According to this letter obtained by TPM, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is threatening television stations broadcasting this anti-card check advertisement produced by the Employee Freedom Action Committee. In the letter (viewable here), SEIU lawyer Dora V. Chen tells stations in Arkansas and Nebraska that they should “immediately cease airing this false and deceitful advertisement.” Says Ms. Chen, “political organizations do not have a ‘right to command the use of broadcast facilities'”—i.e., airing third party political advertisements television stations are not bound by the First Amendment—reminding station executives that they are under “no legal obligation to air the advertisement” but it they do the affiliate “bears responsibility for its content.” If the Chavista implications of these threats are still unclear, the SEIU puts it in sharper relief, obliquely threatening the station’s broadcast licenses:
As a broadcast licensee, you ‘must assume responsibility for all material which is broadcast through [your] facilities’ and therefore have a duty to ‘protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive advertising.’ Failure to prevent the airing of ‘false and misleading advertising’ may be ‘probative of an underlying abdication of licensee responsibility.’
In other words, “pull the ad, or we’ll use our political muscle with the Democrat-controlled government to take away your broadcast license”. The reason SEIU is writing such a letter – the same sort of letter Obama’s people wrote to a broadcaster during the 2008 campaign – is because they are a fascist group which does not want to trouble with dissent and battling it out in the realm of ideas.
So it is with all liberals – fascists actual or prospective; liberals don’t like free speech…heck, they don’t like freedom (except, of course, the freedom to get laid and have an abortion…two acts which, if freely engaged in, enslave a person and make them that much more amenable to liberal-fascist control). Liberalism, being built on the lie that Man can be perfected by Man, simply cannot long endure free debate – because it will lose the debate, truth always winning out in the long run; and so, the resort to fascism of various types.
And yes, I know there are liberals who will claim to be staunch defenders of free speech – but if you press them hard enough, you’ll find there are modes of speech which they will oppose…such as, for instance, teaching Intelligent Design in public schools, or one of a hundred other issues liberals suddenly find they can’t allow dissent on (once again, because they know they’ll lose the debate, and so would rather not have it).
They will not quit – no matter how many times we turn over the rocks to reveal the creatures scurrying around underneath, the liberals will just keep coming right at us, determined at all costs to make us unfree, so then can then remake us as they wish. Only the complete and utter defeat of liberalism in politics will ensure liberty – so, into the fight, my friends, into the fight.
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