Guns, free speech and Obama double talk.

In National Review OnLine, we find, yet, another story over looking a critical matter while thrashing about in the mundane. Indeed, gun laws are important matters but the move against free speech is a far greater issue.

Here is the storyline:

Did Kagan Compare the NRA with the KKK? [Robert VerBruggen]

It has become clear that Elena Kagan, Obama’s most recent Supreme Court nominee, is no friend of gun rights, to say the least. While clerking for Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall in 1987, she wrote the judge that she was “not sympathetic” to a Second Amendment–based challenge to the D.C. gun ban. While serving in the Clinton administration, she wrote a memo that “paved the way for an executive order banning dozens of semiautomatic weapons,” according to the L.A. Times.

And National Review has learned that in 1996, Kagan apparently tied the NRA to the KKK — yes, the KKK — while debating the Clinton administration’s position on a bill. READ MORE >>

And here is the critical aspect of the Elena Kagan nomination: she believes, like Obama, that the public needs to be protected from protected speech -- that there is simply too much information/misinformation "out there" and the public needs help in determining the difference. Obama believes the Internet, among other media outlets, is putting undue pressure on our Democracy and is feverishly working to limit its use. He turned to Congressional legislation (net neutrality and the fairness doctrine) but couldn't find the votes to get the job done. He went to the FCC and its regulatory powers but was rebuffed by a D.C. Court of Appeals. He then went to the Federal Trade Commission and failed there. Now, he is back for a second try with
the FCC (Federal Communication Commission).

In this post, we include Obama concerns spoken at a commencement address. The words will seem fairly harmless, but if you understand their significance, you will concerned. The words in question come at the very end of the video remarks.



When you hear anyone criticize free speech as a "pressure on Democracy," you are listening to the beginnings of an anti-American move to restrict free speech. Hate speech laws are of this very nature. We needed hate speech laws like Custer needed more Indians. They were introduced into the legislative scheme of things as an appeal to fairness, but in time they will be used to restrict speech in our churches and the public square. There will come a time when it is illegal -- ILLEGAL -- to speak out against Muslims or homosexuals. Such is NOW the case in Canada and France.

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