Gettin' Your Mind Right

When the Obama Administration, through the FCC, launches its attack on conservative talk radio, it will do so with the combined frauds of "fairness" and "civility". Later, they'll attempt the same thing with the Internet, in a subterfuge to cleanse the blogosphere of "incivility" and inflammatory speech. They'll evade the matter of fairness because anyone can blog. The phony liberal absorption with "fairness" won't matter. There won't be any egalitarian masquerade. It will be outright liberal intellectual terrorism.

The demonic fact behind controlling "speech" in this day and age, is simply that open speech displeases Leviathan, the gigantic administrative state we've allowed to swell under both parties. Leviathan, with our indifference, picked our locks, raided the refrigerator, flipped us a dime, and now he's relaxed in the living-room recliner with the TV remote in his hand. He's in the house because we let him in.

When the state assumes control of the public good, either through domination or invitation, whatever threatens the state threatens everyone. That's the simple rule that legitimized monarchies, theocracies, progressivism in the raw, and every absolutist system in every age. Thought and speech which menaces the state has its origins in the crimes of heresy. And when secular autocracies dispensed with heresy, they continued heresy with its earthly cousin, treason. But heresy and treason in these environments are thought crimes of disloyalty. Just thinking disloyal thoughts are enough to enact the crimes.

The American Constitution scrapped that entire corpus of authoritarian law. The unidentified party (maybe Jefferson), who composed Article III, defined Treason as action. Just thinking or disclosing "disloyal" contemplation isn't enough to be actionable, in any way. DISLOYALTY AND DISSENT IS NOT ENOUGH! Even, or especially, when the state has appropriated the sovereignty of the individual, the law stands if we have the backbone to defend it. If we fall back upon the liberal sham that speech must be decorous or obliging to some beady-eyed desk jockeying grub in the government hive, we've fallen back to the low ground and we'll be massacred.

While the elites of the fossilized liberal establishment are contemplating restrictions on your speech, we're still in the shadow of the John Walker Lindh trial. Consider this: Lindh wasn't prosecuted for Treason, or endangering the public good or the state, for disloyal thought, disloyal speech or bad manners. He probably never held a loyal thought or spoke a loyal word in his life. He was convicted of conspiring to kill Americans and for carrying explosives to The Taliban. In America, no one tried to suppress or control his speech or that of his useless, imbecile leftist father.

When they come for your favorite talk radio host, or for your blog, never forget that John Walker Lindh got a better deal than you will.