In response to The First Freedom Threatened, which I posted yesterday, there have been a number of responses that suggest that the "Fairness" Doctrine is not going to limit our access to information because there are so many other outlets, formats and technologies available today—so why worry? It's not a big deal.
The point is not how we get our information, the point is the intention of the State! The point is the eagerness of the State to act unconstitutionally to control the People.
Nobody.....NOBODY.....NOBODY...believes that the "Fairness" Doctrine is about fairness. Not the Leftist Agents of the State who regularly lie, pretending they do; not the citizens listening to them. Not my 20-month-old grand-niece. It is a complete pretense; a total fabrication.
The Leftist Agents of the State want the "Fairness" Doctrine for no loftier reason than to silence political dissent. In other words, they wish to practice fascism in order to increase and consolidate their own power, and remove any threats to it.
They are very busy constructing a lie—that EVERYBODY KNOWS IS A LIE—in order to justify this unrestrained seizure of raw power to control and censor the People's political speech.
The freedom of which our Constitution explicitly guarantees in the First Amendment.
With the "Fairness" Doctrine, the Leftist Agents of the State seek to betray the Constitution for power & control. And if they get away with it, none of our rights are safe. The others will fall like dominoes. The Second Amendment is hanging by a thread.
CONTROL IS AN ADDICTION FOR THE STATE! They can never have enough, and there is no such thing as too much.
This is a Constitutional Crisis. Either we have one or we don't. Either it means something or it doesn't. Either we will remain free because the State respects constitutional limits on its power , or we will be serfs because the State has decided to view the Constitution as "Suggestions If Convenient To The Absolute Rulers" rather than as "The Law of the Land".
The "Fairness" Doctrine is a test.
If the Leftist Agents of the State attempt to impose it, they will have declared fascist war on the Constitution and The People. And unless we stop them, I promise you, they will not stop until they have rendered us all slaves of the State.
The Gunslinger
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9 months ago
I agree with you. The fairness doctrine is fascist. However, consider...
ReplyDeleteWe are at war. We are comparatively weak. So, If we can keep the anger up and have one faction keep screaming about the nazis, thus hurting them PR-wise and another faction tying up the courts sueing NPR and CNN hurting them logistically, they get a Pyrrhic victory.
Taking a page from the leftist playbook, winning the battle is not as important as hurting your opponent. It seems to work for them. Musashi would approve.
I assumed at one time that we would be busy insisting that all the television stations be "fair" and "balanced", but I heard lately that they will target only Radio.
ReplyDeleteWhich is what makes it such a blatant assault on speech and dissent.
Even if they do impose "fairness" on their golden geese, they will claim that the "news" is neutral, therefore in no need of balance.
Anything self-defined as "news" will get a pass. Couric, Gibson, Brokaw, etc.
Cable stations with their Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermanns will have some adjustments to make, but they can find ineffectual and nominal Republicans to serve their purposes.
"Fairness" is in the eye of the beholder...and without measurable standards, we will be at the mercy of some apparatchik's "perception".
That being said, I hope you are right. I mean, I know you are right...I hope the environment we find ourselves in allows us to do that.
Who's Musashi?
I might have the spelling wrong. Miyamoto Musashi, best known for Book of Five Rings. One of those Eastern military classics.
ReplyDeleteMy point is that we have lost. To fight would be futile. What we need to do is to make the victory costly for them. While they're busy winning we need to set up the second line of defense, which they will also win and so on.
Every time the National Guard got called to a student protest in the 60's the left won. Every time a police officer arrested an annoying flower child, the left won. We're in the same position now.
The problem is the short sighted American mindset. It took the left 40 years to achieve all their goals and get Obie. It might take us as long. If we can stay the course.
Honestly, I think we need to redefine ourselves as the "Conservative Resistance". And "Freedom Fighters". who "question authority" and make it clear that it is the LEFT that is the dictatorial "establishment" today.
ReplyDeleteWe have to be smart. We ARE the beleaguered 300 fighting for the survival of our culture against the barbarian hordes.
We need to cast ourselves as what we really are, the lone heroes, standing up against he marauding gang of bullies and thugs.
Sound melodramatic? I don't care. Americans root for that guy. And the identify. Movies celebrate us all the time...only they mistakenly label us Liberal.
I agree with you. Our first mistake was letting them redefine the language. Maybe we should call ourselves Liberals (like they do in Europe). We need to take our language back and start calling a commie a commie.
ReplyDeleteI like "Freedom Fighters". Maybe we should call ourselves the "Liberal Resistance". That would really freak them out.
My point was that the stratagy that brought the left to this point was thought out by the best brains in the communist party. It seems a pity to waste such an effective strategy.
We should all read Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. I actually have...but it's been years.
ReplyDeleteYou make a great point. Why reinvent the wheel?
Yeah, I'm using "Conservstive Resistance" for the moment. But honestly, anything "Conservative" has been tainted by Leftist definition.
Although, you got to admit, we did a job on "Liberal". That might change with BO in office, but even Hillary was calling herself a "progressive" for fear of the "Liberal" label.
So it can be done...and we've even proven WE can do it.
What we need...is a plan!