From the recent article in the Daily Signal reporting on freedom of the press around the world, we learned “The United States disappointingly ranks 49th ( rankings are here ), having declined three places in 2014. This is due to the Obama administration’s heavy handed approach to certain journalists, including the New York Times’ James Risen, who came under pressure to reveal his sources.”
Are you shocked to find that freedom of the press in the land of the free and the home of the brave is so far down the list? Does it bother you that we are 11 spots below France and that the press in El Salvador is less restricted than here in the USA?
Freedom of speech and religion are the 1st amendment to the Constitution. The right to keep and bear arms is amendment #2. These are the rights the founders held most dear because they knew what happens when you lose them. Have you thought about what would happen to you once we cannot complain about injustice or defend ourselves from it?
People today are losing their livelihoods and life savings because they would not bake a cake or provide flowers for a same sex wedding. Pastors are forbidden to include certain things in their sermons and officials have gone so far as to demand that their sermons be turned over to local government so officials could read and censor them prior to delivery. Fortunately citizen outrage stopped the sermon censure but that was this time. There will be other attempts.
The Federal Government has said religion must be kept from anything supported, even in part, by Federal funds yet they have leaned on Pastors to sell ObamaCare from the pulpit. Meanwhile the FCC wants to control the internet and make it “fairer for all” in spite of the fact that the Courts and Congress have said they do not have the power to do that and we are to feel safer knowing that political correctness will be coming to a computer near you. Once the Internet becomes part of the mainstream media what value will it have for you?
Then there is the fact that the Federal Government has tried to corner the ammunition market and when that didn’t do the trick they cut back on the legal number of bullets you can put in your gun while they armed themselves with AR15s and gave tanks and armored vehicles to the police. Following that the Feds instituted Operation Choke Point where they tried to deny banking services to any business that manufactured or sold guns and many States, like New Jersey and New York, have gun laws that will send you to jail for a long time if you happen to have an unloaded antique flintlock pistol in your clove box when stopped by the police for a minor traffic violation.
Do you see a pattern here? Can you predict what the end result will be if this is left unchecked? Is there something more important in your life than your freedom? It is time to chose; freedom or tyranny - what's it going to be?
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