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Friday, August 29, 2008
Michelle Malkin :: Townhall.com Columnist
Barack "The Silencer" Obama's Gangland Assault on Free Speech
by Michelle Malkin
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Where are all the free speech absolutists when you need them? Over the past month, left-wing partisans and Democratic lawyers have waged a brass-knuckled intimidation campaign against GOP donors, TV and radio stations, and even an investigative journalist because they have all dared to question the radical cult of Barack Obama. A chill wind blows, but where the valiant protectors of political dissent are, nobody knows.

On August 11, I called the American Civil Liberties Union national headquarters in New York for comment about the Chicago gangland tactics of one of these groups -- a nonprofit called "Accountable America" that is spearheaded by a former operative of the Obama-endorsing MoveOn outfit.

"Accountable America" is trolling campaign finance databases and targeting conservative donors with "warning" letters in a thuggish attempt to depress Republican fundraising. (You'll be interested to know that the official registered agent of Accountable America is Laurence Gold, a high-powered attorney for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) who has testified before the Senate complaining about the use of campaign finance laws to stifle the speech of union workers -- a pet cause of the ACLU.)

The ACLU press office failed to respond to my initial call. On August 13, I followed up through e-mail:

"I called on Monday requesting a statement from the ACLU about Accountable America's intimidation campaign against GOP donors. What is the ACLU's position with regard to such efforts? Waiting for your statement..."

ACLU press officer Pamela Bradshaw e-mailed back:

"Michelle, My apologies that I cannot be of more assistance, but we don't have anyone available. Thanks, Pam."

My reply: "Pam -- Does this mean you don't have anyone available today, this week, or for the foreseeable future?"

On August 20, after a week of silence, I forwarded the message again to the ACLU press office. No response.

So, I won't bother asking the ACLU's opinion of the latest wave of speech-squelching moves by the Obama campaign: Continued...
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Reply # 1
Date: Sep 4, 2008 - 10:52 PM EST
The7Sticks
Apparently you lack the ability understand what the point of the article is.

This isn't about political campaigning. It is about the belief of Senator Obama that there are two kinds of "free speech." Things he believes in and values should be protected, those that he does not agree with; should not.

It is a simple thing. It is rooted in his true beliefs; they have more in common with Karl Marx than they do with Thomas Jefferson.

What America the lazy has to do; is some home-work. Find out what Obama has actually done besides write a couple books and hang out with Oprah.

His only paying jobs have been in the aid of advancing the objectives of Saul Alinksy.

Saul Alinsky was a Marxist. So is William Ayers. What do you think that makes Obama? He's never worked in his entire life. He has studiously avoided it. He has never met a payroll, he has never taken a risk. He has never done anything but hang around with other Marxists, smoked dope and plotted the over-throw of the American government by insidious and deceptive means.

He isn't nothing more than a nice looking guy in a good suit with the ability to make a good speech.

He is abysmal at answering simple questions, because he has to think about how his answer will fit in first with what the public will think of him, and second how it will keep his true agenda under wraps.

Free speech is for everyone. Not just who agree with Obama or any of his left-wing ideologues.

He and the current leadership of the Democratic Party have thrown aside the true ideals of real liberals. They are closer to the ideals of Karl Marx, Chairman Mao, Nicholi Lenin than they have ever been to those of John and Bobby Kennedy.

Cheers,

Bloefeld
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Date: Sep 3, 2008 - 7:23 PM EST
Iowa PatN
John McCain did not "start" the Forrestal fire. He was sitting in a fully armed airplane when a missile from another plane, ignited by the exhaust of a plane pulling vehicle, fired off and struck McCain's plane in the fuel tank. He was lucky he got out of it alive. All the video of the flight ops that day show it...
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