corporate liberals have done their share in shutting down anti-
liberal speech, too. "Saturday Night Live" ran a spoof of the
financial crisis that skewered Democrats like House Financial Services
Chairman Barney Frank and liberal contributors Herbert and Marion
Sandler, who sold toxic-waste-filled Golden West to Wachovia Bank for
$24 billion. Kind of surprising, but not for long. The tape of the
broadcast disappeared from NBC's Website and was replaced with another
that omitted the references to Frank and the Sandlers. Evidently NBC
and its parent, General Electric, don't want people to hear speech
that attacks liberals.
Barone notes that Obama has chosen to spend his adult life in the
ideological bubble of university communities. This is unlikely to
foster respect for the opposition's right to express itself:
Today's liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from […]
the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with
speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to
sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that
liberals find offensive. The campuses that used to pride themselves as
zones of free expression are now the least free part of our society.
William F. Buckley wisely said that he would rather be governed by the
first 2,000 names in the phone book than by Harvard's faculty. We're
about to find out why.
http://www.moonbattery.com/
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