Quote of the Day
August 26, 2008 by Laura | Trackback URI
@ Winds of Change.NET: Silencing Citizens Should Concern Us All.
It is unfortunate to see the Obama campaign moving to silence political speech by citizens during an election. Their attempt to get the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute a 501c4 for daring to mention Obama’s relationship with [unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill] Ayers is un-American.
… Neither President Bush, who inspired and then signed the law, nor Sen. McCain, who wrote the law, nor Sen. Obama, who used the law to silence American citizens, none of them should escape our wrath.
… We have come to a time in America when our political class wants desperately to silence American citizens.
… Our courts, which are ready to extend “free speech” to nude dancing as a form of “expression,” won’t recognize and defend the First Amendment right to free political speech that was the Founders’ whole purpose.
Whatever your politics, and whomever you support, this behavior is un-American. It is wrong, vile, and an assault on the most basic liberty that the Republic was founded to protect. If an American citizen has something to say about an issue or a candidate, let him say it, and let us all decide the merits in common debate. If citizens must band together to afford the rates for advertisements, and care enough to spend their own coin to voice their opinion, let them do so.
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