nobama and his gestapo goon squads. On Oct 30, 6:18 pm, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A Federal Communications Commission investigation of on-air military > analysts is providing a glimpse of what Democrats and an Obama > administration will do to critics once they capture Washington. > > The FCC has sent letters to some of the nation's most prominent > military analysts -- some of them pro-President Bush and pro-war -- > suggesting they may have broken the law when they appeared on > television stations to comment on and explain the war on terrorism. > > The FCC investigation raises the question of whether a Democrat- > controlled Congress and White House next year will investigate -- and > perhaps criminalize -- all sorts of actions taken by the Bush > administration. Obama is leading in all presidential polls, while > Democrats are set to greatly increase their hold on the House and > Senate. > > The FCC letters came at the behest of two House Democrats, who say the > analysts parroted on air the private briefings they received at the > Pentagon. This may have broken the law, the lawmakers said. > > The probe is sending chills through the ranks of military > commentators, some of them decorated war heroes who share their > expertise with millions of lay viewers. They see it as one in a series > of moves the Left is making to intimidate and shut up its critics. > > "We are seeing the dawn of a new era of the current Democratic > leadership trying to muzzle free speech and the First Amendment," > retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney, a Fox News analyst, told > HUMAN EVENTS. "It may be the most invasive intrusion that we have seen > in our history. There will be more of these tactics to follow." > > Said retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, one of Fox's first defense > analysts, "It's an affront to freedom of speech. As retired officers, > we're private citizens and can say anything we want under the First > Amendment. The whole thing was to explain to the American people what > was going on in war and analyzing it." > > Democrats have more in store to try to muzzle conservatives. They talk > of reactivating the so-called Fairness Doctrine in which federal > government bureaucrats monitor radio and TV programs and rule on their > fairness. Conservatives say the real goal is to kill right-leaning > talk radio. > > http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29263 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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