Posted by
Steve on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:37:50 PM
Last night, I listened to the Glenn Beck show on the internet. During one segment, he put the attack on Fox News by the White House in perspective. On his blackboard, Glenn showed all the ways that the Obama White House has tried to limit free speech. The result was a chilling thought of how far we have fallen since January.
On the Mike Gallagher show, I heard another assault on free speech by the White House that Glenn Beck did not cover last night. This is that the United States is now one of the countries supporting the proposal by the Muslim countries on a restriction on free speech because of blasphemy. If this ever gets through and adopted, we will not be able to criticize Muslim terrorists as Muslim terrorists. They would just be terrorists and the Muslim part would have to be left out. That means that the message would be incomplete and the public would be left in the dark as to the truth. But the biggest problem is that the Obama White House even agreed to a restriction on our free speech rights at all. The Constitution is quite clear about the ability of our citizens to free speech. Obama seems to ignore that when it suits him.
We have an attack on our freedoms from many locations. It is difficult to keep up with all the attacks. Sometimes I think that I would like to take a break and let others do the work for me. Then, I realize that it is part of my duty as an American citizen to be informed and to speak out about these issues. Speaking out may have a price some day, but it is a price I am willing to pay. Freedom is important to me and I will defend it to my last breath.
During the period from the late 1940’s to the 1960’s, Ronald Reagan fought for these same values against the communist incursions that were taking place. I am reading a book about how Ronald Reagan won the Cold War against the communists. In the beginning of the book, where I am, it documents these struggles. It also points out that Ronald Reagan felt that we were in a war against the communists that the general public was not aware of. It is much like the war against the Islamo-Fascist’s of today. We are in a war that many in the country deny that we are fighting. As a result, we are in danger of losing our country to the enemy by giving up the ground without a fight. Right now, Barack Obama is surrendering at every opportunity. I hope there is not enough time for him to give everything away before he either gets stopped or replaced.
Freedom of speech is crucial to the proper functioning of our Republican form of government. If there are limits on our freedom of speech or freedom of assembly, we have no chance to stop the enemies of this country from taking over.
Right now, the Congress is trying to take away our property rights as well. When our property rights are gone, the country is gone with it. If this Obamacare bill becomes law, then we have no more private property in this country. That is why the bill has to be stopped. The bill is also a terrible bill that will not solve the problem that it is supposed to solve. It will just destroy what is good and precious.
We are a good people. We try to be kind to those who have less than ourselves. We try to be fair and honest with those that are weaker than ourselves. That gets us in trouble from time to time by putting us on the defensive in the beginning of some problems. When we wake up and decide to fight, there is no power on earth that can stop us. We need to wake up to the menace that is the Obama administration. We need to stop this administration from causing further damage to this country. Then, if we still are allowed to vote in 2010, we should vote all the Democrats and liberals out of office. That would give us a chance to reclaim the ground we have given up to this point. I know that we can do it. We have succeeded against worse odds in the past. We can succeed today. All we have to have is the will to win and the attitude that we will not be stopped. I know we can do it.