Alex Covers More Anti Free Speech Attacks from Our Government on The Alex Jones Show 2/2

Calls Increase for Government to Regulate Internet Journalists and Bloggers




Kurt Nimmo
http://www.infowars.com/
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June 2, 2010

Outrage is rising over a Michigan lawmaker's plan to introduce a bill to license bloggers and internet-based journalists. Walter Lippman argued that the people are incapable of accurately understanding the complex "unseen environment" of public affairs and the modern state without a professional and "specialized class" of technocrat-journalists.




"State Sen. Bruce Patterson is introducing legislation that will regulate reporters much as the state regulates hairdressers, auto mechanics and plumbers. Patterson, who also practices constitutional law, says the general public is being overwhelmed by an increasing number of media outlets — traditional, online and citizen generated — and an even greater amount of misinformation," Fox News reported on May 28. "Legitimate media sources are critically important to our government," he said.

The establishment idea that "legitimate" media sources "are critically important to our government" is hardly a new idea.

Obama's man at the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstein, is on record as advocating holding blogs and alternative internet news media "responsible" for the information they publish. Sunstein penned a book entitled "On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done." Sunstein's book is essentially a blueprint for imposing online censorship. Kyle Smith, writing for the New York Post, notes that Sunstein would force bloggers and others not connected to the corporate media to prove criticism of the government and government officials.

"The litigation expense would be daunting," writes Smith, "the time necessary to defend a posting (or an article) would work to the benefit of the public figure being criticized since the delay would probably allow the figure to win an election before the truth 'won out'. The mere threat of retaliatory actions would be enough to dissuade many commentators from daring to issue a word of criticism or skepticism" and would result in self-censorship.

In order to enforce the government world view and its demands for political correctness, Sunstein has suggested infiltration of the blogosphere and dispatching covert agents into "chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups."

Sunstein's program would target those advocating false "conspiracy theories," in other words "an attempt to explain an event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people, who have also managed to conceal their role."

"Sunstein's closeness to the President, as well as the highly influential position he occupies, merits an examination of the mentality behind what he wrote," writes Glenn Greenwald.

Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, also shares the mentality calling for government imposed censorship, specifically as it relates to the government assuming authority to prohibit corporations from engaging in political speech such as publishing pamphlets that advocate the election or defeat of a candidate for federal office.

In March, Infowars.com reported on Rutgers University law professor Ellen Goodman, who is a "distinguished" visiting scholar with the FCC's Future of Media Project. Goodman submitted a proposal for a government takeover plan targeted at the internet called the National Broadband Plan
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[aragornsargonath]

One of the several reasons I love Alex is his impressions.....this one made me laugh a lot today.

[POLYMORPHLEGION]

government HAS GO TO GO!!!!

[dragon71422]

@POLYMORPHLEGION aight without govt itd be a free for all i believe you need govt... but our govt is horrible.

[SiliconHustle]

EPIC A.J. impression.

[parkplace6677]

You know who hates free speech? The tea baggers. those stupid flockers are always trying to shout people down. Morons.

[BoosieBoosieBoosie]

THE ILLUMINATI ARE TRYING TO TAKE DOWN THE INTERNET NOW? THIS SHIT PISSES ME OFF. WHY THE HELL DID WE GIVE THEM THE POWER. WE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE IN POWER, THE GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR US PEOPLE! THEY NEED A SPANKING AND THEY NEED TO GO SIT IN THE EFFIN CORNER. SHUT THEM DOWN, DONT LET THEM SHUT US DOWN!!

[adohari]

Thanks very much for uploading.

[americanbandwidth]

@thomastholin Not Fascist, Socialist. but your point is correct.

Nazis were socialists and we resemble the Nazis more than the Soviets.

Salute.

God bless.

[thomastholin]

Senators Joe Lieberman (CT) and Susan Collins (ME) are pushing through a bill to censor the internet!!! Do you know what that means besides Lieberman and Collins are FASCIST CRIMINAL TERRORIST!!?? And We thought Dodd was as bad as it could get!!!

That means **NO FREE SPEECH**!!!! Time to wake these pieces of trash up!!!

End The Fed!!!

[kornegay99]

haha thats what im sayin

[yourweedsux]

"hit the race button! .. it's not working ither!!!!" hahahahahah!