Obama’s Many Attempts At Silencing Political Dissent

In the world of a liberal the enemy isn’t terrorism or the likes of Putin. It isn’t hunger or the big challenges. It’s you and me. We are called sexual pejoratives like **********s and publicly ridiculed like no other segment in our society. Christianity is mocked everywhere. It’s high time we start taking ground back. Enough is enough.

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For years, there has been a multipronged attempt to drive conservative speech from the public square.

These prongs include misuse of government powers to target conservatives, attempts to keep conservative voices from being heard on mass-media outlets, and redefinition of language in order to taint conservative speech as unacceptable.

That first prong, though, the misuse of government power, has become more prevalent during the Obama era with the targeting of conservatives and particularly Tea Party groups by the Internal Revenue Service serving as the most prominent example.

We now know, and the Treasury Department’s internal reviews have acknowledged, that the IRS delayed and deferred action on tax-exempt applications by using, among other things, screening mechanisms keyed to words such as “Tea Party.”

The IRS commissioner has admitted that such abuse took place, even as Obama political operatives tried to call it a “phony scandal” and conspiracy theory, and President Obama himself denied there was even a smidgen of corruption at the IRS.

While some liberal groups were caught up in such screening, by far the screening disproportionately damaged conservative groups, to the extent that such groups were kept on the sidelines during the 2012 electoral cycle.

The delay had the effect not just of limiting otherwise legitimate political activity, but forcing these groups to spend time and effort fighting the IRS, rather than fighting to win elections. Some just gave up.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/5/jacobson-a-campaign-to-silence-conservative-speech/

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A campaign to silence conservative speech

Government attacks on its critics are sinister and growing

 

"We also recently saw what appears to be a politicized indictment of Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry for the alleged crime of threatening to use his veto power.

The essence of the prosecution is that Mr. Perry threatened to use his lawful veto power over funding to try to force a Democratic district attorney, tainted by a drunken-driving conviction and videotaped abuse directed at police, to resign.

At the instigation of a liberal policy group, that same district attorney’s office appointed a special prosecutor who obtained an indictment that is so suspect on its face that even unlikely liberal commentators such as Alan Dershowitz and The New York Times editorial board question the propriety of the indictment.

The key issue, however, is that prosecutors in Texas have sought to punish political speech by the conservative governor by criminalizing routine political hardball.

These abuses of government power to suppress conservative speech all had a common theme: Identify the target, then try to find a crime or excuse for government action.

This is a dangerous place for our nation to be."

 

Gee, you and the drama.....the right hasn't stopped yapping and whining for one second.

Your post is a fine example of an absolute lack of silencing.

Maybe the American people are just tired of cranky old Republicans

 

Silenced ? Are you kidding ? The best thing in the world for the Democrats is for the extremist views of the far right to be heard. Almost every time one of these folks opens their mouths and really speaks what is on their mind something damaging comes out.

Some examples:

A woman who is raped can somehow stop the pregnancy.
God says this or God says that (like they sat down with God and had a convo) telling folks what to do.
Immigration - bringing ebola into the country
That teaching acceptance of the rights of other people (Gays) will somehow turn straight people gay.

and on and on.

If anything it is the Republicans that want to silence these folks as they are killing the party.

The dirty little secret that the Christian right does not speak about much is that they are intent on forcing their personal religious beliefs on others through the heavy hand of the State (making laws).

 

Liberals do not like much of what’s in the Constitution. It’s too limiting. The portions they do like, they reinterpret. How many times have you heard a liberal quote the actual words of the First Amendment when the issue of religion comes up? Mostly we hear that the Constitution requires a “separation between church and state” when the phrase isn’t found anywhere in the Constitution and there is no evidence that the authors of the Constitution separated religion from government.

Someone who opposes abortion or homosexuality and calls for laws to outlaw these behaviors are said to violate the First Amendment since these prohibitions are religious in nature. So are prohibitions against rape, murder, kidnapping, stealing, lying, tripping blind people, moving boundary markers, and many other actions.

 

Obama signed HR 347 and making certain free speech a felony

 

http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/restricted.asp
The lies of the right are endless

 

Enumerate the lie/s precisely.

 

i think the OP and your post are a good start.

 

In the world of a conservative, the enemy isn't terrorism or the likes of Putin. It isn't hunger or the big challenges- its everyone who disagrees with him. We are called sexual perjoratives like homo and queer, and they publicly ridicule everyone who dares disagree with them. Atheism, and any varient of Christianity that doesn't toe the party line is mocked continually.

And they wonder why more and more Americans reject their philosophy.

 

There is no doubt obama and his crew are jack booted thugs.

Debate and dissent are dealt with, with the full force of the government.

If Republicans were in power using these same tactics the left wing media

be screaming bloody murder 24/7. They are such hypocrites

 

We are in a modern witch hunt era. Liberals are using huge media, bureaucratic offices, etc... to attack those that would dare speak out against the Socialist / Authoritarian nightmare they are trying to force on the nation.

 

The left are drunk with power and the sycophants turn a blind eye to it.

 

Aw, cry me a river.
The fact is that right-wing extremists are a real cancer in our country and have done more harm to Americans and America's interest in the 21st century than any other group, foreign or domestic. They deserve much more than ridicule and should be treated as the seditious, anti-American mob that they are.
You people spent the first 8 years of the century cheerleading Bush jr as he trashed America's reputation, economy, the freedom of its people and dragged us into the Iraqi quagmire, and you have spent the last 6 years doing everything in your power to make America fail just so that you could stick it to the uppity negro in the white house.
Nobody believes the lying bull(*)(*)(*)(*) that comes from the right anymore, not even the average repub, which is why they have been throwing the tea party extremists under the bus every chance they get.

 

The more the right complains and howls about what the left is supposedly doing is EXACTLY what they would like to do or have already started to do.

 

Too funny Joe, you recite your bull(*)(*)(*)(*) quote from the left wing extremist Jesse Jackson, and as far as extreme loons it is the liberals that created the terrorist from Ferguson

 

And calls Obama an "uppity negro" while implying others are racist... Damn funny isnt it.

 

The Obama admin is the most vindictive admin in the history of the nation!!!!!!!

 

Lol...Ah, billy, good to see you back spouting the same tired right-wing hysterics.
Your silly retorts are always good for a laugh.

 

Lol...It's amazing how many superlatives you people bestow on Obama.
He really must be a magic negro like rush claimed.

 

I don't know why anyone would have tried to stop Perry from political speeches. I have never heard a politician speak before and make such ridiculous statements. EVER!!! Homosexuality is a disease?

The more you let him talk, the more he will stick his foot in his mouth and more and more people will get offended and the Left will win by default. I'd make him a pundit. If nothing else I can sit back and enjoy the show.

 

Conservatives and Liberals both remind me of inept horseshoe players. Each takes their turn throwing the shoes at the piece of rebar sticking out of the ground. Both can barely get the shoe into the pit. For a while it was funny. But it's become pathetic.

 

Probably one of the most succinct descriptions of today's Republicans that I've seen in quite a while.

 

A: The "Christian Right" is but a "smidgen" of the Republican Party, effective Democratic Propaganda has created a "boogeyman" for the Left. You learned well from Bush's Security Level stunt in 2004 didn't you?

B: Actually Todd Akin was correct, though the scientific wording on his part wasn't. Between that and Democratic Propaganda, it ruined Akin's bid for Senate. However, what you were lucked into wasn't a "Far Right Christian Conservative", you lucked into someone toothless to fight your Propaganda. Let us see what'd happen if a person(me) was capable of fighting your Propaganda.

What Akin referred to in fact protects women against all foreign bodies. A change of a few words is the difference from a false Propaganda attack, to countering the Statist Democratic machine. Of interest here is the Political Argument that Akin was trying to make.

By focusing on Akin's scientific gaffe(which is no different from the POTUS gaffes. Remember 52 States?), the Democrats tried to silence what would've been a crushing blow against the validity of Open-Ended Abortion Policy. Remember, Democratic Feminists point to Rape/Incest as key reasons for our Open-ended Policy.

No, not female finances but Rape/Incest, why? Well, it all comes back to Propaganda: Would you support a policy that could be immoral for financial reasons? Or for a solution to grey area problems? Most people are propelled to support questionable policies in conjunction with complex problems. Feminists are fully aware that if they said: We're doing this for a few bucks. They'd lose the debate. Actually, if they were honest it'd mean a true reconfiguration in the interests of Family.

But then Feminists would be out of a job. Furthermore, it'd mean the scales of power would balance out. In of itself, such a reconfiguration would revive the American Empire. But sadly, our Liberal friends will never truly seek to create a sphere of alliance between the Genders. But is their Propaganda righteous?
Hardly, it's statistically irrelevant.

The Truth is far more complex.

Should such statistically irrelevant factors be the key of Abortion Policy? Absurd on its face, doesn't do Women real justice nor does it serve our Realm's best interests.

However, it does enable politicking, democrats can "win November" but it'll utterly fail in governance. I've once proposed Social Policy that if embraced, would bring the two together.

But because my Policy used an independent third party as a conduit to a proper resolution, it was shut down unfortunately.

C: So Christians can't speak openly of their faith? A Christian's sermons does NOT translate to Law, you'd think we'd be this so-called "Christian Theocracy" by now. Liberals ought to stop looking under the bed for boogeymen. There's very real problems out there.

D: We have TWO confirmed cases in the U.S, first time in history! I seriously can't believe this is real. Liberals fear a "Far right Christian theocracy", but you've no concerns of the fatally ill crossing our borders!? Gangs/Terrorists? No, the Boston Marathon didn't happen, we're deluded conspiracy theorists! For that matter, no nation has ever been threatened at its borders right?

We've reached a very scary point in America where Liberals don't want to govern the US, yet hold governing positions.

 

Mostly I blame the Legislative Branch, since they are the only ones who can control a rogue president (left or Right) but over the decades they have abandoned their duties and responsibilities as representatives and senators to pander to their Party's president on the one hand and to do nothing but blow meaningless rhetoric into the air on the other. Then parties exchange control of the Executive Branch and those same people instantly reverse their roles. That's NOT what the Legislative Branch was supposed to be about.

The big problem being is that the very people who are corrupt to the core are the only ones who can do any meaningful reform of the out of control system. Perhaps the Tea Party movement has got the right idea in a way; which is to deep-six any politician they can (left or right) who ran on a specific slate of promises backed by the claim of possessing viable ethical standards only to toss them aside once they are in office and go crazy with graft and with petty party politics.

Primarily, however, the Legislative Branch as a whole needs to return to the concept of checks and balances on the Executive Branch and not JUST when the other Party's president is in power.