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Obama's Craven Betrayal of the First Amendment

wsmith-84 Wrote: Sep 15, 2012 3:23 AM

As are all Republicans who defy even one tenet of the Tea Bagger fanatical ideology. So that means Bloomberg's soda ban is a plot to help Obama ban guns? Do you guys ever read what you write before you hit the "Post Comment" button?

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Obama's Craven Betrayal of the First Amendment

In the Daily Caller, Neil Munro reports that the Obama administration has asked YouTube to suppress the offensive film that is the pretext for some of the Islamist rioting. This is, of course, in accordance with the demands of the Muslim brotherhood.

It goes without saying that such government interference in speech protected by the First Amendment is uncomfortably close to a complete betrayal of the President's oath to protect and defend the US Constitution. The "speech" to which the Islamists object is, true, offensive. So is "Piss Christ" and a variety of other anti-Christian (or anti-Semitic) rhetoric. But under our...