It is a concept as old as totalitarianism: control the population by controlling what they can think and say.
How do you feel about this concept resurrected in the United States?
Excertped from Greg Corombos\’s article at World News Daily:
The Justice Department is resurrecting a program designed to thwart domestic threats to the United States, and Attorney General Eric Holder says those threats include individuals the government deems anti-government or racially prejudiced.
In his statement announcing the return of the committee, Holder said he remains concerned about the specter of attacks prompted by Islamic extremists, but he said this committee will be tasked with identifying other threats.
“We must also concern ourselves with the continued danger we face from individuals within our own borders who may be motivated by a variety of other causes from anti-government animus to racial prejudice,” Holder said.
According to reporting from Reuters, the American Civil Liberties Union is pushing back against the DOJ plan, fearing “it could be a sweeping mandate to monitor and collect controversial speech.”
Conservative groups are alarmed on multiple levels. First, they see themselves once again the target of an administration that disagrees with them philosophically.
“It appears there\’s an attempt to marginalize people who hold views that are sharply different from those of the administration and much of the establishment”, said Horace Cooper, co-chairman of the Project 21 National Advisory Board. Project 21 is a network of black conservatives.
When an attempt to intimidate free expression of thought is so egregious that it brings the ACLU and conservatives together, it should send a cold chill up and down your spine.
And when that intimidation would be administered by the disgraceful toady, racist and Obama sock-puppet, Attorney General eric holder? that is genuinely scary.
Now: how will mainstream media – the people whose existence is contingent on free speech – report this attemnpt? Will they act as an Accomplice Media even for this, or will they call it what it so obviously is?
Incredible though it might seem, that issue is actually in question.
