When it comes to infringements on American freedom that liberals have launched during the coronavirus crisis, lockdowns are the least of it.
It’s true that across the country, governors have ginned up powers to limit the freedoms of assembly and religion guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Those are battles that are not only being fought on the ground in real-time, but are also almost certainly destined for court cases where – once the fog of war lifts – reason and American values will win out.
More insidious are the left’s attempts to use the “national emergency” to enshrine the kind of authoritarian limitations on American freedom that leftists have instituted in every country unfortunate enough to fall under socialist doctrines – and a petition smacked down by the FCC this week is a case in point.
Pretending concern about misinformation regarding COVID-19, the potentially fatal disease caused by the coronavirus, a group that calls itself “Free Press” sought a Federal Communications Commission investigation of any broadcaster that has “aired hoaxes and false or misleading information about COVID-19, and immediately issue an emergency policy statement or enforcement guidance recommending that broadcasters prominently disclose when information they air is false or scientifically suspect.”
Fortunately, the FCC has a Republican majority, and its chairman, Ajit Pai, issued a ringing public statement along with a five-page letter rejecting the petition.
“The federal government will not – and never should – investigate broadcasters for their editorial judgment because a special interest group is angry at views being expressed on the air as well as those expressing them. In short, we will not censor the news,” the statement said. Full Story - Joe Saunders - Western Journal
ACLU Fascist Commuinist Origins and Tradition
The term "Civil Liberties" , when used in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union is one the greatest ironies , or oxymoron's perpetrated on the American Public. George Orwell 1984-Animal Farm described this form of tactical mental deceit as 'doublethink' and 'newspeak' which more recent writers have adapted to doublespeak.
