“The power under the constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can and undoubtedly will, be recalled.”

~ George Washington (1787)

Saturday, June 16, 2012

First Amendment Still Under Attack By Obama Administration

Senator Mitch McConnell isn't my favorite senator, but he is a zealous defender of the First Amendment, and he gave a speech at the American Enterprises Institute where he slammed the Obama Administration for it's efforts to suppress free speech
From Breitbart News, Senator McConnell says this:
McConnell is incensed over the administration’s use of government and nongovernmental resources to target its political enemies. “They’ve used the IRS, the FEC, the FCC, the SEC, their allies in the Obama campaign to go after people who disagree with them. The Obama campaign has rifled through the divorce records of a major donor to an opposing super PAC. The government itself is intimidating donors. Appointees at the IRS and other agencies are pursuing similar efforts to ferret out who is contributing to outside groups critical of the administration so that they can scare them off the playing field and shut them up.”
A video of that speech has been posted at the Ace Of Spades HQ, but it can't be embedded here.   Go here to view it (note -- it's an hour long).  But AoSHQ summarized the speech this way:
I would imagine the thought has crossed a lot of liberal minds, "Hold on there. I was never against freedom of speech. Being a Democrat was never about curtailing basic freedoms." Well, if you're a liberal, watch it. Mitch McConnell is neither a conservative firebrand nor a bitter partisan. This is not a polemic; it's more of a simple recitation of fact.
Pass this on to your friends and family.  They need to understand that the November elections are important.