First Amendment: Obama is killing us softly with his czars

We've found another good must-read to recommend. It's from Pat Dollard:

The Obama administration, the self-proclaimed “most transparent” administration in history, has made destroying the first amendment an art form, however. The actions, policies, radical beliefs, and speeches of many in the administration should make even the most laid-back defender of free speech pee their pants in fear.

Nowhere is this more evident than the vast seas of “czars” that Obama has appointed. During the election, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and some other folks on the right tried to make an issue of Obama’s continued propensity for aligning with radicals, terrorists, socialists, and communists throughout his career. People scoffed and told us that they didn’t care about such associations. Of course, even in the campaign, the only person making this case was Governor Sarah Palin. Senator John McCain, as part of his lifelong quest to become the media’s favorite Republican, remained largely silent on Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dorn, Father Pfleger, etc.

Now, as President, Obama has continued these associations. 

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So, what’s wrong with all these czars? Nothing, besides the obvious fact that they are not confirmed by the senate, are really accountable to nobody other than the Bamster, and have a secretive and undefined role.

Dollard takes a close look at three of these czars -- Van Jones, Mark Lloyd and Cass Sunstein -- each of whom has radical views of first amendment rights and personal liberties.  Conclusion:

The First Amendment is being slowly and methodically strangled to death by the Obama administration. Following closely the teachings of Marx and Alinsky, Obama has continued to pursue a very extreme agenda and to appoint well-out-of-the-mainstream radical anti-American communists and extremists.

This is what Glenn Beck has been hammering away at for the past two weeks. It's why Sarah Palin asked her Facebook supporters to watch Beck's program.  We're reminded of a brief, but profound moment in the days of the nation's infancy:

In 1787, when the Founding Fathers had hammered out the U.S. Constitution in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin told an inquiring woman what the gathering had produced, 'A republic, madam, if you can keep it.'"

Perhaps for the first time in American history, we have a president whose actions have challenged us to seriously consider what we must do to keep Mr. Franklin's republic.

- JP

Sarah helps Glenn Beck expose Obama's corruptocracy

A post by Gary P. Jackson at Houston-based TheCypressTimes reminds us:

"Sarah warned us about the dangers of electing Barack Obama, but unfortunately, 52 percent of the nation chose not to listen. Now 100 percent of the nation is suffering because of this severe error in judgment."

The post praises Glenn Beck for exposing the radicalism of Obama and the unprecedented number of "Czars" the president has appointed:

"Glenn Beck has been doing a series of discussions on the various Czars all this week, to record ratings, on his afternoon Fox News show."

"For her part, earlier in the week, Sarah Palin urged her nearly 900,000 Facebook members to tune in to Beck's popular and essential show"

The problem with these czars (actually they are more like commissars),aside from their radicalism, is that they are constrained by no sytem of checks and balances:

"So what Obama has done is set up an illegal shadow government, made up of unelected and unapproved advisers who are answerable only to Barack Obama. They have no accountability to the American people whatsoever. No allegiance to America, or the Constitution, just Obama."

"This is NOT what the framers of our Constitution had in mind."

Indeed such anti-Federalists as Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee and Thomas Jefferson would be horrified by Obama is trying to do here. We believe even those proponents of a strong national government such as Alexander Hamilton and John Adams would be very troubled by it as well.

Related: The editors at Family Security Matters:

"We can guarantee this is not the change most Americans wished for…far from it. Let’s just hope there is something we can recognize in our country by the time Mr.Obama and his 'czars' are out of office and power."

"America: continue to let your elected representatives hear your voices. Engage. Participate. Re-read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Know your rights. Your country needs you like never before."

But at the Chicago Tribune, "The Swamp" blogger Mark Silva saw it differently, according to Newsbusters.org:

And according to Silva - Palin's endorsement of Beck was jut like "palin' around with terrorists," since in Silva's view, the Fox News host is the equivalent of some sort of terrorist.

"Talk about ‘palin' around with terrorists,' Silva concluded.

To the statist media, exposing the shadow Marxist government which will help Obama stamp out liberty is an act of "domestic terrorism," while Bill Ayers is just a respected educator. Talk about dangerously foolish notions...

- JP