A Wealth of Stealth

There are many, many examples of this but I’ll make the question as easy as I can.

What did Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Cuba have in common?

Well that’s easy enough I’m sure. They all became one-party dictatorships.

Now here’s a follow-up question which may not be quite as easy. What was the first action of these one-party leaderships? And, if you want to throw into the mix Venezuela and the People’s Republic of China that’s OK too.

In every case they took drastic action to restrict the press and other media outlets to proclaim the party line and the party line only.

Even England, which is often regarded as the cradle of modern democracy, still has a mechanism which used to be known as a “D Notice” and is now called a “DA Notice” which stands for “Defence Advisory Notice” and it is an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security.

There have been similar attempts here especially by the Left to do something similar. Lately there have been calls to revive the “Fairness Doctrine” in reponse to the actual and impending demise of several newspapers and the success of the Right as personified by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.

Well, I can tell you this, I watched a Bill Maher hosted show last Saturday and there was no attempt on that program to present anything other than a glowing endorsement of Obama and his policies thinly disguised as humor.

And that’s OK because I don’t have to listen to it. Just like I didn’t have to listen to Al Franken on Air America of blessed memory.

Then there was the attack by the Obama Regime on Fox News in order to freeze out this lone voice of conservatism among the news channels. This was brought to a screeching halt by the other news outlets who recognized that they could be next.

I was reminded of the shock and surprise that would be seen on the face of a lion if the rest of the herd of wildebeest came to the rescue of their downed colleague.

In any event, Obama’s back-door attempt to control the media failed as behind it all, there is a nasty little impediment called the “First Amendment to the Constitution” which among other things says “Congress shall make no law ………………..; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ……

We already know that Obama and his regime don’t revere the United States Constitution the way they should nor in the way their predecessors have. Has Obama forgotten that he promised to preserve, protect and defend that very document?

Of course we know that to a Chicago lawyer, a sworn oath means nothing and we also know, because he’s said it, that he regards the Constitution as a hindrance to his ideology. But he’s stuck with it or is he?

Enter the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with a 47 page report examing the possibility of granting “tax exempt status” to those newspapers who “report correctly”.

Can you spell “Pravda” or “Volkischer Beobachter”?