First Amendment: What, He Worry?

Should the Federal Communications Commission have the right to monitor American newsrooms? Sure, if you believe they have the right to redefine the US Constitution. Think of the FCC as your Big Brother who knows what's best for you. Not.

Here's the deal. The FCC wants to launch a new study so that they can decide what you news you "need" to hear. Your opinion doesn't matter. These FCC clowns will conduct a "General Population Survey" to "measure what your real needs are versus what you think they are." So, what you perceive you need to know is not the same as what the GOVERNMENT says you need to know.

The next step they plan is to send "monitors" to newsrooms all across the country and ask questions about their "philosophy" of the newsroom, the conflicts that may exist between reporters and their bosses, and determine the amount of influence each person has in deciding what to report.

Thus, they want to control what people say and thereby control the news we hear and see. The fact that this goes against our First Amendment rights is irrelevant to our Constitutional lawyer, community organizing president. 

The First Amendment says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances." The Free Press Clause is supposed to protect the publication of information and opinions, not suppress them.

The fact that the FCC is the regulator of the media press and has the power to approve or deny their licensing, gives them a power similar to that wielded by the IRS when they went after the Tea Party.This should even scare low-information liberals and college students, and it certainly should cause great outcry among all news organizations, even good ole MSNBC.

The really scary part is that if these media outlets don't give up confidential employee information to aid the FCC, these goons (on pages 10 and 11 of the study) have "helpful strategies" for getting the information anyway--even when employers and their Human Resources departments refuse to cooperate. (Picture a Nazi in full uniform with a monocle and thick German accent saying, "You Americans veel cooperate; you must cooperate or pay the price.") 

The results of this "study" is predictable--expect to see conservative media outlets like Fox News, The Blaze, National Review, Front Page Magazine, and the like, to be deemed as failures in giving the people what they "need." Just who determines that? They'll let you know in no uncertain terms.

Our rights are being eroded and our legislature is doing little to nothing about it. Don't be silent or you will be silenced.



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