Now An Attack on the First Amendment

by M. Richard Maxson


    The  Democratic Socialist Obama administration continuing attack on the Constitution continues by to be exposed bit by bit. It was not until the revelation that news organizations, specifically the AP, were being targeted did the press suddenly re-think it's love affair with it's "Progressive" friends.
     First, we discovered that the Justice Department had obtained two months’ worth of phone records from Associated Press journalists as part of a leak probe.  Now, The Washington Post reports that the Nation’s primary law enforcement agency has been tracking a Fox News reporter’s coming and goings from the State Department and has obtained a search warrant for the reporter’s personal emails.
     The FBI is reportedly making the unprecedented claim that the Fox journalist -- James Rosen -- broke the law by doing his job; namely, gathering information. No reporter has ever been prosecuted for soliciting information. The reaction from the news network was to the point, "We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter. In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press." Brit Hume, a career and respected journalist was outraged and stated, "The Obama-Holder Justice Department is now prepared to treat the ordinary news gathering activities of reporters trying to seek information from government officials as a possible crime," he said.
    The administration’s moves against political reporters strike at the core of the First Amendment’s guarantee of a free press.  The framers of the Bill of Rights put the rights of speech and press together with the rights “peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” A citizen’s right to investigate, and even to criticize, the government is “the heart of what the First Amendment was meant to protect,” according to Justice Antonin Scalia.
    This, along with the administrations determined attack on whistle-blowers who expose the ileagality of their actions should strike horror into the souls of true Americans. The attempt to smear and destroy these Patriots reputations and careers has it's roots in Communist Socialism.
    A new report from the Office of Inspector General report showed that Dennis Burke -- the former chief of staff for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed as U.S. Attorney for Arizona by President Obama in September 2009 -- lied when asked if he leaked sensitive documents to the press meant to undermine the credibility of ATF whistle-blower John Dodson. The IG report also said Burke likely leaked the memo in retaliation for Dodson's whistle-blowing, and challenged the credibility of statements he made to congressional investigators.
    The report continues,  "We also concluded that Burke's disclosure of the Dodson memorandum was likely motivated by a desire to undermine Dodson's public criticisms of Operation Fast and Furious. Although Burke denied to congressional investigators that he had any retaliatory motive for his actions, we found substantial evidence to the contrary."
    So what did the Justice department do about the disclosure? A prominent Senator expressed it in chilling terms, "Instead of examining the allegations that came forward, the Justice Department almost immediately began to attack the credibility and good name of a dedicated federal agent upset with what he was ordered to do."
    This can only be the tip of the iceberg. Only a portion of what is going on under our noses and behind our backs. It will continue until the people wake up and stop electing Democratic Socialists to power. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It may already be too late for America.
                                             

How to Hate America

by 

       M. Richard Maxson

    If you want lessons on hating America, college  might be a good start. Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. Moreover, it is largely indoctrination based on the same set of underlying and unexamined assumptions among teachers and institutions.

   The Progressives have dominated the educational system for decades. They clearly understood that a radical change in the role of government required a radical change in public opinion. For over 100 years, Progressives (today's liberals) have made it a stated goal to transform education - especially higher education - in America into something hostile to the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The citizenry of this nation, for the most part, is the product of an education system that has brainwashed it students for several decades It started in Americans colleges where it's roots are now strong and indestructible. It spread down into the high schools and now, finally all the way down to kindergarten. Now, a student can go all the way from elementary school to a Ph.D. without encountering any fundamentally different vision of the world from that of the prevailing political correctness.

    What could possibly be wrong with what our young are taught? How about  "We need to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United States of America and everyone who supports it" That's taught to University of Hawaii students by Professor Haunani-Kay Trask. Richard Falk, professor emeritus at Princeton University and the U.N. Human Rights Council's Palestine monitor, explained the Boston bombings by saying, "The American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world." Professor Falk has also stated that President George W. Bush ordered the destruction of the twin towers.

    Or how about these:

     University of Southern California professor Darry Sragow preaches hate to his students in his regulation of elections and political finance class, recently telling them that Republicans are stupid, racist losers and that they are angry old white people. 

     Penn State University professor Matt Jordan compared supporters of the voter ID laws to the Ku Klux Klan. 

     University of Rhode Island history professor Erik Loomis stated that, "We can define NRA membership as dues contributing to a terrorist organization" 

     Then there's Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman, who explained our national problems by saying, "Our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions." 

    Those are some examples from the college ranks but how about in the high schools of our nation? A teacher at Lumberton High School in Texas encouraged students to dress in Islamic clothing and instructed them to refer to the 9/11 hijackers not as terrorists but as "freedom fighters." They were also told to stop referring to the Holocaust as genocide. John Valastro, the superintendent of the Lumberton Independent School District, stated that the teacher did absolutely nothing wrong. The list can go on and on.

    Many schools around the country no longer require their students to take a class in American government, civics, or American history. Here's a question: Do you know what textbook is being used in the American history class down at your local high school? If you don't know, you should ask. What you find may be surprising. They are probably reading liberal revisionist history, not historical fact. Every American must understand that when Progressives (Democratic-Socialists) use words such as "liberty" and "equality," they mean something far different from what our nation's founders described in the Declaration of Independence.

     What America needs is a real history lesson. Public opinion is shaped by education - or lack thereof. Those who understand the principles of liberty and wish to preserve them - we must all work to live up to our heritage. That begins with our own education and that of our fellow citizens, before it's too late!