Friday, October 30, 2009

Liberals See Free Speech As Hateful Right Wing Criticsim

Liberty and our basic American freedoms are under attack by the Marxist Left Democrats.

Obama just signed the new Hate Crimes bill that will be used as a 'hate speech' platform to attack anyone that has an opinion that is contrary to the liberal left.

The Marxist liberals will use this new bill to equate free speech as a crime.

Is this a stretch? I don't believe it is as the "New Progressive Liberal Socialist Party", formerly liberal Democrats, will use anything, no matter how off base or unconstitutional it is, to stop any criticism of their power grab.

Michelle Malkin is on top of this. Now we have to follow her lead by staying alert in our own communities. We are being attacked from all sides.


Obama’s FCC, liberal churches, and the “media justice” mob<http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/28/obamas-fcc-liberal-churches-and-the-media-justice-mob/>By Michelle Malkin • October 28, 2009 04:59 AM

My syndicated column today (reprinted below) probes the FCC/left-wing church alliance to silence conservative critics of illegal immigration through “hate speech” regulation.

Tip of the iceberg.
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Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator first broke <http://spectator.org/archives/2009/10/20/fcc-church-conspiracy-to-silen/print> the story of how United Church of Christ officials met <http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/20/open-a-notice-of-inquiry-into-hate-speech-in-the-media/> with kindred spirit/FCC Commissioner Michael Copps earlier this month before launching a nationwide campaign to pressure the FCC to crack down on cable TV and talk radio figures.

The motto of the “So We Might See” anti-”hate speech” campaign is: “Without media justice, there will be no social justice!” <http://media.gfem.org/node/10437> The same Marx-loving “social justice” crowd is behind the “media justice” <http://centerformediajustice.org/> mob — including George Soros’s Open Society Institute, Media Democracy Fund, and Media Matters; the Ford Foundation; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; etc., etc., etc. Their goal: government redistribution of media wealth. <http://mediajusticehistoryproject.org/wordpress/archives/category/resource-list#I>

As “The Media Justice Fund” <http://www.fex.org/content/index.php?pid=51>put it: The movement “is grounded in the belief that social and economic justice will not be realized without the equitable redistribution and control of media and communication technologies.” And there’s that phrase “transformative change” <again" target=_blank>http://www.google.com/search?q=%22transformative+change%22+obama&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a>again:

* Media change of all kinds must expose and directly confront the mechanics of structural racism and systemic oppression.

* Leaders from historically marginalized communities must be developed as effective media activists and strategic movement communicators.

* Media policy advocacy and strategic communications are more effective when clearly relevant to the primary justice issues of the movement for racial justice, economic and gender equity, and youth rights.

* Compelling communications and media activism campaigns must be both rooted in critical issues and coordinated across issue, sector, and region for national impact.

* When justice sectors strengthen communications strategies, center the use of culture as a communications tool, employ winning frames and messages, and strengthen their influence over media rules and rights, the possibilities for transformative change skyrocket. <http://centerformediajustice.org/home/about/our-framework/>

“Transformative change” = a media landscape purged of the Right’s most powerful voices.

The White House communications shop <http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/14/whos-behind-the-white-house-war-on-fox-news/> gives two thumbs up, no doubt.***How the FCC and liberal churches are scheming to shut you upby Michelle Malkin

Creators Syndicate <http://www.creators.com/>Copyright 2009

The war on conservative speech has moved from the White House to your neighborhood pews. Left-wing church leaders want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on “hate speech” over cable TV and right-leaning talk radio airwaves. President Obama’s speech-stifling bureaucrats seem all too happy to oblige.

Over the past week, an outfit called “So We Might See” <http://www.uccfiles.com/swms/>has conducted a nationwide fast to protest “media violence” – specifically, “anti-immigrant hate speech, which employs flawed arguments to appeal to fears rather than facts.” Their ire is currently aimed at Fox News and conservative talk show giants. But how long before they target ordinary citizens who call in to complain about the government’s systemic refusal to enforce federal sanctions on illegal alien employers or the bloody consequences of lax deportation policies?

The “interfaith coalition for media justice” is led by the United Church of Christ. <http://www.ucc.org/> Yes, that’s the same church of Obama’s race-baiting, Jew-bashing ex-pastor Jeremiah Wright <http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/17/jeremiah-wrights-greatest-hits/>.

Other members <http://www.uccfiles.com/swms/> include the Presbyterian News Service, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the National Council of Churches. (The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has denied <http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=17495> being a part of the campaign, despite being listed as a coalition member. So has the Methodist <http://spectator.org/blog/2009/10/27/methodists-rebuke-soros-on-hat> church.)

These religious liberals have partnered with the National Hispanic Media Coalition <http://www.latinosagainsthatespeech.org/>, which filed a petition in January demanding that the FCC collect data, seek public comment, and “explore options” for combating “hate speech” from staunch critics of illegal immigration.

Open-borders groups <http://www.latinosagainsthatespeech.org/support.html> have sought to marginalize, criminalize, and demonize <http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/04/john-mccain-la-razas-voice-in-washington/> those of us who have raised our voices for years about lax immigration enforcement — and to impose an Orwellian Fairness Doctrine-style policy <http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/10/la-raza-lobbyist-gets-ethics-waiver/> on illegal alien amnesty opponents.

During the presidential campaign, the National Council of La Raza launched a “We Can Stop the Hate” <http://www.wecanstopthehate.org/> project to redefine tough policy criticism from the Right as “hate.” La Raza president Janet Murguia called for TV networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves and argued that hate speech should not be tolerated, “even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights,” according to the NYTimes <http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/a-call-to-end-hate-speech/>.

Now, the gag-wielders have a friend in the White House – and they won’t let him forget it. Their FCC petition <http://www.latinosagainsthatespeech.org/news/1_30_09.html>calling for a crackdown on illegal immigration critics cites Obama’s own words in a fall 2008 speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Obama told his amnesty-supporting audience that he knew they were “counting on us to stop the hateful rhetoric filling the airwaves.” <http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/media_justice/hispanic_media_coalition_wants0105>

Unsurprisingly, far Left billionaire George Soros’s money <http://media.gfem.org/node/10437> is backing <http://www.latinosagainsthatespeech.org/support.html> the “So We Might See”/National Hispanic Media Coalition effort. And remember that the Soros-funded Center for American Progress has provided the Obama White House with its Fairness Doctrine-embracing “diversity czar,” Mark Lloyd. <http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15219>

Last week, United Church of Christ officials met privately with Obama FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps in advance of the “So We Might See” campaign. Copps then delivered a lecture at the UCC’s Riverside Church <http://www.ucc.org/media-justice/parker-lecture/> in New York City, expressing solidarity with the liberal church leaders’ goals and egging <http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/copps/speeches2009.html> the congregants to take action on “media reform: ”We are taking huge risks with our democracy. We need to change that and we need to do it now. We need to get a grip on what’s happening and we need to fix it.”

Jeffrey Lord, who happens to belong to the United Church of Christ, reported <http://spectator.org/archives/2009/10/20/fcc-church-conspiracy-to-silen/print> in the American Spectator that not long after that speech, the UCC sent out a mass e-mail to its millions of members urging them to join the nationwide fast and regulatory drive. The church-state alliance missive directed its followers: “As a participant, you will be asked to sign a petition to the Federal Communications Commission asking that it open a notice of inquiry into hate speech in the media.”No word on when they’ll be launching an inquiry into the fear-based, fact-free “hate speech” from the mouth of Florida Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson <http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/27/alan-grayson-obamas-paragon-of-congressional-virtue/>, who accused Republicans of wanting sick patients to “die quickly,” likened health care problems to the “Holocaust,” and attacked an adviser to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as a “K Street whore.”

Or when they’ll be going after MSNBC and Air America radio hate-mongers who have openly wished on their airwaves for the deaths of George W. Bush <http://michellemalkin.com/2005/04/27/air-americas-assassination-chic/>, Rush Limbaugh <http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-violent-rhetoric-from-libtalker.html>, and Glenn Beck. <http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/06/liberal-talker-mike-malloy-hopes-glenn-beck-commits-suicide>

But I digress. In the age of Obama, the targets of /left-wing/ hate speech don’t have a prayer.

Posted in: Fairness Doctrine <http://michellemalkin.com/category/fairness-doctrine/>

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This piece is riddled with misinformation and propaganda.

For one, Commissioner Copps was actually appointed by President Bush in 2001, not President Obama. See http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/copps/.

Second, the groups are seeking an inquiry - NOT A RULEMAKING - at the FCC. They simply want the agency to collect information. If anything this could only promote the First Amendment values of an open and informed democracy. Once the inquiry is open, groups from all sides of the debate can submit public comment on the issue.

Lastly, I think it is important for the readers of this blog to understand that hate crimes against all Latinos - regardless of legal status - have risen by 40% in just the past few years. 40%!!! This is according to FBI statistics, not some liberal report. Latinos are under physical attack and we need help. We don't know quite how to get it, but we are willing to seek it through any legal means.

My family has been in this country since 1905. We helped build railroads, picks fields, construct ships and artillery during times of war, and have sacrificed our lives in service to all who call the U.S. their home. We think of ourselves as a normal American family. Yet we are afraid step out of our homes because of the color of our skin. How did this environment come to be? We have never felt so unwelcome and scared in our own country. What do you propose we do about this? I would love to see a respectful and honest discussion about this, as opposed to a destructive misrepresentation of the facts. We can disagree about the issue of immigration - I believe that there are valid arguments on both sides. But please realize that when the debate digresses into the dehumanization of an entire group of people that it results in concrete physical harm. I am not saying that you can't demonize us, as that is your First Amendment right...I am saying that you shouldn't.

Thank you for allowing me to share my perspective.

The Slickster! said...

I believe this is an on going problem but this new bill will not stop the problems - most states do have laws now and have for years to stop such abuses.

I live in an area where many Latios live and work and we do not have these things happening.

More government will not stop anything bad from happening, only cause more bad things to happen.