Thought control is not American

Yet more and more overt acts and statements of sentiments are reported in the main stream media. That statements like treason, Nuremburg type trials, and legislative actions like McCain-Feingold and Fairness Doctrine can or could be applied to what we think and say is simply un-American.

Those that say give an inch and they’ll take a mile have a point in this discussion. Perhaps this idea alone is how we have devolved to the possibility of criminalizing thought. Others say, and I am one of them, that the Clintons brought to D.C. in 1992 the political art of the politics of personal destruction, criminalizing political opposition, and using detectives to dig up dirt. Others have taken this and expanded it in the give an inch and take a mile idea. Even if innocent, any citizen politician prosecuted is losing money in defending himself and most importantly, his reputation.

Why volunteer for government service of two to four years? It is easier and better to stay home and do well there. The family point of view is no charade, but a real consideration.

The trend line of legislating thought control is still there. How so many Americans came to this way is still astonishing! Even the most ardent socialist do-gooder in the American vein would not promote this, I think. So there must be other more worldly types (in their mind) who want to dominate the world in their way, and they have to suppress other ideas anyway they can, to include legislating when they have the control, albeit temporary it seems.

Particularly disturbing is the comfort of American security from which they can be themselves. As long as others provide this American security by culture, law, and civility, this assault on the American way will continue.