The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
...but perhaps the Umpire has a thing or two to say about the HOME team
On a night I am genuinely depressed about the seditiousness of our media and its role in defeating Western Civilization--if things are allowed to keep going the way they have been going; a ray of sunshine from the Supreme Court via AJ Strata. Please God, don't let these be mere words--someone in the Bush Administration needs to wake up and act on them:
USSC Slaps Leakers - Little Protection
The New York Times, Washington Post and other media outlets are going to see a serious cutback in leaks coming from government sources on the news coming out of the US Supreme Court:
The Supreme Court today narrowed the First Amendment protections for public employees who reveal perceived wrongdoing they happen to observe in the course of doing their jobs.
The decision enhances the ability of governments at all levels to punish employees for speaking out, shielding officials in many instances from lawsuits for violating the right to free speech.
[…]
Kennedy distinguished between an employee speaking out in his role as a citizen on matters of public interest, which may be protected by the First Amendment, from an employee who speaks out “pursuant to official duties.”
That means the inidividual cannot take the law into their own hands, cannot circumvent the democratic process with personal or partisan views, and cannot risk our lives simply because they have a different opinion than the overarching government (which is elected to enact the people’s will).
Hopefully, this law will apply to Congress as well. Serves them right since they leak more than anyone else. The can change policy on the House and Senate floor. That was what they were elected to do. They should never try to change policies by illegally leaking information to the news media. They have voices, the simply need to use them.
Amen, brother! "Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of War!..." Our First stop needs to be: imprisoning the NSA leakers and the traitors in the media who knowingly betrayed America's classified information--despite White House requests not to publish them--and thus have aided our enemies in their quest to kill us. WE THE PEOPLE, IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE COMMON DEFENSE, NEED FOR AN EXAMPLE TO BE MADE.
The President of the United States and the Attorney General need to ask themselves a question: "Do we REALLY want to WIN this War? Or Not?" I am slowly but surely coming to the conclusion with our MSM that it really is that simple. Prior to 9/11, I was probably one of the most Libertarian people you could meet. But that has all changed over a period of less than 5 years; we are rapidly approaching the point where our "free" press--when all it does is try to undercut the interests of the United States while it is at war--does not have the right to that level of freedom. It is as simple as that. It is a slippery slope, but frankly I am wondering if there is any other way to win this war. Perhaps Bin Laden was right about us all along: as long as our media is allowed to run roughshod over our leadership, our Armed Forces and any War effort we attempt to undertake--while meanwhile our forces are in a war for their and our very survival--and the survival of the very the idea we were founded upon, America may not be able to weather the storm. I am quite obviously disenchanted and angry beyond words tonight.
Lincoln and FDR did not stand for a seditious press while at War. Neither should President Bush. There, I've said it.
USSC Slaps Leakers - Little Protection
The New York Times, Washington Post and other media outlets are going to see a serious cutback in leaks coming from government sources on the news coming out of the US Supreme Court:
The Supreme Court today narrowed the First Amendment protections for public employees who reveal perceived wrongdoing they happen to observe in the course of doing their jobs.
The decision enhances the ability of governments at all levels to punish employees for speaking out, shielding officials in many instances from lawsuits for violating the right to free speech.
[…]
Kennedy distinguished between an employee speaking out in his role as a citizen on matters of public interest, which may be protected by the First Amendment, from an employee who speaks out “pursuant to official duties.”
That means the inidividual cannot take the law into their own hands, cannot circumvent the democratic process with personal or partisan views, and cannot risk our lives simply because they have a different opinion than the overarching government (which is elected to enact the people’s will).
Hopefully, this law will apply to Congress as well. Serves them right since they leak more than anyone else. The can change policy on the House and Senate floor. That was what they were elected to do. They should never try to change policies by illegally leaking information to the news media. They have voices, the simply need to use them.
Amen, brother! "Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of War!..." Our First stop needs to be: imprisoning the NSA leakers and the traitors in the media who knowingly betrayed America's classified information--despite White House requests not to publish them--and thus have aided our enemies in their quest to kill us. WE THE PEOPLE, IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE COMMON DEFENSE, NEED FOR AN EXAMPLE TO BE MADE.
The President of the United States and the Attorney General need to ask themselves a question: "Do we REALLY want to WIN this War? Or Not?" I am slowly but surely coming to the conclusion with our MSM that it really is that simple. Prior to 9/11, I was probably one of the most Libertarian people you could meet. But that has all changed over a period of less than 5 years; we are rapidly approaching the point where our "free" press--when all it does is try to undercut the interests of the United States while it is at war--does not have the right to that level of freedom. It is as simple as that. It is a slippery slope, but frankly I am wondering if there is any other way to win this war. Perhaps Bin Laden was right about us all along: as long as our media is allowed to run roughshod over our leadership, our Armed Forces and any War effort we attempt to undertake--while meanwhile our forces are in a war for their and our very survival--and the survival of the very the idea we were founded upon, America may not be able to weather the storm. I am quite obviously disenchanted and angry beyond words tonight.
Lincoln and FDR did not stand for a seditious press while at War. Neither should President Bush. There, I've said it.
