FORT LIBERTY
February 15, 2011
The federal government has lately slid from being ignorant of the Constitution, to ignoring it, to being openly hostile towards it. President Obama himself stood before Congress and verbally abused the Supreme Court for enforcing the First Amendment — this from a man who swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Representatives Mike Pence (R-IN) and Greg Walden (R-OR) fighting this disturbing trend by introducing the Broadcaster Freedom Act, which is designed to prevent the federal government from forcing private broadcasters to give free airtime to government propaganda mongers.
The Broadcaster Freedom Act does nothing except protect the same rights which are already protected by the First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
This new law is necessary only because the federal government has been passing laws which violate the First Amendment. President Obama, through his FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, has been aggressively assaulting free speech in the United States.
Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) is now seeking to make a law which will abridge the freedom of the press in order to force radio stations to grant free air time to pro-government speakers. Clyburn needs to understand what Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas clearly understood when he stated “The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.”
We the people need to support the Broadcaster Freedom Act — and any other act which forces the federal government to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. The powers that be in the D.C. beltway are failing to uphold the Constitution — we must not allow ourselves the same failure.
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