By Selwyn Duke

Many view freedom of speech as our most cherished right, but, believe it or not, it’s imperiled in America.  I’ve written numerous articles about attacks upon it in the West, most notably one titled "How We Will Lose Our Freedom of Speech."  I explain in the piece the process by which we will lose it (barring a real upsetting of the social apple cart), so I think it’s worth reading. 

There’s another article on the subject worth reading that’s written by Michael Barone.  It’s titled "Obama vs. Free Speech," and it will enable anyone with even a stitch of discernment to see the writing on the wall.  Barone starts out by quoting an Obama line that is right out of ACORN’s playbook and writes:

"’I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your
neighbors,’ Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. ‘I want you to talk
to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I
want you to argue with them and get in their face.’ Actually, Obama
supporters are doing a lot more than getting into people’s faces. They
seem determined to shut people up."

Some may think Obama’s remark seems innocuous enough, but it takes on a different tenor when viewed against the backdrop of the behavior of the senator’s brown-shirt supporters and the left in general.  Barone provides many examples of this, among them the following:

Other Obama supporters have threatened critics with criminal
prosecution. In September, St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob
McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned
citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against
anyone who made statements against Obama that were ‘false.’ I had been
under the impression that the Alien and Sedition Acts had gone out of
existence in 1801-02. Not so, apparently, in metropolitan St. Louis.
Similarly, the Obama campaign called for a criminal investigation of
the American Issues Project when it ran ads highlighting Obama’s ties
to Ayers.

If you’ve been keeping abreast of social developments in the West, you know that such tyrannical behavior isn’t unusual among liberals; if you understand what lies at the heart of liberalism, you know why.  Regardless, Barone paints a very accurate picture of liberalism’s tolerance for dissent, as he mentions things such as speech codes in colleges, corporate censorship, the Fairness Doctrine and union intimidation.  He does omit the 800-pound gorilla in the room, which is hate-speech laws, but it’s still an excellent piece.

Most Americans don’t realize it, but we’re heading into a very dark time in our history.  Obama will most likely be the next president and, working in concert with fellow travelers in the Houses, will, I believe, seek to stifle dissent in a way never before witnessed in these United States.  I think these neo-fascists will resurrect the Fairness Doctrine, and that will only be the tip of the iceberg.  In fact, I think it’s highly likely they will seek to enact European-style hate-speech laws.

There’s an old Chinese curse that says, "May you live in interesting times."  We certainly do.

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