Dem's New Push To Squelch Dissent: Ye Be Warned On The Fairness Doctrine

We've warned, we've hollered, we've yelled. One day soon, we would be seeing a reemergence of the dreaded UNfairness Doctrine. And sure enough, the first move at reinstatement has been made. As found in the Media Research Center's article this morning; "Barack Obama’s transition team has tapped former FCC Commissioner Henry Rivera, a longtime proponent of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” to head the team looking for the man or woman who will soon give Democrats a 3-to-2 advantage on the Federal Communications Commission."

I am really starting to have my doubts that America will continue to survive as America, during the next four years. Perhaps we should start to brush-up on our Russian, or Chinese, or perhaps even Arabic.

What's even more disturbing about this is, the major media networks, (who also would be directly affected by this government hand-gagging,) are eerily mum on the subject. Where once they were staunch vocal opponents of ANY censorship of free speech rights, crickets can now be heard from their arenas. "A review shows the broadcast networks — whose affiliates could also be regulated — have failed to run even a single story mentioning the push for a new Fairness Doctrine. The most recent mention of the Fairness Doctrine was on May 30, 2007, when in an interview on CBS’s The Early Show, Al Gore bizarrely called it a “protection” that was removed during the Reagan years."

A protection Al? Would you still have been able to invent the internet had the “Censorship Doctrine” been in play?

And the media can't say it hadn't been warned. There's been numerous fore warnings on the subject. They (media) have just reported it nil. Everything from good 'ol New York Democratic Senator Chucky Schumer equating talk radio to pornography. Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman telling a New Mexico radio station how he “hopes” the Fairness Doctrine returns so radio will be more to his liking. And even Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein telling Fox News Sunday that she was “looking at” a new Fairness Doctrine because “talk radio tends to be one-sided...

So, when our RIGHT to speak out no longer exists, (and all our other rights begin to disappear afterwards) we can't as a populace say, we didn't know. You've Been Warned!