When the American colonies decided to break away from Great Britain and the tyrannical rule of it's king, George III, it did so on grounds of acts of despotism by that certain monarch. The acts of despotism included unfair trials, unfair laws, unfair taxes, and unfair treatment. The treatment in question dealt with the taking away of rights. Among these rights that were being taken away were, as Thomas Jefferson phrased, unalienable rights of man. Rights that all man(kind) are born with. The freedom to have a voice and speak your mind is the most basic of all freedoms. And in the same category of freedom of speech, there is another freedom that has been ensured by the founding fathers to protect the American people by allowing them to hear the truth about our community, it's people and the government. It's called freedom of the press. But apparently, "President" Obama has not read this paper nor the Constitution. None of that is surprising since he hasn't even read his own bill on health care.
In case no one can remember what the First Amendment to the Constitution says, including the administration of the current president, here its is:
- 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.
So then why has this administration tried to ban a legitimate news outlet (FOX-News) from interviewing the "Pay Czar", which by the way setting up new offices for government control over the people is also a detestable act we complained about in the Declaration of Independence? If the pay czar refused to do the interview on grounds of self-incrimination that is one thing. But if an order by the White House to ban the interview was given then a federal crime was committed. Our Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments were written and added to our Constitution to protect the American from any government that would try and set up anything remotely connected to tyranny. Yet, we are at the doorstep of mainline Socialist Technocracy and people are still thinking he is the savior of the world.
He has committed a federal crime! Check out the link. By the way, you will not find this story on CNN, MSNBC, or CNBC websites. It isn't even on FOX anymore. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/10/22/white_house_tries_to_bar_fox_news_from_intervewing_pay_czar.html. If this is allowed to go on then we might as well throw away the greatest document of all history and thumb our noses at all of those graves in Arlington Cemetery when we should be defending this paper to the death and thumbing our noses at the Nobel Peace Prize committee.